West Leake

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

• Andy JAMIESON has a photograph of the Lych Gate on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2009.
   

• The parish was in the Leake sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen (Helena).
   
• The church was built in the 13th century (some sources say 12th century).
   
• The church was reported to be in "bad repair" in 1866.
   
• The church was restored and reseated in 1878.
   
• The church is on the south side of Main Street.
   
• David THOMPSON has a photograph of West Leake Church in Winter on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2016
   
• Stephen RUFFLES has a photograph of St .Helena's Church in Summer on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2015.
   
• The church is Grade II listed with British Heritage.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Church Sundials on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1580 but the entries are irregular until 1613.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of West Bingham.
   

• The parish was in the Leake sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
   
• In 1935, the parish was reassigned to the Basford sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

This parish and village are in south-west Nottinghamshire and lie about 120 miles north of London, 6 miles north of Loughborough (in Leicestershire) and 10 miles due south of Nottingham city. The parish covers 2,540 acres and includes Leake Sich about 1 mile south-east.

The village sits along a small brook that flows into the Soar River at Kingston. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A60 arterial road north out of Loughborough toward Nottingham. At Costock, turn left (west) for East Leake and continue on to West Leake.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the West Leake bus shelter on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014. I believe the only bus service is out of Loughborough.
   
• Richard VINCE has a photograph of the Main Street on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2016.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from West Leake to another place.

• John BENISTON has a photograph of the New footbridge over Kingston Brook on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2016.
   
• Chris J. DIXON has a photograph of the Star Pub on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2005.
   
• Andy JAMIESON also has a photograph of the Star Pub on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2009.
   
• The Star Pub used to be known as the "Pit House" because it had a cock-fighting pit.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK526265 (Lat/Lon: 52.833461, -1.220676), West Leake which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• In 1919, the churchyard lychgate was built and dedicated as a memorial to those who died in World War I.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the War Memorial lychgate outside the church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.
   

There is a World War I Roll of Honour brass plaque in the church. To see the list of names on it, see the Southwell Church History Project site.

There are the 3 names listed on the War MemoriaI in the church lychgate:

The Roll of Honour is inscribed:

ROLL OF HONOUR Of officers and men from WEST LEAKE who served King and Country in the GREAT WAR 1914-1919

There are the names listed on the Roll of Honour in the churcht:

"Keighley" in the table above should probably be "Keightley". I could only find Keightley listed in the census in the midlands. And there was a Percival KEIGHTLEY from Gainsborough, LIN. Also, there is no one named "Skillcross" in the Commonwealth War Grave index. "Major A. H. STRUTT" could be Algernon Henry STRUTT, but I don't know of any connection to West Leake.

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and it became a Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Rushcliffe Wapentake in the southern division of the county.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and have instead decided to have Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2014. Stop in when they are open and ask for a copy of the schedule of forth-coming events.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Loughborough Poor Law Union in Leicestershire.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	171
1841	208
1851	190
1871	159
1881	162
1891	154
1901	112
1911	139
1921	119
1931	132
1951	116
1961	114

• Lady Belper's School was built here in 1850.