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Description in 1877:
"BARLESTONE, a village, township, and chapelry, in the parish, and 2.5 miles N.E. by N. of Market Bosworth, has 602 inhabitants, and 1039 acres of land, generally fertile, and rising boldly from a small rivulet. The Earl of Stamford and Warrington is lord of the manor, as parcel of tbe honor of Winton, but the soil belongs to Miss Selina Baker, Edward Power, Esq., Alfred Cox, Esq., J.P., William Wright, Esq., Messrs. James Brown, Thomas Kirkman, and Thomas Arnold, and Sir J. W. C. Hartopp, Bart., and several smaller freeholders, some of whom are residents. The Church is a neat Early English structure, with a tower and two bells, and was rebuilt (with the exception of the chancel, which was restored at the same time by the rector) in 1854, at a cost of £1367, raised by subscription, principally through the exertions of the Rev. Henry Homer, BA., the present curate. The living is a curacy, annexed to the rectory of Market Bosworth, and the chapelry pays a modus of 7.75d. per acre in lien of tithes. Here is an old General Baptist Chapel, built in 1798, and rebuilt in 1865; and also a Primitive Methodist Chapel, built in 1833. The poor have 3s. 6d. a year, left by D. Baker and T. Butler, and £3 a year as the rent of 1A. 1P. called the Bull Piece. Mr. William Sills, of Leamington Priors, left £495 12s. 4d., and Mrs. W. Sills £107 l6s. 4d. stock invested with the Charity Commissioners, the interest to be distributed yearly at Christmas, half in coats and half in blankets. The trustees of this money are the minister and churchwardens for the time being. A FREE SCHOOL was built here in 1849, by the governors of Bosworth School, from whose funds it is still supported. It is attended by about 130 children, of whom about 40 are infants. Post from Leicester, but Market Bosworth is the nearest Money Order Office. There is a WALL LETTER Box, which is cleared at 4.30 p.m."
White's "History, Gazetteer and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland. 3rd Edition," 1877
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Barlestone is a village, a chapelry and a parish which lie about 115 miles north of London, 2 miles southwest of Leicester city and 2.5 miles northeast of Market Bosworth. The parish covers about 1,074 acres (but was once slightly smaller).
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Year Inhabitants 1841 580 1871 602 1881 708 1891 805 1901 829 1911 1,042 1921 1,137 1931 1,251 1951 1,229 1961 1,229
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