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Leicestershire Towns & Parishes

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Cold Overton

Description in 1877:
"COLD OVERTON. a small village and parish, adjoining Rutlandshire, 4 miles W.N.W. of Oakham, in Framland Hundred, Oakham Union and that County Court District, in 1871 contained 85 persons, living in 15 houses, on 1657 acres of land, chiefly clay, with some gravel, and the ground hilly."
[White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland. 3rd Edition 1877]

Census

• The parish was in the Oakham sub-district of the Oakham Registration District.
  
  
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print and Volume 27 covers the Great Easton Sub-District & Oakham Registry Districts which include Cold Overton.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
  
  
• The church was built in the 13th century.
  
  
• The church seats 125.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Society of Genealogists holds copies of records from Cold Overton Parish Church including extracts of baptisms from 1556 - 1726, marriages from 1606 - 1672 and burials from 1574 - 1770.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Oakham sub-district of the Oakham Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Cold Overton is right up against the Rutlandshire border, on a hill overlooking Rutland..

If you are planning a visit:

• Set aside some time for fishing at Eybrook Reservoir or Rutland Water.
  
  

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Gazetteers

• Guy Etchells has transcribed an extract from White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland. 3rd Edition 1877 which includes a list of tradesmen in the village.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 8110.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• The parish lies in the Framland Hundred in the southern division of the county.
  
  
• in April, 1936, this parish was abolished and the land amalgamated with Knossington Civil Parish.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law.

• A workhouse was purchased in the parish in 1732.
  
  
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Oakham Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• A Public Elementary School was built in Shearsby in 1869 to 52 children.
  
  

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Last updated: 14-August-2009 - Louis R. Mills