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Diseworth

Description in 1871:
"DISEWORTH, a parish in the district of Shardlow and county of Leicester; on an affluent of the river Trent, near the boundary with Notts, 3½ miles SW of Kegworth r. station, and 6 NW of Loughborough. It has a post office under Loughborough. Acres, 1, 880. Real property, £3, 299. Pop., 567. Houses, 143. The property is divided among a few. A number of the inhabitants are stocking-makers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £197.* Patron, alternately the Haberdashers' Company and Christ's Hospital. The church is tolerable. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans. A school has £10 from endowment; and other charities £17. Lilly the astrologer, "the Sid-rophel" of Butler's Hudibras, was a native."
[John Marius Wilson, "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]

Census

• The parish was in the Castle Donington subdistrict of the Shardlow 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.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church for Diseworth is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
  
  
• The church was repaired in 1840.
  
  
• The church chancel was restored in 1885.
  
  
• The church seats 150.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1656.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of West Akeley.
  
  
• In the nave of the church is a tablet incribed with the CHESLYN family genealogy.
  
  
• The General Baptists and the Wesleyan Methodists both had chapels here by 1849.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Castle Donington subdistrict of the Shardlow registration district.
  
  
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Diseworth is a large village and was a parish 123 miles north of London, just 3 miles west of Kegworth, 6 miles northwest of Loughborough, and not far from the East Midlands Airport. The parish covered 1,961 acres.

The village sits in the hills in southwest Leicestershire. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the M1 motorway to Kegworth where it crosses the A6 trunk road. Diseworth is just northwest of that intersection.
  
  

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History

• Most of the male residents of the parish were either Framework Knitters or farmers.
  
  
• William LILLEY, medical doctor and astrologer, was born here in 1602.
  
  

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Manors

• The webpage author could find no mention of a Hall or Manor House in his sources.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 4524
  
  
• 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

• This place was an ancient parish of Leicestershire and a modern Civil Parish as well. It was abolished in 1936.
  
  
• The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the northern (one source gives "Mid") division of the county.
  
  
• In April, 1936, the parish was abolished to enlarge Long Whatton Civil Parish.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, Diseworth became part of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Loughborough petty sessional hearings.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• A Parochial School was built here in 1862 by subscription and a government grant. Origianaly built for 91 children, it was enlarged in 1898.
  
  

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