Dunton Bassett
Description in 1871:
"DUNTON-BASSETT, a parish in Lutterworth district, Leicester; near the Midland railway, 1½ mile SE of Broughton-Astley r. station, and 4¼ N of Lutterworth. Post town, Ashby-Parva, under Lutterworth. Acres, 1, 860. Real property, £2,968. Pop., 524. Houses, 141. The property is divided among a few. There is a mineral spring. A number of the inhabitants are stocking-makers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £80. Patron, the Rev. J. Longhurst. The church has a tower and spire, and is good. There is an Independent chapel."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72
- The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth 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 Anglican parish church was dedicated to All Saints.
- The church is Early Norman and was built around 1350.
- The church was restored in 1882.
- The church seats 270.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1653.
- The church was in the rural Guthlaxton deanery (second portion).
- The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1880.
- The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Dunton Bassett is a parish and a village 4 miles north of Lutterworth, 10 miles south from the city of Leicester and 95 miles north of the city of London. The parish covers just over 1,360 acres.
The land around the village has been mostly pasture for centuries. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A426 north out of Lutterworth and turn left at Dunton Bassett.
- In the 1800s many parishioners worked as frame-work knitters, others as farmers or shoemakers.
- The village hall was built in 1895.
- Major Hugh Harry ROBERTSON-AIKMAN was the lord of the manor in 1912 and the resident of the Manor House.
- The national grid reference is SP 5490.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- You can view an online map at the Axcis site.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and became a modern Civil parish when those were established.
- The parish lies in the Guthlaxton Hundred in the southern division of the county.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Lutterworth Poorlaw Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lutterworth Petty Session court hearings.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1841 |
553 |
| 1871 |
496 |
| 1881 |
409 |
| 1891 |
368 |
| 1901 |
385 |
| 1911 |
482 |
| 1921 |
523 |
| 1931 |
506 |
| 1951 |
568 |
| 1961 |
591 |
- In 1849 a school for boys and girls was built here. It was enlarged in 1873. In 1909 the school was enlarged again, but now it was designated a Public Elementary School.
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[Created: 23-October-2009 - Louis R. Mills]
