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Evington

Description in 1871:
"EVINGTON, a parish in Billesdon district, Leicestershire; near the Midland railway, 3 miles ESE of Leicester. Post town, Thurnby, under Leicester. Acres, 1,360. Real property, £4, 578. Pop., 275. Houses, 65. The property is divided among a few. Evington Hall is the seat of the Colmans. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £80. Patron, the. Bishop of Peterborough. The church is good; and there are a Calvinistic chapel and a free school."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72

Census

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon 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 is dedicated to St. Denis (Denys).
  
  
• The church chancel was rebuilt in 1867.
  
  
• The entire church was thoroughly restored in 1884.
  
  
• The church seats 350.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1601.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Gartree (second portion).
  
  
• The Calvanistic Methodists built a gothic chapel here in 1837. It appears that the Particular Baptists took over this chapel by 1912.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel.

Evington is a village and a parish on the edge of the conurbation of Leicester City. It lies 3 miles east of Leicester center and about a mile north of Watling Street. The parish covered about 1,190 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, Evington village is at the B667 arterial road where it meets the A47 out of Leicester city.
  
  

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Manors

• Evington Hall was the residence of Henry Freeman COLEMAN in 1849.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 6203.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire. When civil administartion was introduced, it became a Civil Parish like most others.
  
  
• This place was in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake) in the southern (or eastern) division of the county.
  
  
• In 1881, this parish covered 1,360 acres. By 1891, that had been reduced to 1,190 acres.
  
  
• In April, 1936, this parish was abolished and divided between Leicester Civil Parish (1,019 acres), Oadby Civil Parish (155 acres) and Stroughton Civil Parish (17 acres).
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Billesdon Poorlaw Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	177
1811	222
1821	257
1831	260
1841	285
1851	293
1871	310
1881	450
1891	239
1901	248
1911	958
1921	1,072
1931	1,802

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Schools

• The parish boasted two Free Schools in 1849.
  
  
• One of the Free Schools was replaced by a Public Elementary School built in 1859 for 70 children.
  
  

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