Fleckney
Description in 1871:
"FLECKNEY, a parish in Market-Harborough district, Leicester; on the Union canal, near the Kibworth station of the Leicester and Bedford railway, 7 miles NW of Market-Harborough. Post town, Kibworth-Harcourt, under Leicester. Acres, 1, 630. Real property, £2, 530. Pop., 581. Houses, 130. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £155.* Patron, the Earl of Lovelace. The church is tolerable; and there is a Baptist chapel."
"[1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales]"
- The parish was in the Market Harborough sub-district of the Market Harborough 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 is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
- The date of construction is uncertain, but it appears to be early Norman.
- The church seats 280.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1638.
- The church is in the rural deanery of Gartree (second portion).
- The General Baptists built their chapel here in 1813.
- There was also a Strict Baptist chapel here in 1911.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Market Harborough sub-district of the Market Harborough Registration District.
Fleckney is a parish and a village in Leicestershire. The parish is 91 miles north of London, 8.5 miles southeast of Leicester city and 8.5 miles northwest of Market Harborough. The parish is bounded on the east by the Union Canal, part of which runs thru the Fleckney Tunnel into Saddington parish. The parish covers 1,270 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, it is probably easiest to take the A50 trunk road south out of Leicester city for about 9 miles and turn left at Arnesby.
- The national grid reference is SP 6493.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- Most of the parish workforce worked steam-powered framework knitting machines.
- The parish is in the ancient Gartree Hundred in the southern division of the county.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Market Harborough Poorlaw Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1871 |
658 |
| 1881 |
770 |
| 1891 |
1,254 |
| 1901 |
1,516 |
| 1911 |
1,812 |
| 1921 |
1,699 |
| 1931 |
1,552 |
| 1951 |
1,490 |
| 1961 |
1,495 |
- A Public Elementary School (National School) was built in 1871 and enlarged in 1898 to hold 330 children.
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[Created: 13-July-2009 - Louis R. Mills]
