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Leicestershire Towns & Parishes

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Foxton

Note: There is also a Foxton parish and village in Cambridgeshire. Make sure you are researching the correct one!

Census

• 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 table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew.
  
  
• There was a church here in the 12th century, but it is unclear if this is the same building.
  
  
• The church was thoroughly restored 1893.
  
  
• The church seats 350.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1653.
  
  
• The church is in the rural deanery of Gartree (first portion).
  
  
• The Baptists built their first chapel here in 1716. It was rebuilt in 1865.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel.

Foxton is a parish and a village in Leicestershire. It is 13 miles southeast of Leicester city and 4.5 miles northwest of Market Harborough. The parish covers about 1,900 acres. At the west end of the parish are the Foxton Locks on the Grand Union Canal.

The village sits astride the Grand Union Canal. 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 12 miles and turn left at Mowsley and continue to Gumley. Turn south there (right) and proceed to Foxton.
  
  
• The Grand Union Canal passes through the south of the parish.
  
  

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History

• 3/4 of the parish was largely for grazing land.
  
  

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Manors

• Foxton Hall is a large red-brick manor house with excellent views around the county.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SP 7089.
  
  
• 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

• The parish is in the ancient Gartree Hundred in the southern division of the county.
  
  
• In April, 1935, there were two boundary adjustments with Market Harborough parish that enlarged the parish by about 9 acres overall.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• In 1777 Miss Ann TOZER left a bequest of £195. The interest was used as an annual gift to the poor.
  
  
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Market Harborough Poorlaw Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	420
1841	385
1871	336
1881	348
1891	284
1901	313
1911	324
1921	348
1931	321
1951	352
1961	364

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Schools

• A Council School was built in 1875 for 90 children.
  
  

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