Gilroes
Description in 1871:
"GILROE, or Gilroes, an extra-parochial tract in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicester. Real property, £503. Pop., 12. Houses, 2."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]
Note: Gilroes was an extra-parochial tract in Leicestershire until 1858, when it becazme a Civil Parish.
- A cemetery of 40 acres was opened in 1902 and was under the control of the Leicester burial board. It ahd a crematorium and two mortuary chapels.
- The parish was in the Rothley sub-district of the Barrow upon Soar 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. Volume 21 covers the Rothley sub-district.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2281 |
- The webpage author could find no record of an Anglican parish church in Gilroes.
- Parishioners attended Saint Leonard's Church in Leicester city.
- The church was in the rural deanery of East Akeley.
- The parish was in the Rothley sub-district of the Barrow upon Soar Registration District.
- Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
Gilroes is a village and a parish about 1.5 miles north-west of the city of Leicester on the Groby Road, 110 miles north of London and 5 miles south of Loughborough. The village sits just west of the River Soar. The parish area was always very small and typically covered 178 acres.
- The village has existed since Saxon times and a Saxon cross stands in the churchyard.
- The national grid reference is SK 5604
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
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- The Leicester Borough Isolation Hosp. was not required by law to archive patient records. It is unknown if any records survive from this institution.
- The hospital became part of the National Health Service and was in operation during World War II.
- This place was an ancient extra-parochial tract and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1858.
- The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred.
- The parish was in the Mid division of the county.
- The whole of the parish was purchased by the city of Leicester in 1897. One portion of the parish was set aside for an Isolation Hospital. The hospital ahd 200 beds, with another 80 beds reserved for a Small Pox Hospital
- In April, 1935, the parish was abolished and 185 acres amaglgamated into Leicester Civil Parish Civil Parish.
The 1901 population total includes 93 patients in the hospital and 37 staff members.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1811 |
4 |
| 1841 |
19 |
| 1871 |
10 |
| 1881 |
27 |
| 1891 |
34 |
| 1901 |
154 |
| 1911 |
156 |
- The children of this parish attended school in Leicester city.
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[Last updated: 20-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills]
