Great Easton (Easton Magna)
Note: There is another Great Easton parish in Essex county. Make sure that you are researching the right one.
- The parish was in the Great Easton subdistrict of the Uppingham 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 Andrew.
- The church was built before 1684.
- The pinnacles on the church tower were blown down in a storm 24 March, 1895.
- The church seats 320.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1650 for baptisms; 1652 for marriages; and 1656 for burials.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Gartree (third portion).
- The Independents (Congregationalists) built a chapel here in 1797. By 1908 it was disused.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1857.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Great Easton subdistrict of the Uppingham Registration District.
Great Easton is a parish, a chapelry and a village 96 miles north of London, 22 miles southeast of Leicester city and 8 miles east-northeast of Market Harborough. The parish is bounded on the south by the River Welland which is flowing east to The Wash. The Welland is also the boundary with Northamptonshire on the south. The parish covers 2,360acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- This parish is off the major highway routes. By automobile, take the A6003 trunk road south out of Oakham. Turn right (west) just after Caldecott and follow that road 1 mile to Great Easton.
- Much of the land in the parish was used for pasture.
- The parish employed a large number of boot and shoe makers.
- The national grid reference is SP 8493.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- The parish was in the southern division of the county in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake).
- This place had been a chapelry and a township in Bringhurst parish for centuries. Some time after 1866 the township became a Civil Parish of its own right.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Uppingham Poorlaw Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the East Norton petty session hearings.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1841 |
|
| 1871 |
603 |
| 1881 |
540 |
| 1891 |
510 |
| 1901 |
424 |
| 1911 |
418 |
| 1921 |
397 |
| 1931 |
349 |
| 1951 |
398 |
| 1961 |
408 |
- There was no school here prior to 1849. The children of the parish were sent to school in Rockingham.
- A Public Elementary School was built here in 1875 for 115 boys & girls and 54 infants.
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[Created: 27-July-2009 - Louis R. Mills]
