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Great Glen

Description in 1877:
"Glen Magna, or Great Glenn, sometimes spelt Glen, is a large and well built village, situated in a valley on the Market Harborough road, 6 miles S.E. by S. of Leicester. Many of its inhabitants are framework knitters, and its township contains 767 inhabitants and 2010 acres of land, chiefly in pasturage; but its parish is in Billesdon Union, Leicester County Court District, and Gartree Hundred, comprises also Stretton Magna Chapelry, and was enclosed in 1759, containing 800 persons, and having 2510 acres of land. The Midland Railway passes through the parish, and has a station about a mile from the village.... A brook flows through the village in its circuitous course to the Soar, and about a mile to the south it is crossed by the Grand Union Canal. The Church (St. Cuthberts), in the Decorated style, has a nave, chancel, north aisle, and a square tower, containing five bells. The register dates from the year 1585." [White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the Counties of Leicester & Rutland, 3rd Edition. 1877]

Bibliography

Mathews (or Wade-Matthews) M. (1998), Great Glen, The Story of a Leicestershire Village. Heart of Albion Press (out of print, but may be available from Leicestershire and Rutland FHS). He has also published this as a CD-ROM (ISBN: 0-9547740-2-7) with the same title. His description says "The cd not only tells the 2,000 year-old story of the village with many high resolution digital photographs, but also contains transcriptions of many documents including wills, terriers, the enclosure awards and all the censuses from 1841 to 1901." The CDROM is also available from Leicestershire and Rutland Family History Society. It is fully indexed with links to hundreds of names, making this a gold mine for family history researchers.

Cemeteries

The Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society have published details of Great Glen burials from 1813 - 1865 on microfiche. (Ref 808F)

Census

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 and Volume 11 covers the Billesden Sub-District which includes Great Glen (Glen Magna).

Maps

Multi Media Mapping have a current map of Great Glen.

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