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Leicestershire Towns & Parishes

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Halstead

Description in 1871:
"HALSTEAD, a township in Tilton parish, Leicestershire; 11 miles E of Leicester. Acres, 1, 432. Real property, £231. Pop., 211. Houses, 43. Halstead House is the seat of the Chesters. There are petrifying springs, and a Wesleyan chapel."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72

Caution: There is a Halstead in County Kent and another in Essex.

Census

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon registration district.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The parishioners attended Anglican services at the church in Tilton-on-the-Hill.
  
  

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Church Records

• No Anglican parish register exists. See Tilton-on-the-Hill for church records.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chapel here by 1849 which they enlarged in 1863.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon registration district.
  
  
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Halstead is a hamlet and a township in the parish of Tilton-on-the-Hill seated 11 miles east of Leicester city, 3 miles northeast of Billesdon and about 105 miles north of London. The hamlet adjoins Tilton-on-the-Hill village which is just to the south. The township covers about 1,440 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A47 arterial road east out of Leicester city and turn left (north) after Billesdon onto the B6047. That road should, after about a mile, bring you to Tilton-on-the-Hill village. Pass through that village to get to Halstead hamlet.
  
  
• Visit the Halstead village website.
  
  

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History

• Much of the township land was used for grazing.
  
  
• The township is known for its "petrifying" springs.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7505.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• The township was in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the township became part of the Billesdon Poorlaw Union.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the East Norton petty session hearings.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1881	309
1901	197

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