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Leicestershire Towns & Parishes

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Harston

Census

• The parish was in the Denton sub-district of the Grantham (Lincoln) Registration District.
  
  
• After the Registration District was re-organized in 1891, the parish was in the Grantham North sub-district of the Grantham 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 was dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels.
  
  
• The church was apparently built before 1602.
  
  
• The church chancel was rebuilt in 1871.
  
  
• The church nave was rebuilt in 1888.
  
  
• The church seats 120.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1707.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Framland (first portion).
  
  
• Harston marriages from 1562-1837 are in Pallot's Marriage Index.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Denton sub-district of the Grantham (Lincoln) Registration District.
  
  
• After the Registration District was re-organized in 1891, the parish was in the Grantham North sub-district of the Grantham Registration District.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Harston is both a parish and a village about 116 miles north of London, 5 miles southeast of Redmile and on the border with Lincolnshire. The parish coers just over 1,040 acres.

The River Devon flows past the village. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A607 trunk road southwest out of Grantham for about 3 miles to Denton. Pass through Denton village and take the back roads to Harston.
  
  

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History

• Ironstone was mined here in great quantities in the 1800s and 1900s.
  
  

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Manors

• Harston Hall was the residence of Alexander H. WHEELER in 1912.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 8331.
  
  
• 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 was in the eastern division of the county in the ancient Framland Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Grantham Poor Law Union.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Belvoir petty sessional hearings.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• A National School was built here in 1835.
  
  
• The old National School was rebuilt in 1868 as a Public Elementary School and was enlarged in 1901 to hold 75 children.
  
  

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[Last updated: 9-August-2009 - Louis R. Mills]