Hemington

• The parish was in the Castle Donington subdistrict of the Shardlow 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:
   

• The Anglican parish church for Hemington was abandoned by 1590. The parishioners attended the church in Lockington.
   
• The church was built here in the 14th century.
   
• The church tower was even older, built in the 13th century. The tower collapsed in April, 1986.
   
• The church ruins are all that remain. The roof was intact in 1825, but gone by 1869. It is a Gade II Heritage building.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of Hemington Church in Ruins on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2013.
   

• Search the Anglican parish register at Lockington.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of West Akeley.
   
• The Primitive Methodist built a chapel here by 1846.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837, but this place wasn't a Civil Parish until 1867.
   
• The parish was in the Castle Donington subdistrict of the Shardlow registration district.
   

Hemington is a village, a township and a parish 122 miles north of London, just 3 miles northwest of Kegworth and one mile south-west of Castle Donington in Derbyshire. The town of Long Eaton stands to the north. The parish covers about 1,400 acres and was once a township in the parish of Lockington.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the M1 motorway to Kegworth intersection 24 where it crosses the A6 trunk road. Hemington is just northwest of that intersection and just past Lockington.
   
• There is no convenient railway station here.
   
• A brook passes through the village on its way to join the River Trent.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Hemington to another place.

• In 1790, the nearby Harrington Bridge was built to create a crossing of the River Trent. The new bridge was a toll bridge and everyone except locals living in Hemington (or Sawley, Derbyshire) were required to pay the toll.
   

• Hemington Hall was a collection of buildings around a centre court. Some of the buildings dated from the 14th century.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK450277 (Lat/Lon: 52.844934, -1.333313), Hemington which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• In the centre of the village stood a cross in memory of the men who fell in the Great War of 1914-1918.
   
• Chris DIXON has a photograph of the War Memorial on a round-about on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2005.
   
• David LALLY has a close-up of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.
   

• The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the Loughborough division of the county.
   
• This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire, but it was treated as a township for several hundred years.
   
• In December, 1866, the township was constituted as a modern Civil Parish out of a portion of Lockington Civil Parish.
   
• In April, 1936, the parish was abolished and all 1,439 acres amalgamated back into what was now Lockington cum Hemington Civil Parish.
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but, be aware, they are NOT funded to perform family history searches for you.
   
• District governance is provided by the North West Leicestershire District Council.
   

• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1789.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Loughborough petty sessional hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, Hemington became part of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.
   
• In 1848 Mr. Thomas HULL left a charity of £30 and the interest from that was distributed each Saint Thomas day to the poor.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1871	383
1881	380
1891	358
1901	332
1911	383
1921	330

• A County Council School was built in 1878 for 120 children.
   
• Christine JOHNSTONE has a photograph of the Hemington School on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2010.