Hemington (Hemington Hemington)
Description in 1871:
"HEMINGTON, a township in Lockington parish, Leicester; S of the river Trent, 2 miles NW of Kegworth. Acres, 1, 400. Real property, £2, 716. Pop., 385. Houses, 91. It was formerly a parish; and it still has considerable ruins of its church. The manor belongs to Sir John H. Crewe, Bart. There is a Methodist chapel."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]
- 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:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2488 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2719 |
- 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 grade II Heritage building.
- In the centre of the village stood a cross in memory of the men who fell in the Great War of 1914-1918.
- 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.
- 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.
- The national grid reference is SK 4628
- 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.
- 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 Hemington Civil Parish.
- 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.
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[Last updated: 6-January-2012 - Louis R. Mills]
