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Isley Walton

Description in 1871:
"ISLEY-WALTON, a chapeliy in Kegworth parish, Leicester; near the boundary with Derby, 2 miles SW of Castle Donington, and 5 W by S of Kegworth r. station Post town, Castle Donington, under Derby. Real property, £745. Pop., 46. Houses, 8. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Kegworth, in the diocese of Peterborough."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]

Caution: There is also a Isley Walton parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Census

• 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:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church for Isley Walton is dedicated to Saint Nicholas (some sources give "St. Mary").
  
  
• The church was built here around the 13th century.
  
  
• The church seats 500.
  
  
• The church at Hemington village stood empty and unused for 500 years.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1557.
  
  
• The churches were in the rural deanery of West Akeley.
  
  
• A small Methodist chapel stood in Hemington.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Castle Donington subdistrict of the Shardlow registration district.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Isley Walton is a village, a township and a parish 122 miles north of London, just 3 miles northwest of Kegworth and due north of the East Midlands Airport. The parish also includes the township of Hemington.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the M1 motorway to Kegworth where it crosses the A6 trunk road. Isley Walton is just northwest of that intersection.
  
  

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Manors

• Isley Walton Hall was the residence of John Bainbridge STORY in 1849.
  
  
• The Hall was rebuilt around 1880 in the Italian style, with terraces.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 4627
  
  
• 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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Names, Geographical

• Although the official name of the parish is "Isley Walton", the preferred name is Isley Walton Hemington. This avoids confusion with the Yorkshire parish.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the northern division of the county.
  
  
• The parish covered 2,135 acres in 1881, but was reduced to 1,870 by 1891. In 1936, it increased to 3,309 acres.
  
  
• In March, 1884, the parish was enlarged by gaining part (Cliff Farm) of Sawley and Wilsthorpe parish.
  
  
• In April, 1936, the parish was enlarged by gaining all of Hemington parish when that parish was abolished.
  
  
• In April, 1965, the parish border was altered by losing 13 acres to Breaston parish and gaining a 21 acre portion of Shardlow and Great Wilne parish.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, Isley Walton became part of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Loughborough petty sessional hearings.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• A School Board was formed in 1878 and a County Council School built that same year. The parish school was in Hemington.
  
  

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