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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]
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- 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. |
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1861 | R.G. 9 / 2488 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2719 |
- 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.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1557.
- The churches were in the rural deanery of West Akeley.
- A small Methodist chapel stood in Hemington.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Castle Donington subdistrict of the Shardlow registration district.
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 west of that intersection on the A453.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Isley Walton to another place.
- Isley Walton Hall was the residence of John Bainbridge STORY in 1849.
- The Hall was rebuilt around 1880 in the Italian style, with terraces.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK420250 (Lat/Lon: 52.820905, -1.378198), Isley Walton 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.
- Although the official name of the parish is "Isley Walton", the preferred name is Isley Walton Hemington. This avoids confusion with the Yorkshire parish.
- 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.
- The parish currently (2014) exists as "Isley cum Langley" Civil Parish.
- 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.