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Leicestershire Towns & Parishes

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Knipton

Census

• The parish was in the Denton sub-district of the Grantham (Lincoln) Registration District.
  
  
• After the Poor Law Union 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 is dedicated to All Saints and is built of stone.
  
  
• The church was built before 1563.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1846.
  
  
• The church seats 220.
  
  

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Church Records

• The church was in the rural deanery of Framland (first portion).
  
  
• The Anglican parish register dates from 1562 for baptisms and burials. Marriages start in 1563. The register contains burials of Parliamentary soldiers between 1643 and 1645.
  
  
• Knipton marriages from 1562-1837 are in Pallot's Marriage Index.
  
  
• The Baptists built a chapel here prior to 1912.
  
  

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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 Poor Law Union 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.

Knipton is both a parish and a village about 112 miles north of London, 10 miles northeast of Melton Mobray and 7 miles southwest from Grantham in Lincolnshire. The Knipton River runs through the west side of the parish. The parish covers some 1,270 acres and includes the northern shore of the Knipton Reservoir.

The village is on the banks of the River Devon. If you are planning a visit:

• The village is just northwest off of the A607 trunk road between Grantham and Melton Mobray.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 8231.
  
  
• 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).
  
  
• In April, 1936, this parish was abolished and the area used to enlarge Belvoir Civil Parish.
  
  

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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 at the Belvior petty sessional hearings.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• A Public Elementary School (National School) was built here in 1850 and enlarged in 1868.
  
  

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[Last updated: 31-July-2009 - Louis R. Mills]