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Description in 1871:
"LEICESTER-FOREST (EAST and WEST), two extraparochial tracts in Blaby district, Leicestershire; from 2½ to 5 miles S of Leicester. Acres, about 700. Real property, £1,387. Pop., 82 and 51. Houses, 16 and 9. The property is divided chiefly among three.
[John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]
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- The parish was in the Enderby sub-district of the Blaby 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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1841 | H.O. 107 / 601 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2258 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3234 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2501 |
- The Methodists chapel was opened in 1931.
- There was no Anglican parish church here for many centuries. The parishioners raised money and built Saint Andrew's church in 1966.
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew.
- The church seats 200.
- In 1977, the Methodists sold their chapel and built a meeting hall next to St. Andrews with a common vestible and office.
- Visit the St. Andrew's Church website for more information.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1966.
- The Jehovah's Witnesses have a Meeting Hall on Hinckley Road.
- The parish was in the Enderby sub-district of the Blaby Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Leicester Forest East is about 4 miles (5km) west of the City of Leicester and became a parish in its own right in April 1986. The parish traditionally covered only 583 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, the parish lies right on the M1 motorway.
- There is no passenger rail service to Leicester Forest East, although freight trains do pass by the village. If Phase Two of the Ivanhoe Line begins, there will be passenger service to Leicester, Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Coalville.
- There is daily bus service from Leicester city.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Leicester Forest East to another place.
- This was long a place popular with woodcutters and graziers.
- The parish developed rapidly between 1920 and 1985, with large housing tracts going up in the 1960s.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK531031 (Lat/Lon: 52.622643, -1.217251), Leicester Forest East 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.
- This place became a modern Civil Parish in 1858 as a result of population growth in the area.
- The parish was in the Sparkenhoe Hundred (Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
- In March, 1885, this parish was reduced in size to enlarge Kirby Muxloe Civil Parish.
- In April, 1935, this parish was abolished and all 620 acres were amalgamated into Kirby Muxloe Civil Parish.
- In April, 1986, this parish was reincorporated.
- District governance is provided by the Blaby District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Leicester petty session hearings.
- As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Blaby Poorlaw Union.