Leicester Forest West

• 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:
   

• There was no Anglican parish church here for many centuries.
   
• The inhabitants attended the churches at Kirby Muxloe, Brannstone and Thurlaston.
   

• It is unrecorded that any Anglican parish register entries exist.
   

• The parish was in the Enderby sub-district of the Blaby Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.

Leicester Forest West is a hamlet and a small parish near Leicester city. It appears to be a small auto service area at the gateway to the National Forest.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, the parish lies west off the M1 motorway just south of the junction with the A47.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of two residents of Leicester Forest West on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Leicester Forest West to another place.

• This was long a place popular with woodcutters and graziers.
   
• Ihe land was principally in pasturage.
   
• The hamlet is served by the Bull's Head pub.
   
• Timothy GLOVER has a photograph of the Bull's Head pub. on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2015.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK498019 (Lat/Lon: 52.612221, -1.266003), Leicester Forest West 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.
   
• The parish is so thinly populated that they do not have a formal parish council. The citizens have periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• 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 when it became a parish.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	53
1841	44
1851	50
1871	34
1881	48
1891	45
1901	41
1911	41
1921	59

• Students attended schools at Kirby Muxloe, Brannstone and Thurlaston.