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Leicestershire Towns & Parishes

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Leicester

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]

Census

• 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:
  
  

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Church History

• There was no Anglican parish church here for many centuries.
  
  

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Church Records

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

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel.

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.
  
  
• The hamlet is served by the Bull's Head puib.
  
  
• You may want to check out the area at Leicester Villages. Alas, there is little local information available.
  
  

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History

• This was long a place popular with woodcutters and graziers.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 4802.
  
  
• 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

• 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.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• 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.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Leicester petty session hearings.
  
  

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Population

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

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