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Description in 1871:
"SNARESTONE, a parish, with a village, in Ashby-de-la-Zouch district, Leicester; 4¾ miles S by W of Ashby r. station. Post town, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Acres, 1,325. Real property, £3,604. Pop., 355. Houses, 80. The manor belongs to J. Gurdon, Esq. S. Lodge is the residence of M. Tunnicliff, Esq. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Swepstone. The church is old but good. There are an endowed school and a national school."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales", 1870-72]
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Alan MURAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Bartholomew's church graveyard alongside the church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2010.
- The parish was in the Measham subdistrict of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch 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 and Volume 7 covers the Measham subdistrict.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
YearPiece No. 1841 H.O. 107 / 603 1851 H.O. 107 / 2084 1861 R.G. 9 / 2267 1871 R.G. 10 / 3243 1891 R.G. 12 / 2508
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew.
- The church is considered "very old" and has a brick tower with 2 bells. The church was built before 1559.
- The church seats 150.
- Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of St. Bartholomew at Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1559.
- The church is in the rural deanery of West Akeley.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here prior to 1912.
- The parish was in the Measham subdistrict of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
- Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
Snarestone is a small village and a parish about 110 miles north of London and 8 miles north of Atherstone. It is also 5.5 miles south of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The parish covers about 1,333 acres and borders on Warwickshire.
The Ashby Canal starts in this parish by the village and a branch of the River Sence runs along the west side of the parish. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A50 trunk road west out of Leicester city to Ashby de la Zouch and turn left (south) onto the A42 and go to Donsthorpe. Here you want to turn off (left again) onto the B4116 and head due south to Snarestone.
- Roger KIDD has a photograph of the Snarestone Tunnel at Geo-graph, taken in 2010.
- J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Village Sign at Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016. You might want to present them with a more artistic version when you arrive.
- Mat FASCIONE also has a photograph of the Village Sign at Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Snarestone to another place.
- Most of the inhabitants of this parish in 1849 were farmers with a few brickmakers and shopkeepers.
- A colliery was opened here in 1875, but it was closed by 1881.
- Philip JEFFREY has a photograph of the Globe public house at Geo-graph, taken in January, 2014.
- Snareston Lodge was the seat of the CLEMENT family.
- Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of Manor Farmhouse in Snarestone at Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK344094 (Lat/Lon: 52.681586, -1.492767), Snarestone 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.
Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Snarestone War Memorial in its own little garden area on Main Street at Geo-graph, taken in March, 2010.
- The names on the memorial are listed at Leicestershire Memorials.
- The parish was in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the southern division of the county.
- This place has a long history as a Chapelry and later a Civil Parish.
- You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT staffed to perform family history searches for you.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Ashby-de-la-Zouch petty session hearings.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Poorlaw Union.
- The parish built an Endowed Church of England School (National School) in 1717.
- The school has its own website, but no student records are online.
- Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the C of E Primary School at Geo-graph, taken in March, 2010.