Sretton Parva (Sretton Parva cum Goadby et Rolleston)
Description in 1871:
"STRETTON-PARVA, a chapelry in Kings Norton parish, Leicestershire; 3 miles N by E of Glenn r. station, and 5¾ SE of Leicester. Post town, Leicester. Real property, £1,196. Pop., 83. Houses, 19. The living is annexed to Kings-Norton."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72
Note: there is a "little Stretton" in Shropshire, England, as well.
- The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon 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. |
| 1851 |
H.O. 107 / 590 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2254 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3228 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2495 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
- The church is a small, ancient stone building.
- The church was restored in 1899.
- The church seats 60.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1600.
- In the Library at Oadby there are copies of the parish register for Little Stretton.
- The parish was in the rural deanery of Gartree (third portion).
- A non-denominal chapel was built here in 1811.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon Registration District.
Little Sretton is a small village, a township and a parish ion the old Gartree Road just 6 miles south-east of Leicester city, 10 miles north-west of Market Harborough and 104 miles north of London. The parish covers 704 acres and was partly pasture and partly farmland for centuries.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A6 south-east out of Leicester through WIgston. You will need to turn north (left) at Newton Harcourt.
- The Gartree Road that runs through the village is the old Roman Road. It gives its name, "Stretton," to the village.
- Near the village is a mound, thought to be Roman. The encampment area covers about 3 acres.
- Most of the parish land was given over to pasturage.
- There is no Hall, but there is a Manor House.
- The national grid reference is SK 6600.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- Although known to most people as "Little Stretton", the parish's official name is "Stretton Parva", the Latin equivalent.
- This place was an ancient chapelry in King's Norton parish in the county of Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
- The parish was in the eastern division of the county in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake).
- The Common Land was enclosed here in 1771.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became the centre of the Billesdon Poorlaw Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Leicester petty sessional hearings.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1871 |
75 |
| 1881 |
84 |
| 1891 |
72 |
| 1901 |
83 |
| 1911 |
73 |
- The children of this parish attended school in either Gaulby or Great Glen.
- An infants' school was started in 1824 and in 1833 six children attended at their poarents' expense. After 1871 no more is reported of it.
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[Created: 6-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills]
