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Thurlaston

Description in 1871:
"THURLASTON, a parish, with a village and two townships, in Blaby district, Leicester; 3½ miles SSE of Desford r. station, and 6 NE of Hinckley. It has a post-office under Hinckley. Acres, 2,980. Real property, £5,914. Pop., 698. Houses, 148. The property is much subdivided. Normanton Hall belongs to W. Worswick, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £400. Patron, the Rev. J. Arkwright. The church was recently restored. There are a national school, and charities £10."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72

Nore :There is a Thurlaston in Warwickshire also. Make sure that you are researching the correct one.

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. Volume 4 covers the Enderby sub-district.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1850 and the church tower was restored in 1898.
  
  
• The church seats 270.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1588.
  
  
• The church is in the rural deanery of Guthlaxton.
  
  
• The Baptist chapel was founded in 1814.
  
  
• There is a small Catholic domestic chapel attached to Normanton Hall.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel.

Thurlaston is a village, a township and a parish which lie about 7 miles southwest of Leicester and 3 miles northwest of Narborough. The parish covers about 2,575 acres and includes the hamlet of Normanton Turville.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, Thurlaston lies just north of the M69 motorway about 7 miles outside of Leicester city.
  
  
• Read about the Thurlaston Wood at the Woodland Trust site.
  
  
• Be sure to visit the Thurlaston village website.
  
  

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History

• Find a copy of "The History Of Thurlaston, Leicestershire", by John Ordish Hulme, 2009, 176 pages, ISBN-13: 9781104426200.
  
  
• Thurlaston's village hall celebrated its eightieth year in 2008.
  
  

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Manors

• Normanton Hall was the seat of Major William WORSLEY-WORSWICK, J.P. in 1912.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SP 5099.
  
  
• 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

• The parish is in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the western division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Blaby Poorlaw Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	364
1811	487
1841	694
1851	796
1901	526
1971	552

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Schools

• A Public Elementary School was built here in 1853 on Desford Road to hold 120 children.
  
  

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