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Walton on the Wolds

Description in 1871:
"WALTON-ON-THE-WOLDS, a parish in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicester; 2 miles NE of Barrow-upon-Soar r. station. Post town, Loughborough. Acres, 1,720. Real property, £2,087. Pop., 221. Houses, 57. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £450. Patron, Mrs. Packe. The church is good."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]

Census

• The parish was in the Barrow upon Soar sub-district of the Barrow upon Soar 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 13 covers the Barrow on Soar sub-district.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.
  
  
• The church was built in the 13th century.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1877.
  
  
• The church seats 120.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1566.
  
  
• The Family History Centre in London has the parish register from 1566 to 1948.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of East Akeley.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists had chapels here prior to 1849.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Barrow upon Soar sub-district of the Barrow upon Soar Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Walton on the Wolds is a village and a parish about 2 miles north-east of Barrow-on-Soar, 4 miles east of Loughborough and 115 miles north of London. The village sits just east of the River Soar on Walton Brook which empties into the River Soar. The parish covers just under 1,550 acres.

The town was a framework-knitting centre in your ancestors' time. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A60 east out of Loughborough. At Hoton, turn right (south) for Walton on the Wolds.
  
  
• Leicestershire Villages have a village website with a description.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 6015
  
  
• 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 was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the Mid division of the county.
  
  
• You can contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family hisotry searches.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Barrow-upon-Soar Poor Law Union.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Loughborough petty session hearings.
  
  
• Blunt's Charity generated 18 shillings a year in 1912 for the poor.
  
  
• The Family History Centre in London has the parish chest materials from 1733 to 1861.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• A National School (Public Elementary) was by 1912. It could hold 45 children.
  
  

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[Last Updated: 21-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills]