Evington
Description in 1871:
"EVINGTON, a parish in Billesdon district, Leicestershire; near the Midland railway, 3 miles ESE of Leicester. Post town, Thurnby, under Leicester. Acres, 1, 360. Real property, £4, 578. Pop., 275. Houses, 65. The property is divided among a few. Evington Hall is the seat of the Colmans. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £80. Patron, the. Bishop of Peterborough. The church is good; and there are a Calvinistic chapel and a free school."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72
- 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 Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Denis (Denys).
- The church chancel was rebuilt in 1867.
- The entire church was thoroughly restored in 1884.
- The church seats 350.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1601.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Gartree (second portion).
- The Calvanistic Methodists built a gothic chapel here in 1837. It appears that the Particular Baptists took over this chapel by 1912.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon Registration District.
Evington is a village and a parish on the edge of the conurbation of Leicester City. It lies 3 miles east of Leicester center and about a mile north of Watling Street. The parish covered about 1,190 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, Evington village is at the B667 arterial road where it meets the A47 out of Leicester city.
- Evington Hall was the residence of Henry Freeman COLEMAN in 1849.
- The national grid reference is SK 6203.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire. When civil administartion was introduced, it became a Civil Parish like most others.
- This place was in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake) in the southern (or eastern) division of the county.
- In 1881, this parish covered 1,360 acres. By 1891, that had been reduced to 1,190 acres.
- In April, 1936, this parish was abolished and divided between Leicester Civil Parish (1,019 acres), Oadby Civil Parish (155 acres) and Stroughton Civil Parish (17 acres).
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
177 |
| 1811 |
222 |
| 1821 |
257 |
| 1831 |
260 |
| 1841 |
285 |
| 1851 |
293 |
| 1871 |
310 |
| 1881 |
450 |
| 1891 |
239 |
| 1901 |
248 |
| 1911 |
958 |
| 1921 |
1,072 |
| 1931 |
1,802 |
- The parish boasted two Free Schools in 1849.
- One of the Free Schools was replaced by a Public Elementary School built in 1859 for 70 children.
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[Created: 29-August-2009 - Louis R. Mills]
