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Poor Law Unions in Leicestershire.

A list extracted from Kelly's Directory, 1881 showing the various places comprising each union.

 
Clicking on the hyperlink within each section will take you to the parish where the union workhouse was situated. Any information regarding the union and its records will be detailed there.
 
Ashby-de-la-Zouch Union
  • Appelby
  • Appelby (Derby)
  • Ashby-de-la-Zouch
  • Blackfordby
  • Boundary
  • Calke or Caulk (Derby)
  • Coleorton
  • Hartshorn (Derby)
  • Heather
  • Hugglescote and Donington
  • Measham (Derby)
  • Neter and Over Seal
  • Normanton-le-Heath
  • Oakthorpe and Donnisthorpe (Derby and Leicester)
  • Osgathorpe
  • Packington
  • Packington (Derby)
  • Ravenstone (Derby and Leicester)
  • Smisby or Smithsby (Derby)
  • Snarestone
  • Staunton Harold
  • Stretton-en-le-Field (Derby)
  • Swannington
  • Swepstone
  • Thringstone
  • Ticknall (Derby)
  • Whitwick
  • Willesley (Derby)
  • Worthington

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Barrow-upon-Soar Union
  • Anstey
  • Barkby
  • Barkby Thorpe
  • Barrow-upon-Soar
  • Beeby
  • Belgrave
  • Birstall
  • Cossington
  • Cropstone
  • Mountsorrel North End
  • Mountsorrel South End
  • Newton Linford
  • North Thurmaston
  • Queniborough
  • Quorndon
  • Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreak
  • Rearsby
  • Rothley
  • Seagrave
  • Sileby
  • South Croxton
  • South Thurmaston
  • Swithland
  • Syston
  • Thrussington
  • Thurcaston
  • Ulverscroft
  • Walton-on-the-Wolds
  • Wanlip
  • Woodhouse

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Billesdon Union
  • Alexton
  • Billesdon
  • Burton Overy
  • Bushby
  • Carlton Curlieu
  • Cold Newton
  • East Norton
  • Evington
  • Frisby
  • Galby
  • Glenn Magna
  • Goadby
  • Great Stretton
  • Halstead
  • Houghton-on-the-Hill
  • Humberstone
  • Hungerton
  • Ilston-on-the-Hill
  • Keyham
  • King's Norton
  • Little Stretton
  • Loddington
  • Lowesby
  • Marefield
  • Newton Harcourt
  • Owston
  • Rolleston
  • Scraptoft
  • Skeffington
  • Stoughton
  • Thurnby
  • Tilton
  • Tugby
  • Whatborough
  • Wistow
  • Withcote

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Blaby Union
  • Aylestone
  • Blaby
  • Braunstone
  • Cosby
  • Countesthorpe
  • Croft
  • Enderby
  • Foston
  • Glenfield
  • Glenn Parva
  • Huncote
  • Kilby
  • Kirby Muxloe
  • Knighton
  • Leicester Forest (East and West)
  • Lubbisthorpe
  • Narborough
  • Oadby
  • Potters Marston
  • Thurlaston
  • Whetstone
  • Wigston Magna

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Hinckley Union
  • Aston Flamville
  • Barwell
  • Burbage
  • Burton Hastings
  • Earl Shilton
  • Elmsthorpe
  • Higham-on-the-Hill
  • Hinckley (Leicester and Warwick)
  • Sapcote
  • Sharnford
  • Stoke Golding
  • Stoney Stanton
  • Stretton Baskerville (Warwick)
  • Wolvey (Warwick)

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Leicester Union
  • All Saints
  • Blackfriars
  • Castle View
  • St. Leonard
  • St. Margaret
  • St. Martin
  • St. Mary
  • St. Nicholas
  • The Newarke Liberty
  • White or Augustine Friars

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Loughborough Union
  • Belton
  • Burton-on-the-Wolds
  • Charley, or Charnwood
  • Costock, or Cortlingstock (Notts)
  • Cotes
  • Dishley-cum-Thorpacre
  • East Leake (Notts)
  • Hathern
  • Hoton
  • Knight Thorpe
  • Long Whatton
  • Loughborough
  • Normanton-upon-Soar (Notts)
  • Prestwold
  • Rempstone (Notts)
  • Sheepshed
  • Stanford-upon-Soar (Notts)
  • Sutton Bonnington (Notts)
  • Thorpe Bochart, or Thorpe-in-the-Glebe (Notts)
  • West Leake
  • Willoughby-on-the-Wolds (Notts)
  • Wimeswould, or Wymeswold (Notts)
  • Wordthorpe
  • Wysall (Notts)

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Lutterworth Union
  • Arnesby
  • Ashby Magna
  • Ashby Parva
  • Bittesby
  • Bitteswell
  • Broughton Astley and Primethorpe
  • Bruntingthorpe
  • Catthorpe
  • Copston Magna (Warwick)
  • Cottesbach
  • Cross-in-Hand
  • Dunton Bassett
  • Frowlesworth
  • Gilmorton
  • Great Claybrooke
  • High Cross
  • Kimcote-with-Walton
  • Knaptoft
  • Leire
  • Little Claybrooke
  • Lutterworth
  • Misterton
  • Monks Kirby (Warwick)
  • North Kilworth
  • Pailton (Warwick)
  • Peatling Magna
  • Peatling Parva
  • Shawell
  • Shearsby
  • South Kilworth
  • Sutton-in-the-Elms
  • Stretton-under-Fosse (Warwick)
  • Swinford
  • Ullesthorpe
  • Walcote
  • Walton-in-Knaptoft
  • Welford (Northampton)
  • Wibtoft (Warwick)
  • Wigston Parva
  • Willey (Warwick)
  • Willoughby Waterless

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Market Bosworth Union
  • Bagworth
  • Barlestone
  • Barton-in-the-Beanes
  • Bilstone
  • Cadeby
  • Carlton
  • Congerstone
  • Dadlington
  • Desford
  • Gopsall
  • Groby
  • Ibstock
  • Kirkby Mallory
  • Market Bosworth
  • Markfield
  • Nailstone
  • Newbold Vernon
  • Norton-juxta-Twycross
  • Odstone
  • Orton-on-the-Hill
  • Osbaston
  • Peckleton
  • Ratby
  • Shackerstone
  • Shenton
  • Sibson
  • Stanton-under-Bardon
  • Stapleton
  • Sutton Cheney
  • Thornton
  • Twycross
  • Upton

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Market Harborough Union
  • Artingworth (Northampton)
  • Ashley (Northampton)
  • Bowden Magna
  • Brampton (Northampton)
  • Braybrooke (Northampton)
  • Clipston (Northampton)
  • Cranoe
  • Dingley (Northampton)
  • East Farndon (Northampton)
  • East Langton
  • Fleckney
  • Foxton
  • Glooston
  • Great Oxendon (Northampton)
  • Gumley
  • Hothorpe (Northampton)
  • Husbands Bosworth
  • Kelmarsh (Northampton)
  • Kibworth Beauchamp
  • Kibworth Harcourt
  • Laughton
  • Little Bowden (Northampton)
  • Lubbenham
  • Market Harborough
  • Marston Trussell (Northampton)
  • Mowsley
  • Saddington
  • Shaughton
  • Sibbertoft (Northampton)
  • Smeeton Westerby
  • Stoke Albany (Northampton)
  • Stanton Wyville
  • Sulby (Northampton)
  • Sutton Bassett (Northampton)
  • Threddingworth
  • Thorp Langton
  • Tur Langton
  • Welham
  • West Langton
  • Weston by Welland (Northampton)
  • Wilbarston

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Melton Mowbray Union
  • Ab-Kettleby
  • Asfordby
  • Ashby Folville
  • Barsby
  • Branston
  • Brentingby and Wyfordby
  • Brooksby
  • Broughton Sulney or Upper Broughton (Nottingham)
  • Buckminster
  • Burrough
  • Burton Lazars
  • Clawson
  • Coston
  • Dalby-on-the-Wolds
  • Eastwell
  • Eaton
  • Edmondthorpe
  • Freeby
  • Frisby-on-the-Wreak
  • Gaddesby
  • Garthorpe
  • Goadby Marwood
  • Great Dalby
  • Grimston
  • Harby
  • Hoby
  • Holwell
  • Hose
  • Kirby Bellars
  • Little Dalby
  • Melton Mowbray
  • Nether Broughton
  • Pickwell and Leesthorpe
  • Ragdale
  • Rotherby
  • Saltby
  • Saxby
  • Saxelby
  • Scalford
  • Sewstern
  • Somerby
  • Sproxton
  • Stapleford
  • Stathern
  • Stonesby
  • Sysonby
  • Thorpe Arnold
  • Thorpe Satchville
  • Twyford
  • Waltham-on-the-Wolds
  • Wartnaby
  • Welby
  • Wycomb and Chadwell
  • Wymondham

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Uppingham Union (in Rutland. Only LEI shires shown.)
  • Blaston
  • Bringhurst
  • Drayton
  • Easton Magna
  • Hallaton
  • Holt
  • Horninghold
  • Medbourne
  • Slawston (until 1895
  • Stockerston

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