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Leicestershire Towns & Parishes

Nearby places

Potters Marston

Description in 1887:
"Potters Marston, township, Barwell par., Leicestershire, 4½ miles NE. of Hinckley, 280 ac., pop. 20."
[John Bartholomew's "Gazetteer of the British Isles," 1887]

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.
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
  
  
• The church seats only 36.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register is kept at Barwell and dates from 1661, but the early years are damaged or imperfect.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (second portion).
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel.

Potters Marston is a township, a small village and a parish 103 miles north of London, just 4.5 miles northeast of Hinckley, and 11 miles southwest of Leicester city. The parish covers 703 acres.

The village sits in the hills in southwest Leicestershire. If you are planning a visit:

• The village is too small to appear on most small-scale (large area) maps.
  
  

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History

• Most of the male residents of the parish were either Framework Knitters or farmers.
  
  

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Manors

• Potters Marston Hall was used as a farmhouse in 1881 and occupied by Robert Hill INGLE.
  
  
• The Hall was the ancestral home of the BOOTHBY family.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SP 4996.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient Chapelry linked to Barwell parish until December, 1866.
  
  
• In December, 1866, this place was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish.
  
  
• As a chapelry, this place covered about 280 acres. As a Civil Parish, this increased to 703 acres.
  
  
• The parish was in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred (Wapentake) in the Western ( or Southern) 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.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Bosworth petty sessional hearings.
  
  

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Population

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[Created: 15-October-2009 - Louis R. Mills]