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Snarestone (Snareston)

Description in 1871:
"SNARESTONE, a parish, with a village, in Ashby-de-la-Zouch district, Leicester; 4¾ miles S by W of Ashby r. station. Post town, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Acres, 1,325. Real property, £3,604. Pop., 355. Houses, 80. The manor belongs to J. Gurdon, Esq. S. Lodge is the residence of M. Tunnicliff, Esq. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Swepstone. The church is old but good. There are an endowed school and a national school."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales", 1870-72]

Census

• The parish was in the Measham subdistrict of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch 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 Bartholomew.
  
  
• The church is considered "very old" and has a brick tower with 2 bells. The church was built before 1559.
  
  
• The church seats 150.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1559.
  
  
• The church is in the rural deanery of West Akeley.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here prior to 1912.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Measham subdistrict of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Snarestone is a small village and a parish about 110 miles north of London and 8 miles north of Atherstone. It is also 5.5 miles south of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The parish covers about 1,333 acres and borders on Warwickshire.

The Ashby Canal starts in this parish by the village and a branch of the River Sence runs along the west side of the parish. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A50 trunk road west out of Leicester city to Ashby de la Zouch and turn left (south) onto the A42 and go to Donsthorpe. Here you want to turn off (left again) onto the B4116 and head due south to Snarestone.
  
  

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History

• Most of the inhabitants of this parish in 1849 were farmers with a few brickmakers and shopkeepers.
  
  
• A colliery was opened here in 1875, but it was closed by 1881.
  
  

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Manors

• Snareston Lodge was the seat of the CLEMENT family.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 3409
  
  
• 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

• The parish was in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the southern division of the county.
  
  
• This place has a long history as a Chapelry and later a Civil Parish.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Poorlaw Union.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• The parish built an Endowed Church of England School (National School) in 1717.
  
  

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[Created: 30-July-2009 - Louis R. Mills]