- Check the Anglican parish register at Copt Oak.
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- Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
- Ulverscroft was in the Quorndon subdistrict of the Barrow-on-Soar registration district.
- The Registrar's Office in Barrow-upon-Soar closed in 1945. Certificates of birth, death and marriage can now be obtained from the Superintendent Registrar at Leicestershire Central or Loughborough
Ulverscroft is a village and a parish in Leicestershire. The parish is 1 mile northwest of Copt Oak, 7 miles northeast of Loughborough and 8.5 miles northwest from Leicester city centre. The parish covers 1,889 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By Automobile, the A50 trunk road west from Leicester connects with the B587 which will take you to Copt Oak.
- Ulverscroft is small enough that it does not appear on most small scale (large area) maps.
- Ulverscroft House was the residence of Capt. William George LILLINGSTON in 1911 and stood in a 100 acre park.
- The national grid reference is SK 4811.
- 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, "Ulverscroft," was anciently called "Woolverscroft".
- This place was formerly extra-parochial land and became a Civil Parish in 1858.
- The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the Mid division of the county.
- In March of 1884, this parish was enlarged by gaining part of Newton (Newtown) Linford Civil Parish.
- In April of 1968, 84 years later, this parish reduced in size to enlarge Newton (Newtown) Linford Civil Parish.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, Ulverscroft became part of the Barrow-upon-Soar Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Loughborough petty session hearings.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1871 |
81 |
| 1881 |
91 |
| 1891 |
90 |
| 1901 |
100 |
| 1911 |
89 |
| 1921 |
121 |
| 1931 |
131 |
| 1951 |
124 |
| 1961 |
132 |
- The children of this parish attended school in Copt Oak.
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[Created: 25-August-2009 - Louis R. Mills]