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Ulverscroft

Description in 1887:
"Ulverscroft, par., Leicestershire, 8 miles NW. of Leicester, ac. (included in Newtown Linford), pop. 91; has some remains of a priory founded in 1130."
[John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72]

Census

• Ulverscroft was in the Quorndon subdistrict of the Barrow-on-Soar 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 and Volume 13 covers the Barrow on Soar District of which Ulverscroft was a part.
  
  

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Church History

• There was an Augustine priory founded here in 1130 and called Blanchmaines.
  
  
• There appears to be no Anglican parish church.
  
  

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Church Records

• Check the Anglican parish register at Copt Oak.
  
  
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Civil Registration

• 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
  
  

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Description and Travel.

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.
  
  

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Manors

• Ulverscroft House was the residence of Capt. William George LILLINGSTON in 1911 and stood in a 100 acre park.
  
  

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Maps

• 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.
  
  

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Names, Geographical

• This place, "Ulverscroft," was anciently called "Woolverscroft".
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• 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.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• 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.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1871	81
1881	91
1891	90
1901	100
1911	89
1921	121
1931	131
1951	124
1961	132

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Schools

• The children of this parish attended school in Copt Oak.
  
  

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[Created: 25-August-2009 - Louis R. Mills]