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Description in 1871:
"BARTON-IN-THE-BEANS, a township in Market-Bosworth district, Leicester; chiefly in Nailstone parish, but partly also in Market-Bosworth and Shackerstone parishes, 2 miles N of Market-Bosworth. Acres, 820. Real property, £1,712. Pop., 159. Houses, 39."
[John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]
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- The parish was in the Ibstock sub-district of the Market Bosworth 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.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census Year | Piece No. |
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1841 | H.O. 107 / 602 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2265 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3241 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2507 |
- There was formerly (pre-1925) a chapel of the Anglican Church here.
- The parishioners attended the church in Nailstone.
- The chapel was in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (first portion).
- The General Baptists had a chapel built here in 1745 and rebuilt it in 1841.
- Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Ibstock sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration DIstrict.
Barton in the Beans is a small village, a township and a parish about 108 miles north of London, 14 miles west of Leicester city, just 3 miles south of Ibstock and 8 miles south-east of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The parish covers about 860 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A447 south out of Ibstock and turn west and turn west at Nailstone.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Barton in the Beans to another place.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK397064 (Lat/Lon: 52.653882, -1.41457), Barton in the Beans which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
In the Baptist chapel there is a War Memorial: a stone base and sloping top stone - WW1 inscription on top, WW2 on plaque on base.
There is a white stone cross in the Baptist Churchyard honoring trooper E. W. BLAZA who was wounding at Gallipoli and died a year later.
- This place was an ancient Township in Nailstone parish in Leicester county and it became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
- The parish was in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the western division of the county.
- On 18 August, 1882, the parish was enlarged by gaining part of Market Bosworth Civil Parish.
- On 25 March, 1886, the parish was enlarged by gaining part of Nailstone Civil Parish.
- On 1 April, 1935, a large number of parish realignments were mandated. This parish was abolished and amalgamated into Shackerstone Civil Parish.
- You can find the local Parish Council regarding civic and political issues, but they won't assist in family history searches.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Bosworth petty session hearings.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, Barton in the Beans became part of the Market Bosworth Poorlaw Union.