Drayton

• The parish was in the Great Easton subdistrict of the Uppingham 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:
   

• The Anglican parish chapel is dedicated to Saint James.
   
• This was an ancient Chapel of Ease, but it was in ruins by the early 1800s.
   
• The old chapel was used as a bakehouse in 1881, but devine services were held in the old Nave.
   
• Barry EPHGRAVE has a photograph of St. James Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2009.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here before 1849.
   

• For parish register entries, see Bringhurst parish.
   
• The chapel was in the rural deanery of Gartree (third portion).
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Great Easton subdistrict of the Uppingham Registration District.
   

Drayton is a parish, a township and a small village about 97 miles north of London, 9 miles south of Uppingham (in Rutland county) and 7 miles northeast of Market Harborough. The parish is bounded on the south by the River Welland which is flowing east to The Wash. The parish covers 733 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• This parish is off the major highway routes. By automobile, take the B664 arterial road between Uppingham and Market Harborough to Mebourne. There are two country lanes that lead east to Drayton.
   
• Dave THOMPSON has a photograph of Drayton from afar on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2015.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2007. You could submit your own artistic and historicly accurate sign idea to the parish council.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Drayton to another place.

• Nearly all the land in the parish was used for pasture.
   
• George FOX, the founder of The Society of Friends (Quakerism), was born here.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP830922 (Lat/Lon: 52.521235, -0.777454), Drayton 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.

• The parish was in the southern division of the county in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• This place had been a chapelry and a township in Bringhurst parish for centuries. Some time after 1866 the township became a Civil Parish of its own right. An 1881 Kelly's Directory of Leicester does not record it as a Civil Parish yet.
   

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Uppingham (Rutland) Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the East Norton petty session hearings the first Friday of each month.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1841	148
1871	115
1881	137
1891	105
1901	93
1911	101
1921	97
1931	121
1951	99
1961	112

• In 1849, Mrs. Francis WIGNELL ran a ladies' boarding school here. This was a day school by 1881, run by Susanna WIGNELL.
   
• In 1912, the children of this parish attended school in Easton Magna, just to the east.