Halstead

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon registration district.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The parishioners attended Anglican services at the church in Tilton-on-the-Hill.
   

• No Anglican parish register exists. See Tilton-on-the-Hill for church records.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chapel here by 1849 which they enlarged in 1863.
   
• Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of the Halstead Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.
   

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon registration district.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

Halstead is a hamlet and a township in the parish of Tilton-on-the-Hill seated 11 miles east of Leicester city, 3 miles northeast of Billesdon and about 105 miles north of London. The hamlet adjoins Tilton-on-the-Hill village which is just to the south. The township covers about 1,440 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A47 arterial road east out of Leicester city and turn left (north) after Billesdon onto the B6047. That road should, after about a mile, bring you to Tilton-on-the-Hill village. Pass through that village to get to Halstead hamlet.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of Halstead village across the fields on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Much of the township land was used for grazing.
   
• The township is known for its "petrifying" springs. (This is a chemical reaction where items lowered into the water accrue a mineral or stone covering.)
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK751057 (Lat/Lon: 52.643852, -0.891509), Halstead 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.

• This place was an ancient township in Tilton parish in Leicester county and it was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The township was in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1935, the Civil Parish was abolished and all the land amalgamated back into Tilton Civil Parish.
   

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the township became part of the Billesdon Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the East Norton petty session hearings.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1871	204
1881	309
1901	197
1931	170