Holwell

• The parish was in the Clawson sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District until 1935.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transfered to the Melton and Belvoir 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 church was built as a Chapel of Ease.
   
• In 1925, the Chapel is refered to as "ancient". Most sources give it a construction date of the 13th century.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Church of St. Leonard on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016.
   
• The church is a Grade II* structure with English Heritage.
   

• The church is in the rural deanery of Framland (third portion).
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1877.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the former Methodist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Clawson sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District until 1935.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transferred to the Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
   

Holwell is a village, a township, a chapelry and was a parish 3.5 miles northwest of Melton Mowbray. The River Smith rises in this place. The parish covered about 1,220 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A606 trunk road north out of Melton Mobray. Turn right (east) at Ab Kettleby and go about 1 mile to find Holwell village.
   
• Drivers are cautioned to stay on the roadways due to mineshafts in the area.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The parish has (had) a chalybeate spring in the neighbourhood, called Holwell mouth. Thus the name of the parish!
   
• Most of the parish land was held in pasturage. Much of the remaining land was used for small farms.
   
• Small scale iron mining, in open pits, occurred here in the 1800s and early 1900s.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK734238 (Lat/Lon: 52.806601, -0.912724), Holwell 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 Chapelry in Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Framland Hundred in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• On 24 March, 1884, the parish was enlarged from parcels from both Ab Kettleby Civil Parish and the Landlike Lane section of Wartnaby Civil Parish.
   
• On 1 April, 1936, Holwell Civil Parish was abolished and the 1,408 acres went to Ab Kettleby Civil Parish.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Melton Mowbray petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Melton Mowbray Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1841	156
1871	147
1881	268
1891	238
1901	272
1911	249
1921	199
1931	191

• The webpage author could find no record of a school in this small parish.