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Description in 1871:
"SLAWSTON, a parish, with a village, in the district of Uppingham and county of Leicester; 2½ miles NW of Medbourne-Bridge r. station, and 5½ NE of Market-Harborough. Post town, Market-Harborough. Acres, 1,510. Real property, £3,241. Pop., 246. Houses, 59. The manor belongs to the Earl of Cardigan. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £174. Patron, the Earl of Cardigan. The church is of the 13th century, and has a tower and spire. There is an Independent chapel."
John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72".

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Cemeteries

Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of Gravestones at All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013.

Andrew TATLOW also has a photograph showing some of the All Saints Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2006.

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Census

  • The parish was in the Great Easton sub-district of the Market Harborough 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.
1861R.G. 9 / 2309
1871R.G. 10 / 3304
1891R.G. 12 / 2550
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Church History

  • The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
     
  • The church stands at the east end of the village on the road to Blaston.
     
  • The church was built in the late 13th Century.
     
  • The church was restored in 1864.
     
  • The church seats 168.
     
  • Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013.
     
  • Timothy HEATON also has a photograph of Church of All Saints on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2020. The distortion is probably caused by the type of lens used for the photograph.
     
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Church Records

  • The Anglican parish register dates from 1559.
     
  • A Congregational chapel was built here in 1776 and rebuilt in 1850.
     
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Civil Registration

  • Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
     
  • The parish was in the Market Harborough Registration District.
     
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Description & Travel

Slawston is a village and a parish overlooking the Welland vale, about 15 miles south of Leicester and 6 miles northeast of Market Harborough. The parish covers about 1,500 acres and includes Othorpe hamlet.

If you are planning a visit:

  • Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Main street on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013.
     
  • Mat FASCIONE also has a photograph of the village sign on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2007.
     
You can see pictures of Slawston which are provided by:

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Gazetteers

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History

  • Two thirds of the parish was pasturage.
     
  • Olthorpe hamlet was depopulated, apparently, to make more land available for sheep pasturage.
     
  • There was a windmill here in 1637.
     
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Manors

  • The Manor Farmhouse is located in Main Street.
     
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Maps

  • See our Maps page for additional resources.
     

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP778946 (Lat/Lon: 52.543895, -0.854702), Slawston which are provided by:

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Military History

In 1921 a marble mural tablet was erected in the church, inscribed with the names of the parishioners who fell in the Great War, 1914-18.

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Politics & Government

  • This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
     
  • The parish was in the southern division of the county in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake).
     
  • The residents of this parish have elected to forgo a formal parish council and have periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civil and political issues.
     
  • District governance is provided by the Harborough District Council.
     
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • The Common Lands were enclosed here by an act of Parliament in 1793.
     
  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Harborough petty session hearings held every other Tuesday.
     
  • In 1760, Rev. Thomas HOPE left the interest on £100 to be given annually as coal to the poor of the parish.
     
  • After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Uppingham Poorlaw Union.
     
  • In 1895. after a district re-organization, this parish became part of the Market Harborough Poorlaw Union.
     
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Population

 YearInhabitants
1801266
1831243
1841250
1871202
1881184
1901145
197190
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Schools

  • The children of this parish attended school in Cranoe (Cranehoe), which was built in 1843.
     
  • John HOLYOAKE ran a large boarding school in Slawston in the early 18th Century which had as many as 20 young gentlemen from London and elsewhere.