Upton

• The parish was in the Market Bosworth 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:
   

• The inhabitants of this parish attended church in Sibson.
   
• The webpage author has found no record of a church here.
   

• Check the Anglican parish register of SIbson (which dates from 1559).
   

• The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

Upton is a village, a township and a parish which lies about 106 miles north of London and 4 miles southwest of Market Bosworth. The parish covered about 1,327 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A444 trunk road north out of Nuneaton or southeast out of Twycross. About a mile south of the B585 crossing (just beyond Sibson) lies a road to the east that leads toUpton.
   
• Andrew TATLOW provides a photograph of the Main Road into Upton on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2016.
   
• Mat FASCIONE provides a photograph of the prettier Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• In 1881, the Manor House was occupied by Samuel Abell BERRY, a farmer.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP364998 (Lat/Lon: 52.594783, -1.464074), Upton 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 and township in Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish is in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1935, this parish was abolished and the area of 1,327 acres amalgamated with the new Sheepy Civil Parish.
   
• District governance is provided by the Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1841	148
1871	136
1881	103
1891	105
1901	94
1911	109
1921	110
1931	104

• The children of this parish attended school in Sibson.