West Leake, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire



Parish History
West Leake St Helena is an Ancient Parish.

LEAKE, WEST (St. Helen), a parish, in the union of Loughborough, S. division of the wapentake of Rushcliffe and of the county of Nottingham, 2¾ miles (E.) from Kegworth; containing 208 inhabitants, and consisting of 1400 acres. The living is a rectory, united to that of East Leake, and valued in the king's books at £25. 4. 7.: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £130, and the glebe comprises 10 acres. The church is a very ancient structure, with an open campanile turret.

From:A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 42-46.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Leake like this:

LEAKE (WEST), a parish, with a village, in the district of Loughborough, and county of Nottingham; on an affluent of the river Soar, 2 miles SE of Kegworth r. station, and 5½ N by W of Loughborough. Post town, Loughborough. Acres, 1, 390. Real property, £1, 796. Pop., 171. Houses, 36. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of East Leake, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is ancient; and, in 1866, was in bad repair. The church was medieval but restored in 1878 by Henry Hall for Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper.

The modern parish is united with

Costock, Nottinghamshire St Giles

East Leake, Nottinghamshire St Mary

Rempstone, Nottinghamshire All Saints

Stanford on Soar, Nottinghamshire St John the Baptist.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Loughborough Poor Law Union, Leicestershire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Nottinghamshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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