Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire



Parish History
Woodhouse Eaves is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Leicestershire, created as a District church in 1839 from Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire Ancient Parish,  Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, and Ulverscroft, Leicestershire (extra-parochial).

WOODHOUSE, a chapelry, in the parish and unionof Barrow-upon-Soar, hundred of West Goscote,N. division of the county of Leicester, 3 miles (S. W.)from Loughborough; containing, with Alderman-Haw,1309 inhabitants. A rent-charge of £65 has been awarded as a commutation for the tithes. The chapel is dedicated to St. Mary. The living is a perpetual curacy;net income, £120; patron, the Vicar of Barrow. Adistrict church has been erected at Woodhouse-Eaves, in Charnwood Forest; it was consecrated on the 5th of Sept. 1837, and contains 400 free sittings, the Incorporated Society having granted £350 in aid of the expense. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income,£106; patrons, the Lords of certain manors. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Thomas Rawlins in1691 granted several pieces of land, for the support of a school, for distribution among the poor of this chapelry and that of Quorndon, and for apprenticing children of both places; the estate, at the inclosure of Charnwood Forest, in 1829, was enlarged to 72 acres, and now produces about £230 per annum. There is also a bequest of £13 per annum for apprenticing a boy in London,and another of £5. 10. for the poor.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 654-657. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51425 Date accessed: 17 May 2011.

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

WOODHOUSE-EAVES, a chapelry, with a village, in Barrow-upon-Soar parish, Leicester; 4¼ miles S by W of Loughborough r. station. It takes its name from including part of Wood house township, and from lying on the eaves or edge of Charnwood forest; it was constituted in 1844; and it has a post-office under Loughborough. Pop. in 1861, 1,163. Houses, 264. The surface is picturesque, and includes bold high grounds, commanding exquisite views. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £118.Patrons, the Lords of the Manor of Charnwood Forest. The church was built in 1837; and is in the early English style, with a pinnacled tower. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and an endowed school.

Civil Registration
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Church records
Deposited records are found at the Leicester and Rutland Record Office

Contact: The Record Office Telephone: 0116 2571080 Fax: 0116 2571120 E-mail: recordoffice@leics.gov.uk

Diocese of Leicester: Woodhouse Eaves Bap 1844 - 1971 Marr 1837 - 1983 (Banns to 1969) Bur 1844 - 1978

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Poor Law Unions
Barrow upon Soar Poor Law Union, Leicestershire

Probate records
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