Prestwold, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire

Parish History
Prestwold is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire. Hoton was formed as a chapelry of Prestwold. Other places in the parish include: Burton on the Wolds and Cotes.

PRESTWOLD (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Loughborough, hundred of East Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 2½ miles (E. N. E.)from Loughborough; containing, with the townships of Barton-on-the-Wolds and Cotes, and the chapelry of Hoton, 1043 inhabitants, of whom 60 are in the township of Prestwold. The parish is situated on the road between Loughborough and Nottingham; and facilities of communication are also afforded by the Midland railway and the Loughborough canal. Prestwold Hall,the residence of C. W. Packe, Esq., has a collection of family portraits by Cornelius Jansen, Sir Godfrey Kneller, Sir Peter Lely, Reinagle, and other masters.The living is a donative, in the gift of Mr. Packe; net income, £24. The church contains several monuments.There is a chapel of ease at Hoton. Miles Newton, in1657, devised forty-two acres of land, now producing£35 per annum, for a school.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 616-618. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51224 Date accessed: 16 May 2011.

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

PRESTWOLD, a township and a parish in Loughborough district, Leicester. The township lies on an affluent of the river Soar, near the boundary with Notts, 2½ miles E N E of Loughborough r. station; and has a wall letter-box under Loughborough. Real property, £1, 937. Pop., 72. Houses, 19. The parish contains also the townships of Hoton, Cotes, and Burton-on-the-Wolds. Acres, 4, 720. Real property, £10,026. Pop., 969. Houses, 215. The manor with Prestwold Hall belongs to Col.W. Packe. Burton Hall is the seat of Lord A. St. Maur. The living is a donative, united with the p. curacy of Hoton, in the diocese of Peterborough. The parish church is a handsome edifice, with a tower; and contains monuments of the Packes. Hoton church was rebuilt in 1837. There are two Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school with £37 a year, and charities £7.

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Poor Law Unions
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Probate records
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