Hoton, Leicestershire Genealogy

England   Leicestershire

Parish History
Hoton was formed as a chapelry of Prestwold, Leicestershire Ancient Parish.

HOTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Prestwold,union of Loughborough, hundred of East Goscote,N. division of the county of Leicester, 3 miles (N. E.by E.) from the town of Loughborough; containing 460 inhabitants. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1759. There is a place of worshipfor Wesleyans.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 559-562. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51048 Date accessed: 16 May 2011.

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

HOTON, or HOUGHTON, a township and chapelry in Prestwold parish, Leicester; near the river Soar and the boundary with Notts, 3¼ miles NE of Loughborough r. station. Post town, Loughborough. Acres, 1,850. Real property, £3, 031. Pop., 401. Houses, 87. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Hastings. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the donative of Prestwold, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church was rebuilt in 1837, and has an embattled tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Probate records
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