Bringhurst

• The parish was in the Great Easton subdistrict of the Uppingham 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 Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.
   
• The 1849 Post Office Directory of Leicestershire tells us, perhaps erroneously, that the church is dedicated to Saint Thomas.
   
• The church building dates back to the 12th century.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1863.
   
• This church is considered the "mother" church of Drayton and Great Easton.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Church of St. Nicholas on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2006.
   
• Mat FASCIONE also has a photograph of St. Nicholas Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2007.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1640 for baptisms and marriages, and from 1672 for burials.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Gartree (third portion).
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Great Easton subdistrict of the Uppingham Registration District.
   

Bringhurst is a parish, a township and a small village about 97 miles north of London, 5.5 miles southwest of Uppingham (in Rutland county) and 3 miles northeast of Market Harborough. The parish is bounded on the south by the River Welland which is flowing east to The Wash and bordered on the northeast by the River Eye. The parish covers 519 acres and includes the townships of Great Easton and Drayton.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A427 trunk road west out of Corby or east out of Market Harborough. Turn north at Cottingham and cross the Welland River to reach Bringhust.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2007. Bring your pruning shears so that all may see the sign!

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Most of the land in the parish was used for pasture.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP841922 (Lat/Lon: 52.521199, -0.761951), Bringhurst 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.

Inside St. Nicholas Church there is a wooden plaque on the wall with a painted inscription honoring the men of Bringhurst and Drayton who fell in the Great War.

The names listed on the War Memorial for World War I are:

Note: The George Thomas STOKES mentioned above, married to Elizabeth can be found in the 1901 census of Drayton, Leics.  Edgar is age 13 and "Art Ed." is 12.  "Hubert" is a grandson, age 4, but his age doesn't match the War Memorial entry.

• The parish was in the southern division of the county in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• Drayton township was separated from the parish and created as a separate Civil Parish after 1866.
   
• Great easton village and township was separated from the parish and created as a separate Civil Parish after 1866.
   
• The parish covered 3,650 acres in 1881, but was reduced to 519 acres by 1891.
   

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1804.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Uppingham Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the East Norton petty session hearings.
   

These population figures appear to be for the township of Bringhurst only, not the entire parish.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	777
1811	737
1841	840
1871	109
1881	73
1891	33
1901	49
1911	45
1921	40
1931	42
1951	55
1961	45

• The children of this parish attended school in Great Easton township.