Burton on the Wolds

• Despite the lack of an Anglican church, the parish has a Cemetery and a War Memorial with 13 names on it.
   

• The parish was in the Leake sub-district of the Loughborough 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.
   
• Remember, this place was a township until late 1866, so it would be found under Prestwold parish.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The was an Anglican mission church here, subordinate to the church in Prestwold.
   

• Your best bet would be Prestwold parish church records, but check Walton and Barrow on Soar as well.
   
• There are parish registers available covering 1560 - 1837.
   
• Phillimores Marriages, volume 8, covers Burton on the Wold for 1560 - 1837.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built in 1846.
   

• The parish was in the Leake sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

Burton on the Wolds, Leicestershire, is a small village and a parish in the North West Leicestershire area. It lies 117 miles north of London, and about 4 miles due east of Loughborough. To the south lies the city of Leicester. The parish is bordered on the west by the River Soar and covered about 2,584 acres by 1912.

The village is home to a pub, a garage with a shop enclosed and a village hall. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, Burton is on the B676 arterial only 3 miles west of the A46 trunk road.
   
• Coach service is provided by County Coaches.
   

• Geograph
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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Burton on the Wolds to another place.

• Burton was used as living quarters for servicemen from Wymenswold airfield during World War II.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Greyhound Inn on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2011.
   

• Burton Hall was built around 1780.
   
• Burton Hall was the residence of Lord Ernest St. MAUR in 1912.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK588211 (Lat/Lon: 52.784284, -1.129628), Burton on the Wolds 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.

• On 14 November, 1940, during a massive German bombing raid on Coventry, the enemy lost one plane which was a Dornier 17, serial number 2892 shot down by A.A. fire at Preswold Hall, Burton on the Wold. The 4 man crew died and are buried at Loughborough Cemetery.
   

• This place was an ancient township in Prestwold parish in the county of Leicester. It became a Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the northern division of the county.
   
• The parish is in the Charnwood borough council.
   
• On 1 April, 1965, the Civil Parish was enlarged by 37 acres gained from the Civil Parish of Willoughby on the Wolds.
   
• It appears that sometime in the 20th century the Civil Parish of Burton on the Wolds joined with the hamlet of Cotes and the Prestwold Civil Parish to form a single parish council. You can contact this Parish Council about community matters, but they are not staffed to assist with family history research.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Loughborough petty session hearings each Wednesday.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1871	398
1881	356
1891	309
1901	309
1911	293
1921	262
1931	297

• The Public Elementary School was originally built in 1834 and was rebuilt in 1881 for 128 children. The village has a Primary School on Barrow Road. It appears to be from 1966. The school serves several neighboring villages and hamlets.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST provides a photograph of Burton School on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2011.
   
• The School website provides no history.