Dadlington

• The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth 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 in Dadlington is dedicated to Saint James.
   
• The church is an old building with a turret and 2 bells.
   
• The church has had many repairs and alterations, and little of the original fabric remains.
   
• The church chancel was restored in 1866-67.
   
• The whole church was restored in 1890.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• John SALMON has a photograph of St. James the Greater Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2003.
   
• John SALMON also has a photograph of the Church chancel on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1734.
   
• You may also want to search the parish registers at Stoke Golding.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (second portion).
   
• The Congregationalists had a small chapel here built prior to 1849.
   

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

Dadlington is a small village and a township and was a parish 103 miles north of London, just 1 mile northeast of Stoke Golding, 3 miles northwest of Hinckley and 4 miles south of Market Bosworth. The parish covered 1,028 acres.

The village sits in the hills in southwest Leicestershire. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, from the A5, just west of Hinckley, turn north for Higham on the Hill and pass through that village to get to Dadlington. Conversley, from the A447 arterial north out of Hinckley, turn left (west) at Stapleton and drive out 3 miles to Dadlington.
   
• John SALMON has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2003. This would be a good opportunity to offer to replace their sign with something formal and historicly appropriate.
   
• Nigel COX has a photograph of the Ashby Canal: Bridge Number 30 on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Most of the male residents of the parish were either Framework Knitters or farmers.
   
• The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal passes through this parish.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Dog & Hedgehog P. H. on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2008.
   

• The webpage author could find no description of a Hall or Manor House in his sources, although a Manor House is mentioned.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP405980 (Lat/Lon: 52.578228, -1.404104), Dadlington 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.

According to the Traces of War website, Dadlington churchyard contains one Commonwealth War Grave from World War I.

The Commonwealth War Grave (data from www.CWGC.org) is for:

• This place was an ancient Township and Chapelry of Leicestershire in Hinckley parish and became modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred (Wapentake) in the southern (or western) division of the county.
   
• In April, 1935, this parish was abolished and all the land amalgamated with the Sutton Cheney Civil Parish to the north.
   

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

Many of these figures are for the Chapelry boundaries and not the parish boundaries:

Year	Inhabitants
1841	180
1871	230
1881	170
1891	163
1901	154
1911	189
1921	212
1931	200

• The children of this place attended school at Stoke Golding.