Dunton Bassett

• The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth 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 was dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church is Early Norman and was built around 1350.
   
• The church was restored in 1882.
   
• The church seats 270.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken on an overcast day in July, 2011.
   
• John SALMON also has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken on April, 2013.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1653.
   
• The church was in the rural Guthlaxton deanery (second portion).
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1880.
   

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

Dunton Bassett is a parish and a village 4 miles north of Lutterworth, 10 miles south from the city of Leicester and 95 miles north of the city of London. The parish covers just over 1,360 acres.

The land around the village has been mostly pasture for centuries. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A426 north out of Lutterworth and turn left at Dunton Bassett.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• In the 1800s many parishioners worked as frame-work knitters, others as farmers or shoemakers.
   
• The village hall was built in 1895.
   
• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph taken April, 2014.
   
• Ian ROB has a photograph of the Dunton Bassett Arms on Geo-graph taken May, 2011. This used to be "The Shoulder of Mutton" until around 1988.
   

• Major Hugh Harry ROBERTSON-AIKMAN was the lord of the manor in 1912 and the resident of the Manor House.
   

• You can view an online map at the Axcis site.
   
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP547906 (Lat/Lon: 52.510555, -1.195456), Dunton Bassett 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.

• In 1912, Major Hugh Henry ROBERTSON-AIKMAN resided in the Manor House here. He was born in Leicestershire.
   
• In January, 1920, Mrs. AIKMAN (wife of Major Hugh H. AIKMAN) dedicated the Celtic Cross on Main Street as the village War Memorial. It includes the names of men lost in Malaya and World War Two.
   
• Ian ROB has a photograph of the War Memorial near the church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2005.
   
• There is a "family" War Memorial in the churchyard, which is a stone cross on a two-tiered base, dedicated to Captain Edward Thomas CRUMP of the Royal Engineers who died in January, 1941.
   

• This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish lies in the Guthlaxton Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT funded to provide you with family history searches and services.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	407
1841	553
1871	496
1881	409
1891	368
1901	385
1911	482
1921	523
1931	506
1961	591

• In 1849 a school for boys and girls was built here. It was enlarged in 1873. In 1909 the school was enlarged again, but now it was designated a Public Elementary School.