Foston

• The parish was in the Wigston sub-district of the Blaby 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 Bartholomew.
   
• The origin of the church is uncertain but apparently of Norman origin.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1874.
   
• The church seats 70.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of St. Bartholomew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2006.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1690.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Guthlaxton (first portion).
   

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

Foston is a small village and was a civil parish about 6.5 miles south of Leicester city. The parish covered 1,333 acres.

The village is too small to appear on most small-scale (large area) maps. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A50 arterial road south out of Leicester about 6 miles. A road to the right leads to Countesthorpe. Once on that road you are in the old parish of Foston.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP603951 (Lat/Lon: 52.550415, -1.112139), Foston 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.

• This place was an ancient parish of Leicestershire and a modern Civil Parish as well.
   
• The parish is in the ancient Guthlaxton Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1936, theis parish was abolished to enlarge Kilby Civil Parish and all 1,333 acres were amalgamated with that parish.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1831	32
1841	41
1871	38
1881	43
1891	56
1901	45
1911	51
1921	40
1931	36

• The children of this place attended schools at Countesthorpe and Kilby.