Foxton

• Foxton Cemetery is a small cemetery just west of the village at the intersection of Gumley Road and Gallow Field Road.
   
• Foxton Cemetery is owned and administered by the Harborough District Council.
   

• The parish was in the Market Harborough sub-district of the Market Harborough 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:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2249
1871	R.G. 10 / 3225
1891	R.G. 12 / 2491

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew.
   
• There was a church here in the 12th century, but it is unclear if this is the same building.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored 1893.
   
• The church seats 350.
   
• Jonathan BILLINGER has a photograph of St. Andrew's Church on Geo-graph, taken on a sunny day in March, 2009.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1653.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Gartree (first portion).
   
• The Baptists built their first chapel here in 1716. It was rebuilt in 1865.
   

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

Her Majesty's Prison, also called Gartree Prison, is located just south of the village on Gallow Field Road (how appropriate!).

Foxton is a parish and a village in Leicestershire. It is 13 miles southeast of Leicester city and 4.5 miles northwest of Market Harborough. The parish covers about 1,900 acres. At the west end of the parish are the Foxton Locks on the Grand Union Canal.

The village sits astride the Grand Union Canal. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, it is probably easiest to take the A50 trunk road south out of Leicester city for about 12 miles and turn left at Mowsley and continue to Gumley. Turn south there (right) and proceed to Foxton.
   
• The Grand Union Canal passes through the south of the parish.
   
• Ian ROB has a photograph of the Rainbow Bridge on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2010.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Village sign on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2013.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• 3/4 of the parish was used for grazing land.
   

• In the 11th Century the "earliest part of the Manor house was built". This was followed in the 13th Century by the "building of a second manor house, whose foundations are Orchard House".
   
• Foxton Hall is a large red-brick manor house with excellent views around the county.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP701899 (Lat/Lon: 52.502504, -0.968729), Foxton 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. Andrew's Church is a marble tablet, erected in 1920, with the names of those who fell in World War I.
   

There are three Commonwealth War Graves in St. Andrew's churchyard.

WW I:

1. Clarence BROWN, priv., 10th Btn. Sherwood Foresters, age 20, died 5 Nov. 1918. Son of Lucy BROWN.
2. Sylvester BROWN, corp., Army Service Corps, age 42, died 27 Aug. 1917. Husband of Lucy BROWN.

WW II:

1. Jack Capell DURRAN, stoker, Royal Navy Patrol Service, age 31, died 3 April 1941. Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. DURRAN.

• The parish is in the ancient Gartree Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1935, there were two boundary adjustments with Market Harborough parish that enlarged the parish by about 9 acres overall.
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to do family history searches for you.
   
• District governance is provided by the Harborough District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Harborough petty session hearings held every other Tuesday.
   
• In 1770 the Common Lands were enclosed here.
   
• In 1777 Miss Ann TOZER left a bequest of £195. The interest was used as an annual gift to the poor.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Market Harborough Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	420
1831	346
1851	413
1871	336
1881	348
1891	284
1901	313
1911	324
1921	348
1931	321
1951	352
1961	364

• A Council School was built in 1875 for 90 children.