Higham on the Hill

• The parish was in the Hinckley sub-district of the Hinckley Registration District until 1936.
   
• In 1936, the parish was reassigned to 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 was dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• The church was built in the 11th century or early in the 12th.
   
• The clock nave was rebuilt in 1793.
   
• The clock was added to the church tower in 1873.
   
• The church seats 360.
   
• John SALMON has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2003.
   
• There was an ancient Chapel of Ease dedicated to St. John the Baptist built at Lindley, to the north, but that was in ruins by the 20th century.
   

• The parish register dates from 1707, but the early years are erratic.
   
• The church was in the rural Sparkenhoe deanery (second portion).
   
• The original records are held at the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland.
   
• David Luther THOMAS has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2007.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Hinckley sub-district of the Hinckley Registration District until 1936.
   
• In 1936, the parish was reassigned to the Market Bosworth Registration District.
   

Higham on the Hill is a village and a parish on a hill just north of Watling Street, 3 miles west of Hinckley, 2.5 miles north of Nuneaton, 99 miles north of London and 6 miles south of Market Bosworth. The parish covers 2,949 acres and includes the hamlets of Rowden and Lindley.

The Ashby Canal runs through the parish just east of the village. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A5 west out of Hinckly and turn right (north) after about two miles to Higham on the Hill.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Higham on the Hill to another place.

• Lindley Hall is about a mile northwest of the village and was the seat of Dempster HEMING in 1881.
   
• Higham Grange, a spacious residence, standing in its own grounds near to Wathng Street, was used as a convalescent homo for Warwickshire miners after 1900.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP381956 (Lat/Lon: 52.556942, -1.439037), Higham on the Hill 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.

A tablet was erected in the parish church in 1919 as a memorial to the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18.

There are 3 Commonwealth War Graves in St. Peter's churchyard. Two from World War One and one from World War Two.

The three Commonwealth War Graves (data from www.CWGC.org) are:

• This place was an ancient parish of the county. It became a Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish lies in the Sparkenhoe Hundred in the southern (or western) division of the county.
   
• In April, 1935, this Civil Parish was reduced by 29 acres to enlarge Caldecott Civil Parish (across Watling Street in Warwick).
   
• Also in April, 1935, this Civil Parish was reduced by 62 acres to enlarge Nuneaton Civil Parish (across Watling Street in Warwick).
   
• Finally, in April, 1935, this Civil Parish was enlarged by 389 acres with the abolition of Stoke Golding Civil Parish (to the northeast).
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they will NOT be able to help you with family history searches.
   
• The Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council provides district governance.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1841	556
1871	532
1881	445
1891	553
1901	525
1911	614
1921	553
1931	738
1961	723

• A Public Elementary School (National School) was built here prior to 1881.
   
• Peter MacKenzie has a photograph of the School on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2017.