Holt

• The parish was in the Great Easton subdistrict of the Uppingham 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.
1891	R.G. 12 / 2550

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
   
• The church is of Norman origin, built in the late 13th century to replace an earlier church.
   
• The church seats 100.
   

• The Anglican parish register is included in Medbourne.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Gartree (third portion).
   
• There was a Catholic chapel attached to the side of Holt Hall.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Great Easton subdistrict of the Uppingham Registration District.
   

Holt is a township, a chapelry and a village in the old parish of Medbourne, 89 miles north of London, 17 miles south-east of Leicester city and 7 miles north-east of Market Harborough. The parish covers 1,178 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Take the B664 arterial road northeast out of Market Harborough to Medbourne. Holt is east of Medbourne.
   

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

• Iron and limestone were quarried in this parish.
   
• The parish employed a large number of boot and shoe makers.
   

• Holt Hall has some portions dated to the 15th century.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of Neville Holt Hall taken in September, 2006.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP815937 (Lat/Lon: 52.535076, -0.799893), Holt 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.

• Known as just "Holt" to the locals, its proper name is "Neville Holt".
   

• The parish was in the southern division of the county in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• This place had been a chapelry and a township in Medbourne parish for centuries. Some time after 1846 the township became a Civil Parish of its own right. It is not clear if it still retains that status.
   

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Uppingham Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the East Norton petty session hearings.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1841	40
1871	28
1881	88
1891	41
1901	53
1911	76
1921	128
1931	66
1951	42
1961	33

• The children of this place attended school in Medbourne.
   
• In 1919, at the sale of the Nevill Holt estate, the hall was purchased by the Revd. C. A. C. Bowlker for use as a preparatory school. In 1960 there were about 90 boys.