Humberstone

Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the St. Barnabas Library on French Road in Humberstone, on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2007.

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon registration district.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2254
1871	R.G. 10 / 3229
1891	R.G. 12 / 2494 & 2495

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
   
• The church is in the Early English style and was built before 1405.
   
• The church seats 120.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2010.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1683 but early parts are imperfect.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Goscote (first portion). This was latter called the Christianity Deanery.
   
• The Congregationalists had a small chapel built here in 1851.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here by 1881.
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel here by 1881.
   

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

Humberstone is a rural village and parish which has been incorporated into the city of Leicester on its east side. It lies 105 miles north of London and only 2.5 miles east-by-north from the centre of Liecester city. The parish covered 1,175 acres in 1900.

The City of Leicester formally annexed the parish in 1935. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A47 arterial road east out of Leicester city. It cuts through the heart of what was once Humberstone village.
   
• There used to be two railway sations for Humberstone, but passenger service discontinued prior to 1960.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• For centuries, most of the parish land was used for grazing.
   

• Humberstone Hall was the seat of Sir Maurice LEVY, M.P., in 1912.
   
• There was also a Manor House in the parish, but the web page author has no details.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK626059 (Lat/Lon: 52.647233, -1.076184), Humberstone 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.

• The Leicester Borough Lunatic Asylum opened here in September, 1869, on a 40 arcre parcel. In December, 1880, it held 392 patients.
   
• The Asylum was later known as the Towers Hospital.
   
• The Leicester Borough Lunatic Asylum stood in the area designated as West Humberstone and was thus incorporated into Leicester city in 1891.
   
• A new wing was added to the structure in 1883 and another in 1890. In 1901 a new recreation hall and administrative offices were built and an additional 49 acres added to the grounds.
   
• Most patients were transferred out in 1908 to the new Borough Asylum in Narborough.
   
• The old Asylum was used by the Army in the Great War as a medical hospital. It was renamed the 5th Northern General Hospital. This hospital closed in 1919.
   
• The facility was named the Towers Hospital in 1947.
   
• Some patient records exist in the Leicester Records Office and the National Archives, but require a personal visit to access. All records are subject to the 100 year Closure Law.
   
• Chris SHAW has a photographs of Humberstone Hospital on Geo-graph, taken in September 2005.
   

• This place was an ancient parish of the county and a modern Civil Parish until 1935.
   
• The parish was in the ancient East Goscote Hundred (or Wapentake) in the eastern (or northern) division of the county.
   
• By the "Leicester Extension Act of 1891, part of the Civil Parish of Humberstone was constituted as "West Humberstone" and was included in the Borough and parish of Leicester.
   
• On 1 April, 1935, this Civil Parish was abolished and all the land amagamated into Leicester Civil Parish.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	412
1811	399
1821	415
1831	470
1841	462
1851	480
1871	852
1881	333
1891	365
1901	385
1911	538
1921	847

• A National School (later a Public Elementary School) was built here prior in 1857 for 133 children.