Kimcote

• The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth 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 All Saints.
   
• The church dates from the 12th century.
   
• The church was restored in 1869.
   
• The church tower was restored in 1893.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• Ian ROB has a photograph of All Saints on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2006.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1633.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Guthlaxton (third portion).
   
• A Baptist chapel was built in Walton in 1833.
   

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

Kimcote is a village and civil parish in the southern hills of Leicestershire, England. The parish lies 1 mile south-west of Gilmorton and 3.5 miles north-east of Lutterworth parish. The parish includes the large hamlet of Walton.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the M1 motorway to junction 20 and turn east onto the A427. Just before North Kilworth, turn left and go about 2 miles on that road to Kimcote.
   
• Alex MacGREGOR has a photograph of the Vilalge Sign on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2010. Surely your artistic talents could assist in developing a more artistic and visually arresting sign!
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• In the 1800s most of the parish land was used for grazing.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP586865 (Lat/Lon: 52.473296, -1.138719), Kimcote 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.

There is a hand-written Roll of Honour in a wooden frame with a glass cover inside the parish church. It is for World War One.

Also in the church is a rectangular tablet with gilded inscription, to World War Two casualty Cpl John Stanley KIBBLE or the Worcestershire Regt.who died 19 May 1944.

• This place was an ancient parish in Leicester county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish is in the ancient Guthlaxton Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• The parish gave up 300 acres to Gilmorton Civil Parish in 1877 by Local Government Order.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	645
1811	721
1841	552
1881	393
1891	334

A Public Elementary School was erected in Walton in 1844 and enlarged in 1875 to hold 90 children.