Maplewell

• Maplewell was in the the Quorndon sub-district of the Barrow-on-Soar 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 Saint Paul's Church in Woodhouse Eaves.
   
• The church was originally built in 1837.
   
• St. Paul's Church was completely restored in 1880.
   
• The church seats 300.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of St. Paul's Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2007.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1844.
   
• The church would have been in the East Akeley deanery.

• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   
• Maplewell was in the the Quorndon subdistrict of the Barrow-on-Soar registration district.
   

Maplewell is a village and a parish in eastern Leicestershire near the Charnwood Forest. The parish was 4 miles south of Loughborough and 9 miles north-west of Leicester city.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A6 trunk road north out of Leicester and turn west (left) at Quorndon onto the B591. Follow that for about a mile into Maplewell.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• There are references to a Maplewell Hall, but no description in the old directories.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK524132 (Lat/Lon: 52.714108, -1.226499), Maplewell 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.

• This place was an ancient hamlet in Woodhouse parish in ancient Leicester county and was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• Maplewell was also a precinct in Woodhouse township.
   
• On 1 April, 1884, this parish was abolished and amalgamated into Woodhouse Civil Parish.
   
• The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the Mid division of the county.
   
• You can contact the local Woodhouse Parish Council concerning political and social issues. They are not staffed to assist with family history searches.
   
• The parish is part of the Charnwood Borough Council for district governance.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, Maplewell became part of the Barrow-upon-Soar Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Loughborough petty sessional hearings.

Year	Inhabitants
1841	28
1871	13
1881	20

• Maplewell Hall School is in Maplewell Road. Phone: 01509-890237.
   
• The school has its own website, but there is no history nor any student records online. The school does have a museum.