Stretton Parva

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon 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 Saint John the Baptist.
   
• For Anglicans, the church parish has long been a dependent chapelry of King's Norton, even though the village has often been larger than King's Norton village.
   
• The church is a small, ancient stone building.
   
• The church was restored in 1899.
   
• The church seats 60.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1600.
   
• In the Library at Oadby there are copies of the parish register for Little Stretton.
   
• The parish was in the rural deanery of Gartree (third portion).
   
• A non-denominal chapel was built here in 1811.
   

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

Little Sretton is a small village, a township and a parish ion the old Gartree Road just 6 miles south-east of Leicester city, 10 miles north-west of Market Harborough and 104 miles north of London. The parish covers 704 acres and was partly pasture and partly farmland for centuries.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A6 south-east out of Leicester through WIgston. You will need to turn north (left) at Newton Harcourt.
   
• The Gartree Road that runs through the village is the old Roman Road. It gives its name, "Stretton," to the village.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of Little Stretton on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2011.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph for the Are we There Yet? crowd on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2007.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Near the village is a mound, thought to be Roman. The encampment area covers about 3 acres.
   
• The 1086 Domesday Book entry does not distinguish between Great and Little Stretton. However, by the late 12th century Little Stretton had become a separate township.
   
• A windmill in Little Stretton is first mentioned in 1314. It was still here in 1445.
   
• Most of the parish land was given over to pasturage.
   
• On July 5, 1919, an illiterate agricultural laborer named Annie Bella WRIGHT was shot in the head and killed in Little Stretton. Bella was 22 at the time and a former soldier and schoolteacher.
   

• There is no Hall, but there is a Manor House, built c. 1720.
   
• The Manor House, in the south-west corner of the village, is a red-brick building of two and three stories, square in plan.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK668003 (Lat/Lon: 52.596114, -1.014519), Stretton Parva 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.

• Although known to most people as "Little Stretton", the parish's official name is "Stretton Parva", the Latin equivalent.
   

• This place was an ancient chapelry in King's Norton parish in the county of Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the eastern division of the county in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The citizens of Little Stretton have periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political issues, but they have no formal Parish Council.
   
• District Governance is provided by the Harborough District Council.
   

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1771.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became the centre of the Billesdon Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Leicester petty sessional hearings.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1871	75
1881	84
1891	72
1901	83
1911	73

• The children of this parish attended school in either Gaulby or Great Glen.
   
• An infants' school was started in 1824 and in 1833 six children attended at their parents' expense. After 1871 no more is reported of it.