King’s Norton Leicestershire Family History Guide
King’s Norton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire. Stretton Parva is a chapelry of King’s Norton.
Alternative names: King’s Norton, King’s Norton with Stretton Parva, Norton by Galby
Parish church: St. John the Baptist
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1589
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1564
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KINGS-NORTON, a township and a parish in Billesdon district, Leicester. The township lies 2½ miles SW of Billesdon, and 4 N by E of Kibworth r. station; and took its name from being held, for some time, by William the Conqueror. Real property, £1, 537. Pop., 71. Houses, 12.
The parish contains also the township of Little Stretton; and its post town is Billesdon, under Leicester. Acres, 1, 990. Real property, £2, 733. Pop., 154. Houses, 31. The manor belongs to the Earl of Stamford. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Little Stretton, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £150. Patron, Mrs. Heap. The church was built in 1783; suffered damage from lightning in 1843; was repaired in 1848; and has a narrow tower and sixteen pinnacles. Charities, £8.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
NORTON, KING’S (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Billesdon, hundred of Gartree, S. division of the county of Leicester; containing, with the chapelry of Stretton Parva, 172 inhabitants, of whom 64 are in the township of King’s Norton, 7½ miles (E. S. E.) from Leicester.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £7; net income, £103; patron and impropriator, Henry Green, Esq. The tithes were commuted for land in 1770.
At Stretton Parva is a chapel of ease.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Billesdon
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Gartree
- Poor Law Union: Billesdon
- Hundred: Gartree (Leicestershire)
- Province: Canterbury