Glooston, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Glooston, a village and a parish in Leicestershire, on an affluent of the river Welland, 3½ miles W from Hallaton station on the G.N. and L. & N.W. Joint railway, and 5¼NNE of Market Harborough. Post town. Market Harborough; money order office, Hallaton; telegraph office, East Langton. Acreage, 973; population, 73. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross yearly value, £245 with residence. Patron, the Countess of Cardigan. The church is of the 13th century. There are some small charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Leicestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Glooston St. John | |
Hundred | Gartree | |
Poor Law union | Harborough |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Glooston:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1565-1916 | 1762-1938 | 1564-1930 | 1564-1991 |
Churches
Church of England
St. John the Baptist (parish church)
The church of St. John the Baptist is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing 2 bells: the chancel retains a handsome piscina and sedilia: there are remains of another piscina on the north side of the nave: the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. John Davies M.A. rector (1802-47), who died 29 Dec. 1847: the church was thoroughly restored in 1867: in 1921 a marble mural tablet was erected in the church, inscribed with the names of those men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Glooston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Glooston (St. John))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Glooston are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online: