Halstead, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Halstead, a township in Tilton parish, Leicestershire, 11 miles E from Leicester. Acreage, 1441; population, 187. There are petrifying springs and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Leicestershire | |
Civil parish | Tilton | |
Hundred | East Goscote | |
Poor Law union | Billesdon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Halstead from the following:
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Halstead 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: