Holwell, Leicestershire

Historical Description

Holwell, a township-chapelry in Ab kettleby parish, Leicestershire, 3½ miles NNW from Melton Mowbray. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Melton Mowbray. Area, 1408 acres; population, 238. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dysart. There is a chalybeate spring, called Holwell Mouth. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Abkettleby, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is a small and ancient building of stone, with a bell turret. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Ironstone is found.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

We have transcribed Phillimore Marriages volume 2, which includes Ab-Kettleby-cum-Holwell 1580-1812

Churches

Church of England

Methodist

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Holwell from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Holwell)

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Holwell 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:

• Leicester Chronicle
• Leicester Journal
• Leicester Daily Mercury
• Leicestershire Mercury
• Leicester Mail