Oaks in Charnwood, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Oaks-in-Charnwood, an ecclesiastical parish, formed from the parishes of Charley, Whitwick, and Sheepshed parishes, Leicestershire, in Charnwood Forest, 2 miles NE of Bardon Hill station on the M.R., and 6 SW of Loughborough. It was constituted in 1852, and its post town is Lough-borongh; money order and telegraph office, Sheepshed. Population, 576. The living is a vicarage, with that of Copt Oak, in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £173 with residence. The church, erected in 1815 and consecrated on the day of Waterloo, was rebuilt and enlarged in 1883, it is of forest stone in the Early English style.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Oaks in Charnwood:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1816-1916 | 1879-1940 | 1853-1931 | 1816-1991 |
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Oaks in Charnwood 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: