Hose, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Hose, a parish, with a village, in Leicestershire, on the Grantham Canal, adjacent to Notts, 7 miles N from Melton Mowbray, and 2 N by W from Long Clawson and Hose station on the Newark and Melton branch of the G.N.R. and L. & N.W. Joint railway. It has a post office under Melton Mowbray; money order and telegraph office, Harby. Acreage, 2337; population, 408. The manor belongs to the Duke of Rutland. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £105 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Rutland. The church is ancient, has a pinnacled tower, and was restored in 1887. There are a Baptist chapel and 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 | Hose St. Michael | |
Hundred | Framland | |
Poor Law union | Melton-Mowbray |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1625.
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Hose:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1688-1894 | 1760-1919 | 1688-1837 | 1688-1974 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael (parish church)
The church of St. Michael is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled western tower with pinnacles and containing 5 bells, dated 1858: the church was restored in 1887, at a cost of £1,000: a new organ was provided in 1908, at a cost of about £160, and in the same year the church was reseated, the tower restored and bells rehung: there are 200 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hose from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hose (St. Michael))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Hose 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: