Hallaton
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Hallaton is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 523, which had increased to 594 at the 2011 census.[1]
History and description
The village's name means 'farm/settlement on a nook of land'.[2]
Hallaton Hall and its lands were owned by Calverley and Amelia Jane Bewicke in 1845. Their daughter was the writer and campaigner Alicia Little.[3] As the site of two markets Hallaton was despite its size regarded as a town, even if one of little significance.[4]
The
The village has a famous bottle kicking ritual and "Hare Pie Scramble", which take place usually on Easter Monday. There is a small village museum, offering history of the area. The Hallaton Treasure, a late Iron Age hoard of more than 5,000 silver and gold coins was found at a site near Hallaton in 2000.[6]
In 1736 smallpox affected the town when George Fenwick was the rector.[7]
As of 2019, Hallaton has two
Hallaton railway station was on the line between Market Harborough and Nottingham but closed in 1953.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 23 August 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
- ^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ Sybil Oldfield, 'Little , Alicia Ellen Neve (1845–1926)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007 accessed 9 Nov 2016 Archived 11 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Firth, J. B. (2026) Highways and Byways in Leicestershire. London: Macmillan; p. 227
- ^ Betjeman, J. (ed.) (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: the North. London: Collins; p. 168
- ^ "Coin Hoard Article". Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
- ^ Fenwick, George (1736) "Our souls more worth than all the world-with the use of that consideration.": A sermon preached in the parish church of Hallaton, October 31, 1736. On occasion of the small-pox breaking out there. London: printed for Caleb Ratten, bookseller in Harborough; sold by Tho. Longman
External links
Media related to Hallaton at Wikimedia Commons
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