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HALLATON, a village and a parish in the district of Uppingham and county of Leicester. The village stands on a slope, 3 miles NNW of Medbourne r. station, and 6 WSW of Uppingham; was once a market town; and has now a post office under Uppingham, and fairs on Holy Thursday and on the third Thursday after. The parish Comprises 2, 360 acres. Real property, £, 581. Pop., 696. Houses, 167. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Calverly Bewicke, Esq. Remains of an ancient encampment, called Hallatoncastle hill, of considerable extent, and comprising a conical eminence 118 feet high, once surmounted by a keep and engirt with ramparts and ditches, are about a mile W of the village; and vestiges of another are near it. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Blaston-St. Michael, in the diocese of Peterborongh. Value, £741.* Patrons,Bewicke, Esq., and the Rev. G. O. Fenwicke. The church consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire; and contains an old font, sedilia, and monuments to the Vowes, the Bewickes, the Fenwickes, and the Dents. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, endowed with £25, alms houses with £50, and other charities with £444.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Hallaton CP/AP Leicestershire AncC |
| Place: | Hallaton |
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