Place:Bagworth, Leicestershire, England

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NameBagworth
Alt namesBagewordesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 160
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates52.667°N 1.35°W
Located inLeicestershire, England
See alsoSparkenhoe Hundred, Leicestershire, Englandhundred in which the parish was included
Market Bosworth Rural, Leicestershire, Englandrural district of which it was part 1894-1936
Hinckley and Bosworth District, Leicestershire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


Bagworth is a village in the Hinckley and Bosworth District of Leicestershire, England, 9 miles (14 km) west of Leicester. Until 1974 it was a civil parish in Market Bosworth Rural District.

History

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There are records of the manor of Bagworth from the early 14th and early 15th centuries, when it was held by the same feudal lords as the neighbouring manor of Thornton.

Bagworth Park is first recorded in 1279 under ownership of the Bishop of Durham. In 1318 Roger de Holland was given permission to fortify his property at Bagworth.[1] It is recorded under the ownership of Matilda Lovell in 1411. The Lovell family later sold the land to the Hastings family. Development of the site was granted to William, Lord Hastings by Edward IV in 1274 for "crenellation and emparkment of 2000 acres of land" along with the castle developments ay Ashby de la Zouche and Kirby Muxloe but there is no indication of any building by Hastings on the site prior to his execution by Richard III in 1483. A later moated house was developed on the site by Sir Robert Banaster in 1616.[2]

In 1761 Baron Maynard funded the building and endowment of a village school for Bagworth.[3]

In 1832 the Leicester and Swannington Railway was opened. It passed within 1⁄2-mile (800 m) of Bagworth and provided a railway station to serve the village. The Midland Railway took over the Leicester and Swannington in 1845 and opened a new Bagworth railway station 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the centre of the old village in 1849. The new station was renamed Bagworth and Ellistown in 1894 to reflect the nearby colliery village that had developed since Ellistown Colliery was sunk in 1873. British Railways withdrew passenger services from the line and closed the station in September 1964. The railway remains open for freight.

Chapels

Bagworth's Church of England chapel of the Holy Rood was a dependent chapelry of the parish church of Saint Peter, Thornton. In 1848 Holy Rood was described as having a Saxon door and that its walls bore the date 1637. In 1873 the entire church except for the tower was rebuilt in granite with limestone dressings, with buttresses banded with red brick and blue vitrified brick. In the 20th century the Victorian church and medieval tower suffered subsidence so in 1968 they were demolished. They were replaced with a new modern church building that is unusual in being built of prefabricated concrete panels.

Holy Rood is now part of the Church of England parish of Thornton Bagworth and [Stoney] Stanton, which is part of a united benefice with the parishes of Copt-Oaks and Markfield.

By 1848 Bagworth had also a General Baptists' chapel.

Research Tips

  • From this Findmypast page you can browse the Leicestershire parishes which have parish register transcripts online.
  • From this Ancestry page you can browse the Leicestershire parishes which have parish register transcripts online.
  • For both of the above sites, a subscription is charged. Transcriptions of these records may also be available free of charge on the FamilySearch website.
  • A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Leicestershire.
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