Place:Evington, Leicestershire, England

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NameEvington
Alt namesEvington Valleysource: former area of Evington
North Evingtonsource: former area of Evington
Goodwoodsource: 20th century settlement in Evington
Rowlatts Hillsource: 20th century settlement in Evington
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates52.621°N 1.072°W
Located inLeicestershire, England
See alsoGartree Hundred, Leicestershire, Englandhundred in which the parish was included
Billesdon Rural, Leicestershire, Englandrural district of which it was part 1894-1936
Leicester, Leicestershire, Englandcity into which it was absorbed in 1936
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Evington is now an electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicester, England. It used to be a small village to the east of Leicester centred on Main Street and the Anglican church of St Denys but was close enough to Leicester to become one of its outer suburbs in the 1930s. Today, the ward comprises the historical village of Evington, as well as the modern ex-council estates of Rowlatts Hill and Goodwood. The population of the ward at the 2011 UK census was 11,133.

The name Evington comes from the Anglo-Saxon name "Aefa's Tun". After the Norman conquest of 1066 the land was given to Hugh de Grentesmesnil. The first known spelling "Evington" was the name of Walter de Evington who in 1259 leased a carucate of land at the village of Evington – about 100 acres (0.40 km2). The parish of Evington was originally quite large and included the areas now known as North Evington and Evington Valley. These were annexed by the borough of Leicester in 1892, and are not generally considered part of Evington.

In 1935, the boundaries of Leicester (by this point a city), were expanded again, including nearly all of the remaining parish of Evington, except for a small part which went to Oadby.

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