Place:Holy Oakes, Leicestershire, England

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Name	Holy Oakes
Alt names	Holyoaks	source: Victoria County History - Leicestershire
Type	Parochial area
Located in	Leicestershire, England ( - 1885)
See also	Stoke Dry, Rutland, England	parish in which it was a liberty
	Gartree Hundred, Leicestershire, England	hundred in which it was located
	Stockerston, Leicestershire, England	parish to which it was transferred in 1885

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Holy Oakes from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"HOLY-OAKES, a liberty in Dry-Stoke parish, Leicester; near the river Eye, 3 miles NNW of Rockingham. Real property: £1,123. Population: 9. House: 1."

[The parish of Stockerston] includes, in the south, the territory of the former hamlet of Holyoaks which was transferred from Stoke Dry in Rutland (the neighbouring county) in 1885. The total area of the parish is 1,534 acres, of which Holyoaks accounts for about 500 acres. Holyoaks was perhaps divided from Stockerston by the small stream crossing the parish from Holyoaks Wood to the Eye Brook. (Source: Victoria County History - Leicestershire, see below)

For further information, see Stockerston.

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Victoria County History - Leicestershire - Vol 5, pp303-308 - Parish: Stockerston. British History Online. University of London.
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.