Place:Ulverscroft, Leicestershire, England

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NameUlverscroft
TypeExtra parochial area, Civil parish
Coordinates52.704°N 1.267°W
Located inLeicestershire, England
See alsoWest Goscote Hundred, Leicestershire, Englandhundred in which the parish was included
Barrow upon Soar Rural, Leicestershire, Englandrural district, 1894 - 1974
Charnwood District, Leicestershire, Englanddistrict municipality from 1974
source: Family History Library Catalog
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Ulverscroft is a civil parish in the Charnwood District of Leicestershire, England. It has a population of about 100. It is adjacent to the parish of Newtown Linford.

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

"ULVERSCROFT, an extra-parochial tract in Barrow-upon-Soar [registration] district, Leicestershire; 8 miles NW by W of Leicester. Real property: £1,680. Population: 104. Houses: 20. An Augustinian priory was founded here, in 1130, by R. Bossu; and has left some remains."
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