Place:Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire, England

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Waltham on the Wolds is a village located since 1936 in the civil parish of Waltham on the Wolds and Thorpe Arnold (commonly known as Waltham). Prior to 1936 Waltham on the Wolds and Thorpe Arnold were two separate civil parishes.

Two iron ore quarries were operated at Waltham briefly in the 1880s. One was begun in 1882 by the Waltham Iron Ore Company located on both sides of what is now the A607 road north of the village. The other was further north in the northern angle between the A607 and the narrow road to Eaton. Both quarries closed in 1885. Each had a horse-drawn narrow-gauge tramway which carried the ore to the railway. The southernmost of the two quarries may have possessed a steam locomotive. The village had a railway station one mile (1.6 km) north of the village which opened in 1883 on a branch line from Scalford. The line was used mainly by iron ore trains carrying ore from quarries near Knipton, Eaton and Branston.

The parish church, dedicated to St Mary Magdalene is built of a local, honey-coloured ironstone.

Waltham

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Waltham is a civil parish formed in Leicestershire, England in 1936 from the former parishes of Waltham on the Wolds and Thorpe Arnold. (Source:A Vision of Britain through Time.) Until 1974 it was part of the [[Place:Melton and Belvoir Rural, Leicestershire, England|Melton and Belvoir Rural District. Since 1974 it is part of the non-metropolitan Melton District (or Borough). It is about 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of Melton Mowbray and 11 miles (17.7 km) southwest of Grantham on the A607 road. The population of the civil parish was 967 in 2011.

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• The map on the place-page for Melton Mowbray Rural District illustrates the location of the various parishes and the geographical and administrative changes that occurred in 1936.
• 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.
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• A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Leicestershire.