Hallaton

Hallaton village
Hallaton parish church

Hallaton is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 523, increasing to 594 at the 2011 census.[1]

Hallaton Hall and its lands were owned by Calverley and Amelia Jane Bewicke in 1845. Their daughter was the writer and campaigner Alicia Little.[2]

The parish church is dedicated to St Michael and is mainly of the 13th century: the aisles were added a century later.[3] The village has a famous bottle kicking ritual and "Hare Pie Scramble", which take place usually on Easter Monday. There is a small village museum, offering history of the area. The Hallaton Treasure, a late Iron Age hoard of more than 5,000 silver and gold coins was found at a site near Hallaton in 2000.[4]

There was once a Hallaton railway station on the line between Market Harborough and Nottingham.

See also

References

  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  2. Sybil Oldfield, ‘Little , Alicia Ellen Neve (1845–1926)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007 accessed 9 Nov 2016
  3. Betjeman, J. (ed.) (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: the North. London: Collins; p. 168
  4. "Coin Hoard Article".
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Coordinates: 52°33′43″N 0°50′10″W / 52.562°N 0.836°W / 52.562; -0.836


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