Leicestershire

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Leicestershire

County town: Leicester

Other major towns: Hinkley, Loughborough, Coalville

Situated in the centre of England, Leicestershire now includes what was once England's smallest county of Rutland.

The county is a stronghold of fox hunting with famous hunts such as the Quorn, the Belvoir and the Cottesmore meeting regularly in the winter season. Market Harborough's claim to fame is the invention of the liberty bodice and later other ladies undergarments.

Lady Jane Grey, the nine-days queen executed by Mary Tudor, lived part of her short life at Bradgate House in Charnwood forest near Leicester.

Register Office Contact Details

For events within Leicestershire but not within the city of Leicester

Leicestershire Registration Service

County Register Office
County Hall
Leicester Road
Glenfield
Leicester
LE3 8RN

Tel 0116 265 6509 (for further information and general enquiries only)

Website:Copy certificates for family history-Genealogy

E-mail registration@leics.gov.uk

Orders cannot be taken by phone or e-mail, postal applications only. Copy certificates usually supplied within 3-5 days of order.

• City of Leicester Events

For the following areas and dates you will need to apply to the Leicester City holdings office at:

Leicestershire Records Office

Long Street
Wigston Magna
Leicestershire

LE8 2AH

Record Office Lookup Requests

Please read the Terms and Conditions before requesting a lookup.

By requesting a lookup you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions as linked above.

Records Office Lookup Contacts

• Leicestershire R/O Jojo

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Leicester/Leicestershire (anywhere):Jojo

Links

• County Records Office

• Library Links

• Local History Society Gateway Page

Local History Society

• Leicestershire Family History Society

OPC

• Leicestershire Online Parish Clerks

Archives

• IGI for Leicestershire

• Rothley Baptist Births Part one

• Rothley Baptist Births Part two

• St. Margaret's Church, Leicester. Marriages: July 1, 1837 to May 12, 1897

• Enderby Parish Records

Family and social history

• Wigston Textile Workers

• Leicestershire Workhouses

Maps & Photographs

Countywide interest

• Leicestershire Roots

Specific Town Village interest

• Directory Of Quorndon Village Websites

• Quorn Village Site

• Enderby Parish Records

• The Guys of Bottesford, Leicestershire

• Framland Hundred Pages Includes Village Maps and Directory Listings

• Redmile Archive Includes some Census and Parish Records

• Measham links and records

• Records for Sheepy Magna

• Wartime Leicester

• Webbers From Leicester

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