Hallaton, Leicestershire

Description
Hallaton, a village and a parish in Leicestershire. The village stands on a slope 6 miles WSW from Uppingham, was once a market-town, and has a station on the G.N. and L. & N.W. Joint railways, and a post and money order office under Uppingham; telegraph office. East Norton. Two cattle fairs are held, the first on Holy Thursday and the second three weeks later. The parish comprises 2969 acres; population of the civil parish, 755; of the ecclesiastical, 785. The manor belongs to the Dent family. Remains of an ancient encampment, called Hallaton Castle Hill, of considerable extent, and comprising a conical eminence 118 feet high, once surmounted by a keep and engirt with ramparts and ditches, are about a mile W of the village, and vestiges of another are near it. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Blaston St Michael, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint gross value, £720 with residence. The church consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire, and contains an old font, sedilia, and monuments to the Vowes, the Bewickes, the Fenwickes, and the Dents. There is a Congregational chapel, and several valuable charities worth in the aggregate about £500 a year.