Place:Wistow, Leicestershire, England

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Name	Wistow
Type	Township, Parish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates	52.557°N 1.057°W
Located in	Leicestershire, England
See also	Gartree Hundred, Leicestershire, England	hundred in which the parish was included
	Billesdon Rural, Leicestershire, England	rural district of which it was part 1894-1974
	Harborough District, Leicestershire, England	district municipality covering the area since 1974

source: Family History Library Catalog

NOTE: There are also parishes named Wistow formerly in Huntingdonshire and now in Cambridgeshire and Wistow formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire and now in North Yorkshire.

the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Wistow is a civil parish in the Harborough District of southeast Leicestershire, England, and lies seven miles southeast of the city of Leicester in the valley of the River Sence. Since 1936 it has included most of the former civil parish of Newton Harcourt which, ecclesiastically, is a chapelry of Wistow. The settlement of Wistow itself is a hamlet and deserted medieval village. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 256.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Wistow, Leicestershire.

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The map on the place-page for Billesdon Rural District illustrates the location of the various parishes.
Victoria County History - Leicestershire - Vol 5, pp336-345 - Parish: Wistow. (London, 1964) British History Online. University of London.
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.
For both of the above sites, a subscription is charged. Transcriptions of these records may also be available free of charge on the FamilySearch website.
A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Leicestershire.

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Categories: Leicestershire, England | Wistow, Leicestershire, England | Gartree Hundred, Leicestershire, England | Billesdon Rural, Leicestershire, England | Harborough District, Leicestershire, England