Belton is a village in north-west Leicestershire, near Shepshed and 6 miles west of Loughborough. The parish includes the previously extra-parochial liberty of Grace Dieu.   Daily schools for poorer families in 1818 (population in 1811, 554) Belton returned ‘None’. It was commented that ‘The poor would be happy to have better means of educating their children’. … Continue reading Schools in Belton and Grace Dieu, 1818-51