{"id":2642,"date":"2015-02-05T22:21:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T22:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=2642"},"modified":"2015-02-05T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T22:21:37","slug":"protestant-nonconformity-in-prestwold-and-hoton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=2642","title":{"rendered":"Protestant Nonconformity in Prestwold and Hoton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prestwold<\/span><\/h1>\n

Prestwold is a hamlet around 15 miles north of Leicester. Prestwold Hall stands in large grounds and was extensively remodelled in the 1840s.<\/p>\n

There were five nonconformists living here in 1676.[1]<\/a> Three Baptists and two Quakers were noted within the parish (including Hoton and Cotes) in 1709 and 1712.[2]<\/a> No nonconformity was noted in 1829 or 1851.<\/p>\n

Hoton<\/span><\/h1>\n

The village of Hoton is around 15 miles north of Leicester, and 4 miles north-east of Loughborough, the nearest market town.<\/p>\n

There was one dissenter in 1676.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

Primitive Methodists<\/b><\/p>\n

Twenty Primitive Methodists met here for worship in 1829,[4]<\/a> but no return was made to the 1851 religious census.<\/p>\n

Wesleyan Methodists<\/b><\/p>\n

The Wesleyan Methodists began meeting \u2018by the Loughborough and Nottingham Road\u2019 in about 1810, \u2018in lieu of another place in another place\u2019, in a chapel built exclusively for worship. There were 80 free seats, 40 other seats and room for 40 people standing.[5]<\/a> A congregation of 40 people was meeting here in 1829.[6]<\/a> There was just a single service on census Sunday in March 1851, in the evening, attended by 44 people, although the usual service was in the mornings, with an average attendance of 50.[7]<\/a><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/span><\/a> A. Whiteman, <\/span>The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition<\/span><\/i> (London, 1986), p. 338<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[2]<\/span><\/a> J. Broad (ed.), <\/span>Bishop Wake\u2019s Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln, 1706-1715<\/span><\/i> (Oxford, 2012), II, p. 820<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[3]<\/span><\/a> A. Whiteman, <\/span>The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition<\/span><\/i> (London, 1986), p. 338<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[4]<\/span><\/a> ROLLR, QS 95\/2\/1\/48<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[5]<\/span><\/a> TNA, HO 129\/415\/72<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[6]<\/span><\/a> ROLLR, QS 95\/2\/1\/148<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[7]<\/span><\/a> TNA, HO 129\/415\/72<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prestwold Prestwold is a hamlet around 15 miles north of Leicester. Prestwold Hall stands in large grounds and was extensively remodelled in the 1840s. There were five nonconformists living here in 1676.[1] Three Baptists and two Quakers were noted within the parish (including Hoton and Cotes) in 1709 and 1712.[2] No nonconformity was noted in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2642","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2642\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}