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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Leicestershire => Topic started by: DollyB on Saturday 16 February 13 06:36 GMT (UK)
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Where is it? Have a birth regd. 1872 Vinegar Hill, reg. dist. Ashby de la Z. Google no help. Lizzie
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There is a Vinegar Hill mentioned on page 36 of this document but it is in Loughborough and some time earlier.
http://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/FletcherDocsPagesfromVolume19.pdf
David
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on my local OS map ref: 422191
hopefully attached map. junction of B 5324 / A447
Diddy
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If you go to http://www.old-maps.co.uk and enter the post code LE67 8HE this will take you to the location.
Any of the addresses will do and any of the 1:2500 scale maps will show the layout of the buildings from 1883-1962.
Also on Google Maps, Bing and Streetmap.
http://www.getamap.ordnancesurveyleisure.co.uk/ will give the best inter-active map but is a bit slow. You need to zoom in to the highest level to see the name.
David
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Firsty opportunity to get back to rootschat. That's the one people, thank you. I imagine there once would have been at least a farm or small community there, for there to have been a birth, but I'm happy to know where it is. Lizzie
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I didn't know about that Vinegar Hill, but Worthington, in the Parish of Breedon on the Hill, was a village of 802 inhabitants. Its township && chapelry comprises also the small hamlet of Griffydam and Newbold Liberty, which have 341 souls. Source: William White's "History, Gazetteer and Directory of Leicestershire" etc from 1846. Free to download from Google Books.
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Thank you very much for posting this map.
The 1901 census indicates my 1st cousin Sidney Johnson and his family lived in Vinegar Hill
Sidney Johnson 32
Sarah H Johnson 30
Constance E Johnson 10
Ethel H Johnson 8
Benjamin H Johnson 7
John S Johnson 5
Wilfred T Johnson 4
Mary H Johnson 2
Joseph O Johnson 4/12
The 1911 census has them living at Brand Hill which I assume is on the otherside of the lane.