Welcome to Allexton Website!

The purpose of this website is to provide useful information about the village, upcoming events, contact details for the Allexton Parish Meeting and access to the Allexton Parish Meeting Minutes plus useful and interesting external links.

History

The village’s name means ‘farm/settlement of Æthellac or Athellak’.

Allexton is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. The current population of the village is less than 100.

Allexton is a farming parish of around 1000 acres with a mixture of arable, grazing and woodland. The grazing is for sheep and horses and there is an equestrian centre at Allexton Hall. Until the 1920s almost all the houses and land were part of the Allexton Hall estate.

The current Hall was rebuilt in 1902 but there have been other buildings on the site since Tudor times. In the 13th century the Lord lived in a fortalice (a moated manor house) the remains of which lie buried in a field adjacent to the present hall.

The parish church of St Peter’s Church in Allexton was originally built between 1160 and 1180 but there have been several modifications, including the additions of a tower and side aisles, and a major restoration in 1862 by William Millican. It is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The parish has been merged with Hallaton as part of the united benefice with the parishes of East Norton, Tugby, Slawston and Horninghold.

The Eye Brook forms the county boundary with Rutland, It is also the boundary between the dioceses of Leicester and Peterborough.

The A47 runs east–west between the villages and the Hallaton Road links Allexton with Hallaton.

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