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Ellistown history
From 14th century it was in the hundred of Sparkenhoe and parish of Ibstock. Ecclesiastically the area was part of the Diocese of Peterborough from the English Reformation until 1926. The village was developed for coal mining from the Victorian era.
Mediaeval and early Modern Periods
Swinfen Grange was one of two granges given by nobleman Robert Byrton to the Abbot of Garendon Abbey which was near what is now Shepshed . It was only a small mud and wattle built settlement with three strip fields surrounded by Charnwood Forest .
19th Century – to 1880
The Slip Inn on Whitehill Road near where the first pit was sunk was a favoured stopping point for the pony trains . The pony trains appear to have demised around 1810 with the coming of the canals and railways in the area .
19th and 20th Centuries – 1881 and after
The Church of England parish church of Saint Christopher was built in 1895–96 from local brick, with Gothic Revival windows in a Perpendicular style . The foundation stone was laid in October 1895 by the wife of Mandell Creighton, Bishop of Peterborough, and the Bishop consecrated the church on 25 April 1896 .
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