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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bagworth like this:
BAGWORTH, a chapelry in Thornton parish, Leicester; on the Leicester and Burton railway, 5½ miles NE of Market-Bosworth. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Leicester. Real property, £2,912. Pop., 534. Houses, 102. A chief feature is Bagworth Park. The living is annexed to Thornton.
Bagworth is now part of HINCKLEY AND BOSWORTH District. Click here for graphs and data of how HINCKLEY AND BOSWORTH has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bagworth itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bagworth, in Hinckley and Bosworth and Leicestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10596
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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