38-461: Humberstone and Hamilton is an electoral ward and administrative division of the City of Leicester , England. It comprises the north-eastern Leicester suburbs of Humberstone, Humberstone Garden City, Hamilton and Netherhall. The ward takes its name from the historical village of Humberstone and the modern housing estate and ancient village of Hamilton. The place-name 'Humberstone' is first attested in
76-541: A Roman villa at or close to the site of the medieval village of Hamilton. Hamilton was not mentioned in Domesday Book (1086) The medieval village was a chapelry of Barkby It was abandoned in the 15th century.. Its site is marked by earthworks. Sites of the village streets,the manor and probably the chapel can be picked out. Many of the houses in Humberstone were built in the 1920s on land that used to be part of
114-400: A bowling green, a cricket pitch, a skittle alley, a football ground, tennis courts and golf links. These facilities and the shoe factory no longer exist but the housing estate remains intact. Humberstone Nursery, Infants and Junior School are located adjacent to each other in Humberstone. Humberstone Juniors converted to an academy in 2012. In 2014 Falcons Primary School opened in the area. It
152-534: A building opposite the Tesco store, with a pedestrian footbridge across the outer ring road between the college and Tesco. Humberstone & Hamilton are served by the following bus companies and services: Arriva Midlands services 53, 56, 58/58A, Centrebus services 747, Orbital , Hospital Hopper and First Leicester services 38/38A. Humberstone & Hamilton is part of the Leicester East constituency,
190-537: A castle. In Wales, the term electoral ward is used for elections to principal councils ( county councils or county borough councils ). These were formally called electoral divisions . Communities in Wales (the equivalent to the civil parish in England) are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the community council. All of Scotland is divided into over 300 wards for local government elections. Using
228-539: A combination of local hostility and a crash in the property market resulted in the land becoming disused. It has since been taken over by the council and converted into a public garden. The name Hamilton was revived for the new housing estate built on the A563 road , east of Rushey Mead in the 1980s. The development of Humberstone Garden Suburb was based on the principles of the Garden city movement . Garden suburbs modified
266-512: A knight incised on it. This was from the tomb of Richard Hotoft who died in 1451. There are two houses called "the Manor" in Main Street. One was built in the 16th century but enlarged in the 18th and had a 16th century tithe barn close to it. This barn has now been converted into a house. The other (east of the church) was built in the 18th century., The village's population increased during
304-403: A part of Keyham Lane. The names of the new streets were chosen to emphasise the garden nature of the scheme. Humberstone and Hamilton is bordered by the wards of Rushey Mead to the north, Charnwood to the west and Coleman and Thurncourt to the south. The ward borders the county of Leicestershire ; in particular, the borough of Charnwood to the north and the district of Harborough to
342-626: A percentage of their wages and bought a plot of land just outside Leicester by the village of Humberstone and built 97 houses. The first houses were in use by 1908 and the Anchor employees were let houses by the association at a rent that was collected to cover the upkeep of the properties. The original houses were designed by George Hern in a roughcast cottage style at a density of seven to eight houses an acre. The suburb consists of houses in Lilac Avenue, Laburnum Road, Fern Rise, Chestnut Avenue and
380-407: A similar time. The oldest parts of the church are the tower and the walls of the chancel, which are medieval. The chancel windows are nineteenth century. The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1857–8 to the designs of Raphael Brandon . Inside he used locally obtained Humberstone alabaster for the carved capitals of the pillars in the nave and other details. The church contains a slab with a picture of
418-631: A traditionally safe Labour seat. However, it is currently represented in the parliament by the Conservative Party . Wards of the United Kingdom The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors . The ward is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and district councils,
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#1732776681225456-678: Is Oadby, or alternatively turning at Evington village onto the back road Shady Lane, and then proceed by Stoughton Road into Oadby, meeting the A6 further out. Recently a short section of road linking the A563 in Hamilton and the A6030 to the west was completed between the junction with Victoria Road East and Gipsy Lane to the south, and Thurmaston Lane to the north, to assist traffic to the A6 and Oadby. Building this section meant having to cut through part of
494-485: Is a Sikh free school . There are two primary schools in Hamilton; Kestrel's Field Primary School, which opened in the early 1990s, and Hope Hamilton, which is Church of England aided. Orchard Mead Academy is attended by students between the ages of 11 and 16. Nearby Keyham Lodge School is an all-boys school for 11–16s with learning disabilities and behavioural problems. Gateway Sixth Form College has recently opened
532-1030: Is divided into wards, which are ancient and very long-standing sub-divisions of the city. The Council of the Isles of Scilly is also a sui generis unitary authority, and has five wards, each returning either 1 or (in the case of St Mary's ) 12 councillors to the Council of the Isles of Scilly. Civil parishes in England are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the parish council (or town / city council ). They need not bear any relation to wards or electoral divisions at district level, but often do. The four most northerly ancient counties of England – Cumberland , Westmorland , County Durham and Northumberland – were historically divided into administrative units called wards instead of hundreds or wapentakes , as in other counties. Wards were areas originally organised for military purposes, each centred on
570-540: Is notable because it is the only example in which a UK workers cooperative has created a housing cooperative and built a housing estate for its members. The Anchor Tenants Housing Association was formed in 1887 by the workers cooperative of the Anchor Boot and Shoe Co-operative Society which was a cooperatively run boot and shoe works in Asfordby Street, Leicester. The members of the cooperative contributed
608-810: The A47 and then the A50 . As the road bears eastward at Beaumont Leys there is a junction with the A5630 , providing a link to the A46 Leicester Western Bypass . Directly north of the city the A563 arrives at Red Hill Circle in Belgrave , near to the River Soar , and crosses the A6 again. It then passes east. After crossing the A607 it turns south-eastward and transects with the northern terminus of
646-522: The A6030 (which serves as a bis alternate route for traffic progressing directly towards Oadby/ Stoneygate ). Continuing, the A563 turns south and finishes at the A47 ( 52°38′16″N 1°04′24″W / 52.6377°N 1.0732°W / 52.6377; -1.0732 ( A563 road (A47 junction) ) ) , towards the city's eastern boundary at Goodwood/Rowlatts Hill, north of Evington village. Here
684-478: The Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as 'Humerstane'. The name means 'Hunbeorht's stone'. The "Humber stone" is a granite monolith of unknown (perhaps glacial ) origin that lies in a field in Hamilton. Until 1750 it had been fully exposed, but was then truncated and the remainder buried by a farmer. In the 1980s it was partially uncovered and made accessible to the public. It was then fenced in when
722-466: The Local Government (Boundaries) (NI) Order 1972 (No. 131) and DEAs were first created by the Local Government (District Electoral Areas) Regulations 1973 (No.94) A563 road The A563 is the designation for the ring road of Leicester , England . It forms a near-complete circuit except for a gap of around 2.2 miles (3.5 km) in the east of the city. An indirect route linking
760-460: The electoral ward is the unit used by Welsh principal councils , while the electoral division is the unit used by English county councils and some unitary authorities . Each ward/division has an average electorate of about 5,500 people, but ward population counts can vary substantially. As of 2021 there are 8,694 electoral wards/divisions in the UK. An average area of wards or electoral divisions in
798-653: The single transferable vote , most wards elect either three or four councillors. Starting from the 2022 Scottish local elections , the Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 , allows electoral wards to have between one and five councillors. Districts in Northern Ireland are divided into electoral areas, with each electing between five and seven councillors by single transferable vote. These are themselves sub-divided into wards, but these wards have no official function. Post-1973 wards were first created by
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#1732776681225836-660: The 18th and 19th centuries and Leicester grew out towards Humberstone. At the 1821 census the population of Humberstone parish was 415. It more than doubled in the next forty years. Humberstone had a station on the Leicester branch of the Great Northern Railway , named Humberstone Railway Station . This was on Uppingham Road to the west of the old village. It closed in 1962 having had a very limited service since 1953 which became from 1957 even more limited being restricted to summer holiday special trains. Further to
874-576: The A563 ring road ends, given that the section directly linking the A47 at Goodwood to the A6 in Oadby was not constructed. Traffic can continue straight on at the A47 junction down the Goodwood Road (or go via the A47 and Spencefield Lane) and then continue by a variety of routes to the A6: by Evington to Stoughton Drive and then Stoughton Road, thus meeting the A6 considerably nearer to the city centre than
912-674: The Humberstone Heights Golf Course. Although the ring road has been planned for decades, there are currently no firm plans to complete the eastern part, known as the Eastern District Distributor Road . The original designated route included Goodwood Road, but Leicester City Council allowed housing to be built on land earmarked for an expansion to a dual carriageway. Tentative plans to route traffic along Spencefield Lane were strongly opposed by residents, leaving it unclear where exactly
950-433: The Leicester north ring road was built and had a sign erected at the site, describing the stone's history. Hamilton was named after a deserted medieval village in the civil parish of Barkby Thorpe , just outside the Leicester city boundary. The village of Humberstone has been inhabited for many centuries. Part of the wall around St Mary's church is an original cob wall. There is also a thatched cruck cottage dating from
988-466: The United Kingdom is 28.109 km (10.853 sq mi). The London boroughs , metropolitan boroughs and non-metropolitan districts (including most unitary authorities ) are divided into wards for local elections. However, county council elections (as well as those for several unitary councils which were formerly county councils, such as the Isle of Wight and Shropshire Councils ) instead use
1026-481: The east. The ward comprises the suburb of Humberstone in the west, Netherhall in the southeast and Hamilton to the northeast (which makes Hamilton the most northeasterly suburb of Leicester). Humberstone & Hamilton had a population of 11,893 at the 2001 census. The ward had a relatively older population, with the greatest share of the area's residents being between the ages of 30 and 59. Compared to some Leicester wards, Humberstone & Hamilton's Asian population
1064-432: The estate of Humberstone Hall. Some of the gardens in the area bear testament to this as they still have some of the century-old orchard trees in them. Humberstone village was annexed to the city in 1935.The Netherhall Estate was built by the local authority (Leicester City Council) 1n the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1980s and early 1990s several private gardens near to the old village were sold to property developers, but
1102-671: The gap involves the ( A47 ) A6030 , and A6 . The A563 was formerly referred to as the Outer Ring. If the outstanding section were completed, the road would have a circumference of about 19 miles (31 km) and an average distance from Town Hall Square of around 3 miles (4.8 km). Starting around the south-east of the city region at the A6 in Oadby ( 52°36′21″N 1°05′37″W / 52.6058°N 1.0937°W / 52.6058; -1.0937 ( A563 road (A6 junction) ) ),
1140-462: The principles of garden cities to allow for residential "garden suburbs" without the commercial and industrial components of the garden city. They were built on the outskirts of cities, in rural settings such as Humberstone.The Garden Suburb is sometimes known as the Garden City. The Leicester City Transport buses on Route 37 begun in 1938 had this name on the front. The Humberstone Garden Suburb
1178-724: The road goes west, between Knighton and Wigston (crossing the A5199 Welford Road), then to the south of Aylestone (crossing the A426 ), passing Fosse Shopping Park that lies to the north. It crosses the B4114 ( Fosse Way ), then in close proximity it passes over and intersects with the A5460 , giving access to the M1 and M69 motorways. It then turns north, parallel to the M1, and crosses
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1216-487: The same number of electors, and each elect three councillors. In local authorities with mixed urban and rural areas, the number of councillors may vary from one to three, depending on the size of the electorate. Where civil parishes exist, a ward can be adjacent with a civil parish or consist of groups of civil parishes. Larger civil parishes (such as Shrewsbury ) can be divided into two or more wards. The City of London has its own sui generis form of local government and
1254-433: The school, but was relocated to the car park of the nearby Hamilton Tesco Extra store in the mid-2000s. Humberstone has a bowls club and a youth football club, Humberstone Rangers. There was a tennis club in the village until the mid-2000s when it was demolished and houses built there. The local golf club, Humberstone Heights, is one of the few council-run clubs in the city. When it was built, Humberstone Garden Suburb had
1292-435: The term electoral division . In non-metropolitan county areas with both wards (used for district council elections) and electoral divisions (used for county council elections), the boundaries of the two types of divisions may sometimes not coincide, but more often the county electoral divisions will be made up of one or more complete wards. In urban areas, the wards within a local authority area typically each contain roughly
1330-556: The west, Humberstone Road railway station was on the Midland Main Line .This opened in 1875 and closed in 1968 Part of the parish ("West Humberstone") became part of the County Borough of Leicester in 1891 (most of this is not part of the present ward of Humberstone and Hamilton) The Corporation electric tramway reached what later became Humberstone Park in 1904. This was then on the Leicester boundary. Humberstone
1368-469: Was a centre for framework knitting. Two large houses were built during this time: Monks Rest (the old vicarage) built during the early part of the 19th century and Humberstone Hall begun in the late 18th century and finished in the 19th century. The grounds of Monks Rest are now a park. Humberstone Hall had a drive which was an avenue of Wellingtonias, which survive in Pine Tree Avenue. There was
1406-417: Was a minority at 19%, with a 73% white British population. In 2011 however, 43.8% of the population of this ward were White British, 40.1% were Asian and 4.4% Black. Until the mid-1980s Humberstone village had two pubs, The Humberstone which in 1963 replaced The Plough which stood closer to the road and contained the old village lock-up) and The Windmill (which lay derelict until the late 1990s when it
1444-716: Was demolished). The Humberstone closed in 2020 at the time of the Covid epidemic. The village is also home to two members' clubs, the Humberstone Royal British Legion and the Old Humberstone Constitutional Club. The original public library was on Main Street - a small building on the left hand side going down the hill which resembled a non-conformist chapel. This was eventually replaced by a public library situated next to
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