Beaumont Chase

Civil parish in Rutland, England

Human settlement in England

Region

52°35′N 0°46′W / 52.59°N 0.76°W / 52.59; -0.76

Beaumont Chase is a civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It is to the west of Uppingham, north of Stoke Dry, and on a hillside overlooking Leicestershire. Formerly an extra-parochial area, it was created a separate parish in 1858.

The civil parish's name means 'Beautiful hill'. 'Chase' is a later addition which means a place for breeding and hunting wild animals.^[3]

There is only a single occupied building, a farmhouse. According to the 2001 census, Beaumont Chase had a population of zero.

References

^ "A vision of Britain through time". University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 28 January 2009.
^ "Rutland Civil Parish Populations" (PDF). Rutland County Council. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
^ "Key to English Place-names".