Barkby

• Suella POSTLES did an MA entitled "Barkby: Anatomy of a Township 1535-1800" for the Department of English Local History at the University of Leicester in 1976. Copies will be in the University of Leicester Library and one has been deposited with the Local Studies Library in Syston. The Barkby Local History Group also has a copy. She is happy to do lookups for Barkby surnames of this period. Contact her at: Suella Postles.
   
• There is also a chapter on early Barkby in the volume in memory of Richard McKINLEY titled "Names, Time and Place" written by Suella Postles and Dr. David Postles, published by the Leopards Head Press in 2003.
   

• A cemertery of two acres was formed around 1905 and jointly controlled by Barkby and Barkby Thorpe parish officials.
   

• The parish was in the Syston sub-district of the Barrow-upon-Soar Registration District.
   
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print and Volume 23 covers the Syston Sub-District of which Barkby is a part.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2282
1871	R.G. 10 / 3267
1891	R.G. 12 / 2523

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
   
• The church was built in the middle of the 14th century.
   
• The churchyard was enlarged in 1887.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1539.
   
• The Society of Genealogists holds copies of Barkby parish records including records of baptisms from 1586-1642 1660-61 1674-1920, marriages from 1586-1641 (on microfiche from 1586-1677) 1678-88 1691-1963 and burials from 1586-1641 1652 1662 1691-1886 which can be studied at their library in London.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Goscote (first portion).
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here by 1849.
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel here by 1881.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Syston sub-district of the Barrow-upon-Soar Registration District.
   

Barkby is a village and a parish which lie about 109 miles north of London and 5 miles northeast of Leicester. The parish includes the hamlet of Hambleton and the townships of Barkby Thorpe and North Thurmaston and covers about 2,087 acres. Beeby parish lies to the east and Syston parish lies to the north.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A46 north out of Leicester and take the turnoff into Syston. Bare right, then turn right to take the road into Barkby.
   

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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Barkby to another place.

• Parish workers were largely framework knitters or small-plot farmers.
   

• Barkby Hall was the residence of William Ann POCHIN, lord of the manor, in 1849.
   
• Barkby Hall is a plain stone building on grounds near the church.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK636099 (Lat/Lon: 52.683071, -1.060635), Barkby which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

There is a grey granite war memorial inside the church of St. Mary.
 

• The parish is in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• This place was an ancient parish of Leicestershire and became a Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• In 1881 the parish covered 2,299 acres. This was reduced to 1,917 acres in April, 1897, in order to enlarge Barkby Thorpe, which had become a Civil Parish.
   
• In October, 1914, the parish gained 10 acres from Thurmaston Civil Parish.
   
• In April, 1935, the parish gave up 363 acres to Syston Civil Parish, but gained 534 acres from another part of Syston Civil Parish. This left 2,087 acres under the parish authorities.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Leicester petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Barrow-upon-Soar Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1841	849
1861	791
1871	440
1881	579
1891	631
1901	682
1911	670
1921	730
1931	955
1951	405
1961	363

• A Public Elementary School (National School) was built in 1863 for 45 children.