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Cadeby

Description in 1871:
"CADEBY, a township and a parish in Market-Bosworth district, Leicester. The township lies 1½ mile SE by S of Market-Bosworth, and 5 WSW of Desford r. station. Acres, 900. Real property, £1,662. Pop., 194. Houses, 43. The parish contains also the township of Osbaston; and its Post Town is Market-Bosworth, under Hinckley. Acres, 2,130. Real property, £4,623. Pop., 422. Houses, 88. The property is divided among a few. The parish is a meet for the Atherstone hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £223. Patron, Sir Alex. Dixie, Bart. The church is very good. Charities, £21."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72.

Caution: There is a Cadeby parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire, also. Make sure that you research the correct one!

Census

• The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth 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.
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church construction date remains unknown.
  
  
• The church seats 75.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1595, but has been "very irregularly kept".
  
  
• The church is in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (first portion).
  
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration District.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Cadeby is a village, a township and a parish which lie about 114 miles north of London, 5.5 miles north of Hinckley and 1.5 miles east of Market Bosworth. The parish covers about 1,008 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A447 north out of Hinckley to Cadeby. The road runs along the eastern edge of the village.
  
  

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Manors

• There is a mention of a hall in Cadeby in 1881, but no description.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 4202.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• The parish is in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the western division of the county.
  
  
• At one time, the parish contained the township of Obaston before that place was formed as a Civil Parish in 1866.
  
  
• In March, 1884, the parish was enlarged by gaining the Naneby House part of Market Bosworth Civil Parish. This was about 108 acres of land.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Market Bosworth Poorlaw Union.
  
  

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Population

These census figures, except for 1841, appear to be for the Township and not the entire parish of Cadeby.

Year	Inhabitants
1841	178
1871	170
1881	149
1891	166
1901	124
1911	114
1921	138
1931	122
1951	158
1961	170

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Schools

• The children of this parish had a right to all the privileges of the school in Market Bosworth.
  
  
• A Public Elementary School was built in 1863 for 45 children.
  
  

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