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Leicestershire Towns & Parishes

Nearby Places

Galby

Census

• The parish was in the Billesdon registration district.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Billesdon registration district.
  
  
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 6901.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Names, Geographical

• Literally, 'gall farm/settlement'. The specific may refer to a barren place in a field, a coppice or wet, poor ground.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Billesdon Poor Law Union.
  
  

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