Grimston (Grimstone)
Description in 1871:
"GRIMSTON, a parish in Melton Mowbray district, Leicester; on the Wolds, 4 miles N of Kirby r. station, and 5 WNW of Melton Mowbray. Post town, Melton Mowbray. Acres, 920. Real property, £1,726. Pop., 190. house, 39. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Earl of Aylesford. The living is a vicarage, under the vicarage of Rothley, in the diocese of Peterboringh. Value, £43. Patron, the Vicar of Rothley. The church is old; has an embattled tower; and was recently in disrepair. Charities, £13."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-1872]
Note: There is a parish of Grimston in Norfolk, also, as well as 1 in each of the three Yorkshire Ridings. Make sure that you are researching the correct one!
- The parish was in the Melton Mobray sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District.
- In 1935, the parish was transfered to the new Melton and Belvoir 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.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2301 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2544 |
- The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint John.
- The church construction date is unknown. It appears to be Norman from the 1400s. It has a square embattled tower with three bells.
- The church was restored in 1866.
- The church seats 160.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1635.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Akeley East.
- Kelly's 1912 Directory of Leicestershire places the church in the rural deanery of Framland (third portion).
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here in 1839.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Melton Mobray sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District.
- In 1935, the parish was transfered to the new Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
Grimston is a parish and a small village in the Wold Hills. The parish is about 5 miles WNW of Melton Mobray and about the same distance north of Brooksby and 114 miles north of London. The parish covers 3,085 acres and includes the village of Saxelby.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, from the A6006 trunk road west out of Melton Mowbray, about a mile outside of Asfordby, turn right (north) for Grimston.
- Stilton Cheese was made here.
- Much of the parish land was used for pasturage.
- Saxelbye Park was the property of Charles W. WRIGHT in 1912.
- The national grid reference is SK 6821.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- The parish was in the East Goscote Hundred (Wapentake) in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
- This parish was an chapelry in Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish. In 1881, the parish covered 920 acres.
- In April, 1936, the parish of Grimston was enlarged by 1,052 acres with the abolition of Saxelby Civil Parish.
- That same month, the parish of Grimston was enlarged by 969 acres with the abolition of Shoby Civil Parish. This left Grimston covering 3,085 acres.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1841 |
175 |
| 1871 |
164 |
| 1881 |
153 |
| 1891 |
175 |
| 1901 |
137 |
| 1911 |
176 |
| 1921 |
198 |
| 1931 |
145 |
| 1951 |
259 |
| 1961 |
339 |
- The Public Elementary School (National School) was built here in 1867 for 46 children.
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[Last updated: 19-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills]
