Ibstock
- The Ibstock Cemetery, set aside in 1883, is 1.25 acres, and under the care of the Parish Council.
- The parish was in the Ibstock 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.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2265 & 2271 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2507 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Denis (Denys).
- In 1884-85 the church nave was restored and small alterations performed.
- In 1897 the church chancel was restored.
- The church seats 400.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1568 and is in fair condition.
- The parish church was in the rural deanery of South Akeley (Sparkenhoe first division).
- The Baptists had a chapel built here by 1878 to replace an earlier, smaller chapel.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here by 1849.
- The Primitive Methodists had a chapel here by 1881.
- The parish was in the Ibstock sub-district of the Market Bosworth registration district.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Ibstock is a large village and a parish in north-west Leicestershire, England, with a population of around 5,000. Nearby places are Heather, Ellistown, Ravenstone and Donington le Heath. The parish lies 6 miles south-east of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 5 miles north of Market Bosworth and 120 miles north of London. The parish covers 4.846 acres.
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- Ibstock was recorded in the Domesday Book as a hamlet, Ibestoche (literally Ibba's stoc or dairy farm). The Domesday Book records six ploughlands here in 1086.
- The parish along with a grange belonging to the abbot of Garendon, has a long early association with the Burtons of Burton on Dunsmore in Warwickshire.
- The parish had a coal seam only 70 yards below the surface.
- The gas works wasestablished here in 1877.
- The national grid reference is SK 4010.
- 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.
- This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and became a Civil Parish parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the southern division of the county.
- On 1 April, 1936, the parish boundaries had three adjustments; 17 acres were transferred to Coalville CIvil Parish, 11 acres were received from Heather Civil Parish and 28 acres from Hugglescote and Donnington Civil Parish.
- The Common land here was enclosed in 1774.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Market Bosworth Poorlaw Union.
Most of the population figures in the table below are for the "township" and not the "parish".
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
763 |
| 1811 |
836 |
| 1841 |
1,138 |
| 1871 |
1,656 |
| 1881 |
2,335 |
| 1891 |
2,937 |
| 1901 |
3,922 |
| 1911 |
4,946 |
| 1921 |
5,211 |
| 1931 |
5,365 |
- In 1792 a free school for 50 poor children of the parish was set up.
- A Public Elementary School (mixed) was built in 1818 and enlarged in 1848 and again in 1870 and 1892.
- A Elementary Council School (mixed) was built in 1907 and enlarged in 1911.
- A Public Elementary School for infants was built in 1895 to hold 237 children.
- The existing Ibstock Junior School on Melbourne Road is for ages 7-11. Contact via telephone: 01530 260481.
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Last updated: 25-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills
