Ibstock
- The parish was in 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 parish was in the Market Bosworth registration district.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Ibstock is a village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England, with a population of around 5,000. Nearby places are Heather, Ellistown, Ravenstone and Donington le Heath.
If you are planning a visit:
- 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 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.
- 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.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
763 |
| 1811 |
836 |
- In 1792 a free school for 50 poor children of the parish was set up.
- The existing Ibstock Junior School has a Website that, at last check, was extreemly slow to load using a modem. The school is for ages 7-11. Contact via telephone: 01530 260481.
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Last updated: 23-September-2007 - Louis R. Mills
