Stathern
Description in 1871:
"STATHERN, a parish, with a village, in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; 6 miles SSW of Bottesford r. station. Post town, Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 1,420. Real property, £3,952. Pop., 524. Houses, 124. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £700. Patron, St. Peter's College, Cambridge. The church is old but good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £8."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-1872]
- The parish established a 3/4 acre cemetery in 1879. It was placed under the control of the parish council's burial board.
- The parish was in the Clawson 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 / 2303 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2545 |
- The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Guthlac.
- The church construction date is unknown. It appears to be Norman from the 1400s
- The church was restored in 1875.
- The church seats 250.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1567.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Framland (first portion).
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here before 1849.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Clawson sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District.
- In 1935, the parish was transfered to the new Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
Stathern is a parish and a village in the far northeast of the county in the Vale of Belvior in the Wold Hills. The parish lies about 115 miles north of London, about 9 miles north of Melton Mobray and about the same distance southwest of Grantham in Lincolnshire. The parish covers 2,141 acres and abuts the Nottingham and Grantham Canal on the north side of the parish.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, from the A607 trunk road out of Melton Mowbray, turn northwest (left) at Branston to arrive at Stathern.
- There are several scenes around the village at GeoGraph.org.
- A good portion of the parish was farmland.
- The village was known for lace making, matting and brick making.
- The national grid reference is SK 7731.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- This parish was an "ancient parish" of Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the Framland Hundred in the northern portion of the county.
- In 1660, Mr. WIlliam HAND bequeathed £20 for the poor. This was used to purchase a house and three acres of land, which by 1849 was earning £16 and 11s each year.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Melton Mowbray Poorlaw Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1841 |
549 |
| 1861 |
524 |
| 1871 |
495 |
| 1881 |
539 |
| 1891 |
608 |
| 1901 |
594 |
| 1911 |
578 |
| 1921 |
531 |
| 1931 |
528 |
| 1951 |
574 |
| 1961 |
487 |
- The Public Elementary School (National School) was built in 1845 and enlarged in 1894 to hold 183 children.
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[Last updated: 19-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills]
