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Stonesby

Description in 1871:
"STONESBY, a parish in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; 3¾ miles N of Saxby r. station, and 6 NE of Melton-Mowbray. Post town, Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 1,370. Real property, £2,156. Pop., 271. Houses, 61. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £90. Patron, the Rev. H. J. Shephard. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities, £11."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-1872

Census

• The parish was in the Waltham 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:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Peter.
  
  
• The church construction date is unknown. It appears to be early Norman.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1875.
  
  
• The church seats 200.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1640 (some sources show 1578).
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Framland (second portion).
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here before 1849.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Waltham sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District.
  
  
• In 1935, the parish was transfered to the new Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Stonesby is a parish and a village in the northeast of the county in the Wold Hills. The parish is about 121 miles north of London, 6 miles northeast of Melton Mobray. The parish covered 1,423 acres and includs a feeder stream to the River Eye.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, from the A607 trunk road, turn east at Waltham to arrive at Stonesby.
  
  

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History

• A good portion of the parish was pasture, but most of the rest was farmland.
  
  
• In the 1840s some 50 people of the parish emigrated to Canada.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 8224.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• The parish was in the Framland Hundred (Wapentake) in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
  
  
• This parish was an "ancient parish" of Leicestershire as well as a modern Civil Parish until 1936.
  
  
• This parish boundaries were adjusted slightly around 1886 to take the parish from 1,370 acres to 1,423 acres.
  
  
• In April, 1936, the parish of Stonesby was abolished and the land of 1,423 acres amalgamated with that of Sproxton Civil Parish.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• In 1879, William BEEBY left £1,000. Half of the interest from that was distributed to the poor as coal. The other half went to support the local school.
  
  
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Melton Mowbray Poorlaw Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1841	288
1861	271
1871	236
1881	216
1891	231
1901	199
1911	172
1921	166
1931	140

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Schools

• The Public Elementary School (National School) was built in 1850 for 36 children.
  
  

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