Thurnby

• The parish was in the Billesdon subdistrict of the Billesdon 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 Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Luke.
   
• The church was originally built some time prior to 1143.
   
• The church was built of ironstone, limestone, and Mountsorrel granite.
   
• The upper part of the tower was added in the mid-14th century.
   
• The church was entirely rebuilt in 1873.
   
• The church seats 221.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Luke's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2011.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1538.
   
• The church was in the rural Gartree deanery (second portion).
   
• The United Methodist chapel was built in 1908.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837, but Thurnby did not exist as a Civil Parish until late 1866.
   
• The parish was in the Billesdon subdistrict of the Billesdon Registration District.
   

Thurnby is a parish that includes two townships, a village and a hamlet. It borders Leicester parish to the east (in fact, the border is hard to discern as Leicester has grown to envelope Thurnby). Bushby township lies to the east and was once a Civil Parish in its own right. Scraptoft lies just to the north. The parish covers just over 1,000 acres.

The two townships are Bushby and Thurnby and the hamlet is Bushby. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A47 trunk road east out of Leicester city and turn left (north) into Thurnby.
   
• There are two public houses for you to take refreshment; The Rose and Crown and The Swallow.

• Geograph
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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Thurnby to another place.

• The 1086 Domesday Book does not mention Thurnby. The first recorded use of the name is in the 13th century.
   
• A great deal of new housing was built in western Thurnby around 1930 and this area became a suburb for Leicester city and was annexed by Leicester in 1935.

• There is a "manor house" in Thurnby.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK647039 (Lat/Lon: 52.62901, -1.045541), Thurnby which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

H. L. POWYS-KECK, Lord of the Manor, was a Lieutenant in A Troop of the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1869.

• This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and it became a Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish lies in the Gartree Wapentake (or Hundred) in the eastern division of the county.
   
• Stoughton township and chapelry are associated with this parish but became its own separate Civil Parish.
   
• On 1 April, 1935, the parish was enlarged by the abolition of Bushby Civil Parish and its merger with Thurnby. On that same date, the parish gave up 212 acres ceded to Leicester Civil Parish.
   

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Billesdon Poorlaw Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Leicester petty sessional hearings.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	115
1851	373
1861	375
1871	185
1881	432
1891	223
1901	234
1911	468
1921	241
1931	348
1951	843

• A Public Elementary School for the parishes of Thurnby, Bushby, Scraptoft and Stoughton was built in 1865 and rebuilt in 1894 for 115 children.
   
• Saint Luke's C of E Primary School has strong links with Saint Luke's Church.
   
• Two new primary achools were built in the 1950s in the area transferred to Leicester.