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Leicestershire Towns & Parishes

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Tugby

Description in 1871:
"TUGBY, a parish in Billesdon district, Leicester; 2¾ miles ESE of Billesdon, and 6¾ NNW of Medbourne Bridge r. station. It includes Keythorpe liberty, and has a post-office under Leicester. Acres, 1,830. Real property, £2,515. Pop., 360. Houses, 84. The manor, with Keythorpe Hall, belongs to Lord Berners. The living is a vicarage, united with East Norton, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £284. Patron, Lord Berners. The church has a Norman tower, and is good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £86."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales", 1870-72

Census

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district 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 table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket.
  
  
• The church was built in Norman times and contains a western tower.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1857.
  
  
• The church seats 300.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1568.
  
  
• The church was in the rural Gartree deanery (third portion).
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here prior to 1912.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon Registration District.
  
  

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Description and Travel.

Tugby is a village, a township and a parish sitting on a rise on the road between Leicester and Uppingham. It is 12 miles south of Leicester and 7 miles west of Uppingham. The parish covers just over 2,200 acres.

The land around the village has been mostly pasture for centuries. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A47 east out of Leicester city past Skeffington.
  
  

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Manors

• Keythorpe Hall was the property of Sir Raymond R. TYRWHITT-WILSON, baronet, in 1912.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7600.
  
  
• 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

• This place was an ancient township and parish in Leicestershire. It became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish lies partly in the East Goscote Hundred and partly in the Gartree Wapentake (or Hundred) in the eastern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

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

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	230
1811	250
1821	265
1831	266
1841	288
1851	365
1871	438
1881	344
1891	317
1901	271

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Schools

• The Public Elementary School was built in 1872 and enlarged in 1885 and 1896 to hold up to 119 children.
  
  

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