Bittesby

• The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth 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:
   

• The remains of an ancient chapel can be found to the north of the village.
   

• The chapel was in the rural deanery of Guthlaxton (second portion).
   

• The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837 (although the parish wasn't formed until 1866).
   

Bittesby is considered a "deserted" village in south-east Leicestershire. It is on the A6 trunk road, about 3 miles from Lutterworth. The parish covers 808 acres.

• Michael WESTLEY has a photograph of the site of the medieval village of Bittesby on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2009.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The village was depopulated in 1494.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP500858 (Lat/Lon: 52.467857, -1.265421), Bittesby 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.
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• This place was an ancient Chapelry and Liberty of Claybrook parish in Leicester county.
   
• This place became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish lies in the Guthlaxton Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1935, this Civil Parish gained 14 acres granted to it from Wibtoft Civil Parish when the boundary with Warwickshire along the Watling Street was adjusted.
   
• On that same date, this Civil Parish gained 44 acres granted to it from Willey Civil Parish when the boundary with Warwickshire was adjusted.
   
• The citizens of the parish have elected to have periodic Parish Meetings rather than have a formal Parish Council.
   
• District governance is provided by the District of Harborough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lutterworth petty session hearings every other Thursday.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Lutterworth Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1871	18
1881	37
1891	44
1901	35
1911	38
1921	48