Freeby

• The parish was in the Waltham sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District until 1935.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transfered to the 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:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1894.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• The church was closed for about six years due to structural issues (Jan. 2010 - 2016).
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Church of St. Mary on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2004.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of the Church of St. Mary on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1604, but consists chiefly of fragments until about 1800.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Framland (third portion).
   
• The Congregationalists built a chapel here prior to 1881, which had been founded in 1665.
   
• Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of the United Reformed Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2006.
   

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

Freeby is a village, a chapelry and a township just a mile north of the River Eye, almost 4 miles east of Melton Mowbray and 101 miles north of London. The parish is not far from the border of Rutland county, just north of Stapleford. A stream in the parish feeds the River Eye.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B676 arterial road east out of Melton Mowbray. Turn left to find Freeby.
   
• Several streams in the parish feed into the River Eye.
   

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

• This place was once a part of Melton Mowbray parish.
   
• Much of the parish land was used for grazing.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK802200 (Lat/Lon: 52.771647, -0.812669), Freeby 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.

There is a marble and slate tablet that was installed in the parish church in 1919, dedicated to the men who died in the Great War.

• This place was an ancient chapelry and township of the county and a Civil Parish after Dec. 1866.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Framland Hundred in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• In 1881, the parish covered 1,546 acres. This was reduced by 1891 to 1,394 acres.
   
• In April, 1936, this parish was enlarged and amalgamated with the abolition of Bretingby and Wyfordby Civil Parish, Saxby Civil Parish and Stapleford Civil Parish. This added about 5,000 acres to the parish.
   
• You may contact the Joint Parish Council to discuss civic and political issues, but they can NOT do family history searches for you.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1871	131
1881	132
1891	131
1901	134
1911	143
1921	153
1931	136
1951	412
1961	353

• In 1881, this parish boasted a small school built by Daniel THWAITES outside the village in 1875 to hold 39 children  .