Ragdale

• The parish was in the Melton Mowbray sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District until 1935.
   
• 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 and Volume 24 covers the Melton sub-district which includes Ragdale.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transfered to the Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church is built of stone.
   
• The date of construction is unreported.
   
• The church chancel was rebuilt in 1787.
   
• The church was restored in 1874.
   
• The Medieval cross in the churchyard was repaired in the 20th century.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• The church is a Grade II structure by British Heritage.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of All Saints' Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2014.
   
• Richard CROFT also has a photograph of All Saints' Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2011.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1640 (another source gives 1668).
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Goscote (second portion).
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Melton Mowbray sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District until 1934.
   
• In 1934, the parish was transferred to the Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
   

Ragdale is a village and a township, and was a parish, 6 miles west of Melton Mowbray, 12 miles north-east of Leicester city and about 95 miles north of London. The parish coves 1,415 acres.

The village sits on the north bank of a feeder stream to the River Wreake. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A607 arterial road west out of Melton Mowbray. Turn right at Rotherby and go across the Wreake River into Hoby, then straight on to Ragdale.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Much of the parish land was used for grazing. Some corn and root crops were grown here as well.
   

• Ragdale Old Hall, now a farmhouse, was the property of Major William Philip CANTRELL-HUBBERSTY in 1925 and was formerly the seat of the Earls FERRERS.
   
• Over the front door are the arms of the SHIRLEY family.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK662198 (Lat/Lon: 52.771744, -1.020189), Ragdale 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.

• In 1912, Colonel A. C. Cantrell-Hubbersty resided in Ragsdale Hall.  Colonel Cantrell-Hubbersty is normally associated with Tollerton Hall in Nottinghamshire.  It appears that the Colonel died in 1915 at the age of 72.
   

• This place was an ancient parish of the county and it became modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the eastern division of the county.
   
• Ragdale formed a joint Parish Council with Hoby, Rotherby and Brooksby. You may contact the Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they CANNOT help you with family history searches.
   

• 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
1801	81
1821	98
1841	121
1861	120
1881	102
1901	101
1921	90

• There was a Public Elementary School here by 1911, built for 40 students.