Thurmaston South

The Thurmaston Community Library in Silverdale Drive is a branch of the Leicester County Council Library System. It is open 5 days each week (verify by phone if you are visiting).

An Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery was found in the parish in 1954. 119 urns and a shield boss were recovered from the site.

Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of the Civil Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2006.

• South Thurmaston was in the Syston subdistrict of the Barrow-on-Soar 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 All Saints.
   
• The date of the original structure is uncertain.
   
• The original church tower is incomplete.
   
• The church nave was rebuilt in the 15th century.
   
• The chancel screen, dating from about 1355, was restored in 1894.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• David KELLY has a photograph of St Michael & All Angels Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1538.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Goscote (first portion).
   

• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   
• South Thurmaston was in the Syston subdistrict of the Barrow-on-Soar registration district.
   

South Thurmaston is a village and a parish in eastern Leicestershire. The parish is 100 miles north of London, 4.5 miles southeast of Syston, and 6 miles east-north-east from Leicester city. The parish covers 1,435 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, there are several approaches off either the A46 or A47 out of Leicester city.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

You can see the administrative areas in which Thurmaston South has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

• Ian S. has a photograph of the Top House Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Leicester Marina on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017.
   

• There is mention of a Manor House in the Directories of 1881 and 1912, but no discriptions.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK614086 (Lat/Lon: 52.671639, -1.093416), Thurmaston South which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
• Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
• 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.

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Leicester county and it was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the eastern division of the county.
   
• The Civil Parish of Thurmaston South was abolished in September, 1903, to create Thurmaston Civil Parish.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Leicester petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Barrow-upon-Soar Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1871	114
1881	108
1901	93
1911	95
1921	98
1931	97
1951	109
1961	104

• Thomas STEVENSON left £20 in 1820 for the education of poor boys in the parish.
   
• The children of this parish attended school in Barkby's Public Elementary School, about 2 miles to the west.
   
• A few children of this parish attended school in Keyham parish, about 1 mile to the south.