Stonesby

• Stonesby has a separate cemetery about a mile north-east of the village, just before Stonesby road.
   
• Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of the Stonesby Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2013.
   

• The parish was in the Waltham sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transfered to the new 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 was dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• The church construction date is unknown. It appears to be early Norman.
   
• The church was restored in 1875.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of St Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2007.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1640 (some sources show 1578).
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Framland (second portion).
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here before 1849.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Window and datestone, Stonesby Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016.
   

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

Stonesby is a parish and a village in the northeast of the county in the Wold Hills, just north of a small stream that feeds into the nearby River Eye. The parish is about 121 miles north of London, 6 miles northeast of Melton Mobray. The parish covered 1,423 acres and includs a feeder stream to the River Eye.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, from the A607 trunk road, turn east at Waltham to arrive at Stonesby.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• A good portion of the parish was pasture, but most of the rest was farmland.
   
• In the 1840s some 50 people of the parish emigrated to Canada.
   

• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the The Manor House on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK823247 (Lat/Lon: 52.813572, -0.780368), Stonesby 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.

The is a Memorial Plaque in St Peter's Church commemorating those of Stonesby who fell in the World Wars.

• The parish was in the Framland Hundred (Wapentake) in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• This parish was an "ancient parish" of Leicestershire as well as a modern Civil Parish until 1936.
   
• This parish boundaries were adjusted slightly around 1886 to take the parish from 1,370 acres to 1,423 acres.
   
• In April, 1936, the parish of Stonesby was abolished and the land of 1,423 acres amalgamated with that of Sproxton Civil Parish.
   

• 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.
   
• In 1879, William BEEBY left £1,000. Half of the interest from that was distributed to the poor as coal. The other half went to support the local school.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	181
1821	246
1841	288
1861	271
1871	236
1881	216
1891	231
1901	199
1911	172
1931	140

• The Public Elementary School (National School) was built in 1850 for 36 children.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the The Old School on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016.