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Description in 1871:
"STONESBY, a parish in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; 3¾ miles N of Saxby r. station, and 6 NE of Melton-Mowbray. Post town, Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 1,370. Real property, £2,156. Pop., 271. Houses, 61. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £90. Patron, the Rev. H. J. Shephard. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities, £11."
John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-1872".
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- 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:
Census Year | Piece No. |
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1841 | H.O. 107 / 588 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2304 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3297 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2546 |
- 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.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Stonesby to another place.
- 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)
- 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.
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.
- 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.