Thorpe Satchville

• The parish was in the Melton Mowbray sub-district of the Melton Mowbray 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.
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• In 1935, the parish was transferred to the Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of St Michael and All Angels Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1508.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Goscote (first portion).
   
• The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1845.
   

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

Thorpe Satchville is a chapelry, a township and a parish which lie about 15 miles north-east of Leicester city and 5 miles south of Melton Mobray. The parish covers 1,330 acres, most of which was pasture for sheep and cattle.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A606 motor road northwest out of Melton Mobray, heading for Nottingham.

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK732117 (Lat/Lon: 52.698039, -0.918254), Thorpe Satchville which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
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• 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.
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• This place was a Chapelry for centuries.
   
• In December, 1866, this place was encorporated as a Civil Parish in Leicestershire.
   
• The parish is in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the eastern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1936, the parish of Thorpe Satchville was abolished to create Twyford and Thorpe Civil Parishes with 1,330 acres.
   

• 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
1841	153
1871	218
1881	169
1891	176
1901	217
1911	256
1921	195
1931	186

• The children of this parish attended school in Twyford.