Twyford

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2299
1871	R.G. 10 / 3292
1891	R.G. 12 / 2543

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew.
   
• The church dates from prior to the 16th century.
   
• The church was restored in 1840 and again in 1888.
   
• The church seats 160.
   
• Ashley DACE has a photograph of St. Andrew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2011.
   
• John SUTTON also has a photograph of St. Andrew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2012.
   

• 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.
   

Twyford is a village, a township and a parish which lie about 12 miles north-east of Leicester city and 6 miles south of Melton Mobray. The parish covers just over 1,200 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.
   
• Caution: there is also a Twyford village in Derbyshire.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK728101 (Lat/Lon: 52.683712, -0.924525), Twyford 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 parish derived its name from two fords over a small river which runs through the village.
   

• The parish is in the ancient Framland Hundred in the eastern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1936, the parish of Twyford was abolished and reformed to create Twyford and Thorpe Civil Parish with 1,205 acres.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Melton Mowbray petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became a part of the Melton Mowbray Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	397
1821	495
1841	478
1871	373
1881	426
1901	312
1931	282

• A Public Elementary School was built here in 1845 to hold up to 112 children.
   
• "Bikeboy" also has a photograph of the Old School on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2015.
   
• The village school has been converted to a residence.