Appleby

The Swadlincote Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Measham sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels.
   
• The church stands in the Leicestershire portion of the parish.
   
• Tradition holds that the church was built on the site of a Roman temple.
   
• The church seats 600.
   
• Philip JEFFREY has a photograph of St Michael and All Angels' Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2014.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1572.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (first portion).

• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Measham subdistrict of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.

"APPLEBY, a parish in the hundred of Sparkenhoe, in the county of Leicester, partly also in the hundred of Repton, in the county of Derby, 6 miles to the S.W. of Ashby-de-la Zouch. Atherstone is the post town. It lies near the point at which the four counties of Derby, Leicester, Stafford, and Warwick meet, and not far from the Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value £750, in the patronage of G. Moors, Esq."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]

Appleby is just east of the A42 which you took southwest out of Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

Also see the Leicestershire, Appleby page.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Appleby entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• The transcription of the section for Appleby from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

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

• The Amenity Woodlands, just north of the village, is a small part of the national reforestation project.
   
• John POYSER has a photograph of the entrance to Amenity woodland on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK313090 (Lat/Lon: 52.677803, -1.538492), Appleby 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.

• This place was partly in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• Appleby Civil Parish was abolished in 1898 to create Appleby Magna Civil Parish within the boundaries of Leicestershire.
   
• Today the parish is administered as part of Leicestershire.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Ashby-de-la-Zouch petty session hearings.
   
• There is a partial list of about 20 Appleby Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Appleby " from the list displayed.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1771.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, Appleby became part of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Poorlaw Union
   
• In 1839 the Misses MOOREs' Almshouses were built. These are now Grade II listed with British Heritage.
   

See the 1662 Hearth Tax Assessments page on Brett Payne's website for a list of heads-of-households who paid the tax.