Ashby Parva

• The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth 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 and Volume 18 covers the Lutterworth District which includes Ashby Parva.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2244
1871	R.G. 10 / 3220
1891	R.G. 12 / 2489

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• The church dates from the 14th or 15th century, but the precise date is unknown.
   
• The church was repaired in 1842.
   
• The church was restored and the chancel rebuilt in 1868.
   
• The church tower was rebuilt in 1889.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• John SALMON has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1585 for baptisms; from 1695 for marriages and burials.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Guthlaxton (second portion).
   
• The Society of Genealogists holds copies of marriage records 1586 - 1754. These can be viewed at their Library in London.
   
• The Congregationalists built a chapel here in 1868.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth Registration District.
   

Ashby Parva is a village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England. The parish lies 3 miles north by west of Lutterworth. The parish abuts Claybrooke parish to the west. Most of the parish land was used for pasturage. The parish covers about 1,370 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the M1 motorway to Lutterworth and pass thru that town heading north to reach Ashby Parva village.
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The webpage author has found no mention of either a Hall or a Manor House.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP526886 (Lat/Lon: 52.492783, -1.226711), Ashby Parva 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.
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• John SALMON has a photograph of the War Memorial inside the parish church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.

• This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish is in the ancient Guthlaxton Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• On 26 November, 1877, this parish was enlarged by gaining portions of three other Civil Parishes: Ashby Magna, Kimcote and Leire.
   
• The citizens of this parish have decided to forgo a formal Parish Council and instead discuss governance issues in periodic Parish Meetings.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lutterworth petty session hearings every other Thursday.
   
• In 1834, Mrs. Lucy GOODACRE left eight almshouses for the poor with an allowance of £4 per quarter for each inmate. By 1912, only five of the almshouses remained, three of the originals having been let out.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Lutterworth Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	135
1821	176
1841	179
1871	141
1881	148
1891	137
1901	111
1911	126
1921	130
1931	147
1951	135
1961	114
2001	211

• There was an endowed school for boys and girls built here in 1832. This was later a Pulbic Elementary School.
   
• The school closed in 1882 and was re-opened in 1895 to hold 45 children. Average attendance in 1912 was 13.