Barkby Thorpe

• The parish was in the Syston sub-district of the Barrow-upon-Soar 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 23 covers the Syston Sub-District of which Barkby Thorpe is a part.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2282
1871	R.G. 10 / 3267
1891	R.G. 12 / 2523

It appears that there was no church in this hamlet.  Parisioners would go to St. Mary's Church in Barkby.

• The church was in the rural deanery of Goscote (first portion).
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Syston sub-district of the Barrow-upon-Soar Registration District.
   

Barkby Thorpe is a village and a townships of Barkby parish.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A46 north out of Leicester and take the turnoff into Syston. Bare right, then turn right to take the road into Barkby Thorpe.
   
• Mat FASCIONE provides a photograph of the Village sign on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2007.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Parish workers were largely framework knitters or small-plot farmers.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK637097 (Lat/Lon: 52.681261, -1.059195), Barkby Thorpe 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 an ancient Chapelry in Barkby parish in Leicestershire and was incorporated as a Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish is in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• On 1 April 1897 this parish gained 4 houses from Barkby Civil Parish in a boundary adjustment.
   
• You may contact the joint Barkby and Barkby Thorpe Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they cannot perform family history searches for you.
   
• District governance is provided by the Charnwood Borough Council.
   

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Barrow-upon-Soar Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1871	66
1881	47
1891	59
1901	68
1911	58