Beaumont Leys

• Beaumont Leys was in the the Rothley subdistrict of the Barrow-on-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 13 covers the Barrow on Soar District of which Beaumont Leys was a part.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2281
1871	R.G. 10 / 3266
1891	R.G. 12 / 2521

• There was no Anglican parish church here.
   
• Parishioners attended the church at Belgrave.
   
• Tim GLOVER has a photograph of The Church of Christ, a relatively new church, on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2015. The church refers to itself as a "small urban church."
   

• Check the registers at Belgrave's church for your relatives.
   

• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   
• Beaumont Leys was in the the Rothley subdistrict of the Barrow-on-Soar registration district.
   

Beaumont Leys is a village and a parish in eastern Leicestershire. The parish is 100 miles north of London and 3 miles northwest from Leicester city. The parish covers 1,651 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• The village is too small to be listed on most maps or the area.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• There is no mention of a Manor House in the Directories of 1881 and 1912.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK568081 (Lat/Lon: 52.667645, -1.161521), Beaumont Leys 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 was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the eastern division of the county.
   
• This place had been an extra-parochial area until about 1880, when it was formed as a Civil Parish.
   
• On 26 March, 1892, this parish was expanded by adding rural parts of Belgrave parish and Leicester Abbey.
   
• On 1 April, 1935, this parish was abolished and parts added to Anstey parish, Thurcaston parish and Leicester parish.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1871	36
1881	39
1891	127
1901	167
1921	174
1931	169

• The children of this parish attended school at Belgrave parish.