Bushby

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon 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 11 covers the Billesdon sub-district which includes Bushby.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The webpage author has found no mention of an Anglican parish church in Bushby.
   

• The church would have been in the rural deanery of Gartree (second portion).
   

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

Bushby is a small village, a township and was a small parish adjacent to Thurnby and 4 miles east of Leicester city, into which it is now absorbed as a suburb. The parish covered about 679 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A47 arterial road east out of Leicester city and stop at Thurnby. This is as close as you can get to Bushby village without walking.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of The Green at Bushby on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2006.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK655040 (Lat/Lon: 52.629813, -1.033704), Bushby 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 hamlet of the county and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Gartree Hundred (or Wapentake) in the southern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• In April, 1935, this parish was abolished and all 679 acres were amalgamated back into Thurnby Civil Parish and as part of the Leicester Urban District.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1871	51
1881	56
1891	47
1901	72
1911	116
1921	194
1931	336

• A Public Elementary School was built in 1865 and rebuilt in 1894 to hold 109 children.