Dishley

• The parish was in the Loughborough sub-district of the Loughborough 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.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2275
1871	R.G. 10 / 3257
1891	R.G. 12 / 2516

• The Anglican parish church at Thorpe was dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church was built in 1845.
   
• The church seats 150.
   
• In 1912 the Anglican parish church at Dishley was roofless and in ruins.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.
   

• The Anglican parish register for the church at Dishley dates from 1681.
   
• The Salt Lake City Family History Library has the Bishops' Transcripts for 1578-1887 on microfilm.
   
• The Anglican parish register for All Saints dates from 1845.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of East Akeley.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Mormon Church in Thorpe Acre on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.
   

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

Dishley (formerly known as "Thorpe Acre with Dishley") is a village and a parish on the Blackbrook Beck, which feeds into the River Soar. It is on the border with Nottinghamshire. The parish lies 1.5 miles northwest of Loughborough and 112 miles north of London. The parish covered 1,147 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, Dishley is on the road between Loughborough and Derby.
   

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

• The parish had an inn called the Old Plough Public House.
   
• Roger TEMPLEMAN has a photograph of The Plough Inn on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2016.
   
• Names that are associated with the Inn found in directories are:
   

Year	Person
1881	William LUDLAM, bricklayer
1887	Jno. HARPHAM, farmer
1912	Edward MARSHALL
1925	Edward MARSHALL

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK513213 (Lat/Lon: 52.786465, -1.240768), Dishley 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 parish in Leicester county (under the "Thorpe Acre and Dishley" name) and became a Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the Loughborough (or mid) division of the county.
   
• The parish boundaries were "adjusted" in 1892.
   
• On 1 April, 1935, the Civil Parish was abolished and all 1,147 acres were amalgamated with Loughborough Civil Parish.
   

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Loughborough petty session hearings each Wednesday.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	225
1841	298
1851	260
1881	212
1891	194
1901	196
1921	201

• A Public Elementary School (mixed) was built here in 1879 to hold 60 children.