Edmondthorpe

• The parish was in the Waltham sub-district of the Melton Mobray Registration District.
   
• In a 1935 re-organization of census districts, this parish was allocated to the Melton and Belvoir 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:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael (some sources say St. Michael and All Angels).
   
• The church has a square embattled tower surmounted by pinnacles.
   
• The church was built before 1560.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1875.
   
• The church seats 300.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2005.
   
• Chris McAULEY also has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2012.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1630 (some sources give 1560).
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Framland (second portion).
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Waltham sub-district of the Melton Mobray Registration District.
   
• In a 1935 re-organization of civil registration districts, this parish was allocated to the Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
   

Edmondthorpe is a village and parish about 100 miles north of London and 6 miles north of Oakham (in Rutland). The parish had a long east-west axis and is narrow in the north-south axis and sits across the top of the border with Rutlandshire. The Oakham Canal passed through the parish, but was not navigable most of the time. The parish covered about 1,750 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B676 east out of Melton Mobray. Turn east at Saxby and go to Wymondham. From there drive south to Edmondthorpe.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Only about 500 acres of the parish was put to the plough. The rest was grazing land.
   
• In the 1800s, most of the working population were graziers.
   
• Stilton Cheese was made here.
   

• In 1849, William EDWARDES is residing in the Manor House.
   
• Edmondthorpe Hall is described in 1881 as a "fine old structure". It was the seat of William Ann POCHIN.
   
• In 1912, Edmondthorpe Hall was the residence of Victoria Alexandrina, Countess of Yarborough.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK858175 (Lat/Lon: 52.748319, -0.730337), Edmondthorpe 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.

• Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of the WWII War Memorial plaque on the lychgate to the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
   

• This place was an ancient parish of Leicestershire and a modern Civil Parish as well.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Framland Hundred (or Wapentake) in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• This parish was abolished in 1936 and all the land amalgamated with Wymondham Civil Parish.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Melton Mowbray petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Melton Mowbray Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1841	261
1871	238
1881	209
1901	165
1911	207
1921	173
1931	195

• A school was built in the parish in 1838. This school was rebuilt 1863 at the cost of William Ann POCHIN. It could hold 100 children.