Garthorpe

• The parish was in the Waltham sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District until 1935.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transfered 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 Mary.
   
• The church construction date is unreported, but was prior to 1600.
   
• The church is built of stone.
   
• The church was restored in 1895.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St.Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2009.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St.Mary's Church tower on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1568.
   
• The church is 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 Mowbray Registration District until 1935.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transferred to the Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
   

Garthorpe is a small village and a parish 6 miles east-north-east of Melton Mowbray and 118 miles north of London. The parish is in the Wold Hills and is just a few miles from the border with Lincoln county to the east and Rutland county to the south. The River Eye, here a small stream, runs through the parish and the parish covers about 1,635 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B676 arterial road east out of Melton Mobray toward Colsterworth (Lincolnshire). The road bisects the north end of Garthorpe village.
   
• For more information on the village, see the Wikipedia entry.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Some of the parish land was held in pasturage, the rest in grain crops.
   

• The webpage author could find no mention of a Manor House or Hall in Garthorpe.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK832209 (Lat/Lon: 52.779282, -0.767984), Garthorpe 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.

There is a paper Roll of Honour with elaborate decoration in wooden frame mounted in Saint Mary's Church.

• This place was an ancient parish of the county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Framland Hundred in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• In April, 1936, this parish was enlarged when Coston Civil Parish was abolished and 1,766 acres were amalgamated with Garthorpe parish for administration.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1841	135
1861	113
1871	128
1881	120
1891	125
1901	188
1911	71
1921	106
1931	92
1951	138
1961	138
2001	92

• Some children of this parish attended school at Wymondham.
   
• In 1876 a Board School (later a Public Elementary School) was built for this parish and Coston parish.