Grimston

• The parish was in the Melton Mobray sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transferred to the new 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 was dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
   
• The church construction date is unknown. It appears to be Norman from the 1400s. It has a square embattled tower with three bells.
   
• The church was restored in 1866.
   
• The church seats 160.
   
• Richard GREEN has a photograph of the Church Tower on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012.
   
• Tim GLOVER also has a photograph of St John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1635.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Akeley East.
   
• Kelly's 1912 Directory of Leicestershire places the church in the rural deanery of Framland (third portion).
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here in 1839.
   
• Richard GREEN has a photograph of the replacement Methodist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Melton Mobray sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transferred to the new Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
   

Grimston is a parish and a small village in the Wold Hills. The parish is about 5 miles WNW of Melton Mowbray and about the same distance north of Brooksby and 114 miles north of London. The parish covers 3,085 acres and includes the village of Saxelby.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, from the A6006 trunk road west out of Melton Mowbray, about a mile outside of Asfordby, turn right (north) for Grimston.
   
• You can put your teenagers in this Village Stock until you need them again.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Stilton Cheese was made here.
   
• Much of the parish land was used for pasturage.
   

• Kelly's 1912 Directory tells us that Saxelbye Park was the property of Charles W. WRIGHT.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK685218 (Lat/Lon: 52.789434, -0.985685), Grimston 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.

In St John's Church there is a paper Roll of Honour in a wooden frame mounted on the wall.

In April 1920, a Portland stone cross was erected to the men of the parish who fell in the Great War.

There is a single Commonwealth War Grave in St. John's churchyard from World War One.

The Commonwealth War Grave (data from www.CWGC.org) is for:

• The parish was in the East Goscote Hundred (Wapentake) in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• This parish was an chapelry in Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish. In 1881, the parish covered 920 acres.
   
• In April, 1936, the parish of Grimston was enlarged by 1,052 acres with the abolition of Saxelby Civil Parish.
   
• That same month, the parish of Grimston was enlarged by 969 acres with the abolition of Shoby Civil Parish. This left Grimston covering 3,085 acres.
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they can NOT do family history searches for you.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Village Hallr on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014. Stop in when it is open and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.
   

• 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
1801	183
1841	175
1871	164
1881	153
1891	175
1901	137
1911	176
1921	198
1931	145

• The Public Elementary School (National School) was built here in 1867 for 46 children.