Lowesby

• The parish was in the Billesdon subdistrict 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.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church is ancient, at least 600 years old. Traces of the original church building exist.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1868.
   
• The church seats 250.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2007.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1653.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Goscote (first portion).
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Billesdon subdistrict of the Billesdon Registration District.
   

Lowesby was a small village and a parish. It is 10 miles east of Leicester city and 4 miles north of Billesdon. The parish covers 1,424 acres and includes the hamlet of Cold Newton. The Lowesby stream runs through the parish.

The land around the village has been mostly pasture for centuries. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B6047 arterial south out of Melton Mobray. Turn right (west) at Lowesby village.
   
• Watch for the SIGN! Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the village sign as you approach Lowesby from the south, on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2007.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

The medieval village of Lowesby was about one mile northwest of the current village of Lowesby.

• Lowesby Hall was built of brick and stood in a 100-acre park.
   
• Lowesby Hall was the residence of Sir Frederick FOUKE, baronet and lord of the manor, in 1849.
   
• Stephen RICHARDS has a photograph of Lowesby Hall on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2003.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK724075 (Lat/Lon: 52.660397, -0.931011), Lowesby 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 All Saints Churchyard there are 2 Commonwealth war graves from World War II.

In 1925 Lt.-Col. .A. M. B. GAGE was residing in Sludge Hall in Cold Newton.

These are the fallen in the Commonwealth War Graves (data from www.CWGC.org):

• Lowesby was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish lies in the East Goscote Hundred (or Wapentake) in the eastern division of the county.
   
• The parish covered 2,350 acres in 1881, but this was reduced to 1,424 acres by 1891.
   

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

Some population figures given below may be for the township and not the parish (e.g. 1871).

Year	Inhabitants
1801	147
1811	190
1821	217
1831	231
1841	220
1851	243
1871	109
1881	142
1891	136
1901	235
1911	147
1921	118
1931	135
1961	39

• The Church of England Schools were opened in July, 1876.