Rotherby

Roger TEMPLEMAN has a photograph of All Saints Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.

• The parish was in the Somerby 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 Melton Library holds copies of the Census for Rotherby LEI for 1841 thru 1891.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church was built in the 13th century.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1882.
   
• The church seats 110.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2007.
   
• Andrew TATLOW has a nighttime photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2006.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1561.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Goscote (second portion).
   

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

Rotherby was a village and a parish on the banks of the River Wreak, 5 miles southwest of Melton Mowbray and 108 miles north of London. The parish covered 766 acres before it was abolished.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A607 trunk road northeast out of Leicester city, heading for Melton Mobray. The road brushes the south edge of the village.
   
• By rail, there is still a functional rail-line past the village, on the north side. Rail passenger service ceased in 1961.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The parish land was mostly pasture, but corn and root crops were also grown.
   

• Rotherby Hall was the residence of Capt. Nugent St. Clair ALLFREY in 1912.
   
• The Manor House was the residence of Capt. Phillip Peter Perring GOODCHILD in 1881.
   
• Rotherby Hall was the residence of Miss HAMES in 1881.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK675165 (Lat/Lon: 52.741922, -1.001601), Rotherby 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.

• Inside All Saints Church are two stained glass war memorial windows in the chancel and one in the nave, also a tablet, unveiled by Admiral Earl BEATTY (June, 1920) commemorating the 11 men of the village who fell in the Great War.
   

• The place was an ancient parish in Leicester county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish is in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the eastern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1936, this Civil Parish was abolished and the area made part of the new Hoby with Rotherby Civil Parish.
   

• 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	95
1841	142
1871	132
1881	153
1891	138
1901	111
1911	156
1921	128
1931	133

• A Public Elementary School was built in 1840 for 40 children.