Saxby

• The parish was in the Waltham sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District until 1935.
   
• 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.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transfered to the Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1789.
   
• The church was restored in 1874.
   
• The church seats 110.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of St Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2005.
   
• Apparently the church has recently been sold and converted to a private residence.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1638 (other sources give 1593).
   
• 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.
   

Saxby is a village and was a parish 4 miles east of Melton Mowbray and 117 miles north of London. The parish covered 1,412 acres and was bordered by Wymondham parish to the south-east.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B676 arterial road east out of Melton Mobray. The road bisects Saxby village.
   
• The stream in the parish feeds into the River Eye.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Much of the parish land was used for paturage.
   
• In this neighborhood, skeletons of men and horses, earthen urns, bridle bits, fibulae and weapons have been found three feet below the soil. These can be seen at Bede House in Melton Mowbray.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK821200 (Lat/Lon: 52.771564, -0.783978), Saxby 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.

Saxby is one of the Thankful Villages, having suffered no casualties from the first World War.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Memorial Plaque on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016.

• This place was an ancient parish of the county and a Civil Parish as well, until 1936.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Framland Hundred in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• In April, 1936, this parish was abolished and all 1,412 acres were amalgamated with Freeby 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
1841	163
1871	126
1881	120
1891	182
1901	134
1911	116
1921	95
1931	89

• The children of this parish attended school at Stapleford.