Sewstern

• 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 was built as a Chapel of Ease in 1842.
   
• An older chapel existed but was destroyed many years before 1842.
   
• The parishioners attended church at Buckminster while waiting for the new chapel to be built.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
   
• The church seats 130.
   
• The church holds a feast on the Sunday after October 10th.
   
• Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of Holy Trinity Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2007.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1538.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Framland (second portion).
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here prior to 1849. A new chapel was built as a replacement in 1904.
   

• 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.
   

Sewstern is a village, a township, a chapelry and a parish 10 miles south of Grantham, 9 miles east-north-east of Melton Mowbray and 123 miles north of London. The parish is in the Wold Hills and is bordered by Gunby parish in Lincoln county to the east and Wymondham parish to the south. The parish covered about 1,200 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B676 arterial road east out of Melton Mobray toward Colsterworth (Lincolnshire). Turn south at Buckminster and go about 1 mile to find Sewstern village.
   
• There is bus service to Sewstern from Melton Mowbray.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2012. You should stop in and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Most of the parish land was held in pasturage. Much of the remaining land was used for small farms.
   
• Small scale iron mining, in open pits, occurred here in the 1800s and early 1900s.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Blue Dog public house on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.
   

Year	Person
1849	Mrs. Ann GRICE
1855	Richard GRICE
1861	Richard GRICE, vict.
1881	Thomas GRICE
1912	Arthur DYER
1925	Henry ARMSTRONG

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK892218 (Lat/Lon: 52.786414, -0.678812), Sewstern 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.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the War Memrorial cross on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016.

From the War Memorial:

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in the parish of Buckminster and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Framland Hundred in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• On 24 March, 1884, the parish was reduced in size with parcels going to Buckminster Civil Parish.
   
• On 1 April, 1936, Sewstern Civil Parish was abolished and the remining 1,117 acres went to Buckminster Civil Parish.
   
• See Buckminster Civil Parish for local and district governance links.
   

• 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	202
1861	307
1871	232
1881	201
1891	203
1901	167
1911	189
1921	222
1931	241

• A Council School was built here around 1860, enlarged in 1873 and rebuilt in 1898. It could hold 120 children.
   
• The children of this chapelry/parish attended the National School at Buckminster.
   
• The school lies on the border between Sewstern and Buckminster.