South Croxton

"The Willows Natural Burial Ground" is 8 miles north east of Leicester City centre on South Croxton Road, just north of the village. There is no office at the burial grounds. Contact information is on their website.

Tim HEATON has a photograph of The Willows Natural Burial Ground on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2016.
 

• South Croxton was in the Syston sub-district of the Barrow-on-Soar 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 and Volume 23 covers the Syston subdistrict of which the parish is a part.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
   
• There was an earlier church, probably Saxon, on or near the church construction site.
   
• The date of the second structure is reported as "just before 1090".
   
• The date of the current structure is sometime in the 14th century.
   
• The tower has been dated to 1355.
   
• On June 4th 1936 the tower was struck by lightning. Within the same year repairs to the tower were carried out, and a plaque in the tower commemorates this achievement.
   
• The church seats 157.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of St. John The Baptist Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2007.
   
• Ashley DACE has a photograph of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2011.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1662 but is incomplete.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Goscote (first portion).
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel built here in 1857.
   

• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   
• South Croxton was in the Syston sub-district of the Barrow-on-Soar registration district.
   

South Croxton is a village and a parish in Charnwood district of Leicestershire. The parish is 100 miles north of London, 9 miles southwest of Melton Mowbray, 5 miles from Syston, and 9 miles north-east from Leicester city. The parish lies on the Queniborough Brook (also known as the Croxton Stream) and covers 1,663 acres. This parish was largely grazing land in the 1800s. Barsby parish lies to the northeast and Beeby parish to the southwest.

In 1995, the last farm shop in the village closed. There are no local shops unless you go to Gaddesby. The village has a playing field with a slide and a single football goal. The village lies on a hill, below the 14th century church. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, probably the simplest route is to head east out of Syston.
   
• And don't pass up the village photographs at Flickr.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of the Queens Golden Jubilee Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Golden Fleece public house on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012.
   
• These are the names associated with the Golden Fleece Inn in various directories:
   

• Baggrave Hall (sometimes spelled Bargrave) is a mile outside of Croxton to the southeast. In 1848 it was the seat of Captain (later General) E. S. BURNABY.
   
• In 1861, Edwyn BURNABY resided in Baggrave Hall.
   
• Stephen RICHARDS has a photograph of Baggrave Hall on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2003.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK691102 (Lat/Lon: 52.685095, -0.979227), South Croxton 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 1878, Edwyn Sherard BURNABY was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 1st Leicestershire Rifle Volunteer Corps. This Corps went on to become the parent unit of the Territorial Army battalions of the Leicestershire Regiment, which served on the Western Front during World War I. BURNABY, however, died on 31 May 1883 in Brighton.

The War Memorial is a Celtic style cross with sloping plinth in the Churchyard.

• This place was an ancient parish in Leicester county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the northern division of the county.
   
• On 24 March, 1884, this parish lost a parcel of land to Barsby Civil Parish, but gained the "Barsby Lodge" area of that same parish. Net loss 97 acres.
   
• You can contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they do NOT have the staff or resources to help you with family history searches.

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Leicester petty session hearings.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1794.
   
• In 1802, four small tenements for the poor were purchases with money left by Henry MOWBRAY.
   
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Mount Sorrel Poor Law Union.
   
• Around 1850 the Mount Sorrel Poor Law Union became a part of the Barrow-upon-Soar Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1831	315
1841	297
1871	296
1881	251
1891	234
1901	222
1911	211
1921	200
1931	221

• In 1861, Ann MORLEY was the schoolmistress in this parish.
   
• A local School Board was formed in January, 1881. It was reformed under the control of the Leicester County Coucnil in July, 1903.
   
• A Public Elementary School was built in 1884 to hold 60 children.