Thurmaston South

The Thurmaston Community Library in Silverdale Drive is a branch of the Leicester County Council Library System. It is open 5 days each week (verify by phone if you are visiting).

An Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery was found in the parish in 1954. 119 urns and a shield boss were recovered from the site.

Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of the Civil Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2006.

• South Thurmaston was in the Syston subdistrict 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.
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The date of the original structure is uncertain.
   
• The original church tower is incomplete.
   
• The church nave was rebuilt in the 15th century.
   
• The chancel screen, dating from about 1355, was restored in 1894.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• David KELLY has a photograph of St Michael & All Angels Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1538.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Goscote (first portion).
   

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

South Thurmaston is a village and a parish in eastern Leicestershire. The parish is 100 miles north of London, 4.5 miles southeast of Syston, and 6 miles east-north-east from Leicester city. The parish covers 1,435 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, there are several approaches off either the A46 or A47 out of Leicester city.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Ian S. has a photograph of the Top House Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Leicester Marina on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017.
   

• There is mention of a Manor House in the Directories of 1881 and 1912, but no discriptions.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK614086 (Lat/Lon: 52.671639, -1.093416), Thurmaston South 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.

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Leicester county and it was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the eastern division of the county.
   
• The Civil Parish of Thurmaston South was abolished in September, 1903, to create Thurmaston Civil Parish.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Leicester petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Barrow-upon-Soar Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1871	114
1881	108
1901	93
1911	95
1921	98
1931	97
1951	109
1961	104

• Thomas STEVENSON left £20 in 1820 for the education of poor boys in the parish.
   
• The children of this parish attended school in Barkby's Public Elementary School, about 2 miles to the west.
   
• A few children of this parish attended school in Keyham parish, about 1 mile to the south.