Thorpe Arnold

• The parish was in the Waltham sub-district of the Melton Mowbray 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.
   
• 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 Mary the Virgin.
   
• The church was probably built in the 13th century.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1876.
   
• The church seats 120.
   
• Bill HENDERSON has a photograph of The Church of St. Mary The Virgin on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012.
   
• And Mat FASCIONE also has a photograph of St. Mary The Virgin Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Framland (third portion).
   

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

Thorpe Arnold is a village, a township and was a parish which lies 116 miles north of London and just under 2 miles north-east of Melton Mowbray. The River Eye passes through the parish.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A607 arterial road north-east out of Melton Mowbray. You will pass through the heart of the village.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

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• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK770201 (Lat/Lon: 52.773011, -0.860067), Thorpe Arnold 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 parish was an "ancient parish" of Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the Framland Hundred (Wapentake) in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• Prior to 1936, the parish covered 1,788 acres.
   
• On 1st April, 1936, the parish of Thorpe Arnold was abolished. 401 acres went to Melton Mowbray Civil Parish and the remaining 1,387 acres went to Waltham Civil Parish.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Melton Mowbray petty session hearings.
   
• In 1834 PEACH's charity was established with £1,500. The interest was partly applied to bread for the poor and partly for educational purposes.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Melton Mowbray Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1841	134
1871	147
1881	147
1891	133
1901	117
1911	119
1921	133
1931	128

• An Endowed School was built here in 1861 and was enlarged in 1887 for 49 children.