Thringstone

• The parish was in the Whitwick sub-district of the Ashby de la Zouch 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 is dedicated to Saint Andrew.
   
• The church's ecclesiastical parish was formed on 19 October, 1875, out of Whitwick, Thringstone and Swannington.
   
• The church was built in Thringstone Chapelry in 1862 of local stone.
   
• The church seats 220.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1862.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of South Akeley.
   
• A Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built here before 1912.
   
• The Primitive Methodist Chapel was also built here before 1912.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Whitwick sub-district of the Ashby de la Zouch Registration District.
   

Thringstone was a Chapelry and was a parish until 1936, and is a village and a township about 7 miles south-east of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 10 miles north-west of Leicester. The parish covered about 872 acres.

Thringstone was one of five Chapelries and townships that made up Whitwick parish. If you are planning a visit:

• The village is now a suburb of Coalville. By automobile, take the A50 trunk road northwest out of Leicester city, or take the A512 arterial west out of Loughborough.

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

• The coal has long been mined-out in the parish.

• Thringstone Hall was the residence of Breedon Newland EVERARD esq. in 1912.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK428176 (Lat/Lon: 52.754325, -1.367293), Thringstone 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.

• Long a Chapelry in Whitwick parish, the area was formed as a Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the ancient West Gosctoe Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In 1885, the parish was reduced to enlarge Coleorton Civil Parish with the area known as "Rotten Row".
   
• Thringstone Civil Parish was abolished in April, 1936. 482 acres went to Osgathorpe C.P., 142 acres went to Coalville C.P., 98 acres went to Coleorton C.P., 70 acres went to Swannington C.P., 68 acres went to Belton C.P., and 12 acres went to Worthington C.P.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Ashby de la Zouch petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Ashby de la Zouch Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1851	1,298
1861	1,404
1871	1,402
1881	1,238
1891	911
1901	1,238
1911	1,279
1921	1,447
1931	1,566

• A Public Elementary School was built here in the village and enlarged in 1908 to hold 267 children.
   
• A Public Elementary School was built here at Peggs Green in 1853 to hold 120 children and 70 infants.