Thurlaston

• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of All Saints lychgate on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2008.
   

• The parish was in the Enderby sub-district of the Blaby 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. Volume 4 covers the Enderby sub-district.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church was restored in 1850 and the church tower was restored in 1898.
   
• The church seats 270.
   
• Jonathan BILLINGER has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.
   
• John SALMON also has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2016.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1588.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Guthlaxton.
   
• The Baptist chapel was founded in 1814.
   
• There is a small Catholic domestic chapel attached to Normanton Hall.
   
• Peter MacKENZIE has a photograph of the Evangelical Free Church Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2017. This used to be the Baptist Chapel.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Enderby sub-district of the Blaby Registration District.
   

Thurlaston is a village, a township and a parish which lie about 7 miles south-west of Leicester and 3 miles north-west of Narborough. The parish covers about 2,575 acres and includes the hamlet of Normanton Turville.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, Thurlaston lies just north of the M69 motorway about 7 miles outside of Leicester city.
   
• Read about the Thurlaston Wood at the Woodland Trust site.
   
• Be sure to visit the Thurlaston village website.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Find a copy of "The History Of Thurlaston, Leicestershire", by John Ordish HULME, 2009, 176 pages, ISBN-13: 9781104426200.
   
• Thurlaston's village hall celebrated its eightieth year in 2008.
   
• Tim GLOVER has a photograph of the Elephant and Castle Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2016.
   

• Normanton Hall was the seat of Major William WORSLEY-WORSWICK, J.P. in 1912.
   
• The major would lose a son in World War I. 2nd Lieutenant Basil Henry WORSLEY-WORSWICK of the 2nd King Edward's Horse would die on 29 Apr 1916, aged 35, during the Irish Easter Rebellion.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP502991 (Lat/Lon: 52.587394, -1.260472), Thurlaston 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.

There is a World War I memorial metal plaque that was mounted in the parish church in 1924. There are nine names listed on the plaque.

Mounted just below the plaque above is a small, long and thin wooden board with short inscription to commemorate Jack SMITH, who died in the Korean conflict.

• The parish is in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the western division of the county.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Sparkenhoe (Market Bosworth) petty session hearings each week, alternating between Hinckley and Market Bosworth.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Blaby Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	364
1811	487
1841	694
1851	796
1901	526
1971	552

• A Public Elementary School was built here in 1853 on Desford Road to hold 120 children.