Wartnaby

• The parish was in the Melton Mowbray sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transfered to the Melton and Belvoir 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 Michael and All Angels.
   
• The church dates from the 13th century.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1843.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored again in 1948-50.
   
• The church seats 80.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Church of St Michael and All Angels on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2006.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Church interior on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2015.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1633.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Framland (third division).
   
• The Baptist chapel was founded in 1780 and erected in 1847.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1845.
   

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

Wartnaby is a village, a township and a parish which lie about 112 miles north of London and 4 miles northwest of Melton Mobray. The parish covers 749 acres, most of which was pasture for sheep and cattle. Some of the land was used for growing corn and root crops.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A606 motor road northwest out of Melton Mobray, heading for Nottingham.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2015.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The parish sits on an old Roman Road between Barrow upon Soar and Grantham in Lincolnshire.
   
• Ironstone was found and lightly mined in this parish.
   

• Wartnaby Hall was the seat of Brev.-Major George T. M. BRIDGES in 1912.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK711233 (Lat/Lon: 52.80258, -0.946812), Wartnaby 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.

• The parish is in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the mid division of the county.
   
• Wartnaby parish and township were formed as a parish out of Rothley.
   
• In 1884, a detached part of this parish was amalgamated with Holywell parish to the east.
   
• The Ab Kettleby parish council serves the people of this parish and Holwell parish also.
   
• District governance is provided by the Melton Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Melton Mowbray petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Melton Mowbray Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	77
1811	80
1821	90
1831	86
1841	107
1851	123
1901	86
1931	99

• The children of this parish attended school in Ab Kettleby.