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Cosby, Leicestershire

Historical Description

Cosby, a village and a parish in Leicestershire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Soar, near the M.R. and the Fosse Way, 1 mile NNE of Broughton Astley railway station, and 7 miles SSW of Leicester, under which is the post office; money order and telegraph office, Narborough. The parish includes also part of the village of Little Thorpe. Acreage, 2318; population of the civil parish, 1161; of the ecclesiastical, 1073. A number of the inhabitants are framework knitters. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; value, £100. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLeicestershire 
Ecclesiastical parishCosby St. Michael 
HundredGuthlaxton 
Poor Law unionBlaby 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The parish register dates from 1557, and is in good condition.

Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Cosby:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1557-19081655-19401557-19211557-1900

Churches

Church of England

St. Michael and All Angels (parish church)

The church of St. Michael and All Angels is a building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, with traces of Norman and Early English work, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisle, north porch of red, brick and an embattled western Perpendicular tower with a Decorated spire: there are three stained windows, one being a memorial to the Armston family: the communion plate includes an ancient chalice of about the year 1560: in 1920 a tablet was placed in the church as a memorial to the men of the parish who fell in the Great War: there are 200 sittings.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Cosby from the following:


Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.


Maps

Online maps of Cosby are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online:

DistrictBlaby
CountyLeicestershire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLE9
Post TownLeicester

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