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Grimston, Leicestershire

Historical Description

Grimston, a parish in Leicestershire, on the Wolds, 5 miles WNW from Melton Mowbray. It has a station on the Melton and Nottingham branch of the M.R. Post town and money order office, Melton Mowbray; telegraph office, at the railway station. Acreage, 1064; population of the civil parish, 1064; of the ecclesiastical, with Wartnaby, 286. The living is a vicarage, in union with Wartnaby, in the diocese of Peterborough; gross income, £107. Patron, the Vicar of Rothby. The church is an ancient building of stone, partly in the Early English style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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 parishGrimstone St. John 
HundredEast Goscote 
Poor Law unionMelton-Mowbray 

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


Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1635.

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

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1619-18121751-19401637-18371619-1812

Churches

Church of England

St. John (parish church)

The church of St. John is an ancient building of stone, partly in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, south transept, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 3 bells, two of which are respectively dated 1749 and 1780: the church was restored in 1866, and has 160 sittings: the roof fell in 1895, but was handsomely restored.


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 Grimston 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 Grimston 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:

DistrictMelton
CountyLeicestershire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLE14
Post TownMelton Mowbray

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