Sewstern, Leicestershire

Historical Description

Sewstern, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Buckminster parish, Leicestershire, 1 mile SSE of Buckminster village. Post town, Grantham; money order and telegraph office, Buckminster. Acreage, 1117; population, 203. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dysart, who is chief landowner. The living is annexed to Buckminster. The church was built in 1842, and is a building of stone consisting of chancel only.

Administration

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

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

Churches

Church of England

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sewstern from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sewstern)

Land and Property

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

Maps

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

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

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

• Leicester Chronicle
• Leicester Journal
• Leicester Daily Mercury
• Leicestershire Mercury
• Leicester Mail