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.
Ancient County | Leicestershire | |
Civil parish | Buckminster | |
Hundred | Framland | |
Poor Law union | Melton-Mowbray |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Churches
Church of England
Sewstern Chapel
The chapel of ease here, erected in 1842, is a building of stone, consisting of chancel and a western turret. containing one bell: there are 130 sittings. The services are conducted by the vicar of Buckminster.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sewstern 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 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: