Goadby, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Goadby, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Billes-don parish, Leicestershire, near a branch of the river Welland, 3 miles NW from Hallaton station on the G.N & L.N.W. Joint railway, and 8 NNE of Market-Harborough. Post town, Tugby, under Leicester; money order office, Billesdon; telegraph office, East Norton. Acreage, 961; population, 93. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Billesdon, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint gross yearly value, £279 with residence. The church, a cruciform Gothic building of stone, was restored in 1854.
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 | Billesdon | |
Hundred | Gartree | |
Poor Law union | Billesdon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1700.
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Goadby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1745-1910 | 1759-1939 | 1705-1931 | 1745-1990 |
Churches
Church of England
St. John (parish church)
The church of St. John, restored about 1854, is a cruciform building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, aisles and a western turret containing one bell: the chancel retains a piscina and the east window is stained: there are 130 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Goadby 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 Goadby 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: