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.

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:

Churches

Church of England

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Goadby from the following:

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

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:

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