Keyham or Keame, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Keyham or Keame, a township-chapelry or dependency of the vicarage of Rothley, 8 miles distant from that place, on an affluent of the river Soarly mile NW from Ingarsby station on the G.N.R., and 6 miles E by N from Leicester. Post town, Leicester; money order office. New Humberstone; telegraph office, Ingarsby. Acreage, 943; population, 137. The manor belongs to the Merthens family. The church is an ancient building in the Early English style.
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 | Rothley | |
Hundred | East Goscote | |
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 1574.
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Keyham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1563-1916 | 1755-1931 | 1568-1930 | 1563-1991 |
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is a small but ancient edifice, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 3 bells, dated 1705 and 1784; during the gale of 24 March, 1895, the four pinnacles were blown down and considerably damaged the roof: in 1898 a memorial window was placed in the church to Mr. Roger Miles, and an organ chamber and chancel screen erected by T. A. Cook esq. at a cost of £120: there are 124 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Keyham or Keame 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 Keyham or Keame 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: