Ragdale, Rakedale, or Wreakdale, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Ragdale, Rakedale, or Wreakdale, a village and a parish in Leicestershire, on the Wolds, near the Fosse Way, 2½ miles N by W of Brooksby station on the Syston and Peterborough branch of the M.R., and 6 W by N of Melton Mowbray. Post town, Hoby, under Leicester; money order office, Kearsby; telegraph office, Brooksby railway station. Acreage of parish, 1447; population, 104. The manor belongs to the Duchess of Sforza-Cesarini, who is also sole landowner. Ragdale Old Hall was the seat of Earl Ferrers, and is now a farmhouse. The New Hall is the seat of the Pennington family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £50. Patron, the Duchess of Sforza-Cesarini. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, S porch, and a low western tower. The churchyard contains a stone cross.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Leicestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Ragdale All Saints | |
Hundred | East Goscote | |
Poor Law union | Melton-Mowbray |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
We have transcribed Phillimore Marriages volume 2, which includes Ragdale 1668-1837
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Ragdale:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1668-1812 | 1754-1810 | 1669-1836 | 1668-1812 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Ragdale, Rakedale, or Wreakdale from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ragdale (All Saints))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Ragdale, Rakedale, or Wreakdale 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: