Saxby, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Saxby, a parish, with a pleasant village, in Leicestershire, on the river Eye and the Syston and Peterborough and Kettering and Nottingham branches of the M.R., 4½ miles E by N of Melton Mowbray. It has a station on the railway, and its post town is Melton Mowbray; money order office, Wymondham; telegraph office, railway station. Acreage, 1412; population of the civil parish, 182; of the ecclesiastical, with Stapleford, 307. Ancient weapons, earthen urns, bridle bits, fibulas, and other relics have been found, some of which are preserved in the Bede House, Melton Mowbray. The living is a rectory, united with Stapleford, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint gross value, £160 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1789, and is a building of stone in the Italian style, consisting of chancel, nave, and a western tower with spire.
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 | Saxby St. Peter | |
Hundred | Framland | |
Poor Law union | Melton-Mowbray |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Saxby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1679-1916 | 1754-1915 | 1680-1930 | 1678-1981 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Saxby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Saxby (St. Peter))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Saxby 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: