Thrussington, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Thrussington, a parish, with a village, in Leicestershire, on the river Wreake, half a mile N of Rearsby station on the Syston and Peterborough branch of the M.R., and 7¼ miles WSW of Melton Mowbray. It has a post office under Leicester; money order and telegraph office, Rearsby. Acreage, 2033; population, 489. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £180 with residence. The church is an edifice of stone chiefly in the Transitional style from Early English to Decorated, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles. There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.
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 | Thrussington Holy Trinity | |
Hundred | East Goscote | |
Poor Law union | Barrow-upon-Soar |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
We have transcribed Phillimore Marriages volume 2, which includes Thrussington 1660-1812
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Thrussington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1661-1916 | 1754-1894 | 1661-1931 | 1661-1886 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Thrussington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thrussington (Holy Trinity))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Thrussington 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: