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Description in 1871:
"BEEBY, a parish in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicester; on an affluent of the river Wreak, 4 miles SE of Syston r. station, and 5½ NE of Leicester. Post Town, Hungarton, under Leicester. Acres, 1,020. Real property, £2,620. Pop., 119. Houses, 26. The property is divided among a few. Beeby House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £282. Patron, Earl Shaftesbury. The church is good."
[John Marius WILSON's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-1872]

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Census

  • Beeby was in the Syston subdistrict of the Barrow-on-Soar registration district.
     
  • The 1851 census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1861R.G. 9 / 2282
1871R.G. 10 / 3267
1891R.G. 12 / 2523
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Church History

  • The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
     
  • The date of the original structure is uncertain.
     
  • The original church tower is incomplete.
     
  • The church nave was rebuilt in the 15th century.
     
  • The chancel screen, dating from about 1355, was restored in 1894.
     
  • The church was restored in 1867.
     
  • The church seats 100.
     
  • Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of All Saints' Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2007.
     
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Church Records

  • The Anglican parish register dates from 1538.
     
  • The church was in the rural deanery of Goscote (first portion).
     
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Civil Registration

  • Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
     
  • Beeby was in the Syston subdistrict of the Barrow-on-Soar registration district.
     
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Description & Travel

Beeby is a village and a parish in eastern Leicestershire. The parish is 100 miles north of London, 4.5 miles southeast of Syston, and 6 miles east-north-east from Leicester city. The parish covers 1,435 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

  • By automobile, there are several approaches off either the A46 or A47 out of Leicester city.
     
You can see pictures of Beeby which are provided by:

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Gazetteers

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Manors

  • There is mention of a Manor House in the Directories of 1881 and 1912, but no discriptions.
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Maps

  • See our Maps page for additional resources.
     

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK663082 (Lat/Lon: 52.667468, -1.021043), Beeby which are provided by:

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Military History

There is a plaque mounted in the church that notes that the rails have been erected by the parishioners of Beeby in memory of the dead from World War One.

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Politics & Government

  • This place was an ancient parish in Leicester county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
     
  • The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the eastern division of the county.
     
  • The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish COuncil and they hold periodic Parish Meetings of the entire citizenry to discuss civic and political matters of interest..
     
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Leicester petty session hearings.
     
  • As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Barrow-upon-Soar Poor Law Union.
     
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Population

 YearInhabitants
1831120
1841115
1871114
1881108
190193
191195
192198
193197
1961104
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Schools

  • Thomas STEVENSON left £20 in 1820 for the education of poor boys in the parish.
     
  • The children of this parish attended school in Barkby's Public Elementary School, about 2 miles to the west.
     
  • A few children of this parish attended school in Keyham parish, about 1 mile to the south.