Plungar

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Lych Gate and Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.

Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of the Chest tomb of the Smith family on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.

• The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham 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:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen.
   
• The church dates from the 14th century.
   
• The church was repaired in 1829.
   
• The church was restored in 1856.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of St. Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2005.
   
• The church is a grade II listed structure with English Heritage.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1754.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Framland (first portion).
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chapel here in the early 1900s.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the former Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2012. It is no longer a religious house and has been converted into a residence.

   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
   

Plungar is both a parish and a village about 100 miles north of London and lies in the Vale of Belvoir. The county boundary of Nottingham lies to the West. The town of Grantham is 9 miles to the east, Melton Mobray is 10 miles to the south. The parish covered about 973 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• The village is north-west off of the A607 trunk road between Grantham and Melton Mobray.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2012. We urge you to stop by and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Plungar to another place.

• In the early 1900s the making of Stilton Cheese was the principal industry here.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of The Anchor Inn on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2005.
   

• The national grid reference is SK 7734..
   
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK769340 (Lat/Lon: 52.897953, -0.858278), Plungar which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

The War Memorial is a obelisk on a three-step base, with a sword on each face of the plinth.  The memorial is on Harby Road

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the War Memorial at Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.

Mat FASCIONE also has a photograph of the War Memorial at Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.

RAF Plungar was actually a little to the west of the parish in the neighbouring county of Nottinghamshire.  A plaque at Plungar is dedicated to the crew of six of an Avro Lancaster bomber which crashed near Plungar in 1943.

Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Memorial information board for the Lancaser bomber on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013.

• This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the Framland Hundred (or Wapentake) in the eastern portion of Leicestershire.
   
• The parish was in the Melton district of Leicestershire.
   
• In 1936 the adjoining civil parishes of Barkestone-le-Vale and Redmile were merged into Plungar, and the parish is sometimes known as Barkestone and Redmile.
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT funded to help you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by The Melton Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Belvoir petty session hearings on the first Monday of every month.
   
• Daniel SMITH's charity (undated) would provide 300 yards of calico cloth annually to the poor.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	157
1821	203
1841	280
1871	224
1881	252
1891	224
1901	194

• The children of this parish attended school in Barkstone.