Thrussington

• The parish was in the Barrow-upon-Soar sub-district of the Barrow-upon-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 and Volume 13 covers the Barrow on Soar sub-district.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to The Holy Trinity.
• The church was built around the 14th century.
• The church was repaired in 1836.
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1877, including the tower.
• The church seats 250.
• Andrew TATLOW has a nighttime photograph of Holy Trinity Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2006.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1660. Earlier registers have been lost.
• The church was in the rural deanery of Goscote (second portion).
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here by 1849.
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel here by 1849.
• The Baptists had a chapel here by 1849.

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

Thrussington is a village and a parish which lie about 111 miles north of London, 7.5 miles southwest of Melton Mobray and 9 miles northeast of Leicester. Hoby parish lies to the east and Seagrave parish lies to the northwest.

The village lies just east of the ancient Fossway (now called the A46). The River Wreake passes just south of the village, If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A46 north out of Leicester and take the A607 to the right (east). At Rearsby turn left and cross the Wreake River into Thrussington.

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

• Much of the parish land was used for pasturage.
• Parish workers were largely small-plot farmers.

• The author of this web page could find no mention of a Manor House or Hall in his sources.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK648159 (Lat/Lon: 52.736859, -1.041706), Thrussington 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.

• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the War Memorial on the green on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2008.

• The parish is in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
• This place was an ancient parish of Leicestershire and a Civil Parish as well.
• In 1881 the parish covered 2,200 acres. This was reduced to 2,033 acres by 1891 which remained unchanged through 1961.

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

Year	Inhabitants
1841	645
1871	624
1881	604
1891	489
1901	456
1911	445
1921	494
1931	522
1951	469
1961	392

• A Public Elementary School (National School) was built before 1849 and enlarged in 1870 for 113 children.