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Description in 1871:
"FREEBY, a chapelry in Melton-Mowbray parish, Leicester; near the river Wreak and the Melton-Mowbray canal, 1 mile NW of Saxby r. station, and 3¼ ENE of Melton-Mowbray. Post town, Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 1,546. Real property, £2,016. Pop., 126. Houses, 26. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Melton-Mowbray, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is old; and there is an Independent chapel."
[John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]
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St. Mary, Freeby, Church of England |
- The parish was in the Waltham sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District until 1935.
- In 1935, the parish was transfered to the Melton and Belvoir 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. |
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1841 | H.O. 107 / 588 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2304 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3297 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2546 |
St. Mary, Freeby, Church of England |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
- The church was thoroughly restored in 1894.
- The church seats 200.
- The church was closed for about six years due to structural issues (Jan. 2010 - 2016).
- Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Church of St. Mary on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2004.
- Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of the Church of St. Mary on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2016.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1604, but consists chiefly of fragments until about 1800.
- The church is in the rural deanery of Framland (third portion).
- The Congregationalists built a chapel here prior to 1881, which had been founded in 1665.
- Andrew TATLOW has a photograph of the United Reformed Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2006.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Waltham sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District until 1935.
- In 1935, the parish was transfered to the Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
Freeby is a village, a chapelry and a township just a mile north of the River Eye, almost 4 miles east of Melton Mowbray and 101 miles north of London. The parish is not far from the border of Rutland county, just north of Stapleford. A stream in the parish feeds the River Eye.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the B676 arterial road east out of Melton Mowbray. Turn left to find Freeby.
- Several streams in the parish feed into the River Eye.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Freeby to another place.
- This place was once a part of Melton Mowbray parish.
- Much of the parish land was used for grazing.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK802200 (Lat/Lon: 52.771647, -0.812669), Freeby 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.
There is a marble and slate tablet that was installed in the parish church in 1919, dedicated to the men who died in the Great War.
- This place was an ancient chapelry and township of the county and a Civil Parish after Dec. 1866.
- The parish was in the ancient Framland Hundred in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
- In 1881, the parish covered 1,546 acres. This was reduced by 1891 to 1,394 acres.
- In April, 1936, this parish was enlarged and amalgamated with the abolition of Bretingby and Wyfordby Civil Parish, Saxby Civil Parish and Stapleford Civil Parish. This added about 5,000 acres to the parish.
- You may contact the Joint Parish Council to discuss civic and political issues, but they can NOT do family history searches for you.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Melton Mowbray petty session hearings.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Melton Mowbray Poorlaw Union.