| Name | Coston |
| Alt names | Castone | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 160 |
| Type | Parish (ancient), Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.8°N 0.75°W |
| Located in | Leicestershire, England ( - 1936) |
| See also | Framland Hundred, Leicestershire, England | hundred in which the parish was included | | Melton Mowbray Rural, Leicestershire, England | rural district of which it was part 1894-1935 | | Garthorpe, Leicestershire, England | civil parish into which it was absorbed in 1936 | | Melton District, Leicestershire, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Coston from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "COSTON, a parish in Melton-Mowbray [registration] district, Leicester; on an affluent of the river Wreak, 3¾ miles NE of Saxby [railway] station, and 7 ENE of Melton-Mowbray. It has a post office under Melton-Mowbray. Acres: 1,745. Real property: £2,556. Population: 179. Houses: 31. The property is divided among a few. Coston House is the seat of the Phelps. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value: £334. Patron: the Lord Chancellor. The church is neat, and was recently restored."
In 1936 Coston was absorbed into the neighbouring civil parish of Garthorpe.
Local Administration
The parish was part of Melton Mowbray Rural District from 1894 until 1935 when the rural district was abolished and replaced by the Melton and Belvoir Rural District which covered a larger area. A year after the introduction of the new rural district its parishes were reorganized and reduced in number from 68 to 25.
In 1974 a new nationwide organization of local government was introduced in which rural and urban districts were replaced by "non-metropolitan" districts. In the northeast of Leicestershire this meant little save for the fact that the principal town of Melton Mowbray, formerly a separate urban district, was now governed by the same body (Melton District or Borough) as the rural area that surrounded it.
Research Tips
- The map on the place-page for Melton Mowbray Rural District illustrates the location of the various parishes and the geographical and administrative changes that occurred in 1936.
- From this Findmypast page you can browse the Leicestershire parishes which have parish register transcripts online.
- From this Ancestry page you can browse the Leicestershire parishes which have parish register transcripts online.
- For both of the above sites, a subscription is charged. Transcriptions of these records may also be available free of charge on the FamilySearch website.
- A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Leicestershire.
Categories: Leicestershire, England | Coston, Leicestershire, England | Framland Hundred, Leicestershire, England | Melton Mowbray Rural, Leicestershire, England | Garthorpe, Leicestershire, England | Melton District, Leicestershire, England |
