Place:Goadby, Leicestershire, England

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Goadby is a village and civil parish in the Harborough District of Leicestershire, England, about 8 miles north of Market Harborough. Prior to 1866 it was a township and chapelry in Billesdon ecclesiastical parish. It had a population of 204 according to the 2011 UK census.

Goadby has a Church of England Parish church, St John the Baptist, which is of 13th-Century origin and was extensively renovated in the 19th century.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Goadby from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"GOADBY, a chapelry in Billesdon parish, Leicester; near a branch of the river Welland, 5½ miles N by W of Medbourne-Bridge [railway] station, and 8 NNE of Market-Harborough. Post-town, Billesdon, under Leicester. Real property: £1,860. Population: 134. Houses: 28. The manor belongs to Lord Berners. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Billesdon, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church was restored in 1854."

Research Tips

• The map on the place-page for Billesdon Rural District illustrate the location of the various parishes.
• Victoria County History - Leicestershire - Vol 5, pp6-21 - Parish: Billesdon. (London, 1964) British History Online. University of London.
• 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.