Place:Thorpe Satchville, Leicestershire, England

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NameThorpe Satchville
Alt namesThorpe-Satchvillesource: Family History Library Catalog (hypenated)
TypeTownship, Civil parish
Coordinates52.692°N 0.921°W
Located inLeicestershire, England     ( - 1936)
See alsoEast Goscote Hundred, Leicestershire, Englandhundred in which the parish was included
Twyford, Leicestershire, Englandcivil parish in which it was a chapelry until 1866
Melton Mowbray Rural, Leicestershire, Englandrural district of which it was part 1894-1936
Twyford and Thorpe, Leicestershire, Englandcivil parish into which it was absorbed in 1936
Melton District, Leicestershire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
source: Family History Library Catalog

Thorpe Satchville in Leicestershire, England was a chapelry in the parish of Twyford until 1866 when it became a civil parish. It was located south of Melton Mowbray. In 1936 it merged with Twyford to become part of the civil parish of Twyford and Thorpe.

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

"THORPE-SATCHVILLE, a chapelry in Twyford parish, Leicester; 5 miles S by W of Melton-Mowbray [railway] station. Post town, Melton-Mowbray. Acres: 4,278. Real property: £2,116. Population: 171. Houses: 38. The property is much subdivided. The living is annexed to Hungerton [Lincolnshire]."

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.