Place:Brentingby and Wyfordby, Leicestershire, England

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NameBrentingby and Wyfordby
Alt namesBretingby and Wyfordbysource: A Vision of Britain through Time
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates52.75°N 0.84°W
Located inLeicestershire, England
See alsoFramland Hundred, Leicestershire, Englandhundred of which it was a part
Melton Mowbray Rural, Leicestershire, Englandrural district of which it was part 1894-1935
Freeby, Leicestershire, Englandcivil parish into which it was merged in 1936
Melton and Belvoir Rural, Leicestershire, Englandrural district of which it was part 1935-1974
Melton District, Leicestershire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
source: Family History Library Catalog
source: Family History Library Catalog


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

"WYFORDBY, a parish in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; on the Syston and Peterborough railway, 2¼ miles E of Melton-Mowbray. Post town: Melton-Mowbray. Acres: 1,350. Real property: £2,034. Population: 144. Houses: 26. The manor belongs to Sir W. E. Hartopp, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value: £193. Patron: Sir W. E. Hartopp, Bart. The church is of the 13th century. There is a national school."

Wyfordby was an ancient parish and Brentingby or Bretingby was a chapelry in the parish. The joint civil parish of Brentingby and Wyfordby was absorbed into the parish of Freeby in 1936. Wikipedia includes both Brentingby and Wyfordby in its list of "deserted medieval villages" in Leicestershire. The two individual entries have been redirected here.

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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.

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Maps on the place-pages for Belvoir Rural District and Melton and Belvoir Rural District illustrate the location of the various parishes and the geographical and administrative changes that occurred in 1936.

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