Name | Brentingby and Wyfordby |
Alt names | Bretingby and Wyfordby | source: A Vision of Britain through Time |
Type | Civil parish |
Coordinates | 52.75°N 0.84°W |
Located in | Leicestershire, England |
See also | Framland Hundred, Leicestershire, England | hundred of which it was a part | | Melton Mowbray Rural, Leicestershire, England | rural district of which it was part 1894-1935 | | Freeby, Leicestershire, England | civil parish into which it was merged in 1936 | | Melton and Belvoir Rural, Leicestershire, England | rural district of which it was part 1935-1974 | | Melton District, Leicestershire, England | district 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.
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
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.
Categories: Leicestershire, England | Brentingby and Wyfordby, Leicestershire, England | Framland Hundred, Leicestershire, England | Melton Mowbray Rural, Leicestershire, England | Freeby, Leicestershire, England | Melton District, Leicestershire, England
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