Place:Burrough on the Hill, Leicestershire, England

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Name	Burrough on the Hill
Alt names	Borrow-on-the-Hill	source: A Vision of Britain through Time
	Burc	source: Domesday Book (1985) p 160
	Burg	source: Domesday Book (1985) p 160
	Burrough	source: Family History Library Catalog
	Burrough-on-the-Hill	source: Family History Library Catalog
	Burrow-on-the-Hill	source: Family History Library Catalog
Type	Parish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates	52.683°N 0.883°W
Located in	Leicestershire, England
See also	Gartree Hundred, Leicestershire, England	hundred in which the parish was included
	Melton Mowbray Rural, Leicestershire, England	rural district of which it was part 1894-1936
	Melton and Belvoir Rural, Leicestershire, England	rural district of which it was part 1936-1974
	Melton District, Leicestershire, England	district municipality covering the area since 1974

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Burrough on the Hill is a small village and civil parish 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Leicester and 7 miles (11 km) south of Melton Mowbray in the county of Leicestershire, England. The parish church is St. Mary Close. Burrough Hill is an Iron Age hill fort near the village. The population of the parish was under 100 at the UK census of 2011 and as a result it is combined into the population of the neighbouring civil parish of Somerby, Leicestershire.

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

"BURROUGH, or Burrow-on-the-Hill, a parish in Melton-Mowbray [registration] district, Leicester; 5½ miles S of Melton-Mowbray [railway] station. It has a post office, of the name of Borrow-on-the-Hill, under Melton-Mowbray. Acres: 1,565. Real property: £2,754. Population: 138. Houses: 28. The property is subdivided. Burrough Hill, called also Cæsar's camp, commands a fine view. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value: £433. Patron: the Rev. G. Burnaby. The church has a figured circular font, a piscina, and the tomb of a Stockden, and is good."

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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.
Victoria County History - Leicestershire - Vol 5, pp61-68 - Parish: Burrough on the Hill. (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.

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Categories: Leicestershire, England | Burrough on the Hill, Leicestershire, England | Gartree Hundred, Leicestershire, England | Melton Mowbray Rural, Leicestershire, England | Melton and Belvoir Rural, Leicestershire, England | Melton District, Leicestershire, England