| Name | Sewstern |
| Alt names | Sewesten | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 162 |
| Type | Chapelry, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.783°N 0.683°W |
| Located in | Leicestershire, England ( - 1936) |
| See also | Framland Hundred, Leicestershire, England | hundred in which the parish was included | | Buckminster, Leicestershire, England | parish of which it was a chapelry until 1866 | | Melton Mowbray Rural, Leicestershire, England | rural district of which it was part 1894-1936 | | Buckminster, Leicestershire, England | parish into which it was absorbed in 1936 | | Melton District, Leicestershire, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Sewstern from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "SEWSTERN, a chapelry in Buckminster parish, Leicester; 1 mile S S E of [Buckminster] village, and 5¼ E N E of Saxby [railway] station. Post-town: Colsterworth [Lincolnshire], under Grantham. Real property: £2,424. Population: 307. Houses: 67. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dysart. The living is annexed to Buckminster. The church was built in 1842; and there is a Wesleyan chapel."
Sewstern is now a hamlet in the Melton District of Leicestershire, England. Prior to 1866 it was a chapelry in Buckminster parish; in 1866 it became a civil parish in its own right. Between 1894 and 1936 it was part of Melton Mowbray Rural District. In 1936 it was absorbed into the neighbouring parish of Buckminster.
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.
Categories: Leicestershire, England | Sewstern, Leicestershire, England | Framland Hundred, Leicestershire, England | Buckminster, Leicestershire, England | Melton Mowbray Rural, Leicestershire, England | Melton and Belvoir Rural, Leicestershire, England | Melton District, Leicestershire, England |
