Name | Twyford |
Alt names | Taiworde | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 163 | | Tuiuorde | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 163 |
Type | Parish (ancient), Civil parish |
Coordinates | 52.683°N 0.933°W |
Located in | Leicestershire, England ( - 1936) |
See also | East Goscote Hundred, Leicestershire, England | hundred in which the parish was included | | Melton Mowbray Rural, Leicestershire, England | rural district of which it was part 1894-1936 | | Twyford and Thorpe, Leicestershire, England | civil 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
NOTE: There are 5 other places in England with the name Twyford. They can be confused, especially in families who move about over the generations.
|
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Twyford from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "TWYFORD, a parish, with a village and a chapelry, in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; 6 miles SSW of Melton-Mowbray [railway] station. Post town: Melton-Mowbray. Acres: 2,420. Real property: £4,539 Population: 543. Houses: 114. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Hungerton [Lincolnshire]. The church was restored in 1849. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £34."
Twyford in Leicestershire, England was an ancient parish and a civil parish until 1936. It was located south of Melton Mowbray. The parish covers just over 1,200 acres, most of which was pasture for sheep and cattle. (Source:GENUKI)
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 | Twyford, Leicestershire, England | East Goscote Hundred, Leicestershire, England | Melton Mowbray Rural, Leicestershire, England | Twyford and Thorpe, Leicestershire, England | Melton District, Leicestershire, England
|