Garthorpe

Extract from Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire, Leicester & Rutland and Derbyshire, 1881

GARTHORPE, is a small village and parish, in the Northern division of the county, Framland hundred, Melton Mowbray union and county court district, rural deanery of Framland second portion, archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough, 3 miles north-east from Saxby station, 118 from London by rail and 53/4 east-north-east from Melton Mowbray. Garthorpe is a parcel of the honour of Leicester. The small river Eye runs through the parish and turns a mill. The church of St. Mary is a stone building, partly in the Early English and partly in the Decorated style ; it consist of chancel, nave aisles, porch and has a square embattled tower, with crocketed pinnacles and 3 bells, two of which are dated 1600 and 1608. The register dates from the year 1568. The living is a discharged vicarage, yearly value £150, with residence and 25 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Dysart and held by the Rev. Henry Cautley Holmes M.A. of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. Here is a Sunday school. The Earl of Dysart is lord of the manor and owner of all of the parish. The soil is moorish clay ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are grass, wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area is 1,635 acres ; rateable value, £1,745 ; the population in 1881 was 120.
Parish Clerk, Thomas Mackley.
WALL LETTER BOX cleared at 4.15 p.m. week days only.
Letters through Melton Mowbray, which is the nearest money order office.
Clerk to the School Board, Rev. R. M. Rendell M.A.
Board School (mixed), for this parish & Coston, Miss Sarah Jones, mistress.

Extract from The Parliamentary Gazetteer
of
England and Wales (1840 - 1843)

GARTHORPE, a parish in the hund. Of Framland, union of Melton-Mowbray, county of Leicester ; 5½ miles east-north-east of Melton-Mowbray. Living a discharged vicarage, formerly in the archd. Of Leicester and dio. Of Lincoln, now in the dio. Of Peterborough ; rated at £7 5s. 2d. ; gross income £140. Tithes commuted in 1839 ; aggregate amount £169 4s. vivarial ; and £230 impropriated. Patron, in 1835, Lord Huntingtower. Here is a day and Sunday school. Charities in 1837, about £10 10s. per annum. Poor rates, in 1838, £93 11s. Acres 1,090. Houses 23. A. P. £2,318. Pop., in 1801, 134 ; in 1831, 117.

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