Burbage Leicestershire Family History Guide
Burbage is a chapelry of Aston Flamville Ancient Parish in Leicestershire.
Other places in the parish include: Sketchley.
Alternative names: Burback, Burbage and Sketchley
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1562
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1563
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Stretton Baskerville, Warwickshire
- Aston Flamville
- Wolvey, Warwickshire
- Elmersthorpe
- Copston Magna, Warwickshire
- Wigston Parva
- Hinckley
- Hinckley Holy Trinity
- Barwell
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BURBAGE, or Burback, a chapelry and a subdistrict in Hinckley district, Leicester. The chapelry is in Aston-Flamville parish; lies on the verge of the county, at Watling-street, 1¼ mile SE of Hinckley r. station; and has a post-office under Hinckley. Acres, 3,170. Real property, £7,725. Pop., 1,865. Houses, 416. The property is much subdivided.
Many of the inhabitants are stocking-makers.
The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Aston-Flamville, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is old but good, and has a tower and spire.
There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Hinckley
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Guthlaxton
- Poor Law Union: Hinckley
- Hundred: Sparkenhoe
- Province: Canterbury