Grimston, Leicestershire

Human settlement in England

Melton

Leicestershire

Region

East Midlands

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Rutland and Melton

List of places: UK; England; Leicestershire

52°47′24″N 0°59′06″W / 52.790°N 0.985°W / 52.790; -0.985

Grimston is a village and civil parish in the Melton district, in the English county of Leicestershire. The parish includes the village of Saxelbye and the hamlet of Shoby. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 294.^[1] On 1 April 1936 the parishes of Saxelby and Shoby were merged with Grimston.^[2] Although the current civil parish is called "Grimston"^[3] its parish council is called "Grimston, Saxelbye and Shoby Parish Council".^[4]

The village's name means 'farm/settlement of Grimr'.^[5]

Amenities

Grimston has a pub, a place of worship and once had a railway station called Grimston railway station.

The 13th-century parish church of St Peter, restored in 1856, is a Grade II* listed building.^[6]

References

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
^ "Relationships and changed Grimston Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
^ "Grimston". Ordnance Survey. Archived from the original on 29 April 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
^ "Home". Grimston, Saxelbye and Shoby Parish Council. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 10 August 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
^ Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST PETER (1075032)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 November 2013.