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Thurnby

Welcome to Thurnby & Bushby

i am Sheila Jones Site Administrators for Thurnby and Bushby. I am here to help you with adding postings and to support you in adding pages and pictures about our village and village life - both present and past. Contact email sheliojo@aol.com

A village standing on an eminence, bounded by Scraptoft, Humberston, Evington, Stoughton and Bushby, is four miles from Leicester, the nearest market town, and within the ecclesiastical division of the county and within the deanery of Gartre – so wrote John Nichols in the 1790s.

The name Thurnby is derived from ‘by’, meaning an inhabited place – more particularly a village or homestead and Thurn is derived from the personal name of Thyrne. By 1086, the spelling used in the Domesday Book was Turnbei.

In 1207, in the village was referred to as Sturnby.

In 1722, the freeholders of Thurnby were included in the returns of Bushby.

Can anyone date this picture post-card image of a house in Bushby?