| Sysonby | |
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 St Leonard's church in 2021 | |
  Sysonby Location within Leicestershire | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Leicestershire |
| Fire | Leicestershire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
Sysonby is a former hamlet and former civil parish in Leicestershire, England, about one mile west of Melton Mowbray and immediately west of the River Wreake. [1]
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The Domesday Book records Sysonby as being in Framland hundred with a population of 25 households. [2]
Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-1872 describes Sysonby: [3]
SYSONBY, a chapelry in Melton-Mowbray parish, Leicester; 1 mile W of Melton-Mowbray r. station. Post town, Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 980. Real property, £1,920. Pop., 67. Houses, 11. The manor belongs to Earl Dysart. The living is annexed to Melton-Mowbray. The church is good.
The civil parish of Sysonby was abolished on 1 October 1930 and the area became part of the then parish of Melton Mowbray and its successor Melton Mowbray Urban District. [1] In 1921 the parish had a population of 191. [4] Since 1974 it has been in an unparished area of the Borough of Melton district.
St Leonard's church, Sysonby, is a grade II listed building [5] and is still used for occasional services. [6] The Church of England's Church Heritage Record says "The church appears to be basically thirteenth-century in its present form", [7] and it is locally thought to have been built around 1344, [6] but Historic England dates it to the 15th or 16th century. [5] There are ten graves under the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. [8] The church was previously incorrectly recorded in the NHLE as "Church of St Mary". [9]
Melton Sysonby ward is a ward for elections to Melton Borough Council, [10] but it is further north and does not include Sysonby. [11] Sysonby Lodge is within that ward, near the A606 Nottingham Road, and is a grade II listed house, [12] converted to apartments in the 2020s. [13]
Nothing remains of the hamlet of Sysonby except its church: in the words of Historic England "the associated settlement has now vanished". [6] [5]
The American racehorse Sysonby was sired by Melton, winner of the 1885 Epsom Derby. [14]