Old Directories
Trades and professions from the 1850s onwards
By Neil Fortey
Introduction
Business and professional Directories from the 19th and 20th Centirues provide a valuable information that compliments censuses and other sources. This page gives a list of Directories with information about Bottesford, Muston and Belvoir parishes. It has been compiled from the database of digitized directories of the Historical Directories project at the University of Leicester. This searchable database will be found at: http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/findbylocation.asp.
Directories from 1854 to 1916
Searching the Historical Directories database for Directories for Leicestershire gives 49 entries. However, several of these have nothing to say about the villages, and a few more give only minor information. This leaves some 19 that include detailed sections on Bottesford, Muston and Belvoir. These were published between 1854 and 1916.
Later Directories
No later Directories are given by Historical Directories at the time of writing, but their publication continued after 1916. Melton Mowbray Library, for instance, holds copies of Kelly’s Directory up to 1941. For details of Bottesford information in Kelly’s for 1928 to 1941 click here.
Directories with detailed sections on Bottesford, Muston and Belvoir parishes, published between 1854 and 1916
Melville & Co.’s Directory & Gazetteer of Leicestershire, 1854
Post Office Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1855
Commercial Directory of Leicestershire, 1861. Published by Drake
Gazetteer & Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1861. Published by Drake
History, Gazetteer & Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1863 Published by W. White
Harrod & Co.’s Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and Staffordshire,1870
Barker & Co.’s Directory for Leicestershire & Rutland, 1875
Post Office Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1876
History, Gazetteer & Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1877 Published by W. White
Kelly’s Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1881
Wright’s Directory of Leicestershire, 1887-1888
Kelly’s Directory of Derbys, Leics … [Part 2: Leicestershire & Rutland], 1891
Wright’s Directory of Leicestershire, 1892
Kelly’s Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1895
Kelly’s Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1899
Wright’s Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1899
Kelly’s Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1908
Kelly’s Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1912
Kelly’s Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1916
Directories with small to very small amounts of information NE Leicestershire villages
Pigot & Co.’s Directory of Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire,1835
History, Gazetteer & Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1846
Slater’s Directories of Important English Towns, 1847
Pigot & Co.’s Directory of Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Lancashire , 1841
Wright’s Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1880
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