Sysonby is a former hamlet and former civil parish in

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, England, about one mile west of

Melton Mowbray Melton Mowbray () is a market town in the Borough of Melton, Melton district in Leicestershire, England, north-east of Leicester and south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, Leicestershire, River Eye, known below Melton as the Rive ...

and immediately west of the

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. The ''

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'' records Sysonby as being in

Framland Framland was a hundred in north-east Leicestershire, England, roughly corresponding to today's borough of Melton. It was recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' as one of Leicestershire's four wapentakes. The name remains in use as a deanery of the Dio ...

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with a population of 25 households. Wilson's '' Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' of 1870-1872 describes Sysonby: The

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

of Sysonby was abolished in 1930 and the area became part of the then parish of Melton Mowbray and its successor Melton Mowbray Urban District. Since 1974 it has been in an unparished area of the

Borough of Melton Melton is a local government district with borough status in north-eastern Leicestershire, England. It is named after its only town, Melton Mowbray. The borough also includes numerous villages and surrounding rural areas. The north of the dis ...

district. St Leonard's church, Sysonby, is a grade II

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and is still used for occasional services. The Church of England's ''Church Heritage Record'' says "The church appears to be basically thirteenth-century in its present form", and it is locally thought to have been built around 1344, but Historic England dates it to the 15th or 16th century. There are ten graves under the care of the

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. The church was previously incorrectly recorded in the NHLE as "Church of St Mary". Melton Sysonby

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is a ward for elections to Melton Borough Council, but it is further north and does not include Sysonby. Sysonby Lodge is within that ward, near the A606 Nottingham Road, and is a grade II listed house, converted to apartments in the 2020s. Nothing remains of the hamlet of Sysonby except its church: in the words of

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"the associated settlement has now vanished". The American racehorse

Sysonby Sysonby (1902–1906) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He won every start easily, except one, at distances from one mile to two and a quarter miles. His superiority as a two and three-year-old was unchallenged during his short career of 1 ...

was sired by Melton, winner of the 1885 Epsom Derby.

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* Former civil parishes in Leicestershire Hamlets in Leicestershire Borough of Melton {{Leicestershire-geo-stub