Laughton, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Laughton, a parish in Leicestershire, on the Grand Union Canal, 2 miles N of Theddingworth station on the L. &N.W.B., and 5¼ W by N of Market Harborough. Post town, Rugby½ money order and telegraph office, Theddingworth. Acreage, 1151; population, 108. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £220 with residence. The-church is a small and ancient building of stone in the Gothic style, containing numerous mural tablets. There are some-charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Leicestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Laughton St. Luke | |
Hundred | Gartree | |
Poor Law union | Market-Harborough |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1754.
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Laughton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1754-1916 | 1754-1782 | 1756-1929 | 1754-1991 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Luke (parish church)
The church of St. Luke is a small but ancient building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, small vestry, and an open western turret containing one bell: the chancel retains a piscina and two sedilia: there is a marble tablet to the Rev. Barton Shuttleworth M.A., former rector, d. 13 March, 1754, and to Frances, his wife, d. 13 May, 1792, and other marble tablets to the Rev. William Cave Humfrey, a former rector from 1833, and his wife, with others of the name: in the nave is a slate slab with brass shield of arms and inscription to Col. William Cole, lord of this manor and an officer in the service of Charles I. and three succeeding monarchs, ob. 27 March. 1698, and Barbara, his first wife: at the west end is a stained lancet window: a brass tablet was erected in the church in 1920, inscribed with the names of the men of the parish who lost their lives in the Great War, 1914-18: the communion plate is silver: the church was restored in 1880, at a cost of £1,400, when the church was rebuilt and seated anew: there are 80 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Laughton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Laughton (St. Luke))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Laughton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online: