Loddington, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Loddington, a parish, with a village, in Leicestershire, on the river Eye, adjacent to Rutland, 1½ mile N from East Norton station on the G.N. and L. & N.W. Joint railways, and 5¼ miles WNW of Uppingham. Post town, Leicester; money order office, Billesden; telegraph office, East Norton station. Acreage, 1873; population, 123. The manor belongs to the Earl of Norton. A petrifying spring is near the church. An ancient camp, supposed to be Roman, is at Filton. Loddington Hall is used as a hunting-box by the Earl of Norton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £136 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and a low square tower.
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 | Loddington St. Michael | |
Hundred | East Goscote | |
Poor Law union | Billesdon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1554.
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Loddington:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1564-1916 | 1755-1833 | 1563-1931 | 1554-1990 |
Churches
The church of St. Michael and All Angels is a building of stone in the Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a low western tower containing 3 bells: it was thoroughly restored in 1859, reseated with solid oak, the chancel refitted and a carved oak screen erected: the stained east window is a memorial to Charles H. Campbell Morris esq.: in 1920 a brass tablet was erected in the church inscribed with the names of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18: there are 200 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Loddington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Loddington (St. Michael))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Loddington 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: