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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLeicestershire 
Ecclesiastical parishLoddington St. Michael 
HundredEast Goscote 
Poor Law unionBillesdon 

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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1564-19161755-18331563-19311554-1990

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:


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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online:

DistrictHarborough
CountyLeicestershire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLE7
Post TownLeicester

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