Loddington, Northamptonshire
Historical Description
Loddington, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, nearly 4 miles W of Kettering station on the M.R. It has a post office under Kettering; money order and telegraph office, Eothwell. Acreage, 1235; population, 206. The manor belonged to the De Bauds; passed to the Kinnesmans, the Syerses, and the Allicockes, and belongs now to Lord Wantage. The hall, or old manor house, a beautiful Tudor edifice, is now the residence of Captain A. W. Capell Brooke, who purchased it from Lord Wantage in 1892, and has greatly enlarged it. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; tithe commuted at £390 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a building of stone chiefly in the Early English style; comprises nave, S aisle, N porch, and chancel, and has a beautiful Early English tower, surmounted by a very early Decorated octagonal broach spire.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Northamptonshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Loddington St. Andrew | |
| Hundred | Rothwell | |
| Poor Law union | Kettering |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1622.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with the Northamptonshire Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Northamptonshire online.
Churches
Church of England
St. Leonard (parish church)
The church of St. Leonard is an edifice of stone, chiefly in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, with south aisle or chapel, clerestoried nave, south aisle, north porch and a western tower of Early English date, with an octagonal broach spire erected in the Decorated period and containing 3 bells; on the battlement of the aisle is the date 1578, marking the period of some alterations: the chancel aisle is the property of the lord of the manor: the church was thoroughly restored and re-seated in 1859: built into the churchyard wall is an ancient stone, with large and small crosses very roughly cut round it; its history is unknown.
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. Andrew))
- Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northamptonshire is available to browse.
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 Northamptonshire papers online: