Hathern
Description in 1871:
"HATHERN, a parish in Loughborough district, Leicester; adjacent to the Midland railway and the boundary with Notts, and near the river Soar, 3 miles NW of Longhborough. It has a post office under Loughborough. Acres, 1, 340. Real property, £3, 177. Pop., 1, 1 12. Houses, 280. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to A. L. M. Phillips de Lisle, Esq. Many of the inhabitants are stocking makers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborougli. Valne, £650. * Patron, the Rev. Edward Smythies. The church is ancient, with a square tower; and was recently restored, at a cost of £1, 455. There are chapels for: Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, and charities £73."
"John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-1872"
- The cemetery was formed in 1896 and covered nearly an acre. It was under the control of the Parish Council.
- The parish was in the Loughborough sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
- The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
- The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Peter.
- The church was built in the latter part of the 14th century.
- The church was thoroughly restored in 1864.
- The church seats 364.
- Near the church, in the centre of the street, stands an ancient cross on a graduated base of five steps.
- The church is in the rural deanery of East Akeley.
- The Catholic Church is dedicated to Saint Aloysius.
- The Baptist chapel was rebuilt in 1880.
- The Wesleyan Methodists and Primitive Methodists also had chapels here before 1912.
- The parish was in the Loughborough sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Hathern is a village and was a parish. It is near the River Soar, and on the border with Nottinghamshire. The parish lies 3 miles northwest of Loughborough and 112 miles north of London. The parish covered 1,341 acres, most of which was pasture for sheep and cattle.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, Hathern is on the road between Loughborough and Derby.
- This place was once mostly pasture and small farms.
- In the 1800s and early 1900s, most inhabitants of the parish were frame-work knitters.
- The national grid reference is SK 5022
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- This place was an ancient parish. It became a Civil Parish, but was abolished in 1936.
- The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the mid (or northern) division of the county.
- On 1 April, 1935, the parish was abolished and split into three pieces: 1,322 acres went to Loughborough Civil parish, 11 acres went to Long Whatton parish and the final 8 acres went to Shepshed parish.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1841 |
1,252 |
| 1871 |
1,120 |
| 1881 |
1,312 |
| 1891 |
1,133 |
| 1901 |
1,114 |
| 1911 |
1,209 |
| 1921 |
1,124 |
| 1931 |
1,225 |
- A Public Elementary School (National School) was built here in 1850 to hold 193 children.
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[Created: 11-August-2009 - Louis R. Mills]
