Long Whatton
Description in 1871:
"WHATTON (Long), a parish, with a village, in Loughborough district, Leicester; 2¾ miles W by N of Hathern r. station, and 4½ NW of Loughborough. Post town, Loughborough. Acres, 2,050. Real property, £4,514. Pop., 779. Houses, 188. The manor belongs to E. F. Dawson, Esq. W. House is the seat of W. Martin, Esq. Framework knitting is carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £380. Patron, the Lord Chancellor - The church was restored in 1866. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and charities £5."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-1872]
- 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 table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2276 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2517 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
- The church was built in the Old English style some time before 1545.
- The church was partially restored in 1850.
- The church was thoroughly restored and partially rebuilt in 1866.
- The church seats 350.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1545 and is in nearly perfect condition.
- The church is in the rural deanery of East Akeley.
- The General Baptists had a chapel founded here in 1799.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here before 1849.
- The parish was in the Loughborough sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Long Whatton is a substantial village and a parish. It is near the River Soar and south of the East Midlands Airport. The parish lies 114 miles north of London, 4.5 miles north-west of Loughborough and 16.5 miles north of Leicester city. The parish covered about 1,900 acres, most of which was pasture for sheep and cattle.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, Long Whatton is off Junctions 23 and 23A of the M1 motorway.
- In the neighborhood is Charnwood Forest.
- This place was once mostly pasture and small farms.
- In the 1800s and early 1900s, many inhabitants of the parish were frame-work knitters.
- Whatton House was the seat of Edward DAWSON, the lord of the manor in the mid 1880s. The mansion sat on the west bank of the River Soar.
- The national grid reference is SK 4823
- 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 in the county of Leicester. It became a Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the western (or northern) division of the county.
- In the early 1800s, the parish covered about 1,900 acres, mostly farmland and pasturage. By 1881 that increased to 2,050 acres.
- On 1 April, 1936, the Civil Parish underwent several changes: 1,936 acres were added by the abolition of Diseworth Civil Parish, 11 acres were added by the abolition of Hathern Civil Parish and 773 acres were gained from part of Shepshed Civil Parish. Thus the parish then covered 4,796 acres.
- William LANE's annual charity provided £5 for bread for the poor.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1841 |
842 |
| 1871 |
756 |
| 1881 |
702 |
| 1891 |
638 |
| 1901 |
537 |
| 1911 |
571 |
| 1921 |
604 |
| 1931 |
587 |
| 1961 |
1,247 |
- A Public Elementary School (Free School) was built here in 1850 by Edward DAWSON, Esq. It was enlarged in 1910.
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Last updated: 21-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills
