Theddingworth

• The parish was in the Market Harborough sub-district of the Market Harborough 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:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church dates back to before 1560.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1858.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• Ian ROB has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2010.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1630.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Gartree (first portion).
   
• There is a cemetery across the street from the church.
   
• The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has the Theddingworth Monument Inscriptions on microfilm #845117, item #5.
   
• The Congregationalists built a chapel here in 1833.
   
• Richard WILLIAMS has a photograph of the Congregational Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007.
   
• Ian ROB also has a photograph of the Congregational Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2010.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Market Harborough sub-district of the Market Harborough Registration District.
   

Theddingworth is a parish and a village, mostly in Leicestershire, separated from Northamptonshire by the River Welland. The parish includes the township of Hothorpe, in Northamptonshire. It is 86 miles north of London, just south-west of Market Harborough. The parish covers 2,220 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• The Grand Union Canal runs just north-east of the village.
   
• By automobile, take the A427 trunk road west for about 1.5 miles out of Market Harborough.
   
• Richard WILLIAMS has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007. Stop by and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Theddingworth to another place.

Major Thomas Guy Frederick PAGET was one of the principle landowners here in 1925.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP665857 (Lat/Lon: 52.465129, -1.023316), Theddingworth which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Inside All Saints Church there is a white marble tablet on a grey marble backing with decorative border that honours two men from World War One.

A Celtic cross was erected in the churchyard in 1921, at a cost of £200, raised by public subscription, in memory of the men of the parish who lost their lives in the Great War, 1914-18.

There is a single Commonwealth War Grave in the churchyard.

To see the inscription on the White marble tablet in All Saints Church, see the Leicestershire War Memorials web page.

The Commonwealth War Grave is for (data from the CWGC site):

• Many people in the parish were employed in the carriage and railway lace factory in the village.
   
• Most of the parish was grazing land.
   

• This place was both an ancient Township and an ancient parish in Leicester county. It became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish is in the ancient Gartree Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the local Theddingworth Parish Council regarding civic and political issues, but they are NOT staffed to perform family history searches for you.
   
• District governance is provided by the Harborough District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Harborough petty session hearings held every other Tuesday.
   
• The parish had a charity that provided £5 annually for the apprenticing of poor children.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Market Harborough Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	206
1811	242
1821	264
1831	283
1841	270
1851	279
1871	268
1881	246
1901	201
1971	218

• The Public Elementary School was built in 1844 for 50 children.