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Theddingworth

Description in 1871:
"THEDDINGWORTH, a parish in Market-Harborough district, Leicester; on the Market-Harborough and Rugby railway, and on the Grand Union canal, 4½ miles W by S of Market-Harborough. It includes Hothorpe hamlet in Northamptonshire; and it has a post-office under Rugby, and a r. station. Acres, 2,220. Real property, £4,595. Pop., 281. Houses, 76. The manor belongs to Earl Spencer. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £137. Patron, J. Cook, Esq. The church was restored in 1858. There are an Independent chapel, a parochial school, and charities."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72

Census

• 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:
  
  

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Church History

• 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.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1630.
  
  
• The church is in the rural deanery of Gartree (first portion).
  
  
• The Congregationalists built a chapel here in 1833.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel.

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.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SP 6685.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Occupations

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

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Politics and Governance

• The parish is in the ancient Gartree Hundred in the southern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• 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.
  
  

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Population

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

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Schools

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

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