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Lutterworth

Description in 1877:
"LUTTERWORTH is a neat and well built market town, pleasantly situated in the heart of a rich farming and grazing district, upon a declivity on the north side of the small river Swift, 3 1/2 miles S. E. of Ullesthorpe Station on the Midland railaway, 13 1/2 miles S. by W. of Leicester, 11 miles S. E. of Hinckley, miles W. N. W of Welford; and 89 miles N.W. by N. of London. It is the head of a union and a County Court district, and give sits name to a parish in the southern part of Leicestershire and in Guthlaxton hundred.It extends two miles westward to the Roman Road called Watling Street, which separates it from Warwickshire, and is carried over the Swift by a substantial bridge, built at the expense of the two counties, near the Soke or Lodge Mills at Morebarns, a small hamlet in this parish. Calico weaving, silk ribbon weaving, and cotton hosiery manufacturing were largely carried on here in the latter part of the last and the beginning of the present century; but the town now derives its main support from general trade and its markets and fairs. Some of the inhabitants are, however, still engaged in framework knitting." [Whites's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland. 3rd Edition, 1877]

Census

The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. Volumes 18 and 19, which cover the Lutterworth Registration District, are also available in print.

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Church Records

The Society of Genealogists holds copies of Lutterworth parish records which can be studied at their library in London.

Civil Registration

Certificates of birth, death and marriage can be obtained from the Superintendent Registrars at Market Harborough, Rugby, Hinckley and Northampton.

For method of obtaining copy certificates see the Civil Registration section on our Leicestershire page.

Maps

Multi Media Mapping have a current map of Lutterworth.

Poorhouses, Poor Law.

The Lutterworth Union comprised of 37 parishes in Northamptonshire, Warwickshire as well as in Leicestershire. The union workhouse, completed in 1839, was situated in at the head of the Wood market and was capable of housing 200 inmates. The 1871 census shows 79 paupers in residence.

Peter Higginbotham's Workhouses Web Site has many pages about the operation of workhouses and the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, including a page about the Lutterworth Workhouse.

The Lutterworth Local History Group has published a study entitled "The Lutterworth Workhouse". This traces the history of the workhouse from the commencement of building in 1834 to its demolition in 1970. An index of inmates has also been produced. Both these publications are available through the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society.

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