Catthorpe

• The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth 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 Saint Thomas.
   
• The church dates from around 1300.
   
• The church was restored and reseated in 1886.
   
• The church seats 125.
   
• Ian ROB has a photograph of St. Thomas Church on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2009.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Churchyard Lych Gate on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2007.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1573.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Guthlaxton (second portion).
   
• A small Baptist chapel was built here before 1871.
   

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

Catthorpe is a village and civil parish in the Leicestershire, England. It is the southern-most and western-most parish in Leicestershire, some 5 miles south of Lutterworth and 4 miles east of Rugby. The parish covers 645 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A14 motorway east out of Coventry almost to the M1 motorway.
   
• The A5 trunk road, otherwise known as Whatling Street, passes along the west side of the village.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• "Bikeboy" has a photograph of the Cherry Tree Pub on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.
   

Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of Catthorpe Manor on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2015.

Jenny GILES also has a photograph of Catthorpe Manor on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP552782 (Lat/Lon: 52.39904, -1.190137), Catthorpe 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.

There is a Brass plaque on wooden frame inside the parish church. There are five names from World War I inscribed on the memorial.

There is a single Commonwealth War Grave in St. Thomas churchyard for a man from World War I. That man was from Rugby, Warwickshire

The names listed on the World War One Memorial in the church are:

• This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish is in the ancient Guthlaxton Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1935, the parish was reduced in size by 10 acres to enlarge Newton and Biggin Civil Parish.
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they will NOT assist you with family history lookups.
   

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1655.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lutterworth petty session hearings every other Thursday.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Lutterworth Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	159
1841	167
1871	154
1881	137
1891	160
1901	166
1911	176
1921	130
1931	135
1971	89

• The children of this parish attended schools in Shawell and Swinford.