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Description in 1871:
"KNIGHT-THORPE, a township in Loughborough parish, Leicester; near Loughborough. Real property, £1,533. Pop., 58. Houses, 12."
[John Marius WILSON's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72]
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- Knight Thorpe was in the Loughborough subdistrict 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. |
---|---|
1841 | H.O. 107 / 595 |
1861 | R.G. 9 / 2275 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3257 |
1891 | R.G. 12 / 2516 |
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1653.
- The Anglican parish church was in the rural deanery of Goscote (second portion).
- Knight Thorpe is known for its lovely Methodist Church on Knight Thorpe Road, just off the A6 trunk road.
- Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
- Knight Thorpe was in the Loughborough subdistrict of the Loughborough registration district.
- Certificates of birth, death and marriage can be obtained from the Superintendent Registrar at Leicestershire Central
Knight Thorpe is a township and an ancient chapelry in Leicestershire. The parish is 118 miles north of London and just 2 miles northeast from Loughborough. The parish covered 419 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, the B675 arterial road passes through the village just north of Barrow on Soar.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Knight Thorpe to another place.
You can see the administrative areas in which Knight Thorpe has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK537196 (Lat/Lon: 52.771331, -1.205481), Knight Thorpe which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
- Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
- 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.
- This place was long a township in Loughborough parish in Leicestershire, but was incorporated as a separate Civil Parish in December, 1866.
- The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the northern division of the county.
- In March, 1891, the Civil Parish was reduced in size to enlarge both Garendon Civil Parish and Loughborough Civil Parish.
- In October, 1902, the Civil Parish was abolished and the land ceeded back to Loughborough Civil Parish.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Loughborough petty session hearings each Wednesday.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, Knight Thorpe became part of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.