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Woodthorpe, township, Loughborough par., Leicestershire, on S. side and in town of Loughborough, pop. 57.
From: John BARTHOLOMEW's "Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)"
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- The parish was in the Loughborough sub-district 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
YearPiece No. 1861 R.G. 9 / 2275 1871 R.G. 10 / 3257 1891 R.G. 12 / 2516 & 2517
- The church is in the rural deanery of East Akeley.
- The Baptist chapel was founded in 1780 and erected in 1847.
- The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1845.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Loughborough sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
Wordthorpe is a village and a township which lie about 1.5 miles south of Loughborough. In the late 1800s, the township was managed as a parish, covering about 411 acres, most of which was pasture for sheep and cattle.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, Wordthorpe lies astride the A6004 trunk road.
- Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Main Street in Woodthorpe on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2010.
- Check out pictures of the parish at Your Local Web.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Wordthorpe to another place.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK543173 (Lat/Lon: 52.750597, -1.196969), Wordthorpe 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.
- This place was a hamlet in Loughborough parish for centuries. In December, 1866, it was formed as a Civil Parish.
- The parish is in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the mid division of the county.
- On 1 April, 1935, the Civil Parish was abolished and amalgamated back into Loughborough Civil Parish. 112 acres were transferred to Quorndon Civil Parish and another 7 acres went to Woodhouse 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, this parish became part of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.