Loddington

Loddington
Population 77 
OS grid reference SK789023
Parish Loddington
District Harborough
Shire county Leicestershire
Region East Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Leicester
Postcode district LE7
Dialling code 0116
Police Leicestershire
Fire Leicestershire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places: UK • England • Leicestershire

Loddington is a small village and civil parish north of Market Harborough and east of Leicester in the county of Leicestershire. It has a population of 77.[1]

In 1125, the village was granted to Launde Priory by Richard Basset and his wife, as part of the original endowment of the priory.[2]

The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust is based at Loddington House, where it has run the Allerton Project since 1992 to demonstrate the integration of game and wildlife conservation with profitable farming.

References

  1. ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Harborough Retrieved 2009-08-20
  2. ^ Hoskins, W. G. (ed.) (1954). "Houses of Augustinian canons: The priory of Launde". In W. G. Hoskins and R. A. McKinley. A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 2. Victoria County History. pp. 10–13. http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38161. Retrieved 5 January 2010. 

External links

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Loddington Loddington] at Wikimedia Commons

Photographs of Loddington on Flickr

Photographs of Loddington on Geograph

Ordnance Survey Map of Village from multimap

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust's Allerton Project