Loddington

Loddington

St Michael and All Angels, Loddington
Population 77 
OS grid referenceSK789023
Civil parishLoddington
DistrictHarborough
Shire countyLeicestershire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Leicester
Postcode district LE7
Dialling code 0116
Police Leicestershire
Fire Leicestershire
Ambulance East Midlands
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Coordinates: 52°36′47″N 0°50′07″W / 52.61306°N 0.83528°W

This article is about Loddington in Leicestershire, For Loddington, Northamptonshire see Loddington, Northamptonshire

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]

Loddington Hall, the local manor house, was first recorded in 1475 and after the Dissolution of the Monasteries became the property of Oliver Cromwell, whose son sold it to Sir John Pretyman, 1st Baronet. He sold it in turn to the Morris family, who occupied it for several generations. In the 1900s it was acquired as a hunting lodge by Sholto Charles Douglas, Lord Aberdour, but since 1934 has been owned by the Allerton family. It was requisitioned by use by paratroops during the Second World War, after which it was occupied by the evacuated Cone Ripman Dance School. In 1984 Lady Allerton sold the derelict building, and it has since been renovated as a family home.[3]

The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has a base at Loddington House, on the Loddington estate, where it has run the Allerton Project since 1992 to demonstrate the integration of game and wildlife conservation with profitable farming.[4]

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. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
  3. "Loddington Hall" (PDF). Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  4. "Allerton Project". Game and Wildlife Conservancy Trust.

External links

Media related to 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