Wordthorpe

• 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 Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2275
1871	R.G. 10 / 3257
1891	R.G. 12 / 2516 & 2517

• The Anglican parish church was originally Emmanuel Church in Loughborough.

• 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.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• 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.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1871	61
1881	57
1891	58
1901	56
1911	56
1921	57
1931	53

• The children of this township/parish attended schools at Woodhouse Eaves and Loughborough.