Loddington is a village and
civil parish about west of
Kettering,
Northamptonshire,
England.
The
2001 Census recorded a parish population of 477 people including the neighbouring parish of
Orton. The
2011 Census recorded the parish population as 520 people.
Manor
The
Domesday Book of 1086 records the
toponym as ''Lodintone'', meaning the enclosure, estate or homestead of Luda's people. Later spellings include ''Ludinton'' in 1199 and ''Lodinton'' in 1220.
The
manor
Manor may refer to:
Land ownership
*Manorialism or "manor system", the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of medieval Europe, notably England
*Lord of the manor, the owner of an agreed area of land (or "manor") under manorialism
*Man ...
of Loddington was held in turn by the De Baud, Kynnesman, Syers, and Allicock families before being acquired by
Lord Overstone
Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone (25 September 1796 – 17 November 1883) was a British banker and politician.
Background and education
Loyd was the only son of the Rev. Lewis Loyd and Sarah, daughter of John Jones, a Manchester banker. H ...
.
Loddington Hall is the manor house. It was built in about 1290–1300 for Robert de Baud, then in charge of Royal works at Geddington, who had been
High Sheriff of Northamptonshire 1280–88. It was remodelled for the Syers family about 1615 and passed in 1660 to the Kynnesman family. A large north wing was added in 1893. It is a
Grade II* listed building.
In the 1900s the house was used as a school and a training centre. It has since been converted into flats.
Parish church
The oldest parts of the
Church of England parish church
A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within each Church of England parish (the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative unit; since the 19th century sometimes ca ...
of
St Leonard
Leonard of Noblac (also Leonard of Limoges or Leonard of Noblet; also known as Lienard, Linhart, Leonhard, Léonard, Leonardo, Annard; died 559), is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in Hau ...
are 13th-century and include the west tower, south
aisle and chapel. The present
chancel was built about 1300. The church has alterations and additions from the 14th century and 1578, including a
clerestory
In architecture, a clerestory ( ; , also clearstory, clearstorey, or overstorey) is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye level. Its purpose is to admit light, fresh air, or both.
Historically, ''clerestory'' denoted an upper l ...
for the
nave. The building was
restored
''Restored'' is the fourth
studio album by American contemporary Christian music musician Jeremy Camp. It was released on November 16, 2004 by BEC Recordings.
Track listing
Standard release
Enhanced edition
Deluxe gold edition
Standard ...
in 1859 under the direction of the
Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
architect
Ewan Christian. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The west tower has a
broach spire
A broach spire is a type of spire (tall pyramidal structure), which usually sits atop a tower or turret of a church. It starts on a square base and is carried up to a tapering octagonal spire by means of triangular faces.
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. The tower
belfry has three bells, all cast in 1803 by
Robert Taylor of
Loughborough,
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...
.
Ironstone
Loddington is situated on the
ironstone beds that run through Northamptonshire, and these were worked commercially up until the early 1960s by the Loddington Iron Ore Company. A
metre (3 ft 33⁄8 in) gauge tramway connected the ironstone pits to the nearby
standard gauge
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), International gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in Ea ...
line from Kettering to
Cransley
Cransley is a civil parish in Northamptonshire, England. It contains the village of Great Cransley but Little Cransley is in the adjacent parish of Broughton. At the time of the 2001 census, Cransley parish had 283 inhabitants, increasing to ...
. In 1958, the tramway was converted to standard gauge and worked as a branch from Cransley to Loddington.
Amenities
Loddington has a
pub, The Hare.
The Hare at Loddington
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References
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North Northamptonshire
Civil parishes in Northamptonshire
Villages in Northamptonshire
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