Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HATHERN

HATHERN, a parish in Loughborough district, Leicester; adjacent to the Midland rai1way and the boundary with Notts, and near the river Soar, 3 miles NW of Longhborough. It has a post office under Loughborough. Acres, 1, 340. Real property, £3, 177. Pop., 1, 1 12. Houses, 280. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to A. L. M. Phillips de Lisle, Esq. Many of the inhabitants are stocking makers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborougli. Valne, £650. * Patron, the Rev. Edward Smythies. The church is ancient, with a square tower; and was recently restored, at a cost of £1, 455. There are chapels foi. Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, and charities £73.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hathern CP/AP       Loughborough RegD/PLU       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Hathern

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