Loddington
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Loddington is a small village and civil parish
Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 north of Market Harborough
Market Harborough
Market Harborough is a market town within the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.It has a population of 20,785 and is the administrative headquarters of Harborough District Council. It sits on the Northamptonshire-Leicestershire border...

 and east of Leicester
Leicester
Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...

 in the county of Leicestershire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

. It has a population of 77.

In 1125, the village was granted to Launde Priory
Launde Abbey
Launde Abbey is located in Leicestershire, 14 miles east of the city of Leicester and six miles south west of Oakham. The building is presently used as a conference and retreat centre, by the Church of England Dioceses of Leicester and Peterborough....

 by Richard Basset
Richard Basset (royal justice)
Richard Basset was an English royal judge and sheriff during the reign of King Henry I of England. His father was also a royal justice. In about 1122 Basset married the eventual heiress of another other royal justice; the marriage settlement has survived. In 1129 and 1130 Basset was sheriff of a...

and his wife, as part of the original endowment of the priory.

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.

External links

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
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