Description
Long Whatton, a village and a parish in Leicestershire, 4 1/4 miles NW by W from Loughborough station on the M.R. and L. & N.W.R., with a post office under Loughborough ;. money order and telegraph office, Hathern. Acreage, 2051; population, 638. Framework knitting is carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross. value, £380 with residence. The church, which was almost wholly rebuilt in 1866, is a building of stone in the Early Decorated style. There are also Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. Whatton House, the seat of Lord Crawshaw, is a mansion standing in a park of 120 acres.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
