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Hathern

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Population
  
1,866 (2011)

Country
  
England

Post town
  
Loughborough

Local time
  
Saturday 1:12 AM

District
  
Borough of Charnwood

Region
  
East Midlands

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
LE12

Shire county
  
Leicestershire

UK parliament constituency
  
Charnwood

Hathern

Weather
  
11°C, Wind W at 26 km/h, 82% Humidity

Hathern village loughborough petrol service station scenes c 1955


Hathern is a large village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England. The village itself is located in the north of the district, and is just north of Loughborough. It is served by the A6. The parish has a population of about 1,800. Nearby places are Dishley, Long Whatton, and Zouch, over the border in Nottinghamshire. Residents of the village have, in recent years, campaigned to prevent the green "wedge" separating Loughborough, Shepshed and Hathern from being built on. The village is home to the Swift Sock Factory, one of only a small number of independent sock manufacturers left in the UK.

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Map of Hathern, Loughborough, UK

More hathern village loughborough scenes from the 1950 s


Notable residents

John Heathcoat (1783–1861), inventor and industrialist, operated a textile mill in Hathern (where, in 1808–9, he invented the bobbin net machine, for weaving a lace-like hexagonal net), before moving his business first to Loughborough, and later to Tiverton, Devon.

References

Hathern Wikipedia