Place:Lockington, Leicestershire, England

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NameLockington
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates52.8483°N 1.3078°W
Located inLeicestershire, England
See alsoWest Goscote Hundred, Leicestershire, Englandhundred in which the parish was included
Castle Donington Rural, Leicestershire, Englandrural district of which it was part 1894-1936
Lockington Hemington, Leicestershire, Englandcivil parish which it joined in 1936
North West Leicestershire District, Leicestershire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
source: Family History Library Catalog
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Lockington is now a village in the Leicestershire parish of Lockington Hemington (or Lockington cum Hemington). The village is close to the Derbyshire border. It was a separate civil parish from 1866 until 1936.

Lockington Hall in the village was the home of a branch of the Curzon family. In 1904 Henry Curzon of Lockington Hall was High Sheriff of Derbyshire.

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