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Lutterworth is a market town in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. The town is located in southern Leicestershire, roughly 7 miles (11 km) north of Rugby, in Warwickshire and roughly 15 miles (25 km) south of Leicester. The 2001 census recorded a population of 8,293 in the town.
Lutterworth lies on the A426 Leicester-Rugby road, adjacent to the M1 motorway, and close to the A5. The town was formerly served by the main line of the Great Central Railway; however, since the closure of this line in the 1960s the nearest railway station is now at Rugby. Just to the west of the town is a large industrial estate called "Magna Park", which is the main employer in the town.
Nearby to Luterworth is Stanford Hall.
Claims to fame
Lutterworth has two main claims to fame:
Firstly, the 14th century religious reformer Canon John Wyclif was Rector in Lutterworth's Parish Church of St. Mary between 1374 and 1384, and it was here that he produced the first ever translation of the Bible from Latin into English.
Lutterworth's other main claim to fame is that Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine, developed some of the world's first jet engines at the British Thomson-Houston works in Lutterworth, and in nearby Rugby, during the late 1930s and the 1940s. The engine for the UK's first jet aeroplane the Gloster E.28/39 was produced in Lutterworth
History
The name of Lutterworth is derived from "Lutter's Vordig" meaning Luther's Farm.
In the days of Mail-coaches Lutterworth was an important staging post on the road from Oxford to Leicester. Dating from the this period, the town has several half-timbered houses and an 18th-century bridge spanning the River Swift in a series of three arches.
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