[2] The Domesday Book of 1086 records the toponym as Ludintone, meaning the enclosure, estate or homestead of Luda's people.

[3] In 1125 Richard Basset and his wife granted the manor of Loddington to the Augustinian Launde Priory as part of its founding endowment.

[5] In the 1900s Sholto Charles Douglas, Lord Aberdour (later Earl of Morton) acquired the house as a hunting lodge.

[citation needed] In the Second World War the house was requisitioned by use by paratroops, after which it was occupied by the evacuated Cone Ripman Dance School.

[citation needed] The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has a base at Loddington House, on the Loddington estate, where it has run the Allerton Project since 1992 to demonstrate the integration of game and wildlife conservation with profitable farming.

[9] In 1879 the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway was built through the parish, linking Market Harborough with Newark and Nottingham.

The nearest station was at East Norton, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Loddington.