The first edge rails used in a wagonway were on the Charnwood Forest Canal, in the section between Nanpantan and Loughborough. Inside Nanpantan is a gastropub called The Priory. There is a small church here: Saint Mary in Charnwood, originally built as a mission room by the owner of Nanpantan Hall in 1888. After some years as a chapel of ease to the ecclesiastical parish of Emmanuel, Loughborough, Saint Mary in Charnwood became a parish in its own right, on 1 January 2015.[5]
Parish
Nanpantan became a civil parish in 1894, being formed from the rural part of Loughborough, on 1 April 1936 it was abolished and merged with Loughborough.[6] In 1931 the parish had a population of 680.[7] The parish was later abolished and the village became part of the unparished area of Loughborough.
Geography
The ward covers the southwestern part of Loughborough and is mostly rural.
Demographics
At the 2021 census, the ward profile population was 5,250. Of the findings, the ethnicity and religious composition of the ward was:
Loughborough Nanpantan: Ethnicity: 2021 Census
Ethnic group
Population
%
White
3,852
73.4%
Asian or Asian British
886
16.9%
Mixed
221
4.2%
Black or Black British
171
3.3%
Other Ethnic Group
94
1.8%
Arab
27
0.5%
Total
5,250
100%
The religious composition of the ward at the 2021 Census was recorded as:
Loughborough Nanpantan: Religion: 2021 Census
Religious
Population
%
Christian
2,041
43.5%
Irreligious
1,972
42%
Hindu
359
7.6%
Muslim
219
4.7%
Sikh
41
0.9%
Buddhist
38
0.8%
Other religion
20
0.4%
Jewish
5
0.1%
Total
5,250
100%
References
^"Ward boundaries". Charnwood Borough Council. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
^Crookes, William; Malone, T. A.; Shadbolt, George; Taylor, J. Traill; Bolton, William Blanchard; Bedding, Thomas (1912). The British Journal of Photography. H. Greenwood. Retrieved 13 October 2024.