Editing Lutterworth (section)

== History ==
Lutterworth was originally an [[Anglo-Saxon]] settlement; its name is probably derived from the [[Anglo-Saxon language|Old English]] ''Hlutre Worth''. Lutterworth was mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086.<ref name="localhistLut">{{cite web |last1=Lambert |first1=Tim |title=A BRIEF HISTORY OF LUTTERWORTH |url=http://www.localhistories.org/lutterworth.html |publisher=Local Histories |access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref>

Lutterworth was granted its [[market charter]] in 1214 by [[John of England|King John]] and became a small but busy [[market town]].<ref name="localhistLut"/>

In the 14th century, the religious reformer [[John Wycliffe]] was rector of Lutterworth between 1374 and 1384, and it was during his time here that he is traditionally believed to have produced the [[Wycliffe's Bible|first translation]] of the Bible from Latin into English.<ref>{{cite web |title=John Wycliffe: religious rebel and Bible translator |url=http://www.harboroughmuseum.org.uk/john-wycliffes-portrait/ |publisher=Harborough Museum |access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref> The Irish statesman [[Robert le Poer]] was also parish priest here c. 1318.

[[Lutterworth Grammar School]] was founded in 1630; by 1676 the population of Lutterworth had reached 644.<ref name="localhistLut"/>

In the days of the [[stagecoach]], Lutterworth was an important stopping place on the road from [[Leicester]] to [[Oxford]] and [[London]], and many former [[coaching inn]]s remain in the town.<ref name="localhistLut"/> The town also contains a number of well-preserved [[timber framing|half-timbered]] buildings.<ref name="AA"/>
[[File:Whittle memorial, Lutterworth.jpg|thumb|right|The Whittle Roundabout]]
[[Frank Whittle|Sir 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, with his company [[Power Jets]]. A replica of his first jet aircraft, the [[Gloster E.28/39]], stands in the middle of a roundabout just south of the town as a memorial and a number of papers and documents relating to Whittle's development of the jet engine are displayed at the town's museum.<ref>{{cite news |title=Frank Whittle and the invention of the jet engine: Six places to trace his genius |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/articles/frank-whittle-and-the-birth-of-the-jet-engine/ |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=3 October 2017 |access-date=5 December 2018|last1=Leadbeater |first1=Chris }}</ref>

The [[M1 motorway]] was built just to the east of Lutterworth in 1964, and the [[M6 motorway]] was built a few miles to the south in 1971.<ref name= Victoria>{{cite web|url=https://www.history.ac.uk/sites/default/files/file-uploads/2021-03/Luttw%20online%20draft%20section%201B%20Lutterworth%20Parish.pdf |title=Lutterworth Parish|publisher=Victoria County History| first1=P. J. |last1=Fisher|first2= A. |last2=Watkins| access-date=17 February 2022}}</ref>

At the time of the first national census in 1801, Lutterworth had a population of 1,652; this had nearly doubled to 3,197 by 1901.<ref name="localhistLut"/> By 2001 it had reached 8,294. Further population growth in the 21st century brought the population up to nearly 10,000 by 2017.<ref name="CityPopLut"/>