diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 4bbbd9aee..bab8c8543 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Changelog
 
  * Persist tab hash in URL to allow direct navigation to tabs in the admin interface (Ben Weatherman)
  * Animate the chevron icon when opening sub-menus in the admin (Carlo Ascani)
+ * Look through the target link and target page slug (in addition to the old slug) when searching for redirects in the admin (Michael Harrison)
  * Fix: Status button on 'edit page' now links to the correct URL when live and draft slug differ (LB (Ben Johnston))
  * Fix: Image title text in the gallery and in the chooser now wraps for long filenames (LB (Ben Johnston), Luiz Boaretto)
  * Fix: Move image editor action buttons to the bottom of the form on mobile (Julian Gallo)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
index f54b9e4c4..c6b201090 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ Contributors
 * Carlo Ascani
 * Julian Gallo
 * Dan Dietz
+* Michael Harrison
 
 Translators
 ===========
diff --git a/docs/releases/2.1.rst b/docs/releases/2.1.rst
index 4936c5cf7..8a8e05175 100644
--- a/docs/releases/2.1.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/2.1.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Other features
 
 * Persist tab hash in URL to allow direct navigation to tabs in the admin interface (Ben Weatherman)
 * Animate the chevron icon when opening sub-menus in the admin (Carlo Ascani)
+* Look through the target link and target page slug (in addition to the old slug) when searching for redirects in the admin (Michael Harrison)
 
 Bug fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/wagtail/contrib/redirects/tests.py b/wagtail/contrib/redirects/tests.py
index 8b3d8f34a..15b643490 100644
--- a/wagtail/contrib/redirects/tests.py
+++ b/wagtail/contrib/redirects/tests.py
@@ -291,6 +291,12 @@ class TestRedirectsIndexView(TestCase, WagtailTestUtils):
         self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
         self.assertEqual(response.context['query_string'], "Hello")
 
+    def test_search_results(self):
+        models.Redirect.objects.create(old_path="/aaargh", redirect_link="http://torchbox.com/")
+        models.Redirect.objects.create(old_path="/torchbox", redirect_link="http://aaargh.com/")
+        response = self.get({'q': "aaargh"})
+        self.assertEqual(len(response.context['redirects']), 2)
+
     def test_pagination(self):
         pages = ['0', '1', '-1', '9999', 'Not a page']
         for page in pages:
diff --git a/wagtail/contrib/redirects/views.py b/wagtail/contrib/redirects/views.py
index c75850d43..c5ac6d871 100644
--- a/wagtail/contrib/redirects/views.py
+++ b/wagtail/contrib/redirects/views.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from django.db.models import Q
 from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404, redirect, render
 from django.urls import reverse
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
@@ -24,7 +25,9 @@ def index(request):
 
     # Search
     if query_string:
-        redirects = redirects.filter(old_path__icontains=query_string)
+        redirects = redirects.filter(Q(old_path__icontains=query_string) |
+                                     Q(redirect_page__url_path__icontains=query_string) |
+                                     Q(redirect_link__icontains=query_string))
 
     # Ordering (A bit useless at the moment as only 'old_path' is allowed)
     if ordering not in ['old_path']: