Garthorpe, Leicestershire

Garthorpe
The River Eye passing through Garthorpe
Garthorpe Location within Leicestershire
Population	418 (2011 Census)
Civil parish	Garthorpe
District	Melton
Shire county	Leicestershire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Melton Mowbray
Postcode district	LE14
Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Rutland and Melton

Garthorpe is a village and civil parish (sometimes called Garthorpe and Coston) in Leicestershire, England, in the Melton district. It is about five miles east of Melton Mowbray. The parish includes the villages of Garthorpe and Coston, and is near Saxby (in Freeby parish), Wymondham, Buckminster and Sproxton.

The village's name means 'farm/settlement with an enclosure'. The village is positioned at the confluence of two watercourses, therefore another suggestion is 'farm/settlement on a triangular piece of land'.^[1]

The civil parish had a population of 418 at the 2011 census.^[2]

St Mary's Church is a redundant Church of England parish church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.^[3] The building is Grade I listed.^[4]

References

1. "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
2. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
3. St Mary's Church, Garthorpe, Leicestershire, Churches Conservation Trust, archived from the original on 19 October 2016, retrieved 29 March 2011
4. Historic England, "Church of St Mary (1307476)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 12 April 2014

External links

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