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Bruntingthorpe

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Bruntingthorpe
St Mary's Church, Bruntingthorpe
Bruntingthorpe Location within Leicestershire
Population	425 (2011)
District	Harborough
Shire county	Leicestershire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Lutterworth
Postcode district	LE17

Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands

UK Parliament	South Leicestershire
List of places UK England Leicestershire 52°30′10″N 1°06′52″W / 52.50279°N 1.11457°W / 52.50279; -1.11457

Bruntingthorpe is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. According to the census in 2001 the parish had a population of 398. The parish also includes the hamletofUpper Bruntingthorpe. The population at the 2011 census had increased to 425. the village contains a pub called the plough, a restaurant called the joiners and a garage called bruntingthorpe motor engineers.^[1]

The former RAF Bruntingthorpe is now Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome.

History

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The village's name means 'outlying farm/settlement of Brenting/Branting'.^[2]

Bruntingthorpe is in the Domesday book where it is listed amongst the lands held by Hugh de Grandmesnil^[3] for the King.

References

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^ "Bruntingthorpe · Lutterworth, UK". Bruntingthorpe · Lutterworth, UK. Retrieved 14 July 2022.

^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 1 July 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.

^ Ann Williams; Geoffrey Haward Martin (2003). Domesday book. Penguin Classics. p. 652. ISBN 978-0-14-143994-5.

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