Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GARTHORPE

GARTHORPE, a parish in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; 2 miles NNE of Saxby r. station, and 5½ ENE of Melton-Mowbray. Post town, Coston, under Melton-Mowbray. Acres, 1, 714. Real property, £1, 859. Pop., 113. Houses, 23. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £140.* Patron, the Earl of Dysart. The church is good. Charities, £10.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Garthorpe AP/CP       Melton Mowbray RegD/PLU       Leicestershire AncC
Place: Garthorpe

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