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