Bruntingthorpe

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| country = England

| static_image_name = St Mary's church, Bruntingthorpe - geograph.org.uk - 163286.jpg

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| static_image_caption = St Mary's Church, Bruntingthorpe

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| official_name = Bruntingthorpe

| population = 425

| population_ref = (2011)

| shire_district = Harborough

| shire_county = Leicestershire

| region = East Midlands

| constituency_westminster = South Leicestershire

| post_town = Lutterworth

| postcode_district = LE17

| postcode_area = LE

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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 hamlet of Upper Bruntingthorpe. Following the 2011 census, the population of the parish had increased to 425.{{Cite web |title=Bruntingthorpe · Lutterworth, UK |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bruntingthorpe,+Lutterworth/@52.5039499,-1.1147421,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x487768e991090821:0x3993ff9ffb05551e!8m2!3d52.505376!4d-1.113519 |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=Bruntingthorpe · Lutterworth, UK |language=en}}

The former RAF Bruntingthorpe is now Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome.

History

The village's name means 'outlying farm/settlement of Brenting/Branting'.{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Leicestershire/Bruntingthorpe|title=Key to English Place-names|website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk|access-date=16 August 2021|archive-date=1 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701063045/http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Leicestershire/Bruntingthorpe|url-status=live}}

Bruntingthorpe is in the Domesday Book where it is listed amongst the lands held by Hugh de Grandmesnil{{cite book| author = Ann Williams|author2=Geoffrey Haward Martin| title = Domesday book| year = 2003| publisher = Penguin Classics| isbn = 978-0-14-143994-5 |page = 652 }} for the King.

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Category:Villages in Leicestershire

Category:Civil parishes in Harborough District

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