Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Bruntingthorpe, a parish in Leicestershire, 4 miles ESE of Broughton-Astley station on the M.R., and 5½ NE by N of Lutterworth. It has a post office under Lutterworth, which is the money order and telegraph office. Countesthorpe on the M.R. is the station generally used. Acreage, 1266; population, 258. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; value, £150 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1873. There is a fine picture of the Descent from the Cross, painted by a former rector named G. Freeman, an academician. There is also a small Baptist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Leicestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Bruntingthorpe St. Mary | |
Hundred | Guthlaxton | |
Poor Law union | Lutterworth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the 16th century, the earlier part being in a very dilapidated condition.
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Bruntingthorpe:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1574-1916 | 1755-1940 | 1572-1931 | 1572-1969 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary (parish church)
The church of St. Mary is an Early English building, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and a low western saddle-back roofed tower containing 3 bells: there are six stained windows, one of which is in memory of a former rector: the church was entirely rebuilt in ashlar in 1873, at a cost of £1,750. and has 200 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bruntingthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bruntingthorpe, or Brentingthorpe (St. Mary))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Bruntingthorpe are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online: