Bruntingthorpe (Brantingthorpe)
Description in 1871:
"BRUNTINGTHORPE, or Brantingthorpe, a parish in Lutterworth district, Leicester; 4 miles ESE of Broughton-Astley r. station, and 5½ NE by N of Lutterworth. It has a post office under Lutterworth. Acres, 1,320. Real property, £2,688. Pop., 413. Houses, 94. The property is subdivided. The living is a rec. in the diocese. of Peterborough. Value, £380. Patron, J. Bridges, Esq. The church is old. There is a Baptist chapel."
1870-72, John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales"
- The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth Registration District.
- The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
- The church dates from before the 16th century.
- The church was entirely rebuilt of Ashtar in 1873.
- The church seats 200.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1580.
- The church is in the rural deanery of Guthlaxton (third portion).
- A small Baptist chapel was built here before 1871.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth Registration District.
Bruntingthorpe is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. The parish lies at the foot of a range of hills about 10 miles south of Leicester city and 5 miles northeast of Lutterworth. The parish covers 1,266 acres, including the hamlet of Upper Bruntingthorpe.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A50 trunk road south out of Leicester and turn west at Shearsby.
- The national grid reference is SP 6089.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- The former RAF Bruntingthorpe is now Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome. The station was opened in 1942 as home of 29 Operational Training Unit operating the Vickers Wellington. Bruntingthorpe was not used between 1946 and 1957 when it transferred to the United States Air Force as a satellite of RAF Alconbury. A new longer runway was built in 1959 when the 100th Bomb Wing of Strategic Air Command moved in operating the Boeing B-47 Stratojet. From August 1959 the 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing's 19th TRS was based at the station operating the Douglas RB-66B. RAF Bruntingthorpe was closed when the USAF left in 1962.
- The airfield is now known as Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, and is the home of the airworthy Avro Vulcan XH558. It is also home to the Lightning Preservation Group whose pair of Lightning F6s can be seen carrying out fast taxi and takeoff runs on open days.
- The parish is in the ancient Guthlaxton Hundred in the southern division of the county.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
259 |
| 1811 |
332 |
| 1821 |
348 |
| 1831 |
382 |
| 1841 |
423 |
| 1851 |
392 |
| 1901 |
233 |
| 1911 |
227 |
| 1971 |
329 |
- The Public Elementary School was built around 1870 for 45 children.
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[Created: 6-July-2009 - Louis R. Mills]
