Private farm track off the Lubbesthorpe Bridle Road - geograph

Lubbesthorpe is a hamlet and

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in the district of Blaby within Enderby on the outskirts of

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, England, on the west side of the

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and the

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Lubbesthorpe

Name

The name is said to mean "Lubba's Thorpe", i.e. a small settlement belonging to Lubba, an Old Danish name.W. G. Hoskins (1935) Leicestershire Archaeological Society vol XVIII part 2 page 143 "The Anglian and Scandinavian Settlement of Leicestershire" It has been spelled as Lubbesthorpe.

History

It was listed in the ''

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'' as a group of nine households.Open Domesday Book
Lubbesthorpe In 1302 there was a

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chapel, founded by Roger la Zouch, and in about 1534 a

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(described as "a very faire and gallant house") built by the Earl of Huntingdon.I. S. Leadam (1891) Notes And Queries 7, XI pp 481-2 By 1810 these were both ruins and the stone was being removed for road mending. It was established as a full civil parish in 1866, with various additions and removals changing its area afterward. In 1872 the hamlet, belonging to the

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, had a population of 64; this rose to 118 in 1921.

Current

The current houses are a little away from the medieval settlement, the remains of which are now a

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warren here is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument.) As at 2014 new housing estate of 4,250 homes is planned, informally known as New Lubbesthorpe.''Leicester Mercury'' 15 Jan 2014
Plans for 4,250-home estate plan in Lubbesthorpe approvedNew Lubbesthorpe Design Access Statement
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References

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