Martinsthorpe is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the county of

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in the

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. The village's name means 'outlying farm/settlement of Martin'. It is located about four miles (6 km) south of

Oakham Oakham is a market town and civil parish in Rutland (of which it is the county town) in the East Midlands of England. The town is located east of Leicester, southeast of Nottingham and northwest of Peterborough. It had a population of 12,14 ...

near the village of Manton. It is the site of a deserted medieval village. Martinsthorpe is the only parish in Rutland to have no population, (although according to the 2001 census, Beaumont Chase also recorded a population of zero). It is one of only eight parishes in England with nil population. One building remains in the parish; Old Hall Farmhouse, a Grade II listed building, prominent on the ridge. Originally this was part of the service wing of Martinsthorpe Hall, a seat of the Earls of Nottingham. After several decades unoccupied, it has been restored as a holiday let. An ancient route, perhaps a true ridgeway of the Bronze Age, comes westwards from Stamford and follows the limestone ridge by

Edith Weston Edith Weston is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish was 1,042 at the 2001 census, including Normanton, Rutland, Normanton and increasing to 1,359 at the 2011 cen ...

, Manton and Martinsthorpe, entering Leicestershire near Withcote.Hoskins, W. G. (1950) ''The Heritage of Leicestershire''. Leicester: City of Leicester Publicity Department, pp. 23-24

Ward

Martinsthorpe was an electoral division for the purposes of electing councillors to

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and comprised the parishes of Gunthorpe,

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, Manton, Martinsthorpe, Morcott, Pilton, and

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. Since the 2019 election, it has been merged to form the Braunston and Martinsthorpe ward, which elects two members to the County Council.

References

External links

Rutland website – Martinsthorpe
Deserted medieval villages in Rutland Civil parishes in Rutland {{Rutland-geo-stub