Sparkenhoe was a
hundred of
Leicestershire
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,
England in the south-west of the county, covering
Market Bosworth and
Hinckley, broadly corresponding to the modern
districts
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of
Blaby
Blaby () is a large village in the Blaby District in central Leicestershire, England, some five miles south of Leicester city centre. At the time of the 2011 census, Blaby had a population of 6,194, a slight fall from 6,240 in 2001 figures). B ...
and
Hinckley and Bosworth.
The meeting place of the Sparkenhoe Hundred was probably at Shericles Farm near
Desford (SK467026), which derives from scirac meaning "the hundred oak".
Sparkenhoe hundred was not recorded in the
Domesday Book as a
wapentake, being formed in 1346 from part of
Guthlaxton[John Curtis, ''A Topographical History of the County of Leicester'' (1831)] and
Goscote.
References
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Ancient subdivisions of Leicestershire