Thorpe in the Glebe was a village in Nottinghamshire to the south of Wysall on the

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border. It was sometimes called Thorpe in the Clottes. Tradition has it that the village was destroyed either at the

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or alternatively by a hail-storm. However, at the time of the English Civil War, there had been no village at Thorpe in the Glebe for nearly 200 years. The area is now a civil parish of the same name.

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Wolds Historical Association
Rushcliffe Deserted medieval villages in Nottinghamshire {{Nottinghamshire-geo-stub