Private farm track off the Lubbesthorpe Bridle Road - geograph

Lubbesthorpe is a hamlet and

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

in the district of Blaby within Enderby on the outskirts of Leicester, 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

Thorp ''Thorp'' is a Middle English word for a hamlet or small village. Etymology The name can either come from Old Norse ''þorp'' (also ''thorp''), or from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) ''þrop''. There are many place names in England with the suffi ...

e", i.e. a small settlement belonging to Lubba, an

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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 Sir Roger la Zouch was the instigator of the murder of Roger de Beler and also MP for Leicestershire in 1324, 1331 and 1337 and Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire during the 1330s. Ancestry Roger was the son of Roger la Zouch, Lord of ...

, and in about 1534 a

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(described as "a very faire and gallant house") built by the

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.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. In 1872 the hamlet, belonging to the

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, had a population of 64; this rose to 118 in 1921. It was established as a full civil parish in 1866, with various additions and removals changing its area afterward.

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.) A 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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