Woodthorpe, Leicestershire

Woodthorpe
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Woodthorpe
Location within Leicestershire
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CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom

Woodthorpe is a hamlet just south of Loughborough and a former civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England. In 1931, the parish had a population of 53.

In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) John Marius Wilson described Woodthorpe:

WOODTHORPE, a hamlet in Loughborough parish, Leicester; 1½ mile S of Loughborough. Real property, £1,236. Pop., 67. Houses, 16.

Woodthorpe became a parish in 1866, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Loughborough, part also went to Quorndon and Woodhouse.