Gartree Hundred
Gartree is one of the hundreds of Leicestershire, located in the south-east of the county, adjacent to the borders with Northamptonshire and Rutland. It is bounded to the west by Guthlaxton; to the north by East Goscote Hundred; to the east by Rutland, and to the south by Northamptonshire. There is also a short border with Sparkenhoe in the very east. The hundred has three detached parts, the northernmost two of which also border Framland. Including much of eastern Leicester, it had a population of 138,440 in 2011.
It comprises the following ancient parishes:
- Billesdon
- Blaston
- Bringhurst
- Burrough on the Hill
- Burton Overy
- Carlton Curlieu
- Church Langton
- Cranoe
- Evington
- Fleckney
- Foxton
- Galby
- Glooston
- Great Bowden
- Great Glen
- Gumley
- Hallaton
- Horninghold
- Houghton on the Hill
- Hungerton (Baggrave and Ingarsby)*
- Husband's Bosworth
- Kibworth Beauchamp
- King's Norton
- Knaptoft (Mowsley)†
- Knossington
- Laughton
- Leicester All Saints, St Margaret, St Leonard, St Martin & St Nicholas
- Leicester Blackfriars (ex. par.)
- Leicester Augustine Friars (ex. par.)
- Lubenham
- Medbourne
- Noseley
- Owston
- Pickwell with Leisthorpe
- Saddington
- Scraptoft
- Shangton
- Slawston
- Stockerston
- Stoke Dry (Holyoaks)‡
- Stonton Wyville
- Theddingworth (except Hothorpe)§
- Thurnby
- Tilton (Marefield)*
- Tugby (Keythorpe)*
- Welham
- Wistow
*: Remainder in East Goscote hundred.
†: Remainder in Guthlaxton hundred.
‡: Remainder in Rutland.
§: In Northamptonshire
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East Goscote • Framland • Gartree • Guthlaxton • Sparkenhoe • West Goscote |