Description
Bruntingthorpe, a parish in Leicestershire, 4 miles ESE of Broughton-Astley station on the M.R., and 5 1/2 NE by N of Lutterworth. It has a post office under Lutterworth, which is the money order and telegraph office. Countesthorpe on the M.R. is the station generally used. Acreage, 1266 ; population, 258. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; value, £150 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1873. There is a fine picture of the Descent from the Cross, painted by a former rector named G. Freeman, an academician. There is also a small Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
