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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Thringstone like this:
THRINGSTONE, a township in Whitwick parish, Leicester; 1½ mile NNE of Swannington r. station. It has a post-office under Leicester. Acres, 1,500. Real property, £5,852; of which £2,174 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1,298; in 1861, 1,404. Houses, 310. The manor belongs to T. Boultbee, Esq. The church of Whitwick-St. Andrew erected in 1862, the parsonage of Swannington-St. George, a Wesleyan chapel, two national schools, and a British school, are here.
Thringstone is now part of NORTH WEST LEICESTERSHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH WEST LEICESTERSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Thringstone itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Thringstone, in North West Leicestershire and Leicestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11340
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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