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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gartree like this:
GARTREE, a hundred in Leicestershire; mainly contiguous to Northamptonshire, but including detached portions to the E of Goscote hundred. It contains thirty-nine parishes and parts of five others. Acres, 80, 071. Pop. in 1851, 17, 546; in 1861, 18, 762. Houses, 4, 173.
Gartree is now part of HARBOROUGH District. Click here for graphs and data of how HARBOROUGH has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Gartree itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Gartree, in Harborough and Leicestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21145
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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