Garthorpe, Leicestershire

Garthorpe
Garthorpe
	The River Eye passing through Garthorpe
	Garthorpe Location within Leicestershire
Population	418 (2011 Census)
Civil parish	Garthorpe;
District	Melton;
Shire county	Leicestershire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Melton Mowbray
Postcode district	LE14
Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Rutland and Melton;
	List of places UK England Leicestershire 52°46′44″N 0°46′01″W / 52.779°N 0.767°W

Garthorpe is a village and civil parish (sometimes called Garthorpe and Coston) in Leicestershire, England, in the Melton district. It is about five miles east of Melton Mowbray. The parish includes the villages of Garthorpe and Coston, and is near Saxby (in Freeby parish), Wymondham, Buckminster and Sproxton.

The village's name means 'farm/settlement with an enclosure'. The village is positioned at the confluence of two watercourses, therefore another suggestion is 'farm/settlement on a triangular piece of land'.^[1]

The civil parish had a population of 418 at the 2011 census.^[2]

St Mary's Church is a redundant Church of England parish church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.^[3] The building is Grade I listed.^[4]