Bringhurst

Bringhurst

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude = 52.521053
longitude = -0.759110
official_name = Bringhurst
population = 50
shire_district= Harborough
shire_county= Leicestershire
region= East Midlands
post_town= MARKET HARBOROUGH
postcode_district = LE16
postcode_area= LE
dial_code=
os_grid_reference= SP842921
constituency_westminster=

Bringhurst is a small town and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire. It is in the south-east of the county, close to the borders with Northamptonshire and Rutland. Nearby places are Cottingham in Northants, Great Easton and Drayton in Leicestershire, and Caledecott in Rutland.

The town antedates the Norman Conquest (1066 AD) and was given by one "Ranulfe", a kinsman of King Edward the Confessor. It is a village on a hill in the middle of the Welland Valley. There is a village church which in parts dates back to the 11th Century. The older houses are made of local stone and either roofed with thatch or collyweston slate. One house is thought to date back to 1636.

The name of the town predates its use as a family name, the earliest mention of which is dated 1260.


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