Place:Donisthorpe, Leicestershire, England

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NameDonisthorpe
Alt namesDurandestorpsource: Domesday Book (1985) p 160
TypeVillage
Coordinates52.733°N 1.533°W
Located inLeicestershire, England
Also located inDerbyshire, England     ( - 1897)
See alsoWest Goscote Hundred, Leicestershire, Englandhundred in which the parish was included
Oakthorpe and Donisthorpe, Leicestershire, Englandcivil parish into which it merged in 1866
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Donisthorpe is a village in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, historically an exclave of Derbyshire.

In 1866 Donisthorpe merged with the neighbouring community of Oakthorpe to become the joint parish of Oakthorpe and Donisthorpe.

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