Bisbrooke: Information from Answers.com

Coordinates: 52°35′N 0°41′W / 52.59°N 0.69°W / 52.59; -0.69

Bisbrooke
The church
Bisbrooke Bisbrooke shown within Rutland
Area	1.8 sq mi (4.7 km²) ^[1]
Population	211 2001 Census^[2]
- Density	117 /sq mi (45 /km²)
OS grid reference	SP886996
- London	79 miles (127 km) SSE
Unitary authority	Rutland
Shire county	Rutland
Ceremonial county	Rutland
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	OAKHAM
Postcode district	LE15
Dialling code	01572
Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Rutland and Melton
List of places: UK • England • Rutland

Bisbrooke is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It is located about two miles (3.2 km) east of Uppingham close to the A47. In 2001, it had a population of 219.

The parish church of St John the Baptist dates from 1871 in its present form, though the tower was only finished in 1914. There are a number of fine gravestones,^[3] which pre-date the present building.

The Gate Inn is on Main Street. Bisbrooke Hall is to the north of the A47 within the parish boundary but actually nearer to the village of Glaston. The Hall was substantially remodelled and extended by Lord Carbery around 1840.

In the 1950s, "small-holdings, orchards and vegetable patches jostle each other in the sheltered hollows of Bisbrooke” where “almost everyone grows and sells strawberries”; much of the fruit was sent for jam-making.

The village was too unremarkable to warrant an entry in Arthur Mee's The King's England volume.

References

^ "A vision of Britain through time". University of Portsmouth. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_AREA_A&u_id=10215249&c_id=10001043&add=Y. Retrieved 30 January 2009.
^ "Rutland Civil Parish Populations". Rutland County Council. 2001. http://www.rutland.gov.uk/ppimageupload/Image27657.PDF. Retrieved 30 January 2009.
^ Listed gravestone

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