Country: | England |
Shire District: | Melton |
Shire County: | Leicestershire |
Region: | East Midlands |
Coordinates: | 52.7125°N -0.832°W |
Constituency Westminster: | Rutland and Melton |
Civil Parish: | Somerby |
Static Image Name: | Approaching Leesthorpe - geograph.org.uk - 774224.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Approaching Leesthorpe along Leesthorpe Road |
Postcode Area: | LE |
Postcode District: | LE14 |
Post Town: | Melton Mowbray |
Leesthorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Somerby, in the Melton district, in the English county of Leicestershire.
Leesthorpe is located in the north east of the county close to the Rutland border and just south of the A606 Melton Mowbray and Oakham road.
Leesthorpe was recorded in the Domesday Book as Luvestorp.[1]
Until 1 April 1936 it was in the civil parish of Pickwell with Leesthorpe.[2]