It was in the south-east of the county, roughly corresponding to today's Harborough district. The town of Market Harborough was its largest settlement. It gives its name to HMP Gartree, and also to the Gartree electoral division of Leicestershire.
The original meeting place of the hundred, which was used for local administration, justice and taxation, was the Gartree Bush, or Gartree (possibly from the Scandinavian word geir or spear), lying north east of Kibworth and south west of Gaulby on the Roman Via Devana, now known as the Gartree Road. This was the open-air meeting place from the tenth century to the eighteenth century where jurors, drawn from the local villages, handed out justice and administered taxes each month.[1] It may have been the site of a prehistoric burial mound, and the site of a previous Anglo Saxon moot place. In 1750, this was moved to the Bull's Head at Tur Langton.[2]
^Michael Wood, The Story of England. Published by Viking Penguin 2010 (ISBN 978-0-670-91903-1).
^J. M. Lee and R. A. McKinley, A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, Victoria County History
Gartree was a hundred of Leicestershire. It was in the south-east of the county, roughly corresponding to today's Harborough district. The town of Market...
Gartree could refer to Gartree (HM Prison), a Category B men's prison located in Market Harborough, Leicestershire GartreeHundred, a wapentake and later...
Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 22. ISBN 0-11-670020-3. "Horninghold, GartreeHundred" (PDF). Victoria County History of Leicestershire. Retrieved 23 September...
later described as hundreds. From the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica after 1346 the six hundreds were: East Goscote Framland Gartree Guthlaxton Sparkenhoe...
"'Lubenham', in A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, GartreeHundred - Pages 220-229". Retrieved 21 June 2023 – via British History Online...
County History - A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5: GartreeHundred", Pages 157-163, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22055...
and Gartree. These later became hundreds, with the division of Goscote into West Goscote and East Goscote, and the addition of Sparkenhoe hundred from...
"Scraptoft". A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, GartreeHundred. London: Victoria County History. 1964. pp. 287–292. Retrieved 9 September...
Leicestershire Part 5 Guthlaxton Hundred, Nottingham, 2011 Cox B, The Place-names of Leicestershire Part 4 GartreeHundred, Nottingham, 2009 Cox B, The Place-names...
within the Church Langton parish of Leicester County, in the ancient hundred of Gartree, in the southern section of the county. Upon the opening of St Andrews...
Harborough', in A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, GartreeHundred". London: British History Online. pp. 133–153. Retrieved 14 May 2021...
"Billesdon', in A History of the County of Leicestershire". London: GartreeHundred. pp. 6–21. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved...
Stockerston indicate occupation during that era. The village was in the GartreeHundred and had two mentions in the Domesday Book. Stockerston is recorded...
2021. 'Gumley', A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5 : GartreeHundred. 1964. pp. 116–121. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved...
"Stockerston". A History of the County of Leicestershire, Volume 5: GartreeHundred. London: British History Online. p. 303–8. Retrieved 19 September 2016...
"'Stockerston', in A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, GartreeHundred". British History Online. pp. 303–308. Retrieved 2 May 2018. Lee, J...
"Saddington". A History of the County of Leicestershire. Vol. 5. London: GartreeHundred. pp. 282–287. Retrieved 21 November 2015 – via British History Online...
the Domesday Book Survey of 1086, Shangton was a settlement in the Hundred of Gartree, Leicestershire. In 1086, it had an estimate of 22.6 households, representing...
on the Hill". A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5: GartreeHundred. pp. 61–68. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved...
Wikimedia Commons 'Theddingworth', A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5: GartreeHundred (1964), pp. 312–321. Retrieved 7 September 2008 v t e...
"Carlton Curlieu". A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, GartreeHundred. London, UK: Victoria County History. pp. 77–81. Archived from the...
County History, A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, GartreeHundred (London, 1964), pp. 193-213 [6] Lee & McKinley, Victoria County History...
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