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Donisthorpe is a village whose center is in the English county of Derbyshire, next to the River Mease which there forms the border with the neighbouring county of Leicestershire. The Derbyshire town of Swadlincote is usually given as the nearest town for the purposes of the postal service.

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Donisthorpe (http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Donisthorpe/)'s GENUKI page

Donisthorpe is the surname of:

Horace Donisthorpe, British myrmecologist
Wordsworth Donisthorpe, British barrister and pioneer of film

Categories: UK geography stubs | Villages in Leicestershire

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Donisthorpe (3237 words)
	Donisthorpe parish is in the Southern division of the county, partly in the hundred of Repton and Gresley and partly in that of West Goscote, in the union and county court district of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 114 miles from London, 3 south-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 8 south-east from Burton-upon-Trent.
	The population of the hamlet of Donisthorpe in 1881 was 772.
	Donisthorpe parish is in the Southern division of the county, partly in the hundred of Repton and Gresley and partly in that of West Goscote, Swadlincote petty sessional division, in the union and county court district of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 114 miles from London, 3 south-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 8 south-east from Burton-upon-Trent.

I.A.Recordings: Industrial Site - Donisthorpe Colliery (1502 words)
	Donisthorpe Colliery was near Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire in the English Midlands.
	At the time of closure Donisthorpe was only one of two mines in Britain to still retain and use a steam winding engine (on the Number 2 Pit).
	Donisthorpe Colliery was situated at NGR SK 313 143

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