Editing Guthlaxton

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'''Guthlaxton''' is an ancient [[hundred (division)|hundred]] of [[Leicestershire]].  Its jurisdiction was in the south of the county, and covered [[Lutterworth]] and [[Wigston Magna]].  At the time of the [[Domesday Book]] in 1086, it was one of Leicestershire's four [[wapentake]]s, and covered a much larger area,<ref>[https://opendomesday.org/hundred/guthlaxton/ Open Domesday: Guthlaxton Wapentake], accessed March 2020.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://domesdaymap.co.uk/hundred/guthlaxton/ |title=Hundred of Guthlaxton &#124; Domesday Book |accessdate=2015-01-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405193850/http://domesdaymap.co.uk/hundred/guthlaxton/ |archivedate=2015-04-05 }} Domesday Map: Guthlaxton</ref> including [[Market Bosworth]] and [[Hinckley]], which would later be made part of the [[Sparkenhoe]] hundred.

The original meeting place of the hundred was at the Guthlaxton stone.<ref>Sam Turner, ''[http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/5/turner.html Aspects of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw]'' {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704010041/http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/5/turner.html |date=2007-07-04 }}</ref>  The [[Sparkenhoe (hundred)|Sparkenhoe]] hundred was split from Guthlaxton in 1346.<ref>John Curtis, ''A Topographical History of the County of Leicester'' (1831)</ref>

Guthlaxton College in [[Wigston Magna]] was named after the hundred. The school was renamed [[Wigston College]] in 2015.

In the late 19th century the administrative aspects of most hundreds were given to other specialized governmental divisions.

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