Gumley

Gumley
St Helen's Church, Gumley
Gumley is located in Leicestershire
Gumley
Gumley
Location within Leicestershire
Population209 (2011)
OS grid referenceSP6817190018
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMARKET HARBOROUGH
Postcode districtLE16
Dialling code01858
PoliceLeicestershire
FireLeicestershire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
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52°30′16″N 1°00′00″W / 52.504528°N 1.000130°W / 52.504528; -1.000130

Gumley is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district, in the county of Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. The closest town is Market Harborough. The population of the civil parish (including Laughton) at the 2011 census was 209.[1]

The name Gumley is a contraction of the Anglo-Saxon Gutmundesleah – meaning Godmund's clearing.[2]

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.