DONISTHORPE, a hamlet partly in the parish of
NETHER-SEAL, western division of the hundred of GOSCOTE,
county of LEICESTER, and partly in the parish of
CHURCH-GRESLEY, hundred of REPTON-AND-GRESLEY,
county of DERBY, 3 miles (S.W.) from Ashby de la
Zouch, containing, with the hamlet of Oakthorpe, 732
inhabitants. Donisthorpe is in the honour of Tutbury,
duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a
court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for
the recovery of debts under 40.?.