Launde

Launde is a civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, bordering Rutland.

It gives its name to an electoral division of Leicestershire that stretches all the way from Scraptoft, Thurnby and Stoughton, near Leicester, to the border with Rutland.

The Elizabethan house embodies the relics of the old priory and is an E-shaped building of two storeys.

There are numerous memorials of the Simpson family who bought Launde in 1763 and enlarged the house and laid out the plantations.

[1] Launde Woods is a nature reserve managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust, and part of it is Launde Big Wood, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.