Until the mid-twentieth century, it was a hamlet of about twenty houses or cottages, several of which survive.

The population is included in the Loughborough-Garendon and Loughborough Ashby Wards of Charnwood Borough Council.

[citation needed] In the 1960s and early 1970s, Thorpe Acre was chosen for a large new housing estate; these developments have completely subsumed the old village.

In recent years, the council estates have suffered from crime problems and antisocial behaviour not unlike such problems experienced on many council estates up and down the United Kingdom.

[citation needed] All Saints Church, Thorpe Acre with Dishley, was built in 1845 and extended in 1965.