Sparkenhoe

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Sparkenhoe was a hundred of Leicestershire, England. It was in the south-west of the county, covering Market Bosworth and Hinckley, broadly corresponding to the modern districts of Blaby and Hinckley and Bosworth.

Sparkenhoe hundred was not recorded in the Domesday Book as a wapentake, being formed later from part of Guthlaxton and Goscote.

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