Until the mid-20th century, it was a hamlet of about twenty houses or cottages, several of which survive. There is also a 19th-century church (All Saints Church, Thorpe Acre with Dishley, was built in 1845 and extended in 1968) and an old hostelry, The Plough Inn. The population is included in Loughborough–Garendon Ward of Charnwood Council.