thorpe acre is located in the north-west of loughborough. 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. many of the roads are named after famous poets. after the second world war, part of thorpe acre was developed further, largely in the 1950s for employees of brush engineering works, 100 dwellings being built of no-fines concrete. in the 1960s and early 1970s, thorpe acre was chosen for a new estate that subsumed the old village. two of loughborough's secondary schools, charnwood college and de lisle college, are located on the edge of the estate. the suburb also bounds garendon park, a large deer park from the 18th century.