Thorpe Mandeville is a village and civil parish in South Northamptonshire, England about 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Banbury in neighbouring Oxfordshire. The hamlet of Lower Thorpe lies just north of the village.
The population of the parish has grown slowly over the centuries: the 1801 census recorded it as 137, the 1991 census recorded it as 178 and the 2001 census recorded it as 194.
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