Thistleton
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For the village in Lancashire, see Thistleton, Lancashire.
Thistleton is the most northerly village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.
The Thistleton area has shown evidence of Romano-British occupation including a large temple precinct and a possible small market settlement.
On 28th September, 1811 a massive crowd watched a prizefight at Thistleton Gap. Tom Cribb fought the American Tom Molineaux in a re-match for the heavyweight championship of England. The venue was chosen as the three counties of Rutland, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire met there and if the police arrived to halt the illegal fight the boxers and crowd could escape across the county boundary. In the eleventh round Cribb knocked out Molineaux.
