Great Dalby
Great Dalby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Burton and Dalby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England, with a population of between 300 and 400.
Great Dalby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Burton and Dalby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England, with a population of between 300 and 400. It is referred to in some UK census records as Dalby Magna. It is 3 miles south of Melton Mowbray.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Dalby
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Burrough Hill
Burrough Hill is an Iron Age hillfort in Burrough on the Hill, 7 miles south of Melton Mowbray in the English county of Leicestershire. Situated on a promontory about 210 metres above sea level, the site commands views over the surrounding countryside for miles around.
3 km · Iron Age hill fort in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Burrough on the Hill Manor
Burrough on the Hill Manor is an 18th-century brick-built house in the village of Burrough on the Hill, in the civil parish of Somerby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is a grade II listed building.
4 km · house in Somerby, Melton, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Dalby
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 31 km · Birmingham (BHX), 65 km · London Luton (LTN), 101 km
- Stations
- RAF Melton Mowbray, 1.2 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Great Dalby73 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–12
- Luton, Luton → Great Dalby99 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £13–17
- London → Great Dalby145 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £17–23
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Great Dalby
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Great Dalby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Great Dalby – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Great Dalby
Great Dalby is 18 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Burton Lazarsvillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3.5 km
- Twyford and Thorpecivil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK3.9 km
- Burton and Dalbycivil parish in Leicestershire, UK2.5 km
- Little Dalbyvillage in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.5 km