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Kilby

Kilby is a village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England.

Kilby
Kilby · U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer's Mate Johnny Bivera
The place

Kilby is a village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England. Kilby is the easternmost village in the district, and is 6.1 miles (9.8 km) south east of Leicester. Kilby civil parish includes the former parish of Foston and its deserted medieval village. Nearby places are Countesthorpe 2.21 miles (3.56 km), Fleckney 2.12 miles (3.41 km), Arnesby 1.96 miles (3.15 km), Wistow 1.4 miles (2.3 km) and Kilby Bridge 1.18 miles (1.90 km).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kilby

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.

  1. 01
    Wistow Hall

    Wistow Hall is a 17th-century country house in Wistow, Leicestershire, England which has been converted into an apartment building. It is Grade II* listed.

    2.2 km · country house in Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Peter

    St Peter's Church is a church in Arnesby, Leicestershire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.3 km · church building in Arnesby, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Kilby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 35 km · Birmingham (BHX), 46 km · London Luton (LTN), 90 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Kilby
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £7–9
  • Luton, Luton → Kilby
    88 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–13
  • London → Kilby
    133 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kilby

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 Kilby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    208 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    290 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    415 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    427 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    463 km

If you know how people move in Kilby – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kilby

Kilby is 10 km from Leicester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Q2223506town in Leicestershire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Countesthorpevillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK3.6 km
  • Peatling Magnavillage in Leicestershire, England, UK3.5 km
  • Fleckneyvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Wistowvillage and civil parish in Harborough, Leicestershire, England2.1 km
  • Newton Harcourtvillage in Leicestershire, United Kingdom2.3 km