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Old Dalby

Old Dalby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Broughton and Old Dalby, in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England.

Old Dalby
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The place

Old Dalby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Broughton and Old Dalby, in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England. It is located to the north-west of Melton Mowbray. It was originally known as "Wold Dalby" or "Dalby on the Wolds". In 1931 the parish had a population of 315. On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished to form "Broughton and Old Dalby".

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Old Dalby

One place 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
    St Luke's Church, Upper Broughton

    St Luke's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Upper Broughton.

    2.7 km · church in Upper Broughton, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Old Dalby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 22 km · Birmingham (BHX), 64 km · Manchester (MAN), 105 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Old Dalby
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £9–12
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Old Dalby
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £15–20
  • Luton, Luton → Old Dalby
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Old 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 Old Dalby. 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

    237 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    310 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    403 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    409 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    444 km

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Around it

Next door to Old Dalby

Old Dalby is 19 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.