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Sileby

Sileby is a former industrial village and civil parish in the Soar Valley in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England.

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The place

Sileby is a former industrial village and civil parish in the Soar Valley in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is located between Leicester and Loughborough. The village is close to Barrow upon Soar, Mountsorrel, Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake, Seagrave and Cossington. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 7,835, rising to 8,959 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sileby

10 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
    St Peter & St Paul, Syston

    St Peter and St Paul's Church, Syston is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Syston, Leicestershire.

    4 km · Grade I listed parish church in Syston, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Botolph

    St Botolph's Church is a Grade II* listed Church of England church in the village of Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire, England.

    2.7 km · church in Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of the Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity Church is a church in Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.7 km · church in Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church, Sileby is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Leicester in Sileby, Leicestershire.

    400 m · church in Sileby, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sileby Primitive Methodist Church

    Sileby Primitive Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Sileby, Leicestershire.

    300 m · church in Sileby, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sileby Wesleyan Methodist Church

    Sileby Wesleyan Methodist Church is a former Methodist church in Sileby, Leicestershire.

    300 m · church in Sileby, Leicestershire, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Mary the Virgin and St John the Baptist, Rothley

    St Mary & St John is a Church of England parish church in the centre of Rothley, England. It has a congregation of mixed ages and backgrounds.

    3.1 km · church in Rothley, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Barrow Gravel Pits

    Barrow Gravel Pits is a 35.6 hectares biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Barrow upon Soar in Leicestershire. This site in the flood plain of the River Soar has open water in the former gravel pits, marshes, hay meadows, woodland and scrub.

    3.8 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Halstead Road Centenary Pasture

    Halstead Road Centenary Pasture is a 3.2-hectare local nature reserve in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by Charnwood Borough Council.

    3.3 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Moira Junction

    Moira Junction is a 3.5-hectare Local Nature Reserve north of Moira in Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by Leicestershire County Council.

    3.1 km · park in United Kingdom · 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.

Go there

Getting to Sileby

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 19 km · Birmingham (BHX), 53 km · Manchester (MAN), 104 km
Stations
Barrow-upon-Soar railway station, 3.4 km · Sileby railway station, 200 m
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Sileby
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £8–10
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Sileby
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–20
  • Luton, Luton → Sileby
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sileby

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 Sileby. 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

    228 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    299 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    411 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    412 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    446 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sileby

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

  • Charnwoodnon-metropolitan district in Leicestershire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Systontown in Leicestershire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Barrow upon Soarvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England3.8 km
  • Mountsorrelvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK2.7 km
  • Rothleyvillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK3.2 km
  • Seagravevillage and civil parish in Leicestershire, England2.7 km