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

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.
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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.
- 01St 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 - 02Church 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 - 03Church 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 - 04Church 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 - 05Sileby Primitive Methodist Church
Sileby Primitive Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Sileby, Leicestershire.
300 m · church in Sileby, England · Wikipedia - 06Sileby Wesleyan Methodist Church
Sileby Wesleyan Methodist Church is a former Methodist church in Sileby, Leicestershire.
300 m · church in Sileby, Leicestershire, England · Wikipedia - 07Church 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 - 08Barrow 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 - 09Halstead 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 - 10Moira 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
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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 → Sileby60 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £8–10
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Sileby112 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £15–20
- Luton, Luton → Sileby106 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £12–15
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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.
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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