Village in Leicestershire, England

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.

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Birmingham, West Midlands → Old Dalby
71 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £9–12
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Manchester, Greater Manchester → Old Dalby
111 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £15–20
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Luton, Luton → Old Dalby
110 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–17
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What is in and around Old Dalby, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Old Dalby has

YScheduled flightsNottingham, Leicestershire (EMA), 22 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Loughborough, 14 km.

52.807°, -1.001°

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".

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.