Kilby Bridge

Kilby Bridge
Kilby Bridge in 2013
Kilby Bridge Location within Leicestershire
Population	36 (2011)
OS grid reference	SP609970
•  London	84.64 mi (136.21 km)
Civil parish	Oadby and Wigston, unparished area
District	Oadby and Wigston
Shire county	Leicestershire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WIGSTON
Postcode district	LE18
Dialling code	0116
Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Harborough
Website	Oadby & Wigston Borough Council
List of places UK England Leicestershire 52°34′03″N1°06′05″W / 52.567551°N 1.101521°W / 52.567551; -1.101521

Kilby Bridge is a hamlet on the A5199 Welford Road in the borough of Oadby and Wigston, Leicestershire, England, a few miles south of the city of Leicester. The population of the hamlet at the 2011 census was 36. ^[1]

Geography

Kilby Bridge forms part of the borough of Oadby and Wigston, the southernmost boundary of which is along the River Sence, situated in the Sence valley 1.32 miles (2.12 km) south of Wigston Magna between the village of Newton Harcourt 1.71 miles (2.75 km) to the east and the deserted medieval village of Foston 0.63 miles (1.01 km) to the south. The hamlet has two bridges that take the Welford Road over the River Sence and the Grand Union Canal. The third bridge takes the Midland Main Line railway over the Welford Road to the north of the hamlet.

Grand Union Canal - Kilby Bridge (2011)

History

Mention of a stone bridge over the River Sence at Kilby Bridge can be found in records dating back to the late 13th century (c. 1282–92). Originally written as Stanbrig or Stanbric (Stone Bridge) on the river, the bridge is listed in what was then known as Kilby gate (the road to Kilby) in the Broad Meadow up to at least 1731. ^[2] The Grand Union Canal arrived in the early 1790s ^[3] and the railway line arrived in the mid-1850s. ^[4]

Today

The commercial activities of the area include a canal side public house, the Navigation Inn; a depot owned by British Waterways; and a car dealership.

References

1. "E00131884 Census Output Area (OA)". doogal.co.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
2. Hoskins, W.G. (1936). "The Fields of Wigston Magna" (PDF). Leicestershire Archaeology Society. 19: 194. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
3. "Leicester Line (Grand Union Canal)". canalrivertrust.org.uk. Canal & River Trust . Retrieved 1 September 2022.
4. "Opening of the Leicester and Hitchin Line". Bedfordshire Mercury. British Newspaper Archive. 9 May 1857. Retrieved 5 July 2016.