Kilby Bridge
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{{Infobox UK place
|official_name = Kilby Bridge
|static_image_name = File:Pub and housing at Kilby Bridge, Leicestershire - geograph.org.uk - 3715488.jpg
|static_image_caption = Kilby Bridge in 2013
|civil_parish = Oadby and Wigston, unparished area
|country = England
|region = East Midlands
|shire_county = Leicestershire
|shire_district = Oadby and Wigston
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|population = 36
|population_ref = (2011)
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|london_distance_mi = 84.64
|post_town = WIGSTON
|postcode_area = LE
|postcode_district = LE18
|dial_code = 0116
|constituency_westminster = Harborough
|website = [https://www.oadby-wigston.gov.uk/ Oadby & Wigston Borough Council]
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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.{{cite web |url=https://www.doogal.co.uk/COA?code=E00131884 |title=E00131884 Census Output Area (OA) |website=doogal.co.uk |access-date=2022-09-01}}
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 {{convert|1.32|mi|km}} south of Wigston Magna between the village of Newton Harcourt {{convert|1.71|mi|km}} to the east and the deserted medieval village of Foston {{convert|0.63|mi|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.
File:Grand Union Canal - Kilby - geograph.org.uk - 2660825.jpg
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.{{cite journal |last=Hoskins |first=W.G. |date=1936 |title=The Fields of Wigston Magna |url=https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/WigstonPagesfromVolume19.pdf |journal=Leicestershire Archaeology Society |volume=19 |issue= |page=194 |access-date=2022-09-01}} The Grand Union Canal arrived in the early 1790s{{cite web |url=https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network/leicester-line-grand-union-canal |title=Leicester Line (Grand Union Canal) |website=canalrivertrust.org.uk |publisher=Canal & River Trust |date= |access-date=2022-09-01}} and the railway line arrived in the mid-1850s.{{cite news |title=Opening of the Leicester and Hitchin Line |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001289/18570509/052/0003 |newspaper=Bedfordshire Mercury |location=British Newspaper Archive |date=9 May 1857 |access-date=5 July 2016}}
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
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Category:Hamlets in Leicestershire
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