Somerby
Somerby is a village and civil parish in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is 5+1⁄2 miles south of Melton Mowbray. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 812.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Village with 548 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Somerby, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of All Saints and Church of All Saints.
Burrough Hill
Peak
Photo: Nev1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Burrough Hill is an Iron Age hillfort in Burrough on the Hill, 7 miles south of Melton Mowbray in the English county of Leicestershire. Situated on a promontory about 210 metres above sea level, the site commands views over the surrounding countryside for miles around.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pickwell and Burrough on the Hill.
Pickwell
Village
Photo: Roger Templeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pickwell is a small, hill-crest village 5 miles south-east of Melton Mowbray in the Melton district, in Leicestershire which used to have an ecclesiastical parish of its own and is since the early 20th century has been in the civil parish and Church of England parish of Somerby which is 0.5 miles to the SSW, connected by an almost straight lane.
Burrough on the Hill
Village
Photo: Kev747, Public domain.
Burrough-on-the Hill is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Somerby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.
Burrough Court
Locality
Burrough Court is a former stately home in Burrough on the Hill near Melton Mowbray in the East Midlands, England. Burrough Court was once the site of a large country house of which today only the stable yard, chauffeur's and grooms' quarters remain. Burrough Court is situated 2 miles west of Somerby.
Somerby
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Somerby, Melton District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.68728° or 52° 41′ 14″ northLongitude
-0.84878° or 0° 50′ 56″ westPopulation
548Elevation
600 feet (183 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SRBOpen location code
9C4XM5P2+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 26951319OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Somerby” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Somerby”
- Dutch: “Somerby, Leicestershire”
- French: “Somerby”
- Irish: “Somerby”
- Italian: “Somerby”
- Ladin: “Somerby (Leicestershire)”
- Ladin: “Somerby”
- Polish: “Somerby (Leicestershire)”
- Polish: “Somerby”
- Spanish: “Somerby”
- Swedish: “Somerby, Leicestershire”
- Swedish: “Somerby”
- Turkish: “Somerby, Leicestershire”
- Welsh: “Somerby, Swydd Gaerlŷr”
- Welsh: “Somerby”
- “Somerby”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Somerby Primary School and Somerby Village Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Somerby”. Photo: Robert Cutts, CC BY 2.0.