Glen Parva
Glen Parva is a civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England, with a population of over 17,000. The population of the civil parish, including Eyres Monsell was 17,189 in the 2011 census.Photo: Tammy Winand, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 17,200 residents
- Description: village in Leicestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Glen Parka” and “Glen Parva, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include South Wigston railway station and All Saints’ Church, Blaby.
South Wigston railway station
Railway station
Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
South Wigston railway station serves the village of South Wigston, Leicestershire, England, on the Birmingham to Peterborough Line 4 miles south of Leicester and the west-north loop of Wigston Junction.
All Saints’ Church, Blaby
Church
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All Saints' Church is a church in Blaby, Leicestershire. It is a Grade I listed building.
St Thomas’ Church, South Wigston
Church
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St Thomas’ Church, South Wigston is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in South Wigston, Leicestershire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Wigston and Aylestone.
South Wigston
Suburb
South Wigston is a large village to the south of Leicester, England. It is outside the city boundary, forming part of the Oadby and Wigston district of Leicestershire. The population at the 2011 census was 7,490.
Aylestone
Suburb
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Aylestone is a suburb of Leicester in Leicestershire, England, southwest of the city centre and east of the River Soar. St Andrew's Church, Aylestone dates from the 13th century. Aylestone is situated 1½ miles north of Glen Parva.
Wigston
Town
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Wigston, or Wigston Magna, is a town in the Oadby and Wigston district of Leicestershire, England, just south of Leicester on the A5199. It had a population of 37,261 in 2024. Wigston is situated 2 miles east of Glen Parva.
Glen Parva
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Glen Parva, Blaby, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.57984° or 52° 34′ 47″ northLongitude
-1.15055° or 1° 9′ 2″ westPopulation
17,200Elevation
272 feet (83 metres)Open location code
9C4WHRHX+WQOpenStreetMap ID
node 27148347OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2648448Wikidata ID
Q5567956
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Glen Parva” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “গ্লেন পারবা”
- Cebuano: “Glen Parva”
- Chinese: “格伦帕瓦”
- Chinese: “格倫帕瓦”
- Dutch: “Glen Parva”
- French: “Glen Parva”
- German: “Glen Parva”
- Gujarati: “ગ્લેન પાર્વા”
- Irish: “Glen Parva”
- Japanese: “グレン・パーバ”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ಲೆನ್ ಪರ್ವಾ”
- Korean: “글렌 파르바”
- Ladin: “Glen Parva”
- Lithuanian: “Glen Parva”
- Polish: “Glen Parva”
- Portuguese: “Glen Parva”
- Russian: “Глен-Парва”
- Spanish: “Glen Parva”
- Swedish: “Glen Parva”
- Tamil: “கிளென் பார்வ”
- Telugu: “గ్లెన్ పర్వ”
- Turkish: “Glen Parva”
- Urdu: “جلین پاروا”
- Welsh: “Glen Parva”
- “Glen Parva”
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