Blaby
Blaby is a town in the Blaby District in central Leicestershire, England, some five miles south of Leicester city centre. At the time of the 2011 census, Blaby had a population of 6,194, falling slightly from 6,240 in 2001.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 6,300 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK
- Also known as: “Blaby, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include All Saints’ Church, Blaby and Church of St Peter.
All Saints’ Church, Blaby
Church
Photo: Chemical Engineer, CC0.
All Saints' Church is a church in Blaby, Leicestershire. It is a Grade I listed building.
Narborough Bog
Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Narborough Bog is an 8.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Narborough in Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Wigston and Littlethorpe.
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. South Wigston is situated 1½ miles east of Blaby.
Littlethorpe
Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Littlethorpe is a small village approximately six miles south of Leicester, separated from the village of Narborough by the Leicester to Birmingham railway line, and the River Soar of which it is the true discharge. Littlethorpe is situated 1½ miles west of Blaby.
Narborough
Village
Photo: Kev747, Public domain.
Narborough is a large village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England, around six miles southwest of Leicester. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 8,498. Narborough is situated 2 miles west of Blaby.
Blaby
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Blaby, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.5732° or 52° 34′ 24″ northLongitude
-1.16464° or 1° 9′ 53″ westPopulation
6,300Elevation
236 feet (72 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BY4Open location code
9C4WHRFP+74OpenStreetMap ID
node 26852408OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Blaby” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Blaby”
- Bengali: “ব্লাবি”
- Cebuano: “Blaby”
- Chinese: “不拉貝”
- Chinese: “不拉贝”
- Dutch: “Blaby”
- French: “Blaby”
- German: “Blaby”
- Gujarati: “બ્લેબી”
- Irish: “Blaby”
- Italian: “Blaby”
- Japanese: “ブラビー”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ಲಾಬಿ”
- Korean: “블라비”
- Ladin: “Blaby”
- Lithuanian: “Blabis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blaby”
- Norwegian: “Blaby”
- Polish: “Blaby”
- Portuguese: “Blaby”
- Romanian: “Blaby”
- Russian: “Блэби”
- Spanish: “Blaby”
- Swedish: “Blaby”
- Tamil: “பிளாபிய்”
- Telugu: “బ్లేబి”
- Turkish: “Blaby”
- Urdu: “بلابی”
- Welsh: “Blaby”
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