Place:Ashby Parva, Leicestershire, England

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NameAshby Parva
Alt namesAshby-Parvasource: Family History Library Catalog
Little Ashbysource: Family History Library Catalog
Parva Essebisource: Domesday Book (1985) p 160
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates52.5°N 1.233°W
Located inLeicestershire, England
See alsoGuthlaxton Hundred, Leicestershire, Englandhundred in which the parish was included
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Ashby Parva is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. The parish had a population of 211 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 233 at the 2011 census. The village is in the west of the district, west of the M1 motorway, and nearby Ullesthorpe, Leire and Bitteswell. It is about 3 miles away from Lutterworth. The village was recorded in the Domesday Book. Ashby Parva is the home of the newly built Midlands Roller Arena, which used to host Major League Roller Hockey Europe competitions in the UK. It is the only purpose built inline hockey arena in the UK that is solely for the use of this one sport and it is used by thousands of athletes every year.

The village's name means 'farm/settlement by the ash trees'. 'Parva' is the Latin word for small.

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