Place:Blaby District, Leicestershire, England

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Blaby is a local government district or district municipality in Leicestershire, England.

The district is named after the village of Blaby. It covers the civil parish of Blaby and 23 others. The district might be considered as the southern part of the Leicester urban area: this applies especially to the parishes of Braunstone Town (including the commuter housing development of Thorpe Astley); Glenfield (the location of the headquarters of Leicestershire County Council), Kirby Muxloe, Leicester Forest-East (a post-1974 parish), and Glen Parva. There are plans to extend this urban area significantly through a large scale housing development, in the rural parish of Lubbesthorpe, and expansion of the industrial area in the neighbouring parish of Enderby.

The district traces its origins to the Blaby Poor Law Union, which was founded in 1834. The Union became Blaby Rural District in 1894. The town of Oadby was removed in 1913 to form an urban district. In 1935 parts were transferred to Leicester, while at the same time it took in part of the abolished Hinckley Rural District. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the area was reconstituted as a non-metropolitan district.

Blaby district has a population of more than 95,800 (according to a mid-2014 estimate) in an area of 50.4 sq mi (130.5 km2), yielding a population density of 1,900/sq mi (730/km2).

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