Name | Smeeton Westerby |
Alt names | Esmeditone | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 163 | | Smitetone | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 163 | | Smitone | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 163 | | Smeeton-Westerby | source: Family History Library Catalog | | Smeeton | source: village making up the parish | | Westerby | source: village making up the parish |
Type | Township, Civil parish |
Coordinates | 52.533°N 1°W |
Located in | Leicestershire, England |
See also | Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire, England | parish in which it was a township | | Gartree Hundred, Leicestershire, England | hundred in which the parish was included | | Market Harborough Rural, Leicestershire, England | rural district, 1894 - 1974 | | Harborough District, Leicestershire, England | district municipality from 1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Smeeton Westerby is a village and civil parish in the Harborough District of Leicestershire, England. It is located in the countryside approximately nine miles southeast of Leicester. It is close to Saddington, Kibworth and Fleckney and is situated 500m north of the Grand Union Canal. The nearest railway station is approximately 6.8 miles away and located in Market Harborough.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Smeeton Westerby from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "SMEETON-WESTERBY, a township-chapelry in Kibworth-Beauchamp parish, Leicester; ½ a mile S of Kibworth [railway] station, 1 NE of the Grand Union canal, and 5¼ NW of Market Harborough. Post town, Kibworth-Harcourt, under Leicester. Real property: £3,293. Population: 533. Houses: 114. The property is much subdivided. The canal here burst its banks in Sept. 1865, and was emptied for a distance of 10 miles. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value: £200. Patron: the Rector of Kibworth. The church was built in 1849."
Originally Smeeton and Westerby were two separate hamlets, but they became a single civil parish in 1866. Today there is just one settlement with the double name.
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