Kilby, Main Street c.1965
Photo ref:
K125003

More about this scene
Kilby is a Scandinavian form of the Old English 'cilda-tun'; the first part means 'child', or more probably 'young nobleman'. This small village is set in an enclosure landscape of straight hawthorn hedges, between Fleckney and Countesthorpe, to the south of the city. The unprepossessing church of St Mary Magdalen by Henry Goddard (1813-99 - see St Andrew's, Countesthorpe) sits on the south side of the main street. This view looks at what amounts to 19th-century small-scale development along the Fleckney Road; the whole adds up to a very cordial rural scene, common over southern Leicestershire.
An extract from Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories.
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