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Wilbarston | |
Northamptonshire | |
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All Saints' Church, Wilbarston | |
Location | |
Grid reference: | SP813883 |
Location: | 52°29’12"N, 0°48’13"W |
Data | |
Population: | 753 (2011) |
Post town: | Market Harborough |
Postcode: | LE16 |
Dialling code: | 01536 |
Local Government | |
Council: | North Northamptonshire |
Parliamentary constituency: |
Kettering |
Wilbarston is a village in the norrth of Northamptonshire in the valley of the River Welland valley, which river marks the border with Leicestershire. Wilbarston is five miles from Market Harborough, a town spread across both counties, on the A427.
The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 753, including Pipewell and Carlton Purlieus.
The village's name means 'farm/settlement of Wilbeorht'.[1]
Outside links
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Wilbarston) |
References
- ↑ Gover, J. E. B.; Mawer, A. & Stenton, F.M.: 'Place-Names of Northamptonshire , Part' (English Place-Names Society, 1933)