Ashby Parva
| Ashby Parva | |
| Leicestershire | |
|---|---|
 St Peter's church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP527884 |
| Location: | 52°29’28"N, 1°13’30"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 233 (2011) |
| Post town: | Lutterworth |
| Postcode: | LE17 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Harborough |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Leicestershire |
Ashby Parva is a village in Leicestershire, to the west of the M1 motorway, and close to Ullesthorpe, Leire and Bitteswell. It is about three miles away from Lutterworth.
The parish had a population of 233 at the 2011 census.
The village is recorded in the Domesday Book.[1]
Ashby Parva is the home of the Midlands Roller Arena, which used to host Major League Roller Hockey Europe competitions in the United Kingdom. It is the only purpose built inline hockey arena in the country that is solely for the use of this one sport and it is used by thousands of athletes every year.
The Civil War
During the Civil War, parliamentary troops from Warwickshire garrisons visited Ashby Parva and the surrounding villages in Guthlaxton Hundred,[2] stealing horses and availing themselves of "free quarter". In May 1642 a hundred men from the Coventry garrison stayed three hours at Ashby Parva to avail themselves of "meat, drink and provinder". In 1646 the inhabitants claimed ten pounds from the Warwickshire County Committee for a visit by Captain Wells and sixty men from Warwick in 1644, during which the troops quartered for two days and consumed "diet and horsemeat" worth an estimated ten pounds.
See also
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Ashby Parva) |
- Parva Ashby Parva in the Domesday Book