Wilbarston

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Wilbarston
Northamptonshire

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

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References

  1. Gover, J. E. B.; Mawer, A. & Stenton, F.M.: 'Place-Names of Northamptonshire , Part' (English Place-Names Society, 1933)