Beeby
Sign in to saveBeeby is a village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England, with a population of 115 according to the 2011 census. It is situated north-east of Leicester, nearer to the villages of Keyham and Hungarton in the neighbouring district of Harborough and lies along the Barkby Brook. This small rural hamlet can be succinctly described as "a series of scattered houses that remain of the shrunken medieval village". The parish also includes the hamlet of Little Beeby, which consists of several houses within the settlement and is located 200m south east of the All Saints Chu
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Place details
- Locality
- Charnwood
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Beeby
- UK place.static_image_name
- All Saints' Church, Beeby - geograph.org.uk - 497003.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- All Saints Church, Beeby
- UK place.population
- 115
- UK place.shire_district
- Charnwood
- UK place.shire_county
- Leicestershire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.post_town
- Leicester
- UK place.postcode_area
- LE
- UK place.postcode_district
- LE7
- UK place.dial_code
- 0116
- UK place.os_grid_reference
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Charnwood
- Population
- +115
- Image
- Beeby, Leicestershire - geograph.org.uk - 35594.jpg
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Article
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- Topography
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- Historic sites and landmarks
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Beeby is a village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England, with a population of 115 according to the 2011 census. It is situated north-east of Leicester, nearer to the villages of Keyham and Hungarton in the neighbouring district of Harborough and lies along the Barkby Brook. This small rural hamlet can be succinctly described as "a series of scattered houses that remain of the shrunken medieval village". The parish also includes the hamlet of Little Beeby, which consists of several houses within the settlement and is located 200m south east of the All Saints Church.
==History== The villages name is of Anglo-Saxon origin. In the Domesday Book of 1086, the place name was recorded as "Bebi" and derives from the Old English pre-7th Century "beo", meaning bee, plus the Old Norse "byr", a settlement or village; hence, "bee settlement".