The parish church, All Saints, dates from the 13th century at least though was probably built on the site of an earlier Saxon church. The village railway station is a stop on the line between Birmingham and Leicester.
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Leicestershire Places (5) : Narborough
Narborough is a village to the South West of Leicester. Narborough has Saxon origins with the name of the village originally Nor Burh or North Fort. The village was too small to be included in the Domesday Book. The village indeed has remained small for most of it's existence, even as late as the 17th century the population of the village was around two hundred. It was only in late Victorian times the population exceeded a thousand.
The parish church, All Saints, dates from the 13th century at least though was probably built on the site of an earlier Saxon church. The village railway station is a stop on the line between Birmingham and Leicester.
The parish church, All Saints, dates from the 13th century at least though was probably built on the site of an earlier Saxon church. The village railway station is a stop on the line between Birmingham and Leicester.
