Barkby, Leicestershire

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Barkby is a village in Leicestershire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Barkby within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Barkby in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Barkby, par. and township, N. Leicestershire, 1½ mile SE. of Syston ry. sta. and 4½ miles N.E. of Leicester, 2290 ac., pop. 1046; township, pop. 579; P.O.

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Barkby-Thorpe, township, Barkby par., in N. of co. and 3 miles NE. of Leicester, pop. 47.

Barkby in the Domesday Book

A village in Goscote hundred, in the county of Leicestershire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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