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Ashby Magna

Village in Leicestershire, England

Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	Ashby Magna church - geograph.org.uk - 36533.jpg
static_image_caption	St Mary's Church, Ashby Magna
coordinates
official_name	Ashby Magna
population	347
population_ref	(2011)
shire_district	Harborough
shire_county	Leicestershire
region	East Midlands
constituency_westminster	South Leicestershire
post_town	Lutterworth
postcode_district	LE17
postcode_area	LE
dial_code	01455
os_grid_reference	SP5690

Ashby Magna is a small English village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire. The parish has a population of 294, increasing at the 2011 census to 347. It is in the west of the district, and lies midway between junctions 20 and 21 of the M1. Nearby places are Willoughby Waterleys, Peatling Parva and Dunton Bassett.

The village is of Danish origin and recorded in the Domesday Book as 'Essebi' or 'Asseby'. Its name derives from the 'ash' tree, from 'by', Old Danish for a farmstead or settlement, and from 'Magna', Latin for great. It was large by medieval standards but the population has remained static at around 300–400.

The Anglican church of St Mary's is a grade II* listed building currently on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register as being in a poor state and it has been the subject of heritage crime.

References

"Civil Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics.
church warden Jennifer Bonvie-Marsland contact details 07899705247 [http://www.achurchnearyou.com/ashby-magna-st-mary/ Achurchnearyou] retrieved 12 February 2015
"Heritage at Risk 2018 - East Midlands". Historic England.

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