Narborough is a village in the south west of Leicestershire.
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| A street in Narborough |
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| County: | Leicestershire |
| District: | Blaby |
| Population: | 8448 (2011 census) |
Narborough has Saxon origins with the name of the village originally Nor Burh or North Fort. The village was not included in the Domesday Book possibly due to being too small. 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 that the population finally exceeded a thousand.
Major employers in the village included the Empire Stone Works who made concrete cladding and the headquarters of the Alliance & Leicester building society. Both have now gone.
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 river Soar also flows through the village.
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| Narborough railway station |
