South Kilworth is a village and

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in the southern part of

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

, England, south of

North Kilworth North Kilworth is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district, in south Leicestershire, England, north of South Kilworth. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 597. Largely bypassed by the A4304 road, the village con ...

. The parish has a population of 430, according to the 2001 Census, and is part of the

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Harborough Market Harborough is a market town in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, in the far southeast of the county, forming part of the border with Northamptonshire. Market Harborough's population was 25,143 in 2020. It is the ad ...

. The population had risen to 513 at the 2011 census.

History

At the time of the

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(1086) there were two settlements Chivelesworde and Cleveliorde which later differentiated into North and South Kilworth. In ''-iorde'' can be immediately recognised ''yard'', and the ''-worde'' or ''-worth'' form of the same suffix can be recognised in ''garth'', all of them words denoting hedged enclosures, which each belonged to ''Ceofel''. In it was noted that the site to the south of the village of the "manor house", actually a

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of Selby Abbey, Yorkshire,''History of Leicestershire'' (Victoria County History) vol. I p. 27

. was marked by a dry moat 22 feet wide, and fishponds to its northwest. Both this site and the "Old Hall" site in North Kilworth had been part of the lands owned across the border in Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire, by a certain Leuric. In 1920, March 10, The Prince of Wales (

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) attended the Pytchley Hunt at South Kilworth. From 1956, the Westerby Basset Hounds have been kennelled in South Kilworth.

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Villages in Leicestershire Civil parishes in Harborough District {{Leicestershire-geo-stub