Great Dalby is a village and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

, now in the parish of

Burton and Dalby Burton and Dalby is a civil parish in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, to the south of Melton Mowbray. It covers the villages of Burton Lazars, Great Dalby and Little Dalby Little Dalby is a village and former civil parish, n ...

, in the Melton district, in the county 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, with a population of between 300 and 400. It is referred to in some

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records as Dalby Magna. It is 3 miles south of

Melton Mowbray Melton Mowbray () is a town in Leicestershire, England, north-east of Leicester, and south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, known below Melton as the Wreake. The town had a population 27,670 in 2019. The town is sometimes promo ...

History

The parish church of St. Swithun was originally built during the 13th century and renovated several times since then. It is a Grade II* listed building. The village's name derives from the

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

''dalr-by'' meaning 'farm/settlement in a valley'. In 1931 the parish had a population of 323. On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished and to form "Burton and Dalby".

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Villages in Leicestershire Former civil parishes in Leicestershire Borough of Melton {{Leicestershire-geo-stub