Medbourne
village and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK
Medbourne is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 473.
Each year it competes with nearby Hallaton during the Bottle-kicking event on Easter Monday. It is believed that Medbourne, which lay on the Via Devana (Gartree Road), was a large market settlement at the time of Roman Britain.
The Village
Medbourne is a small, tranquil village just ten minutes from Market Harborough and fifteen minutes from Uppingham. The village has its own shop, known as Medbourne Village Stores and a pub called the Nevill Arms. The railway station closed as long ago as 1916. It is regarded as the most sought-after village to live within the Welland Valley.
The Sports & Social Club is on the Hallaton Road on the edge of the village and is home to the local football and cricket teams. Despite being in Leicestershire, Medbourne F.C. play in the premier division of the Northamptonshire Combination, which sits at the seventh level of the English non-league pyramid.
The public source identifies “Medbourne” as village and civil parish in Leicestershire, UK. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Medbourne, village and civil.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q11776781. Authority coordinates are 52.529, -0.822. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 1916.
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This entry incorporates text from “Medbourne” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.