Blaston

Blaston
Blaston
	Blaston Parish Church
	Blaston Location within Leicestershire
District	Harborough;
Shire county	Leicestershire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MARKET HARBOROUGH
Postcode district	LE16
Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Rutland and Melton;
	List of places UK England Leicestershire 52°33′04″N 0°48′50″W / 52.551°N 0.814°W

Blaston is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire. It is a small parish with a population of 54 according to the 2001 census. As the population had remained less than 100 details from the 2011 census are included in the civil parish of Horninghold. The village is near Nevill Holt, Medbourne and Hallaton. The parish church of St Giles was rebuilt in 1878. Blaston was first mentioned in Domesday Book and the name probably means the settlement of Bleath (an Anglo-Saxon).^[1]

Annual Show

There is an annual Show on the last Sunday in June, organised by the Blaston and District Agricultural Society.^[2] In 2011, the show took place on Sunday 26 June, close to the nearby village of Slawston. The Show raises money for local charities.

References

^ Ekwall, E. (1940) The Concise Dictionary of English Place-names, 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press
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External links

52°33′04″N 0°48′50″W / 52.551°N 0.814°W / 52.551; -0.814

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[1] Ekwall, E. (1940) The Concise Dictionary of English Place-names, 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press

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