Wilbarston

Wilbarston
Wilbarston
	Wilbarston Location within Northamptonshire
Population	753 (2011)
OS grid reference	SP8188
District	Kettering;
Shire county	Northamptonshire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Market Harborough
Postcode district	LE16
Dialling code	01536
Police	Northamptonshire
Fire	Northamptonshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Kettering;
	List of places UK England Northamptonshire 52°29′18″N 0°48′04″W / 52.4884°N 0.8012°W

Wilbarston is a village and civil parish in the English county of Northamptonshire in the Welland valley. It is administered as part of the borough of Kettering and is five miles east of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough, via the A427. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 767 people,^[1] including Pipewell but reducing slightly to 753 at the 2011 Census.^[2]

It has no secondary schools, but one primary school - Wilbarston C of E Primary School^[3] - that dates back to 1845. It was built with the intention of serving seven villages: Wilbarston, Stoke Albany, Dingley, Weston by Welland, Sutton Bassett, Ashley and Brampton Ash.

References

^ Office for National Statistics: Wilbarston CP: Parish headcounts. Retrieved 30 November 2009
^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
^ School website

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