Kibworth Harcourt

Kibworth Harcourt Stands on the A6 trunk road between Market Harborough and Leicester. The boundary between it and it's close neighbour Kibworth Beauchamp is almost indiscernible, the A6 being a rough guide to the boundary between them. Both villages are served by the Church of St. Wilfrids, which is on the edge of Kibworth Beauchamp. A small group of old and important buildings lie to the north of the village, one of which being The Manse (above), which was the ministers house adjacent to the Congregational Chapel, has recently been restored, mainly due to the efforts of the Kibworth Harcourt Conservation Society who fought for it's preservation.

Close by is the White House (right), strangely enough not white in colour, was at one time an 18th century coach house. It stands on what was once the site of a mansion house inhabited by the Parker family, who later built and occupied the Old House on the Main Street.

The main road through the village once took a very different route than that taken by the A6 today. Up until the early 1800's, horse drawn carriages would travel along the Main Street, which has some very sharp right angled bends along it's length, and on quite a slope in places too. It became so dangerous, especially in the winter, that a by-pass was built to alleviate the problem.

Almost two centuries later, there is now a real need for another by-pass to take away the large volumes of traffic which pass through this increasingly urbanised village.
Just outside the village is the post mill off the Langton Road at Windmill Farm, a most fascinating building, and just off the A6 near the junction with Main Street is 'the munt'.

Many thanks to the following people for their help with research for the Kibworth pages:
Dr. Kevin Feltham, Lorraine Penny, Ruth & Ken Bruin, Mrs. Parker, Janet Briggs and Helen French.