- Ashby Parva
infobox UK place
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latitude= 52.48
longitude=-01.23
official_name =Ashby Parva
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shire_county=Leicestershire
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region=East Midlands
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os_grid_reference= SP5288Ashby Parva is a village and
civil parish in theHarborough district ofLeicestershire ,England . The parish had a population of 211 according to the 2001 census. The village is in the west of the district, west of theM1 motorway , and nearbyUllesthorpe ,Leire andBitteswell . It is about 3 miles away fromLutterworth . The village was recorded in theDomesday Book . [cite web | title = The Domesday Book Index|url= http://www.haughton.net/domesdaybookplaces_a3.htm| publisher = Haughton.net| accessdate = 2007-11-04 ]The Civil War
During the
English Civil War parliamentary troops fromWarwickshire garrisons visited Ashby Parva and the surrounding villages in Guthlaxton Hundred [http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/ashbyparva/15178.html Leicestershire Villages] ] , stealing horses and availing themselves of "free quarter". In May, 1642 a hundred men from the Coventry garrison stayed three hours at Ashby Parva to avail themselves of "meat, drink and provinder". In 1646 the inhabitants claimed ten pounds from the Warwickshire County Committee for a visit by Captain Wells and sixty men from Warwick in 1644, during which the troops quartered for two days and consumed "diet and horsemeat" worth an estimated ten pounds.References
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