Kilby is about 8 miles south-east of Leicester, and on the Grand Union Canal.
Countesthorpe is about five miles south of Leicester, and was originally a chapelry of Blaby. It became a civil parish in 1866.
Hugglescote is a village on the edge of the coalfield area of north-west Leicestershire, 12 miles north-west of Leicester.
Whetstone lies five miles south of Leicester. From the 16th century, the manor was held by Trinity College, Cambridge.
