South Kilworth

Infobox UK place
official_name= South Kilworth
country= England
region= East Midlands
population= 430 (2001 Census)
os_grid_reference= SP605818
latitude= 52.431
longitude= -1.109
post_town= LUTTERWORTH
postcode_area= LE
postcode_district= LE17
dial_code= 01858
constituency_westminster= Harborough
shire_district= Harborough
shire_county= Leicestershire

South Kilworth is a village and civil parish in the southern part of Leicestershire, England, south of North Kilworth. The parish has a population of 430, according to the 2001 Census, and is part of the district of Harborough. [cite web | url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=796001&c=LE17+6EW&d=16&e=15&g=465778&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1208812410546&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 | title=2001 Census: Key Statistics - Parish Headcounts - South Kilworth CP (Parish) | publisher=Office for National Statistics | accessdate=2008-04-21 ]

At the time of the Domesday survey (1086) there were two settlements Chivelesworde and Cleveliorde which later differentiated into North and South Kilworth. In "-iorde" can be immediately recognized "yard", and the "-worde" or "-worth" form of the same suffix can be recognized in "garth", all of them words denoting hedged enclosures, which each belonged to "Ceofel". [ [http://users.telenet.be/Hafronska/Icelandic_equivalents_of_the_English_place-names_(uncorrected_version).doc "Icelandic equivalents of the English place-names", "s.v." "Chivelstone, Devon; Kilworth, North & South, Leicestershire"] .] In ["A History of Leicestershire" (Victoria County History), "Ancient earthworks", p. 265.] it was noted that the site to the south of the village of the "manor house', actually a grange of Selby Abbey, Yorkshire, ["History of Leicestershire" (Victoria County History) vol. I p. 270.http://www.archive.org/stream/leicesterhistory01pageuoftext] ).] was marked by a dry moat 22 feet wide, and fishponds to its northwest. Both this site and the "Old Hall" site in North Kilworth had been part of the lands owned across the border in Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire, by a certain Leuric

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