Chilcote

Chilcote
Chilcote
	Chilcote Parish Church
	Chilcote Location within Leicestershire
Population	200 (2011 Census)
District	North West Leicestershire;
Shire county	Leicestershire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	North West Leicestershire;
	List of places UK England Leicestershire 52°42′00″N 1°35′25″W / 52.699865°N 1.590398°W

Chilcote is a village and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. Until 1897 it was in Derbyshire.^[1] The parish had a population of 108 according to the 2001 census,^[2] including Stretton-en-le-Field and increasing to 200 at the 2011 census.^[3]

The village's name means 'the cottages of the children'.^[4]

Chilcote lies close to the borders of Derbyshire (to the north), Staffordshire (to the west), and Warwickshire (to the south). Roads from the village only lead to Derbyshire and Warwickshire. It is therefore not possible to travel by road from Chilcote to any other part of Leicestershire without first leaving the county.

Chilcote also plays host to an almost unique geographic phenomenon within the UK, in that its parent county, Leicestershire, borders neighbouring Staffordshire directly over a distance of only about a mile. The boundary is accessible to pedestrians and within easy walking distance of the village centre. There is only one other example in UK of a county boundary this short, and the geography makes it possible to complete a local walk^[5] on public rights of way taking in 4 different counties in under 2 hours.

References

^ "Chilcote". Online Gazetteer. Staffordshire County Council. 21 April 2009. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
^ "Neighbourhood Statistics: 2001 Census: Key Statistics: Parish Headcounts: Chilcote CP". Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 August 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
^ "Viv's Website - Walks". sites.google.com. Retrieved 1 September 2021.