Enderby is a village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, on the southwest outskirts of the city of Leicester. The parish includes the neighbourhood of St John's, which is east of the village separated from it by the M1 motorway. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 6,314.[1]
The village's name means 'farm/settlement of Eindrithi'.[2]
The course of the Fosse WayRoman road passes through the parish. Near St John's is the deserted village of Aldeby by the River Soar.[3]
Enderby Hall was the ancestral home of the Smith family when the paternal line ended. The hall was left to Charles Loraine who took the name Charles Loraine Smith.[4]
A disused freight only railway line known locally as ‘Whistle Way’ is to the north of the village. This branch line used to link the now disused Enderby Warren Quarry with the Birmingham to Leicester Line.
Enderby is home to Fosse Shopping Park, one of Britain's biggest out-of-town shopping parks.[6] The village centre has a newsagents, petrol station, florists, beauty salon, delicatessen, library, cafe, bookmakers, and hand car wash. It has two "Co-operative Food" stores within metres of each other, one owned by Central England Co-operative and another by The Co-operative Group.
Enderby has a leisure centre with swimming pool, gym, squash courts and sports hall for badminton and 5-a-side football. There is also a nine-hole pay-and-play golf course.
The head office of clothing retailer Next plc is located in Enderby.[7]
Arriva Midlands operate services 50, X55 and X84 from Leicester into the village.[8]
Enderby Park and Ride is situated on the corner of B4114 St John's and Leicester Lane, opposite Leicestershire Constabulary Headquarters and Palmers Garden Centre, and was opened on 16 November 2009. It has parking for 1,000 cars. Buses run every 15 minutes into Leicester city centre from 7am to 7pm, Mondays to Saturdays. Stops include Smith Way (Grove Park), Aylestone Road (Leicester Royal Infirmary), Oxford Street (De Montfort University) and St. Nicholas Circle (stand FD).[9]
Education
4–6 Broad Street, a 16th-century thatched cruck cottage that for a period served as a branch of Barclays Bank[10]
The schools that Enderby children usually attend are:
Enderby Town Football Club was founded in 1900. It played in the local Leicestershire Senior League until 1969, and joined the Southern League in 1972. It changed its name to Leicester United F.C. in 1983 and was dissolved in 1996.[13]
Crime
Enderby was where Colin Pitchfork raped and murdered a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 1986.[14] He also killed a girl of the same age in nearby Narborough in 1983. Initially a 17-year-old youth was suspected, and even confessed to one of the murders, but DNA testing cleared him.[15] Following what was the first mass DNA screening of an entire community, Pitchfork was the first person to be convicted of murder using DNA profiling.[16][17][18][19]
^Dare, M. Paul (1927). "Aldeby"(PDF). Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society. 15: 333–6. Archived(PDF) from the original on 7 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
