Kibworth

There is a stained-glass window depicting Walter de Merton in the bell tower of the parish church, St Wilfrid's, of which the warden and scholars of the college are joint patrons with the Bishop of Leicester.

Their father, John Aikin (1713–1780), kept a dissenting academy there and served as minister of a nearby Presbyterian chapel.

[2] In September 2010, Kibworth was the central feature of Michael Wood's Story of England, a documentary aired on both BBC Four, BBC Two, and repeated on the UKTV channel Yesterday, and PBS America, presented by Michael Wood about the history of England framed through Kibworth.

[9] The Bookshop, which opened in the High Street in 2009, won a regional award for Independent Bookseller of The Year in 2012.

The skatepark joined a recently opened zipwire as one of the latest public leisure facilities in Kibworth.

[11][12] The Midland Main Line runs through the area, but Kibworth railway station, which served both villages, closed in 1968.

[citation needed] The mill, a Grade 2* listed structure, last worked in the 1930s and until 1936 was owned by Merton College, Oxford, then ownership and responsibility was transferred to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB).