Kirby Bellars is a village and civil parish near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England.

[2] The name Bellars probably originates from Roger de Beler who owned the manor house and founded the priory in 1316.

[4][5] John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-1872) said of Kirby Bellars: KIRBY-BELLARS, a parish, with a pleasant village, in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester; on the river Wreak, and on the Syston and Peterborough railway, at Ashfordby r. station, 2¾ miles WSW of Melton-Mowbray.

A college, for a warden and twelve priests, was founded in the parish, by Roger de Beler, in 1319; and was converted into an Augustinian priory, by Alice Beller, in 1359.

[7] The Village Hall in the Main Street, opposite to Hunters Rise, is used for many local purposes and can seat 150 people.

[10] Near the village is a wetland area called Priory Lakes, where the Leicestershire Wildfowler's Association has its office.