Somerby is a village and civil parish in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.

Although predominantly a rural community there are a significant number of successful business enterprises in the local area.

During World War II, the village was used as a base station and testing ground for Operation Market Garden, the airborne attack on Arnhem.

It was in the parish of Somerby (but the village of Burrough on the Hill) that the surgeon William Cheselden was born.

[1] John Major's daughter Elizabeth, aged 28, married on Sunday 26 March 2000, at the parish church.