Kilsby
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Kilsby is a village and parish in the Daventry district of Northamptonshire, England situated approximately five miles south-east of Rugby.
Kilsby has a population of 1,221 (2001 census). It gives its name to the Kilsby Tunnel on the West Coast Main Line. Its name came from Anglo-Saxon cildes + old Norse býr, literally meaning "child's dwelling", but "child" here probably means "young nobleman". Its church, St Faith's, may originally have been the daughter chapel of the neighbouring parish of Barby. One of its more unusual claims to fame is that the A361 road terminates there at a junction with the A5 road. The A361 runs to Ilfracombe in Devon making it the longest '3-digit' road in Britain.
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