Village
Old Dalby has its own village school, church, Scout Hut, Hunters Lodge a retirement home, a pub called 'The Crown' and the Belvoir Brewery. Villagers unfortunately failed in campaigning against the closure of their post office . However a new village shop has been opened mon-sat, located at the edge of the industrial estate.
Once a year, on the August bank holiday Monday, the village holds a fete known as "Old Dalby Day" to raise money for charities connected with the village.
The Knights Hospitallers owned a preceptory in the village.
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“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homoeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)