Dembleby

The village of Dembleby is no more than a handful of farmsteads and houses and a tiny Victorian church.
Set on slightly rising ground along a little valley the village has no real nucleus. The few houses in stone with pantile or slate roofs, stand apart from each other within their own grounds.
There are views of open countryside from the village and it has grass verges and hedge lined gardens; it is all very green and open; there are no pavements.

 

Within the Parish of Dembleby is the even smaller hamlet of Scott Willoughby. This has a very pretty miniature church and a couple of houses and a farmstead. The old vicarage, a mid Victorian building in stone and red brick which stands beside the main road looks larger than the church!
In Domesday the village was called Dembelbi. It is thought the origin of the name is dimble " a ravine with a water course through it". The word may be of Scandinavian origin; in Norwegian the word dembel mean a pool. The Dimbleby family are supposed to have their roots in Dembleby.