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The name " Kirby " comes from the name of a Dane, Caeri, who established the community here in the late ninth or early tenth century.

The settlement was known as Carbi, and then later Kirby.

The village was recorded in the Domesday book as ' Carbi '.

( Caeri's settlement ) with a working population of 8.

At the time the land in Kirby Muxloe was owned by Hugh de Grandesmaynel and by William Peverel.