Narborough is situated on or near several major transport corridors. The M1 motorway passes through the east of Narborough, and the Leicester to Birmingham railway line runs beside the River Soar on its way through the village. in the village centre runs along the course of the Fosse Way, which then joins back onto the present course of the link from Birmingham to Leicester. Narborough is often split into two distinct parts, the village core to the South and the newer to the north east. These areas are separated by the B4114 which runs through the middle of the two areas.
is situated in the village centre and offers an hourly service with South Wigston and Leicester to the north, and Hinckley, Nuneaton, Coventry and Birmingham in the south and west.
Amenities
The village contains many amenities including two doctors' surgeries, a dentist, several hairdressers, a beauty salon, a post office, two estate agents and two chemists. There are also four newsagents, a bakery, a Chinese takeaway, a pizza takeaway and a fish and chip shop. Narborough also boasts two small supermarkets, a Tesco Express and a Central England Co-operative, and two pubs: ' and outside the village centre and ' within it. Two other pubs have since been converted into Indian Restaurants: "The Bell" is now Spice 45 Indian restaurant and the "Dovecote" was converted to the "Monsoon Indian Restaurant". A third property has been converted into an Indian restaurant/hotel: the Heritage Hotel and Restaurant can be found on Leicester Road. To the north-east of the village lies , a business park that included the headquarters of Alliance & Leicester, who employed over 1,800 people locally. Carlton Park also has a Racquets and Health Club, David Lloyd, which opened in the summer of 2006 . Near to the village centre are the Blaby District Council offices. As well as in the village, The and are the two other primary schools serving the village. Pupils from these schools will generally go on to in Enderby.
Narborough also has a Congregational Church situated on School Lane and a Catholic church, St. Pius X, on Leicester Road. Narborough has been home to The Buddhist House, HQ for the , a Pureland Buddhist school, since 2001.
Crime
Narborough was where Colin Pitchfork raped and murdered a 15-year-old schoolgirl, Lynda Mann, in 1983. He also killed a girl of the same age, Dawn Ashworth, in nearby Enderby in 1986. Initially a 17-year-old youth was suspected, and even confessed to one of the murders, but DNA testing cleared him. Following what was the first mass DNA screening of an entire community, Pitchfork was the first person in the world to be convicted of murder using DNA profiling.
