Kirby Bellars Hall in the Main Street, opposite to Hunters Rise, is used for many local purposes and can seat 150 people. The pub is called 'The Flying Childers' after the undefeated 18th century racehorse. In Gaddesby Lane are the kennels of the Quorn Hunt, which claims to be the most famous fox hunt in the United Kingdom. Near the village is a wetland area called Priory Lakes, where the Leicestershire Wildfowler's Association has its office. The 'Kirby Bellars Group of Artists' has existed since the 1980s and includes professional artists as well as amateurs. Kirby Bellars Kirby Bellars is a village
River Eye, Leicestershire Soar. Its full journey is about 13 miles (21 km). The river is neither wide nor fast flowing, although it does flood periodically. It drifts through the gentle rolling countryside of north-east Leicestershire by fields bounded by hawthorn hedges. There is very little woodland in the area, what's there is largely man-made in the form of fox coverts. Farming in the district is largely pastoral, with the grassland given over to sheep and cows, the traditional beasts of local agriculture. Stilton and Red Leicester cheeses originally came from the village and farm dairies in the Eye basin. The name Eye