The village's name means 'curtilage of Sigebeorht' or 'curtilage of Sigbjorn'.[3]
Facilities in the village include a pub, church, recreation ground and the Sibbertoft Reading Room which is in effect the village hall.[4]
Notable buildings and monuments
The Historic England website contains details of the listed buildings in the parish of Sibbertoft. All of them are Grade II apart from the parish church, which is Grade II*.[5]
The source of the River Welland is in the parish and it issues as a spring at Spring Croft, Church Street. Sibbertoft sits astride one of the principal watersheds in England[8] and the plateau of land towards Naseby contains the sources of four rivers flowing west, south and east.