Hungarton
Major Settlement in the Parish of Hungarton
Historical Forms
- Hvngretone 1086 DB
- Hungreton' 1216 ClR 1236,1243 Fees 1251 BPR 1268 Pat
- Hungerton(') c.1130 LeicSurv Hy2 Dugd 1191,1192 P 1390 Pat 1405 AD 1576 Saxton 1610 Speed
- Hungertona Hy2 Dugd 1156 Ch 1318 AD c.1240
- Hung(g)ertone 1228,1231 RHug c.1250 Gilb 1407
- Hongerton 1363 Ipm 1411 Rut 1540 Pat
- Hungarton 1516 EpCB 1518 Visit
Etymology
'The farmstead, village with unproductive land', v. hungor , tūn ; a settlement whose inhabitants, because of its poor soils, could be prone to hunger in the worst years, cf. Hungerton, DLPN 68.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Ashby Arms
- Barley Leas
- Black Boy
- Church Lane
- Colbaulk Rd
- Fox Holes Spinney
- The Grange
- Hungarton Spinneys
- Inkerman Lodge
- Main St
- St John the Baptist's Church
- The Vicarage
- Baggrave Hall
- Baggrave Park
- George's Spinney
- Hall Spinney
- Hartfield Lodge
- New Covert
- Prince of Wales Covert
- South Lodge
- Waterloo Lodge
- Watson's Spinney
- Botany Bay Fox Covert
- Conduit Spinney
- Harwood Nurseries
- Ingarsby Cottages
- Ingarsby Hollow
- Ingarsby Lane
- Ingarsby Old Hall
- Monk's Grave
- New Ingarsby
- Ravenhead
- Reedpool Spinney
- The White House Fm, Ingarsby Lodge
- Quenby Hall
- Quenby Lodge
- Quenby Park