Hungarton

Hungarton is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England, about north-east of Leicester and south-west of Melton Mowbray. The population of the civil parish was 269 at the 2001 census, including Ingarsby, and increased to 289 at the 2011 census.

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The village has a church, a village hall, a small stream and a Millennium Green. It also has a pub called The Black Boy. Stilton cheese was first produced in a dairy in the grounds of Quenby Hall.
The Anglican Church of St John the Baptist is part of a group benefice with Keyham, Billesdon, Goadby and Skeffington. A service is held twice a month.

The village features in the 1086 Domesday Book as Hungretone.
The parish (England)|parish] of Hungarton covers over and includes with the village the estates of Quenby Hall, Baggrave and Ingarsby.
A bill to enclose common lands in the village was introduced in 1762.
The village layout follows the model village built in 1764–1776 by Shukburgh Ashby, then owner of nearby Quenby Hall. There are a few cottages that pre-date this and several houses built since.
John Marius Wilson: Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales :
Samuel Lewis, editor: A Topographical Dictionary of England :

George Ashby, politician, was born at Quenby Hall and buried at Hungarton.
Shukburgh Ashby, landowner and politician, was buried at Hungarton.
Andrew Burnaby, travel writer and cleric, was buried at Hungarton.
Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck, a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II, was baptised at Hungarton.
Algernon Edwyn Burnaby of Baggrave Hall, was Master of the Quorn Hunt.