Editing Hungarton (section)

==Heritage==
The village features in the 1086 [[Domesday Book]] as ''Hungretone''.

The [[Civil parish (England)|parish]] of Hungarton covers over {{Convert | 4000 | acre | km2}} and includes with the village the estates of [[Quenby Hall]], [[Baggrave Hall|Baggrave]] and [[Ingarsby]].<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.christophersomerville.co.uk/?p=252 |title=Hungarton and the Deserted Villages, Leicestershire |first=Christopher |last=Somerville |work=christophersomerville.co.uk |year=2015 |accessdate=2 November 2015}}</ref>

A bill to [[Inclosure Acts|enclose common land]]s in the village was introduced in 1762.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol30/pp217-233 |title=House of Lords Journal Volume 30: April 1762, 1-10 |work=British History Online |year=2015 |accessdate=2 November 2015}}</ref>

The village layout follows the [[model village]] built in 1764–1776 by [[Shukburgh Ashby]], then owner of nearby Quenby Hall. There are a few [[cottage]]s that pre-date this and several houses built since.

John Marius Wilson: ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' (1870–72):
:"HUNGERTON, a village, a township, and a parish in Billesdon district, Leicestershire. The village stands between the two branches of the river Wreak, 6 miles SE by E of [[Syston railway station|Syston Junction r. station]], and 7 NE by E of Leicester; and has a post office under Leicester. The township includes the village. Real property, £1,565. Pop., 196. Houses, 48. The parish contains also the liberty of Baggrave, and the hamlets of Ingarsby and Quenby. Acres, 2,910. Real property, £5,945. Pop., 302. Houses, 64. The property is divided among a few. Baggrave Hall is the seat of E. A. Burnaby, Esq. Quenby Hall has, for upwards of seven centuries, belonged to the Ashbys. Ingarsby Hall, an old moated building, is now a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of [[Twyford and Thorpe|Twyford]] and the p. curacy of Thorpe-Satchville, in the [[Anglican Diocese of Peterborough|diocese of Peterborough]]. Value, £320. Patron, the Rev. E. Q. Ashby. The church is ancient; was restored in 1851; and consists of nave, chancel, and S aisle, with porch and lofty spire. There are a [[Wesleyanism|Wesleyan]] chapel and some charities."<ref>{{cite web |url= https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Hungarton_with_Twyford_and_Thorpe_Satchville,_Leicestershire |title=Hungarton with Twyford and Thorpe Satchville |work=familysearch.org |year=2015 |accessdate=2 November 2015}}</ref>

Samuel Lewis, editor: ''A Topographical Dictionary of England'' (1848):
:"HUNGERTON (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Billesdon, chiefly in the [[Gartree Hundred|hundred of Gartree]], S. division, but partly in that of [[East Goscote Hundred|East Goscote]], N. division, of the county of Leicester, 7 miles (E. by N.) from Leicester; comprising the liberty of Baggrave, and the hamlets of Ingarsby and Quenby; and containing 267 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Twyford and the chapelry of Thorp-Satchville united in 1732, valued in the king's books at £9. 8. 1½., and in the alternate patronage of the families of Peacocke and Ashby; net income, £220."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp583-588#s1 |title=Hungerton |work=British History Online |year=2015 |accessdate=2 November 2015}}</ref>