Hungarton is a small village

Village

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 in the county of Leicestershire

Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

, England. It is about 10 miles (16.1 km) north-east of Leicester

Leicester

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 and 13 miles (21 km) south-west of Melton Mowbray

Melton Mowbray

Melton Mowbray is a town in the Melton borough of Leicestershire, England. It is to the northeast of Leicester, and southeast of Nottingham...

. The village is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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 as Hungretone.

The layout of the village of Hungarton follows that of the model village

Model village

A model village is a type of mostly self-contained community, in most cases built from the late eighteenth century onwards by industrialists to house their workers...

 built between 1764 and 1776 by Shuckbrugh Ashby the then owner of nearby Quenby Hall

Quenby Hall

Quenby Hall is a Jacobean house in parkland near the villages of Cold Newton and Hungarton, Leicestershire, England. It is described by Pevsner as: the most important early-seventeenth century house in the county ...

. There are a few cottage

Cottage

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s that pre-date these houses and many houses have been built since.

The village has a church, a village hall, a small stream and a Millennium Green

Millennium Green

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. It also has a pub called "The Black Boy". Stilton cheese was first produced in a dairy in the grounds of Quenby Hall.

The Parish

The Parish of Hungarton covers over 4,000 acre

Acre

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s (16 km²) of land. and includes the three estates of Quenby Hall, Baggrave and Ingarsby as well as the village.

External links

• Hungarton Parish Walks