Huncote

Other current and historical names

Hunecote
Hundhoge

Built-Up Area: Huncote
Parish/Community: Huncote
District/Borough: Blaby
County: Leicestershire
Region: East Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°34'19"N 1°14'20"W
Eastings/Northings: 451681, 297407
OS Grid: SP516974
Mapcode Local: GBR 8N2.RLF
Mapcode Global: WHDJN.YM73

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Huncote within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Huncote in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Huncote, township and hamlet, Narborough par., S. Leicestershire, 6 m. NE. of Hinckley, pop. 462; P.O.

Huncote in the Domesday Book

A village in Guthlaxton hundred, in the county of Leicestershire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Saxi of Aylestone
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count of Meulan
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Count of Meulan
- Taxable Value: 6 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 15 shillings in 1070; £4 in 1086
- Households: 20 villagers; 8 smallholders; 2 freemen; 2 slaves; 1 female slave; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 3 men's ploughs (6 plough lands)
- Meadow: 15 acres
- Woodland: ¹⁄₂ mixed measure
- Mills: 1, value 10 shillings

British Place Names

Huncote, Leicestershire

Huncote is a village in Leicestershire

Huncote in historic gazetteers

Huncote in the Domesday Book