Queniborough
Description in 1871:
"QUEENIBOROUGH, a parish, with a village, in Barrow-upon Soar district, Leicestershire; on an affluent of the river Wreak, 2¼ miles E by N of Syston r. station, and 6¼ N N E of Leicester. Post-town, Syston, under Leicester. Acres, 1,390. Real property, £4,278. Pop., 511. Houses, 129. The manor, with Upper Hall, belongs to Mrs. Williamson. Lower Hall is the seat of F. Ordish, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £106. Patron, T . Frewen, Esq. The church is decorated English, with tower and spire; and was restored in 1858. There are chapels for Baptists and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and charities £24.
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[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales." 1870-72]
- Queniborough was in the Syston subdistrict of the Barrow-on-Soar registration district.
- The 1851 census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print and Volume 23 covers the Syston subdistrict of which Queniborough is a part.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2282 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2523 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
- Some sources list the church dedication as being to the Holy Cross.
- The date of the original structure is not recorded.
- The church was restored in 1858.
- The tower and the spire were restored in 1883.
- The tower clock was added in 1893 (to replace an older, smaller one).
- The church was restored again in 1903-04.
- The church seats 378.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1561.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Goscote (second portion).
- The Baptists had a chapel founded here in 1821.
- The Primitive Methodists had a chapel here in 1848.
- Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
- Queniborough was in the Syston subdistrict of the Barrow-on-Soar registration district.
Queniborough is a village, a township and a parish in northern Leicestershire. The parish is 110 miles north of London, 6.5 miles north of Leicester city and 2.5 miles northeast of Syston parish. The parish covers about 2,200 acres.
There are a great many 16th to 20th century buildings along the Main Street. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, there is a turnoff from the A46 just north of Leicester city onto the A607 that take you to Queniborough.
- There are two Public Houses, the Horse & Groom and the Britannia Inn, in the centre of the village.
- Stop by the Village Hall, built in 1973, to see what events are being held there.
- In the 1700s and 1800s much of the land in the parish was used for grazing.
- Stilton cheese was one of the prime agricultural products of the parish.
- Upper Hall was at the south-east end of the village and was the residence of Mrs. Agnes WILLIAMSON, the lady of the manor in 1848.
- Lower Hall was the residence of Mrs. Eliza KILBY in 1848.
- The national grid reference is SK 6412.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- This place was an ancient parish in Leicester county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient East Goscote Hundred in the northern division of the county.
- The parish became part of the Leicester Urban Area.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Barrow-upon-Soar Poor Law Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Leicester petty sessional hearings.
- In 1873 Allen BENT left £50, the interest from which was used to purchase coal at Christmas time for poor widows.
- In 1879 William ADCOCK left £500, the interest from which was used to distribute coal annually to the poor.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1841 |
530 |
| 1871 |
489 |
| 1881 |
549 |
| 1891 |
510 |
| 1901 |
532 |
| 1911 |
557 |
| 1921 |
648 |
| 1931 |
946 |
| 1951 |
1,201 |
| 1961 |
1,727 |
- A National School (later a Public Elementary School) was built here in 1848 (or 1847).
- A new school was built to replace the one above in the 1970s. The old school is now used as a small swimming pool for the new school.
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Last updated: 20-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills
