the union of Billesdon, chiefly in the hundred of Gartree, S. division, but partly in that of 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." Notable people In birth order George Ashby (1656–1728), politician, was born at Quenby Hall and buried at Hungarton. Shukburgh Ashby (1724–1792), landowner and politician, was buried at Hungarton. Andrew Burnaby (1732–1812), travel writer and cleric, was buried at Hungarton. Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (née Burnaby, c. 1831–1918), a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II, was baptised at Hungarton. Algernon Edwyn Burnaby (1868–1938) of Baggrave Hall, was Master of the Quorn Hunt. References External links Hungarton Parish Walks A rubbing taken from a 1750 gravestone in the churchyard Some oral history interviews on village life in the 1920s and 1930s Photographs of Hungarton church with some anecdotal history of the building and village Villages in Leicestershire Civil parishes in Harborough District