Queniborough
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Queniborough is an English village in the county of Leicestershire 1.1 miles (1.8 km) north-east of the town of Syston and of 6.2 miles (10 km) north-east of the city of Leicester. Its 972 properties housed 1,878 registered electors in 2003. The population increased to 2,326 at the 2011 census. It forms part of the Leicester Urban Area due to its proximity. The parish church of St Mary's has, according to the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, "one of the finest spires in the whole of Leicestershire".
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Place details
- Locality
- Charnwood
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 2,307
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Queniborough
- UK place.static_image_name
- Thatched Cottage Queniborough Leicester.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Thatched Queniborough Cottage dated 1604
- UK place.civil_parish
- Queniborough
- UK place.shire_district
- Borough of Charnwood
- UK place.shire_county
- Leicestershire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Charnwood
- UK place.postcode_district
- LE7
- UK place.postcode_area
- LE
- UK place.post_town
- Leicester
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Queniborough is an English village in the county of Leicestershire 1.1 miles (1.8 km) north-east of the town of Syston and of 6.2 miles (10 km) north-east of the city of Leicester. Its 972 properties housed 1,878 registered electors in 2003. The population increased to 2,326 at the 2011 census. It forms part of the Leicester Urban Area due to its proximity. The parish church of St Mary's has, according to the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, "one of the finest spires in the whole of Leicestershire".
==History== thumb|300px|View of Queniborough showing the great height of St Mary's Church spire The place-name 'Queniborough' first appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, as Cuinburg. It is listed as Quenburg in about 1125, in the Leicestershire Survey in J. H. Round's Feudal England. It appears as Queningburc in 1236 and as Queniburg in 1242 in the Book of Fees. The name is thought to be the Old English Cwēne-burg, meaning "the queen's manor".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Queniborough” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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