The Village of Huncote, Leicestershire
Main Street at the turn of the century.
Huncote is a small village, 7 miles to the south-west of Leicester.
Huncote is not the kind of village that has websites written about it. It has neither written its name into the history books nor retained any fine houses to absorb our interest. Even its church was built as late as 1898 (although an earlier one did exist) and has never been completed.
The village was named after its first inhabitant, a Saxon farmer named Huna, who moved here with his family in 700AD, from neighbouring Stoney Stanton (Huncote literally translated means "home of Huna")