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.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))