The Hall County Primary School is located on Glenfield Frith Drive.

The name "Glenfield" means "clean field", possibly suggesting that it was clear of weeds.

[2] Glenfield is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, at which time it lay in Guthlaxton hundred and contained 12 households.

These were demolished in the 1950s and 1960s to accommodate the roundabout and the maisonettes were built in place of the grocers, post office and butcher's shop.

During the late 1990s Leicester City players Robbie Savage and Pontus Kåmark lived in Glenfield.

The British dramatist and playwright David Campton was a resident of Liberty Road, Glenfield up until his death in 2006.

Footballers David Nugent and Chris Wood lived in Glenfield when playing for Leicester in the mid-2010s.