Ingarsby

The majority of the site, which is situated on a west facing slope and lies on both sides of the Houghton to Hungarton (where the remaining population is included) road, is now a scheduled monument.

By Norman times, the settlement had grown to a substantial village for the Domesday Book of 1086 reports 32 heads of households present.

[2] When the majority of the manor, at that time owned by the Daungervills, was granted to Leicester Abbey in 1352, a dozen families lived in the village.

On the dissolution of Leicester Abbey, the Cave family had a large share in the plunder for the impropriate Rectory of Hungerton and the Manor of Ingarsby which were granted to Sir Brian Cave, Sheriff of Leicestershire and his wife Margaret Throckmorton, daughter of Sir George Throckmorton, by the Crown in 1540.

All that remains now are well delineated rectangular mounds that mark the house-sites of the arable farmers that were driven out, and the hollow ways where the village streets and lanes once ran.