Humberstone and Hamilton is an electoral ward and administrative division of the City of Leicester, England.

[1] The "Humber stone" is a granite monolith of unknown (perhaps glacial) origin that lies in a field in Hamilton.

It was then fenced in when the Leicester north ring road was built and had a sign erected at the site, describing the stone's history.

Hamilton was named after a deserted medieval village in the civil parish of Barkby Thorpe, just outside the Leicester city boundary.

Inside he used locally obtained Humberstone alabaster for the carved capitals of the pillars in the nave and other details.

The other (east of the church) was built in the 18th century.,[2][3] The village's population increased during the 18th and 19th centuries and Leicester grew out towards Humberstone.

[10] Hamilton was not mentioned in Domesday Book (1086)[11] The medieval village was a chapelry of Barkby It was abandoned in the 15th century.. Its site is marked by earthworks.

The name Hamilton was revived for the new housing estate built on the A563 road, east of Rushey Mead in the 1980s.

The members of the cooperative contributed a percentage of their wages and bought a plot of land just outside Leicester by the village of Humberstone and built 97 houses.

[18] Humberstone and Hamilton is bordered by the wards of Rushey Mead to the north, Charnwood to the west and Coleman and Thurncourt to the south.

[19] The ward borders the county of Leicestershire; in particular, the borough of Charnwood to the north and the district of Harborough to the east.

The original public library was on Main Street - a small building on the left hand side going down the hill which resembled a non-conformist chapel.

This was eventually replaced by a public library situated next to the school, but was relocated to the car park of the nearby Hamilton Tesco Extra store in the mid-2000s.

When it was built, Humberstone Garden Suburb had a bowling green, a cricket pitch, a skittle alley, a football ground, tennis courts and golf links.

[23] These facilities and the shoe factory no longer exist but the housing estate remains intact.

Humberstone & Hamilton is part of the Leicester East constituency, a traditionally safe Labour seat.