The working population divides includes mainly short-distance commuters and remote workers.

[3] It had previously been suggested that the name Quenington could have meant "settlement on the Coln", the river which flows through the village, though the name 'Coln' is of unknown origin.

[6] John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870 describes Quenington as:

Additionally, Quenington House was a farmhouse - part of the Hatherop Estate.The main economy of 1881 was based around agriculture, though the occupation of a large proportion of the population was unknown: they may have been involved in various miscellaneous workings or were simply unemployed at the time.

[10] The population of Quenington in 1801 was 1,326 and steadily grew to 1,859 by 1851, but the next records in 1881 show a drop of 1,479 to 380, possibly due to changes to the parish border.

[13] The church is considered by the body statutorily appointed to safeguard old English and Welsh buildings from demolition to have been built around 1100, tying it in with records supporting its dedication to St Mary under the locally wealthy De Laci family.

In January 2013, the village hall moved to new premises: the Gate on the Green had been used as a chapel since 1926 until services ended in 2010.

[17] The village pub, The Keepers Arms, featured in the Four In A Bed reality series made by Channel 4 in the summer of 2014 and were crowned winners of the competition.

It also stood in as the List and Newt pub in the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom in the 1990s TV series Noel's House Party.