HUMBERSTONE, a parish in the eastern division
of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 2
miles (E. N. E.) from Leicester, containing 415 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in
the king's books at £8, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The Rev. John
Dudley was patron in 1794. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists.