QUEENIBOROUGH, a parish in the eastern division
of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER,
6 miles (N.E. by N.) from Leicester, containing 469 inr
habitants. 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. E. L. Loveden,
Esq. was patron in 1802. The church is dedicated to
St. Mary.