Humberstone
Humberstone may refer to: Place-names * Humberstone, Leicestershire, now part of the City of Leicester, England ** Humberstone & Hamilton, an electoral ward and administrative division of the City of Leicester, comprising in part the suburb Humberstone ** Humberstone railway station ** Humberstone Road railway station * Humberstone Speedway, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada * Humberstone, Chile, a mining town in the Atacama Desert Other uses * Humberstone (surname) * Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works, World Heritage sites in northern Chile * Matthew Humberstone School (1882–2010), Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England See also * Humberston Humberston is a village and civil parish south of Cleethorpes in North East Lincolnshire, England. Boundary and population The village's boundary with Cleethorpes runs along North Sea Lane and Humberston Road. Its population in the 2001 censu ...

Humberstone & Hamilton
Humberstone and Hamilton is an electoral ward and administrative division of the City of Leicester, England. It comprises the north-eastern Leicester suburbs of Humberstone, Humberstone Garden City, Hamilton and Netherhall. Geography Humberstone and Hamilton is bordered by the wards of Rushey Mead to the north, Charnwood to the east and Coleman and Thurncourt to the south. 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 ward comprises the suburb of Humberstone in the west, Netherhall in the southeast and Hamilton to the northeast (which makes Hamilton the most northeasterly suburb of Leicester). History Name The ward takes its name from the historical village of Humberstone and the modern housing estate of Hamilton. The place-name 'Humberstone' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as 'Humerstane'. The name means 'Hunbeorht's stone'. The "Humb ...
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