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, a village near Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England * Humberston Wright Humberston Wright (27 September 1876 – 1953), sometimes credited as Humberstone Wright or Humberston H. Wright, was a British film actor. Filmography * '' Trapped by the London Sharks'' (1916) * '' Thelma'' (1918) * '' The Secret Woman'' ...

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. History Name The ward takes its name from the historical village of Humberstone and the modern housing estate and ancient village 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 "Humber stone" is a granite monolith of unknown (perhaps glacial) origin that lies in a field in Hamilton. Until 1750 it had been fully exposed, but was then truncated and the remainder buried by a farmer. It was partly exposed in 1878, when it was estimated to have a volume of approximately and thus weigh about . It was said to line up with a stone nearby, St. John's Stone", to indicate sunrise at midsummer, or at Beltane. In the 1980s it was again partially uncovered ...
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Humberstone Railway Station
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, a village near Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England * Humberston Wright Humberston Wright (27 September 1876 – 1953), sometimes credited as Humberstone Wright or Humberston H. Wright, was a British film actor. Filmography * '' Trapped by the London Sharks'' (1916) * '' Thelma'' (1918) * '' The Secret Woman'' ...

Humberstone Road Railway Station
Humberstone Road station was a station to the north of Leicester, England, which opened in 1875 and closed in 1968. The line was originally opened by the Midland Counties Railway, which merged with the North Midland Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway to form the Midland Railway, which opened Humberstone Road station. The small village of Humberstone, Leicestershire, Humberstone, situated some two miles further north-eastwards, was noted for its alabaster mine, but Humberstone Road station, alongside what is now the A47, served the rapidly expanding northern side of Leicester. Although the line is still a major route (the present-day Midland Main Line), there is now very little trace of the station. The station building lay derelict for many years following the station's closure. As a Grade II listed building it had to be preserved, but British Rail did not have sufficient funds for such an operation. Eventually the building was sold to Leicestershire County C ...
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