History of Leicestershire of the county council, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Leicester City FC and Leicestershire Scouts is the red fox. Leicestershire is considered to be the birthplace of fox hunting as it is known today. Hugo Meynell of Quorn, Master of the Quorn Hunt 1753–1800, is known as the father of fox hunting. Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough have associations with fox hunting, as has neighbouring Rutland. History of Leicestershire in 1807 , the first recorded use of the name was as "Laegrecastrescir". In the Anglo-Saxon period the area was originally in the territory of the Middle Angles and later Mercia. After
Narborough, Leicestershire 17-year-old youth was suspected, and even confessed to one of the murders, but DNA testing cleared him. Following what was the first mass DNA screening of an entire community, Pitchfork was the first person to be arrested and convicted of a crime using DNA profiling. Narborough, Leicestershire Narborough is a large village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England, located around southwest of Leicester. The population of the civil parish (including Littlethorpe) at the 2011 census was 8,498. The name is derived from the Old English "north burh", meaning "north stronghold". At the 2001 Census, the parish