Croft hill

Huncote is a village and civil parish in the district of Blaby in the county of Leicestershire, England. It is just west of Narborough, and is on the Thurlaston Brook.The place-name Huncote is the etymological root of the American surnames Hunnicutt, and Honeycut.

Croft Hill is a two hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Croft in Leicestershire.This site has short, tussocky grass in an open habitat, a nationally rare vegetation type. The granitic soil is thin and short of nutrients. The nationally scarce upright chickweed is abundant in some areas.

Croft and Huncote Quarry is a 35.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Croft in Leicestershire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.This site exposes igneous tonalite rocks 452 million years old, in the Ordivician period, and it helps to document the growth of continental crust beneath central England.