In this article, I investigate the Scandinavian contribution to the medieval toponymic vocabulary of an area of northern Leicestershire, the part of East Goscote Hundred north of the River Wreake. Leicestershire – like other parts of the East Midlands – was conquered by Scandinavians during the ninth century and remained under Scandinavian control for about four decades. Many Scandinavian major place-names in the study-area, as in Leicestershire more widely, bear witness to substantial Scandinavian influence on naming in the wake of Scandinavian conquest. Here, I quantify the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of medieval minor place-names from the study area and compare the findings with those from similar studies. I find that the Scandinavian contribution to medieval microtoponymic vocabulary from the study-area was smaller than that identified in almost all other similar studies. This study thus adds to the growing body of evidence for discrepancies between levels of Scandinavian linguistic input in major and minor place-names. I argue that the discrepancy in the study-area cannot be entirely explained by the different chronological contexts of major and minor-name formation and tentatively suggest that limited non-elite migration may contribute to the low levels of Scandinavian vocabulary in the study-area's microtoponymy.