 The Leasingham district was the ancestral home of the Ngadjuri people.The first European explorer, John Hill, passed through the district in April 1839.Surveys soon followed, the township being named after the village and civil parish of Leasingham in Lincolnshire, England and the site was once owned by E. Campbell, who held approximately 120 hectares (60 acres) of freehold land, which he sold in 1853.