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. By 1866 Leasingham had about 130 residents and, although ribbon development occurred around the Main North Road crossroad, it never prospered into a town. ==Governance==