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Description in 1871:
"SUTTON-CHENEY, a chapelry in Market-Bosworth parish, Leicester; 5 miles N by W of Hinckley r. station. It has a postal pillar-box under Hinckley. Acres, 1,520. Real property, £2,558. Pop., 352. Houses, 78. The manor belongs to W. Stewart, Esq. Lime is calcined, and bricks are made. The living is annexed to Market-Bosworth. The church is good. There are a free school and alms houses, the latter with £24 a year."
[John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72"].
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- The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration District.
- The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. Volume 2 which has been published on microfiche only.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census Year | Piece No. |
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1861 | R.G. 9 / 2263 |
1871 | R.G. 10 / 3239 |
- The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint James.
- The church was listed in 1849 as a Gothic structure with a low tower.
- The church chancel was restored in 1876.
- John SALMON has a photograph of St. James Church with the daffodills in bloom on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2003.
- Christine MATTHEWS has a photograph of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1678.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (first portion). Later this was the Akeley rural deanery (southern division).
- The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Sutton Cheney is a village, a township and a parish which sits 2 miles south-east of Market Bosworth and 5 miles north-west of Hinckley. The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal forms the western parish boundary. The parish covered 1,520 acres in 1841, but was much larger after 1935.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A447 north out of Hinckley or south out of Ibstock. Sutton Cheney is just to the west of the A447.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Sutton Cheney to another place.
- Between the village and the canal is the Redmoor Plain, which is the site of the battle of Bosworth Field.
- Thomas SIMPSON, the great mathematician who died in 1761, is buried here.
- The parish has a long history of brick-making.
- Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Hercules Inn on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2009.
- These are the names associated with the Hercules Inn in various directories:
Year Person 1881 George BUSBY, butcher 1892 Mrs. Ann RAVEN 1912 Richard Wm. FORRYAN 1925 Richard Wm. FORRYAN
- Tammy WINAND has a photograph of the Royal Arms Hotel and Restaurant on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2006.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK416005 (Lat/Lon: 52.600704, -1.387225), Sutton Cheney which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- In 1922 a cross was erected in the churchyard in memory of those who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918.
- John SALMON has a photograph of the War Memorial plaque inside the church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2012.
- Sutton Cheney was an ancient chapelry in Leicester county and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866, splitting off from Market Bosworth parish.
- The parish lies in the Sparkenhoe Hundred (Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
- On 1 April, 1935, Dadlington Civil Parish was abolished and 1,028 acres merged with this Civil Parish.
- On 1 April, 1935, Shenton Civil Parish was abolished and 1,547 acres merged with this Civil Parish.
- The Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council provide district governance.
- In 1612, Sir William ROBERTS established six almshouses for six poor aged men.
- Stephan CZAPSKI has a photograph of some almshouses in Sutton Cheney on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010.
- The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1794.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Market Bosworth Poorlaw Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Bosworth petty session hearings.