Sapcote
Description in 1871:
"SAPCOTE, a parish, with a village, in Hinckley district, Leicester; adjacent to the river Soar, the Fosseway, and the Hinckley and Leicester railway, 2 miles W N W of Broughton-Astley r. station, and 4 E by S of Hinckley. Post-town, Hinckley. Acres, 1,380. Real property, £4,158. Pop., 668. Houses, 159. The property is subdivided. Frame-work knitting is carried on; stone is quarried; and there is a mineral spring, with a bath-house. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £625. Patron, T. Frewen, Esq. The church is old, was recently repaired, and has a tower and spire. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, and five alms-houses."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72
- The parish was in the Hinckley sub-district of the Hinckley Registration District.
- The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print and Volume 6 covers the Burbage and Earl Shilton sub-district which includes Sapcote.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2259 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2502 |
- The Anglican parish church was dedicated to All Saints.
- The church was built in Norman times and contains a western tower.
- The church was thoroughly restored in 1886.
- The church seats 257.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1564 for baptisms and from 1579 for marriages and burials.
- The church was in the rural Guthlaxton deanery (second portion).
- The Society of Genealogists holds microfiche copies of parish registers which include details of baptisms from 1564 -1921, marriages from 1579 - 1812 and burials from 1579 - 1918 which can be studied at their library in London.
- The original records are held at the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland.
- The Wesleyan Methodist chapel built in 1904 replaces the original one, built in 1805.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Hinckley sub-district of the Hinckley Registration District.
Sapcote is a village and a parish 10 miles southwest of Leicester city and 4 miles east of Hinckley. The parish covers 1,550 acres.
The land around the village has been mostly pasture for centuries. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, the village is just south of Stoney Stanton off the M69 motorway.
- Goden Well is a mineral spring with reputed medicinal qualities.
- Leicestershire Villages provide a
Sapcote Village Web Site.
-
Sapcote Heritage Group, working with the Sapcote Library, have several pages detailing the history of the village.
- Stone quarrying was an ancient occupation in the parish.
- Roman coins and other antiquities have been found here.
- The Barons BASSET once had a castle here, but only a trace of the moat remains. The barony was created in 1264.
- The national grid reference is SP 4993.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- The parish lies partly in the Sparkenhoe Hundred in the western division of the county.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Hinckley Poorlaw Union.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Bosworth petty sessional hearings.
- Thomas FREWEN had five almshouses built in 1847.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
555 |
| 1811 |
692 |
| 1821 |
797 |
| 1831 |
871 |
| 1841 |
773 |
| 1851 |
724 |
| 1901 |
845 |
| 1931 |
862 |
- The Public Elementary School was built in 1819 and enlarged in 1907 to hold up to 239 children.
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Last revised: 16-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills]
