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Stonton Wyville

Description in 1871:
"STONTON-WYVILLE, a parish in Market-Harborough district, Leicester; 3½ miles E by N of Kibworth r. station. Post town, Kibworth-Harcourt, under Leicester. Acres, 1,190. Real property, £2,272. Pop., 102. Houses, 21. The manor gives the title of Baron to the Earl of Cardigan. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £230. Patron, the Earl of Cardigan. The church is early English. Bishop de Wyville, who died in 1375, was a native."
[John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," (1870-72)]

Cemeteries

Census

  • The parish was in the Market Harborough sub-district of the Market Harborough 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.
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year		 Piece No.
1861 R.G. 9 / 2251
1871 R.G. 10 / 3226
1891 R.G. 12 / 2492

Churches

You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Stonton Wyville area that are recorded in the GENUKI church database. This will also help identify other churches in nearby townships and/or parishes. You also have the option to see the location of the churches marked on a map.

Church History

  • The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Denis or Saint Denys (spelling variations abound).
  • The church was originally built circa 1300, but an exact date is not provided.
  • The church restored some time in the 1700s and again in 1863.
  • The east wall of the chancel was rebuilt in 1951.
  • The church seats 120.
  • Andrew TATLOW provides a photo of St. Denys Church on Geo-graph taken in 2007.

Church Records

  • The Anglican parish register dates from 1538.
  • The church is in the rural deanery of Gartree (first portion).
  • The Wesleyan Methodists and the Wesleyan Reformers each had chapels here prior to 1881.

Civil Registration

  • Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  • The parish was in the Market Harborough sub-district of the Market Harborough Registration District.

Description and Travel

Stonton Wyville is a parish, a township and a small village in Leicestershire. It is 9.5 miles south-east of Leicester city, 6 miles north-east of Market Harborough and 90 miles north of London. The parish covers 1,217 acres.

The remains of a Roman Road pass just north of the village. If you are planning a visit:

  • By automobile, it is probably easiest to take the A6 trunk road south-east out of Leicester city for about 9 miles, then turn north on the B6047. Turn right at Tur Langton to find Stonton Wyville.
  • There is a Village Home Page, but it needs a volunteer to develop it.
You can see pictures of Stonton Wyville which are provided by:

Historical Geography

You can see the administrative areas in which Stonton Wyville has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

History

  • Traces of a Saxon settlement have been unearthed on Knave Hill in the northern portion of the parish.
  • This village was mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book.
  • Most of the land in the parish was given over to pasturage.

Manors

  • There is mention of a Manor House in 19th century directories, but no description.

Maps

  • See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP730950 (Lat/Lon: 52.547934, -0.924886), Stonton Wyville which are provided by:

Politics and Government

  • This place was an ancient parish in Leicester county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  • The parish is in the ancient Gartree Hundred in the southern division of the county.

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Harborough petty session hearings held every other Tuesday.
  • In 1777 Miss Ann TOZER left a bequest of £195. The interest was used as an annual gift to the poor.
  • As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Market Harborough Poorlaw Union.
  • Note: This parish may have started out in the Uppingham Poorlaw Union and leter transfered to the Market Harborough Poorlaw Union.

Population

Year Inhabitants
1811 122
1841 102
1871 84
1881 88
1891 56
1901 65
1911 42
1921 55
1931 60

Schools

  • The children of this parish attended school in nearby Church Langton village.