Sutton Cheney

• 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:
   

• 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.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• 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.
   

• In 1849, Sutton Cheney manor house was the residence of Richard SMITH.
   

• 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.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1841	352
1871	340
1881	300
1891	239
1901	205
1911	182
1921	215
1931	207

• A Free School was established here prior to 1849.