Sutton Cheney (or Chainell)
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]
- 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. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2263 |
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In 1849, Sutton Cheney manor house was the residence of Richard SMITH.
- The national grid reference is SK 4100.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- In 1922 a cross was erected in the churchyard in memory of those who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918.
- 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.
- In 1612, Sir William ROBERTS established six almshouses for six poor aged men.
- 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 sessional 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.
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Last updated: 17-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills]
