Stoke Golding
Description in 1871:
"STOKE-GOLDING, a chapelry in Hinckley parish, Leicester; on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal, 3¼ miles N W of Hinckley r. station. Post town, Hinckley. Acres, 1,237. Real property, £3,450. Pop., 638. Houses, 144. The manor belongs to N. Hurst, Esq. Framework-knitting is carried on. The living is a p. curacy, with Dadlington, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £350. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church is of the time of Edward I., with tower and spire; and has been thoroughly repaired. There are a free school with £106 a year, and charities £50."
1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
- The Cemetery of 1 and one half acres was formed in 1883 and was under the control of the Parish Council.
- 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 Stoke Golding.
- The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Margaret the Virgin.
- The church was built in the times of Edward I (fourteenth century).
- The Anglican ecclesiastical parish was formed out of Hinckley's in 1865.
- The church chancel was rebuilt in 1882.
- The church seats about 230.
- The Anglican parish register includes Dadlington and dates from 1656 for baptisms, 1661 for marriages and 1657 for burials.
- The church was in the rural Sparkenhoe deanery (second portion).
- The original records are held at the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland.
- The Particular Baptist chapel was built in 1853 and enlarged in 1874.
- The Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1905.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Hinckley sub-district of the Hinckley Registration District.
Stoke Golding is a village and was a parish and a chapelry 3 miles northwest of Hinckley, 4 miles north of Nuneaton, 100 miles north of London and 5 miles south of Market Bosworth. The parish covered 1,291 acres.
The village lies in a curve of the Ashby Canal to the west. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A5 west out of Hinckly and turn right onto the A444. About one mile later, turn right at Fenny Drayton onto the old Roman Road out to Stoke Golding.
- An alternative route would be to take the A447 south out of Ibstock. Turn right at Stapleton and head west past Dadlington to Stoke Golding.
- The last of the battles of the Wars of the Roses was fought near here. The Battle of Bosworth Field was fought at Redmoor on 22 August, 1485. Some remains of entrenchments are still visible in the field.
- Most of the workers in the village were frame-work knitters.
- Boots and shoe-heels were also made here.
- The village had a bone-meal factory in the 1800s.
- There is mention that there was a Hall here, apparently gone by 1881.
- The national grid reference is SP 4097.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- This place was an ancient chapelry in Hinckley parish of the county. It became an ecclesiastical parish in 1865.
- In December, 1866, this chapelry was formed as a Civil Parish and remained so until 1935.
- The parish lies in the Sparkenhoe Hundred in the southern (or western) division of the county.
- In April, 1935, this Civil Parish was abolished and 389 acres given to Higham on the Hill Civil Parish and the remaining 902 acres given back to Hinckley Civil Parish.
- 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.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1841 |
663 |
| 1871 |
648 |
| 1881 |
551 |
| 1891 |
619 |
| 1901 |
625 |
| 1911 |
613 |
| 1921 |
628 |
| 1931 |
731 |
- A Free School for boys was founded here in 1678 by Mrs. Hester HODGES. The school house was almost entirely rebuilt in 1841.
- A Public Elementary School was built in 1868 to replace the above and this school was shared with Dadlington parish.
- A Public Elementary School for infants was built in 1898 for 88 children.
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[Created: 28-September-2009 - Louis R. Mills]
