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.

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

• 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)
• OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
• Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
• 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.