Stapleton

• 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 includes Stapleton which has been published on microfiche only.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Martin.
   
• Pevsner tells us that the church was originally built around 1300.
   
• The church was listed in 1841 as a small old building with tower and spire.
   
• The church was restored in 1904.
   
• The church seats about 100.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of St. Martin's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1661 for baptisms, 1654 for marriages and 1652 for burials. Early portions are in very poor condition.
   
• Researchers should check the registers of Barwell as well.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (second portion).
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel built here in 1852.
   

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

Stapleton is a village, a township, a chapelry and a parish standing 5 miles south of Market Bosworth and 3 miles north of Hinckley. The parish covered 1,380 acres.

The village is on the old Hinckley to Ashby road (now the A447). If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A447 north out of Hinckley for about 3 miles. The road passes down the eastern edge of the village.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008. You may stop in and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Stapleton to another place.

• Richard III encamped near this village on the eve of the Battle of Bosworth Field, 22 August 1485.
   
• This was farm country with some light brickmaking as well.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Nag's head public house on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008.
   

• There is a mention of Stapleton manor used as a farmer's residence in 1912.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP436988 (Lat/Lon: 52.585266, -1.357922), Stapleton 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.

There is a stone plinth outside of St. Martin's church which was dedicated as a war memorial after World War I.

• Stapleton was an ancient chapelry in Barwell parish in Leicester county and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish lies in the Sparkenhoe Hundred (Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
   
• In 1935, this Civil Parish was abolished and all 1,365 acres merged with Peckleton Civil Parish.
   

• 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	245
1871	199
1881	204
1891	221
1901	184
1911	227
1921	215
1931	252

• A National School (later called a Public Elementary School) was built here in 1847 to accomodate 40 children.