Stoughton

Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of St. Mary and All Saints churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2020.

• The parish was in the Billesdon sub-district of the Billesdon 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.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary and All Saints.
   
• The date of original construction is not reported.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1866.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed heritage building.
   
• The church seats 162.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2011.
   
• Stephen SWEENEY also has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2011.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the 14th century Churchyard Cross on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2011.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1537.
   
• The Anglican parish register starts with baptisms in 1538, burials in 1538 and marriages in 1537. The registers are available at the Archives.
   
• The Bishop's Transcripts start in 1564, but have gaps.
   
• Phillimore has Marriages 1537 - 1837 for this parish.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Gartreee, second portion.
   

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

Stoughton is a village and a parish just east of Leicester and south of Thurnby. The parish covers 1,359 acres.

Leicester airport lies close to the village. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A16 trunk road east out of Leicester city and turn south (right) into Thurnby. Take the county road, Thurnby Lane, out to Stoughton.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• This was primarily a sheep-raising area for centuries.
   

• Stoughton Grange was an old mansion and the residence of Harry Leycester POWYS-KECK in 1871 and 1881.
   
• The Grange was unoccupied in 1924.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK640021 (Lat/Lon: 52.612914, -1.056229), Stoughton 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 1942 the RAF built an airfield just south-east of the village and christened it "Stoughton Aerodrome." The name was later changed to RAF Leicester East.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the former RAF Leicester East on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.
   

The Honorable Major Henry Littleton POWYS-KECK was buried here on 16 Jul 1863. He had served with the 60th Royal Rifles.

• The name Stoughton started out as "Stoctone".
   

• This place was an ancient lordship and chapelry in Thurnby parish in Leicester county.
   
• This chapelry was converted to a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the Gartree Hundred (Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1936, the parish was enlarged by 17 acres taken from Evington parish when it was dissolved, but lost 171 acres to Oadby Civil Parish at the same time.
   
• The Stoughton Parish Council meets in the Village Hall, a small red-brick building on the main road. As with all parish councils, they are not staffed or equipped to help with family history searches.
   
• The parish is now part of the Harborough District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Leicester petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the chapelry and parish became part of the Billesdon Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1871	139
1881	144
1891	118
1901	136
1911	136
1921	108

In August, 1863, Major Henry Littleton POWYS-KECK left a Will mentioning Harry Leycester POWYS-KECK, who is mentioned in the Manors section above.

• The children of this parish attended school in Thurnby village.