Stonton Wyville or Staunton, Leicestershire

Historical Description

Stonton Wyville or Staunton, a parish and a township in Leicestershire, 2½ miles NE from Langton station on the main line of the M.R., and 9½ SE from Leicester. Post town, Market Harborough; money order and telegraph office, East Langton. Acreage, 1217; population, 56. The manor gives the title of Baron to the Earl of Cardigan. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; gross value, £175 with residence. The church is a small but ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style. It has a very old font, some good stained windows, and several ancient tombs and memorials. Bishop de Wyville, who died in 1375, was a native.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Stonton Wyvillle:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Stonton Wyville or Staunton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stonton-Wyville (St. Denis))

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Stonton Wyville or Staunton are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online:

• Leicester Chronicle
• Leicester Journal
• Leicester Daily Mercury
• Leicestershire Mercury
• Leicester Mail