Stoughton, Leicestershire

Historical Description

Stoughton, a small village, a township, and a chapelry, in Thurnby parish, Leicestershire, 3½ miles ESE of Leicester, and 2 S from Thnrnby station on the Leicester and Peterborough branch of the G.N.R. Post town, Leicester; money order office, Oadby; telegraph office, Leicester. Acreage, 1512; population, 118. The manor, with all the land, belongs to the Powys-Keck family. Stoughton Grange, the seat of the Powys-Keck family, is an ancient mansion standing in extensive grounds. An avenue of trees over half a mile in length leads to Stoughton church. The living is annexed to Thurnby. The church was rebuilt in 1866.

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 Stoughton:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Stoughton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stoughton)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Stoughton 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