Stoke-Golding

STOKE-GOLDING, a chapelry, in the parish of Hinckley, hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 2¾ miles (N. W.) from Hinckley; containing 663 inhabitants. The Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal passes through it. The chapel is dedicated to St. Margaret. A free grammar school was endowed by Hester Hodges, in 1678, with 74 acres of land, now producing about £100 per annum.