Stonton Wyville
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| Stonton Wyville shown within Leicestershire | |
| Population | 21 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MARKET HARBOROUGH |
| Postcode district | LE16 |
| Police | Leicestershire |
| Fire | Leicestershire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
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Stonton Wyville is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 21. The population at the 2011 census remained less than 100 and was included in the civil parish of Glooston. The village is about eleven miles (17 km) south east of Leicester. Nearby places include Kibworth Harcourt, Tur Langton, Church Langton, and Shangton.
The buildings include a church, a manor house, a rectory and a farm that used to be the Fox and Hounds Inn.
Stonton Wyville parish is 1,217 acres (4.93 km2) or 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2) in area. Bounded on the western side by a tributary of the River Welland the parish rises from a height of 250 feet (76 m) near the river to about 450 feet (140 m) in the north and 500 feet (150 m) in the south. The soil is loamy clay over clay subsoil. The majority of farmland in Stonton is used for pasture and has been since 17th century enclosures. Stonton Wood, in the north of the parish, covered about 100 acres (0.40 km2) in 1279.
In 1086, the Domesday book shows that Stonton Wyville was part of the estates of Hugh de Grandmesnil. Stonton was amongst a hundred manors that had been given to Hugh for his assistance in the Norman conquest of England.
"The same man holds of Hugh 6 of land in Stonton Wyville. There is land for 4 ploughs. In demesne are 2 ploughs and 2 slaves and 15 villans with a priest and 2 bordars have 4 ploughs. There are two mills rendering 5s4d and 8 acres (32,000 m2) of meadow, woodland 6 furlongs long and 4 furlongs broad. It was worth 40s now 60s".
Hugh did not have rights over all the land in the village, some was controlled by the King's niece. She had interests which included "10 acres of meadow".
There were two mills in Domesday and there were still two in 1605. One of the mills was still working in 1846 but not by 1863. Which is regrettable as they could have used it to power a threshing machine ...
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