Place:Stoughton, Leicestershire, England

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Stoughton is a village and civil parish in the Harborough District of southeast Leicestershire, England . The population at the 2011 UK census was 351.

Stoughton is east of the city of Leicester, in countryside between two protrusions of the Leicester urban area (Thurnby to the north and Oadby to the south). The closest part of the city of Leicester is Evington. Other nearby places are Houghton on the Hill and Great Stretton.

The parish church of St Mary and All Saints contains monuments to members of the Farnham and Beaumont families. Stoughton Grange was the principal grange or farm of Leicester Abbey. After the suppression of the abbey in 1538 it passed to the Farnhams.

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The Farnham family is first repesented by Thomas Farnham who died in 1562. Stoughton House was demolished in 1925-6. (Source: Victoria County History - Leicestershire, see below.)

Part of the parish was absorbed into the City of Leicester in 1966.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Stoughton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"STOUGHTON, a chapelry in Thurnby parish, Leicestershire; 3½ miles ESE of Leicester [railway] station. Post town, Leicester. Acres: 1,449. Real property: £2,897. Population: 119. Houses: 27. The manor, with [Stoughton] Grange, belongs to H. L. Powys-Keck, Esq. The living is annexed to Thurnby. The church was rebuilt in 1864. There are church lands £36."

Research Tips

• The map on the place-page for Billesdon Rural District illustrates the location of the various parishes.
• Victoria County History - Leicestershire - Vol 5, pp321-330 - Parish: Thurnby. (London, 1964) British History Online. University of London.
• From this Findmypast page you can browse the Leicestershire parishes which have parish register transcripts online.
• From this Ancestry page you can browse the Leicestershire parishes which have parish register transcripts online.
• For both of the above sites, a subscription is charged. Transcriptions of these records may also be available free of charge on the FamilySearch website.
• A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Leicestershire.