In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stonton Wyville like this:
STONTON-WYVILLE, a parish in Market-Harborough district, Leicester; 3½ miles E by N of Kibworth r. station. Post town, Kibworth-Harcourt, under Leicester. Acres, 1,190. Real property, £2,272. Pop., 102. Houses, 21. The manor gives the title of Baron to the Earl of Cardigan. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £230.* Patron, the Earl of Cardigan. The church is early English. Bishop de Wyville, who died in 1375, was a native.
Stonton Wyville through time
Stonton Wyville is now part of Harborough district. Click here for graphs and data of how Harborough has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stonton Wyville itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stonton Wyville, in Harborough and Leicestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11304
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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