Stoke Golding, Leicestershire

Description
Stoke Golding, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Leicestershire, on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal, and the Ashby and Nuneaton branch of the M.R. and L. & N.W.R., on which it has a station 4 miles N from Nuneaton. There is a post and money order office under Nuneaton; telegraph office at railway station. Acreage, 1291; population of the township, 619; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Dadlington, 782. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor belongs to the Hurst family. Framework-knitting is carried on. The living is a vicarage, with Dadlington, in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £227 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is of the time of Edward I., and is a building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, chantry, and a western tower and spire. Shenton, near Stoke Golding, is the place where the battle of Bosworth Field was fought in 1485.