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== History == The area was settled in both [[Bronze Age]] and [[Roman Britain|Roman]] times but the earliest written mention of the village of Sutton Cheney is in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 when it was named Sutone. It was mostly owned by [[Crowland Abbey]] with a minor holding in the hands of [[Hugh de Grandmesnil]], a companion of [[William the Conqueror]]. At that time it was recorded as having four households.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SK4100/sutton-cheney/|title=Sutton [Cheney] {{!}} Domesday Book|website=opendomesday.org|access-date=2019-11-01}}</ref> The manor took the name 'Sutton Chainell' during the thirteenth century on account of a rich farmer named Chainell who held the village as a tenant of [[Crowland Abbey]] but the name appears variously as Sutton, Sutton juxta Bosworth, Sutton Chenyie, and Sutton Cheynell in deeds and other official registers between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester : Vol. 4, Part 2.|last=Nichols|first=John|year=1811|location=Leicester|pages=543}}</ref> The army of [[Richard III of England|Richard III]] made camp in the village on 21 August 1485, the night before the [[Battle of Bosworth Field]], and the battle itself took place within the civil parish, near to [[Dadlington]]. Richard died in the battle, which was the last battle of the [[Wars of the Roses]]. It ended the [[Middle Ages]] in England and ushered in the [[Tudor period]]. In 1564 there were 25 families living in Sutton Cheynell and in 1630 the freeholders were Sir William Roberts, Richard May, William Drakeley and John Swinfen.<ref name=":0" /> Sir William Roberts endowed six [[Almshouse]]s for the village in 1612 and his tomb is still extant in the village church, with the inscriptions: 'Sir William Roberts was son of Thomas Roberts and married to his first wife Katherine, daughter of Richard Elkington, and to his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Valentine Hartopp; but by neither had issue. He lived 79 years and died Feb 24 1633' and 'Here lyeth interred the body of Sir William Roberts, who in his life-time, being devoted both to hospitality and charity, among other memorable works erected, out of a pious mind, a hospital for six poor men adjoining the churchyard and endowed it with 30 pounds worth of land yearly for their maintenance for ever.'<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/sutton-cheney-church/|title=Sutton Cheney Church β St James {{!}} Leicestershire & Rutland Church Journal|website=www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref> Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, the village of Sutton Cheney was an [[estate village]], developed to suit the needs of a single farming family, with the Hall as their home. In addition to workers' cottages, a further range of buildings such as a blacksmith's, bakery, and post office provided the essentials of rural life, together with [[Almshouse]]s for poor single men. These have now all been converted to dwellings but the village retains its traditional character and is designated as a conservation area.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/1297/appraisal_and_map_-_sutton_cheney.pdf|title=Sutton Cheney Conservation Area Appraisal|website=Hinckley and Bosworth Council|access-date=20 December 2019}}</ref> Today, the majority of the land and approximately half the dwellings are still in the ownership of the estate, with half the dwellings in private ownership.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry|title=Land Registry}}</ref> Sutton Cheney was formerly a [[chapelry]] in the parish of Market-Bosworth,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11309|title=History of Sutton Cheney, in Hinckley and Bosworth and Leicestershire|publisher=[[A Vision of Britain through Time]]|accessdate=12 July 2023}}</ref> from 1866 Sutton Cheney was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1935 the parishes of Dadlington and Shenton were merged with Sutton Cheney,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10391672|title=Relationships and changes Sutton Cheney Ch/CP through time|publisher=[[A Vision of Britain through Time]]|accessdate=12 July 2023}}</ref> the merged parish was named "Sutton Cheney" until 2023 when it was renamed "Dadlington and Sutton Cheney". In 1931 the parish of Sutton Cheney (prior to the merge) had a population of 207.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10391672/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Sutton Cheney Ch/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=12 July 2023}}</ref>
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