Shenton

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• London94.01 mi (151.29 km)*
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Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNUNEATON
Postcode districtCV13
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WebsiteSutton Cheney Parish Council
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Shenton (2016)
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Shenton. View from Bosworth Road (2012)
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Shenton Hall dovecote (2012)

Shenton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Dadlington and Sutton Cheney, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district,[1] in the county of Leicestershire, England, situated 2.20 miles (3.54 km) south-west of Market Bosworth. Shenton was formerly a chapelry and township of the parish of Market Bosworth.[2] The settlement is almost entirely agricultural, containing several farms. Much of the land has been in the same family since William Wollaston purchased the manor in 1625. It is essentially a privately owned estate village and has seen comparatively little modern development.[3] It has been designated a conservation area.[4] The settlement lies either side of the Sence Brook, which is crossed by a picturesque Victorian bridge. The area is fairly flat, and subject to flooding. In 1931 the parish had a population of 154.[5]

Shenton Hall

The hall has a fine gatehouse dated 1629, and a large, listed dovecote of 1719 within the hall grounds, close to the stable block.[6] The main hall is a Grade II* listed building[7] and was enlarged in the 19th century.[8] The hall itself was sold by the Wollaston family following government requisition during the Second World War, but most of the estate land in the settlement and the surrounding farmland, was not sold.

The Church

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II* listed building[9] and is part of Market Bosworth Benefice.[10] It was rebuilt by the Wollaston family in about 1860.[11] Admiral Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott is buried in the churchyard and the 17th-century memorial to William Wollaston was moved into the church.

History

Shenton is close to the site of the Battle of Bosworth, which took place south-west of Market Bosworth. It is one of the four settlements named by the early 17th-century historian and local man, William Burton (of Lindley), to define the area of the battlefield.[12] Some of the estate was subject to intensive archaeological surveying in recent years as part of the project to locate the site of the battlefield. The first, highly significant, find of round shot was made just west of Mill Lane, which leads from Shenton to Fenn Lanes Roman road.[13] The Ashby Canal passes to the east of the village and the road to Sutton Cheney and Market Bosworth passes beneath it through a narrow aqueduct tunnel. By the 1870s, the chapelry as it was known then listed 42 houses, along with 206 residents.[14]

Shenton became a parish in 1866, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Sutton Cheney.[15]

Shenton Train station lies some way from the village on the Sutton Cheney side, east of the canal. It is the southern terminus of the preserved Battlefield Line Railway, which runs to Shenton from Shackerstone. This is a section of what was originally the Ashby to Nuneaton railway line, opened in 1873.[16] The station is located at the foot of Ambion Hill and is actually the reconstructed Humberstone Road Station from Leicester. The original Shenton station was demolished in the 1940s, except for a small lamp room that now serves as the Station Pottery.

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Find your district council | Leicestershire County Council". leicestershire.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.White, W (1863). History, Gazetteer & Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1863. William White. pp. 692–693. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Council, Hinckley & Bosworth Borough. "Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council download - Shenton Conservation Area | Planning and building control | Conservation | Conservation areas". hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Alison Farmer Associates (2013). Bosworth Battlefield: The Way Forward (Report). Cambridge. p. 37.
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  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Market Bosworth Churches Leicestershire UK". Archived from the original on 29 June 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pevsner, Nikolaus (1985). Leicestershire and Rutland (Buildings of England) (2 ed.). Pevsner Architectural Guides. ISBN 978-0-9521-4371-0.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Foss, Peter (1998). The Field of Redemore: The Battle of Bosworth, 1485 (2 ed.). Kairos Press. ISBN 1-871344-06-9.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Foard, Glenn; Curry, Anne (2013). Bosworth 1485: A Battlefield Rediscovered (1 ed.). Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1782971733.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A Vision of Britain Through Time: Shenton, Leicestershire". visionofbritain.org.uk. Great Britain Historical GIS Project (2017) 'Great Britain Historical GIS'. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Relationships and changes Shenton Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Battlefield Line Railway, Leicestershire, Shenton railway station, Market Bosworth railway station, Shackerstone railway station". battlefieldline.co.uk. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

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