Hugglescote is a village on the River Sence in North West Leicestershire, England.

The village is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the centre of Coalville, and its built-up area is now contiguous with the town.

[2] The manor was held by Hugh le Despencer in 1217 and was in various hands until 1464 when the king granted it to William Hastings.

[4] However, in the Wars of the Roses Beaumont had fought for the House of Lancaster so he was attaindered and Edward IV granted Donington and Hugglescote to the Yorkist courtier William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings.

He is commemorated by a reredos installed in St. John's in 1937 and a nearby road-name, Broughton Street.

St. John's is built largely of local materials: Charnwood granite rubble,[9] Swithland slate,[9] Ibstock brick and Coalville ceramic floor tiles.

The nave has five-bay arcades[9] with Shap granite columns[citation needed] and a clerestory with paired lancet windows.

[9] The tower has a ring of eight bells, all cast by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough in 1900.

[14] The building is now closed but the Baptist congregation continues to worship in Hugglescote Community Primary School.

The gable end has collar and tie beams and queen struts.

[15] In 1960 Hoskins considered the original part of the building to be the oldest dated cottage in a Leicestershire village.

In the same cemetery is the tomb of William Stenson (1770–1861), the mining engineer and founder of Whitwick Colliery, who has sometimes been described as "the father of Coalville".