[1][2] It has a population of approximately 3,260, measured at the 2021 census[3] The well-known inland scuba diving site Stoney Cove is nearby.

[4] The continuous occupation of the existing settlement had its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period, and lay within that province of the Middle Angles, centred in Leicestershire, the rule of which was granted by Penda of Mercia to his son Peada in AD 653.

[5] A 7th-century gold necklace pendant enclosing a large shield-shaped garnet, found at Sapcote in 2003, belonged to a person of social importance of that time.

[11] The Norman font is all that remains of an earlier church:[12] William Bassett appears as the patron of rector Thomas in the last decades of the 12th century.

[16] In 1806 a bath house was built by John Frewen-Turner over the so-called Golden Well in Stanton Road, in an attempt to establish a Spa at Sapcote.

[17] The building cost around £600: the beneficial effects of the waters were much approved by Dr Robert Chessher of Hinckley,[18] and Prime Ministers George Canning and the Duke of Wellington all visited the baths.

[20] For many years Sapcote was home to the actor Bill Maynard, familiar to the television-viewing public as Selwyn Froggitt and as Claude Greengrass in Heartbeat.