Stonton Wyville

Stonton Wyville is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England.

The buildings include a church, a manor house, a rectory and a farm that used to be the Fox and Hounds Inn.

In 1086, the Domesday book shows that Stonton Wyville was part of the estates of Hugh de Grandmesnil.

Alongside the father,a swaddled baby lies on its own tomb In January 1862 there was an inquest held at the Fox and Hounds Inn into the deaths of several villagers who had died in a dreadful boiler explosion.

Killed in the explosion "on the spot, Thomas Lee, about 40 years of age, was blown over 40 yards (37 m) into a ditch.

William Woolman, about 65 years of age was blown fully fifty yards..."[4] and Samuel Ashby.

It appears from the inquest that 13 people had been gathered around a steam engine[5] that was being used to power a small threshing machine that they had hired from a Mr Butcher of Debdale Wharf.

Edmund Brudenelle died 1590