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

Stonton Wyville is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 21. The village is about eleven miles (17 km) south east of Leicester. Nearby places include Kibworth Harcourt, Tur Langton, Church Langton, and Shangton. The buildings include a church, a manor house, a rectory and a farm that used to be the Fox and Hounds Inn. Stonton Wyville parish is 1,217 acres (4.93 km) or 1.9 square miles (4.9 km) in area. Bounded on the western side by a tributary of the River Welland the parish rises from a height of 250 feet (76 m) near the river to about 450 feet (140 m) in the north and 500 feet (150 m) in the south. The soil is loamy clay over clay subsoil. The majority of farmland in Stonton is used for pasture and has been since 17th century enclosures. Stonton Wood, in the north of the parish, covered about 100 acres (0.40 km) in 1279. In 1086, the Domesday book shows that Stonton Wyville was part of the estates of Hugh de Grandmesnil. Stonton was amongst a hundred manors that had been given to Hugh for his assistance at the Battle of Hastings. "The same man holds of Hugh 6 carucates