Sapcote

Other current and historical names

Sapcot
Sape
Scepecote

Built-Up Area: Sapcote
Parish/Community: Sapcote
District/Borough: Blaby
County: Leicestershire
Region: East Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°32'11"N 1°16'50"W
Eastings/Northings: 448886, 293432
OS Grid: SP488934
Mapcode Local: GBR 7M3.T7G
Mapcode Global: VHCSY.RH9S

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Sapcote within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Sapcote in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Sapcote, par. and vil., Leicestershire, 4 miles E. of Hinckley, 1380 ac., pop. 693; P.O.

Sapcote in the Domesday Book

A village in Guthlaxton hundred, in the county of Leicestershire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

1st Manor
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hugh of Grandmesnil
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Fulbert (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 2 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 5 shillings in 1070; £1 5/- in 1086
- Households: 2 villagers; 2 smallholders; 2 freemen
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 1 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs (2 plough lands)
- Meadow: 16 acres
- Mills: 1, value 3 shillings
2nd Manor
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Harding son of Alnoth
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Earl Aubrey of Coucy
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Wulfric (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 1 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 2 shillings in 1070; 10 shillings in 1086
- Households: 2 smallholders; 2 freemen
- Plough Teams: 1 ¹⁄₂ men's ploughs

British Place Names

Sapcote, Leicestershire

Sapcote is a village in Leicestershire

Sapcote in historic gazetteers

Sapcote in the Domesday Book