SAPCOTE, a parish in the hundred of SPARKENHOE,
county of LEICESTER, 4 miles (E. by S.) from
Hinckley, containing 797 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £10. 11. 10.,
and in the patronage of John Frewen Turner, Esq. The
church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a place of
worship forWesleyan Methodists. The river Saor runs
through the parish, in which upwards of two hundred
frames are employed in the manufacture of hosiery.
A house of industry, also a common mill for grinding
corn, were built by subscription in 1806, the expense of
each amounting to £ 1300; and in the same year handsome
bathing rooms were erected, at an expense of
£600, defrayed by J. F. Turner, Esq., over a spring
called Golden Well, the water of which is serviceable
in nervous, consumptive, scorbutic, and scrophulous
disorders. A school for the instruction of poor children
was endowed by the Rev. Mr. Burroughs, formerly
rector of this parish, and is further supported by
J. F. Turner, Esq. There are vestiges of a mount and
moat of an ancient castle, which once occupied the
site of the family mansion of the Bassetts. In a field
called Black Piece, a curious tesselated pavement was
discovered, in 1770.