STANTON-under-BARDON, a chapelry in the parish of THORNTON, hundred of SPARKENHOE, county of LEICESTER, 9 miles (W. N. W.) from Leicester, containing, with the township of Horsepool, 302 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. It is within the jurisdiction of the peculiar court of the lord of the manor of Groby.