STAPENHILL, a parish in the hundred of REPTON-and-GRESLEY, county of DERBY, 1 mile (S. E.) from Burton upon Trent, containing, with the chapelry of Cauldwell, and the township of Stanton with Newhall, 191 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £5. 6. OU., and in the patronage of the Marquis of Anglesey. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There is a place of worship for Baptists. The river Trent runs through the parish, in which there are very extensive collieries. Stapenhill is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s. John Hieron, an eminent nonconformist divine and critic, was born here, in 1608.