STAPLEFORD, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of BROXTOW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 5 miles (W. S. W.) from Nottingham, containing 1104 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, arid in the patronage of the Crown, The church, dedicated to St. Helen, underwent a thorough repair in 1785. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The river Erewash bounds, the parish on the west and north-west: the stocking manufacture is here carried on to a considerable extent. There is a school for a limited number of girls, endowed by Lady Warren; also a National school, supported by subscription. An obelisk, apparently of Saxon construction, and a Druidical monument, called the Hemlock Stone, are the only remains of antiquity here. Stapleford Hall was the residence of that distinguished admiral, Sir John Borlase Warren.