Stoulton or Stoughton is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

about 5 miles south west of

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, in the

Wychavon Wychavon is a local government district in Worcestershire, England, with a population size of 132,500 according to the 2021 census. Its council is based in the town of Pershore, and the other towns in the district are Droitwich Spa and Evesha ...

district, in the county of

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, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Hawbridge. In 2011 the parish had a population of 453. The parish touches

Norton Juxta Kempsey Norton-juxta-Kempsey is a civil parish to the south of Worcester in the United Kingdom. It contains the villages of Norton and Littleworth. The parish has a population of approximately 2,500. As the parish name suggest, it adjoins Kempsey to the ...

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Peopleton Peopleton is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. In 2001 the parish had a population of 640, with 245 households. Location Peopleton is located about south east of Worcester and north of Pershore. Th ...

, Drakes Broughton and Wadborough and

White Ladies Aston White Ladies Aston is a village in the Wychavon local government district of Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, and also lends its name to the Civil Parish in which the village is located. The village is located to the east of the A44 which ...

. Many houses in the village date from the 17th century. The scientist and cleric

William Derham William Derham FRS (26 November 16575 April 1735)Smolenaars, Marja.Derham, William (1657–1735), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 26 May 2007. was an English clergyman, natural theologian, n ...

, the first man to accurately measure the

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, was born in Stoulton in 1657.

Features

There are 20 listed buildings in Stoulton. Stoulton railway station opened in 1854 and closed in 1966 although it was in the parish of Drakes Broughton and Wadborough. The church is 12th century. Upper Wolverton was a village in the parish that is thought to have been depopulated before 1550, the site currently has 2 farms. Lower Wolverton was possibly also a village in the parish.

History

The name "Stoulton" means 'Stool farm/settlement'. Stoulton was recorded in the

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as ''Stoltun''. Stoulton was "Stoltun" in the 9th and 11th centuries, "Stulton" in the 15th century and "Stowton" in the 17th century. On the 25th of March 1885 Cookes Holme was transferred to the parish of Norton Juxta Kempsey. The transferred area contained 1 house in 1891.

References

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