Brudenell, but this never stuck. (Thomas went on to be first Earl of Cardigan). Edmund Brudenell has an impressive alabaster monument in the church. Alongside the father,a swaddled baby lies on its own tomb In January 1862 there was an inquest held at the Fox and Hounds Inn into the deaths of several villagers who had died in a dreadful boiler explosion. Killed in the explosion "on the spot, Thomas Lee, about 40 years of age, was blown over into a ditch. William Woolman, about 65 years of age was blown fully fifty yards..." and Samuel Ashby. George Woolman died of his injuries on the same day. It appears from the inquest that 13 people had been gathered around a steam engine that was being used to power a small threshing machine that they had hired from a Mr Butcher of Debdale Wharf. Stonton Wyville must have been much larger in the past. It is officially recognised as a "shrunken or deserted medieval village". References External links Stonton Wyville Notice Board Hamlets in Leicestershire Civil parishes in Harborough District