Sutton Cheney is a village

Village

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 in Leicestershire

Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

, England

England

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, close to the location of the Battle of Bosworth Field

Battle of Bosworth Field

The Battle of Bosworth Field was the penultimate battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the House of Lancaster and the House of York that raged across England in the latter half of the 15th century. Fought on 22 August 1485, the battle was won by the Lancastrians...

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Sutton Cheney Wharf on the Ashby Canal

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal

The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal is a long canal in England which connected the mining district around Moira, just outside the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, with the Coventry Canal at Bedworth in Warwickshire. It was opened in 1804, and a number of tramways were constructed at its northern end, to service...

 gives access to the battlefield and is a tourist destination

Tourist destination

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 in its own right. The Wharf is the home of 'The Ashby Trip' who specialise in offering narrowboat rides on the canal and operate a small cafe there.

Sutton Cheney itself has two old Coaching Inns – The Royal Arms and The Hercules. St James' Church here dates back to the 14th Century and it is believed that King Richard III took his last mass here before the Battle of Bosworth [Source: Richard III Society].

The village's clergyman from 1960 to 1986, the Rev. E. R. Boston

Edwin Boston

The Reverend Edwin Richard Boston MA , known as Teddy Boston, was a Church of England clergyman and author. He built a narrow gauge railway in the grounds of his Rectory at Cadeby, Leicestershire, and was immortalized as the "Fat Clergyman" in The Railway Series children's books by the Rev. W...

, was notable as a traction engine

Traction engine

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 and light railway

Light railway

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 enthusiast and engineer who constructed the now-dismantled Cadeby Light Railway

Cadeby Light Railway

The Cadeby Light Railway was a narrow gauge railway in the garden of the rectory in Cadeby, Leicestershire.In the early 1960s the Reverend Teddy Boston became rector of All Saints' Church, Cadeby. Boston was a lifelong railway enthusiast and wanted to build a miniature railway in his new garden,...

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