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Skeffington is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. It is situated east of Leicester on the A47 Leicester to Uppingham road, between the parishes of Billesdon and Tugby and Keythorpe. ==Heritage== The derivation is from the Sceaft tribe, whose name may possibly have derived from ''sceap'', meaning sheep. The first written record of the village appeared as Scifitone in the Domesday Book in 1086, when it was under royal ownership and housed 186 villagers, 112 smallholders, 204 freemen and 1 priest.〔Open Domesday (Retrieved 26 November 2015 )〕 It was recorded as "Sceaftinton" in 1192.〔Surname database (Retrieved 26 November 2015 )〕 The village's church is dedicated to St Thomas Becket and is a Grade II * listed building. It dates from the 13th century, but underwent a rebuild in 1860. There is jumbled medieval stained glass in the east chapel window, where damaged figures from a monument to Sir Thomas Skeffington, sheriff of the county in Elizabethan times. There is also a 1651 monument to Sir John Skeffington, and several floor slabs commemorating other members of the family.〔For the history of the Skeffington family in detail see S. H. Skillington and G. F. Farnham: ''The Skeffingtons of Skeffington'' (Retrieved 26 November 2015 ).〕 Skeffington Hall, adjacent to the church, is also Grade II * listed. It has some Tudor features. The estate passed in 1786 to an Irishman named Farrell who took the name Skeffington. He pulled down 21 houses in the village to improve his view from the Hall, but overspent, so that the estate was sold again in 1811. In 1860 it was bought by William Tailby, who founded the Billesdon fox hunt, of which he became master.〔Leicestershire Churches (Retrieved 26 November 2015 )〕 The village lay historically in the hundred of East Goscote. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skeffington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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