Stoke Golding is a village and
civil parish in the
Hinckley and Bosworth district of
Leicestershire, England, which lies in the heart of England, in South West Leicestershire, close to the Warwickshire county border. According to the 2001 census the total population was 1,721, living in just over 700 houses. The village is 16 miles from the City of Leicester, about three miles north-west of the market town of
Hinckley, and 4 miles along scenic country lanes from the village of
Fenny Drayton, the birthplace and childhood home of George Fox (the founder of the worldwide Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) movement).