Peckleton Leicestershire Family History Guide
Peckleton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire.
Other places in the parish include: Tooley and Tooley Park.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1567
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1570
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
PECKLETON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Market-Bosworth, hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 6 miles (N. E.) from Hinckley; containing, with Tooley-Park hamlet, 347 inhabitants.
This parish, called in ancient writings Pecklington, Peculden, and Peycelton, contains about 1500 acres, including 109 acres of the disafforested chase of Leicester, which, by an act of inclosure in 1771, were allotted to Peckleton, tithe-free.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £8; net income, £474; patron and incumbent, the Rev. J. M. Cooper. The church is an ancient structure, with a low embattled tower, crowned with pinnacles, and surmounted by a crocketed spire: in the chancel are three stone stalls in the decorated style, and the east window has some fragments of stained glass, with figures of a male and female saint: there are also numerous armorial bearings and other memorials of ancient families.
Here is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Market Bosworth
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Sparkenhoe
- Poor Law Union: Market Bosworth
- Hundred: Sparkenhoe
- Province: Canterbury