Ratcliffe Culey Leicestershire Family History Guide
Ratcliffe Culey is a chapelry of Sheepy Ancient Parish in Leicestershire.
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Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1585
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1562
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
RATCLIFFE-CULEY, a chapelry in Sheepy-Magna parish, Leicester; on the river Sence, adjacent to the river Anker, at the boundary with Warwickshire, 1½mile NE of Atherstone r. station. Post-town, Atherstone. Acres, about 1,000. Real property, £2, 540. Pop., 208. Houses, 52. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Sheepy-Magna, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is old, and has a tower and spire.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
RATCLIFFE-CULEY, a chapelry, in the parish of Sheepy-Magna, hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 1½ mile (N. E.) from Atherstone; containing 219 inhabitants. The tithes were commuted for land, under an inclosure act, in 1766. The chapel is dedicated to All Saints.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Atherstone
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Sparkenhoe
- Poor Law Union: Atherstone
- Hundred: Sparkenhoe
- Province: Canterbury