Shackerstone
Description in 1871:
"SHACKERSTONE, a township and a parish in Market-Bosworth district, Leicester. The township lies 3 miles N W of Market-Bosworth, and 5 W by S of Bagworth r. station; and has a postal pillar-box under Atherstone. Acres, 1, 920. Real property, £1, 930. Pop., 278. Houses, 62. The parish contains also Odstone hamlet, and comprises 2, 653 acres. Pop., 462. Houses, 100. The manor belongs to Earl Howe. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £150. Patron, Earl Howe. The church is old but good. There are an endowed school with £17 a year, and charities £8."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]
- The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration DIstrict.
- The 1851 census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2264 & 2265 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3240 |
- The Anglican parish church for Shackerstone is dedicated to Saint Peter.
- The church is considered "very old" and has a massive tower with 3 bells. The church was built before 1660.
- The church seats 240.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1630.
- The church is in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (first portion).
- Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration DIstrict.
Shackerstone is a small village, a township and a parish about 108 miles north of London, 14 miles west of Leicester city, just 3 miles southwest of Ibstock, 4 miles northwest of Market Bosworth and 8 miles south of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The parish covers about 1,031 acres and includes the township of Odstone.
The River Sence runs along the east side of the village and the Ashby Canal runs along the northern edge of the village. If you are planning a visit:
- Check out the local village in photographs.
- By automobile, take the A447 to Ibstock and turn west onto the B586. Follow that for about a half mile to Heather and turn south. As you cross the Ashby Canal, you'll enter Shackerstone.
- By the mid-1850s, the local coal mines had been worked out. Most of the inhabitants of this parish were farmers in the latter half of the 1800s.
- By 1900 the village had a brickworks company.
- The village had a wharf on the Ashby Canal.
- The national grid reference is SK 3706.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- This place was an ancient parish in the county as well as a Civil Parish.
- The parish was in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the western division of the county.
- On 18 August, 1882, the parish was enlarged by gaining part of Nailstone Civil Parish.
- On 25 March, 1886, the parish was reduced to enlarge Congerstone Civil Parish.
- On 1 April, 1935, a large number of parish realignments were mandated. This parish was enlarged by the abolition of four civil parishes; Barton in the Beans (846 acres), Bilstone (713 acres), Congerstone (814 acres), and Odstone (1,134 acres). The parish went from 1,186 acres to 4,693 acres.
- You can find the local Parish Council, but they won't assist in family history searches.
For the most part, these figures are for the township of Shackerstone, not the parish.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1871 |
315 |
| 1881 |
288 |
| 1891 |
252 |
| 1901 |
277 |
| 1911 |
229 |
| 1921 |
258 |
| 1931 |
214 |
| 1951 |
765 |
| 1961 |
712 |
- The children of this parish attended schools in Congerton and Barton-in-the-Beans.
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Last updated: 18-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills]
