Peatling Magna

• The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth 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:
   

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church was built in the 14th century.
   
• The tower and spire were repaired in 1896.
   
• The church was repaired in 1906.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2011.
   
• Mat FASCIONE also has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2011.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1565.
   
• The church was in the rural Guthlaxton deanery (third portion).
   

• The parish was in the Lutterworth sub-district of the Lutterworth Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

Peatling Magna is a parish and a village 3 miles south of Leicester city. The parish covers just over 1,860 acres.

The land around the village has been mostly pasture for centuries. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A426 north out of Lutterworth and turn left at Dunton Bassett.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Peatling Magna to another place.

• The village hall was built in 1911.
   
• Ian ROB has a photograph of The Old Cock Inn on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2011.
   

• The author found mention of a manor house in the Leicestershire directories of 1881 and 1912, but no description. In 1912, it was occupied by David SPOKES, a farmer.
   

• The national grid reference is SP 5992.
   
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP594925 (Lat/Lon: 52.527143, -1.125874), Peatling Magna which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

The War Memorial for World War I is a wall-mounted brass plaque inside the parish church.

• This place was an ancient parish in Leicestershire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish lies in the Guthlaxton Hundred in the southern division of the county.
   
• The citizens of this parish have decided to forgo a formal Parish Council. They hold periodic Parish Meetings to discuss divic and political issues.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Lutterworth petty session hearings every other Thursday.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Lutterworth Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	170
1831	267
1841	308
1881	194
1891	160
1901	147
1911	183

• The children of this parish attended schools in Little Peatling and Willoughby Waterless.