Peatling Magna

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Peatling Magna
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Corner of Main Street and School Lane, Peatling Magna
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Peatling Magna
Location within Leicestershire
Population210  (2011 Census)
OS grid reference SP593930
Civil parish
  • Peatling Magna
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LEICESTER
Postcode district LE8
Police Leicestershire
Fire Leicestershire
Ambulance East Midlands
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52°31′56″N1°07′35″W / 52.5322°N 1.12627°W / 52.5322; -1.12627

Peatling Magna (also once known as “Great Petlyng” and later as “Great Peatling”) is a village in Harborough district, south Leicestershire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 210. [1] It lies 3.7 km north-east of Ashby Magna and 2.9 km north-north-east of Peatling Parva.

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Church

The church of All Saints is mainly of the 14th and 15th centuries and contains some fine examples of carved woodwork of different periods. [2]

Medieval notableness

Notes

  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  2. Betjeman, J. (ed.) (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: the North. London: Collins; p. 170
  3. M. Wood, In Search of England (2011) p. 253
  4. D. A. Carpenter, The Reign of Henry III (1996) p. 336
  5. R. Wickson, The Community of the Realm (Longman 1970) p. 33
  6. Calendar of Patent Rolls Richard II Volume 2 (1381 - 1385) p.479

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