English Heritage sites near Peckleton Parish

Kirby Muxloe Castle

KIRBY MUXLOE CASTLE

5 miles from Peckleton Parish

The picturesque moated remains - including the fine gatehouse and a complete corner tower - of this brick-built fortified mansion have recently been extensively conserved by English Heritage.

Jewry Wall

JEWRY WALL

8 miles from Peckleton Parish

A length of Roman bath-house wall over 9 metres (30 feet) high, near a museum displaying the archaeology of Leicester and its region.

Ashby de la Zouch Castle

ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CASTLE

12 miles from Peckleton Parish

Ashby Castle forms the backdrop to the famous jousting scenes in Sir Walter Scott's classic novel of 1819, Ivanhoe. Now a ruin, the castle began as a manor house in the 12th century.

Kenilworth Castle and Elizabethan Garden

KENILWORTH CASTLE AND ELIZABETHAN GARDEN

21 miles from Peckleton Parish

Once home to Robert Dudley, the great love of Queen Elizabeth I. Today you can walk in the beautifully recreated Elizabethan garden and marvel at the mighty Norman keep.

Wall Roman Site

WALL ROMAN SITE

22 miles from Peckleton Parish

Wall was an important staging post on Watling Street, the Roman military road to North Wales. It provided overnight accommodation for travelling Roman officials and imperial messengers.

J. W. Evans Silver Factory

J. W. EVANS SILVER FACTORY

26 miles from Peckleton Parish

Established in 1881, J. W. Evans is one of the most complete surviving historic factories in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.


Churches in Peckleton Parish

All Saints, Kirkby Mallory

Church Road Kirkby Mallory Leicester

All Saints is the beautiful little parish church of the village of Kirkby Mallory. Located near Mallory Park circuit, it takes a little bit of finding, but is well worth doing so.  In the churchyard is a memorial to Ada Lovelace (Mathematical Ada), Lord Byron's daughter, who helped to design the first computer.  In the church itself is an amazing Victorian font.

For family historians: Please note that we do not keep old record books. Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials are lodged at the County Records Office (www.leics.gov.uk/record_office) and this should be your first point of contact.

Peckleton w Tooley: St Mary Magdalene

Church Road Peckleton Leicester
07768 515401

 A Grade 1 listed church with parts dating from medieval times, the earliest recorded place of worship on the site being a Norman chapel. There is a Norman font in the church and also a 19th century stained glass window by Charles Kempe.

Memorials include the Moton family, Thomas Harvey (d.1544) and his two wives (Thomas with a wife on each side depicted on the alabaster tomb cover on a church wall) and Robert Chessher.

A recent discovery was a wooden cross from a First World War battlefield grave that was affixed to a stone cross in the graveyard and is now inside on the church wall. George Fallodown lies in a War Graves Commission cemetery in Belgium but his parents had the cross that was used to mark his first burial place brought back to Peckleton and fixed to the stone memorial - a gravestone with no interment. See www.thereturned.co.uk/crosses/peckleton/

The normal pattern of services has been disrupted because of Covid and as we reopen we are looking to hold different styles of service at different times of the year. A post-Covid 2021-2022 schedule is currently being planned. Fixed points we can already announce are the Service of Remembrance on Sunday 14 November at 10.45am and our traditional Carol Service (with orchestra) at 3pm on Christmas Eve - subject to any restrictions on congregating that may prevail at the time.

Stapleton: St Martin

Church Lane Stapleton Hinckley
01455446993
http://barwell-parish.org.uk

All the services in this box-pewed church use the Book of Common Prayer.It is also licenced to hold Weddings.

In addition to the regular service we have services in the church for Easter, Christmas, and Harvest

Pubs in Peckleton Parish

Kirkby House

Church Road, Kirkby Mallory, LE9 7QE
(01455) 841153
kirkby-house.com

Please use the email link at the bottom of this listing to let the local branch know of any changes. A small upmarket hotel situated near the entrance to Mallory Park Circuit. The farm house style bar & restaurant are recent additions, ser...
Nags Head

15 Main Street, Stapleton, LE9 8JN
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New landlords November 2022, please check facebook for up to date information while they settle in. 2 Guest ales. Food - Monday and Thursday to Sunday with breakfast being served on Saturday. Old world character pub, timber beams. Two ba...