English Heritage sites near Peckleton Parish
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
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
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
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
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
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
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