Sheepy Parva, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Sheepy Parva, a small village and a township in Sheepy Magna parish, Leicestershire, 3½ miles NE of Atherstone station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Sheepy, under Atherstone; money order and telegraph office, Twycross. Acreage of parish, 613; population, 69. The manor belongs to the Blomfield family. There are large water and steam flour-mills. The living is a rectory, annexed to Sheepy Magna. There is no church.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Leicestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Sheepy Parva All Saints | |
Hundred | Sparkenhoe | |
Poor Law union | Atherstone |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sheepy Parva from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sheepy Parva (All Saints))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Sheepy Parva are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online: