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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLeicestershire 
Ecclesiastical parishSheepy Parva All Saints 
HundredSparkenhoe 
Poor Law unionAtherstone 

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:


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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online:

DistrictHinckley and Bosworth
CountyLeicestershire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtCV9
Post TownAtherstone

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