Peatling Magna (All Saints)
PEATLING MAGNA (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Lutterworth, hundred of Guthlaxton, S. division of the county of Leicester, 6½ miles (N. E. by N.) from Lutterworth; containing 308 inhabitants. It comprises about 2000 acres: the Midland railway passes within two miles. The living is a discharged vicarage, united in 1729 to the rectory of Willoughby-Waterless, and valued in the king's books at £5. 9. 2.: the glebe comprises about 48 acres. In the church are old monuments of the Jarvis family.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.