Peatling Parva

Peatling Parva
Peatling Parva
	St Andrews Church Peatling Parva
	Peatling Parva Location within Leicestershire
Population	181 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference	SP593912
Civil parish	Peatling Parva;
District	Harborough;
Shire county	Leicestershire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LEICESTER
Postcode district	LE17
Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	South Leicestershire;
	List of places UK England Leicestershire 52°30′58″N 1°07′37″W / 52.51599°N 1.12702°W

Peatling Parva is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district, south Leicestershire, England. It lies 2.6 km west-north-west of Ashby Magna and 2.9 km south-south-west of Peatling Magna.

The village is recorded in the Domesday Book from 1086 and was known as Alia Petlinge with listed landowners Howard, from Hugh de Grandmesnil, and Leofric, from Adelaide wife of Hugh de Grandmensil.^[1]

The population was recorded as 159 in the 1841 census and 181 in the census of 2001.

A village church, St Andrews Church, is part of the Diocese of Leicester of the Church of England. The village also has a public house, The Shires Inn. A village hall was built in 1989 and holds local meetings of the Parish Council. It is a regular polling station for local, national and European elections and hosts performances from Centre Stage, a rural and community touring scheme.

Peatling Parva lies adjacent to the villages of Gilmorton and Bruntingthorpe, home to the Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome and Proving Ground.

References

^ "The Domesday Book Online - Leicestershire H-R". www.domesdaybook.co.uk.

External links

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[1] "The Domesday Book Online - Leicestershire H-R". www.domesdaybook.co.uk.

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