Peckleton

Other current and historical names

Pechintone

Parish/Community: Peckleton
District/Borough: Hinckley and Bosworth
County: Leicestershire
Region: East Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°36'17"N 1°18'36"W
Eastings/Northings: 446815, 301019
OS Grid: SK468010
Mapcode Local: GBR 7L8.RL2
Mapcode Global: WHDJF.VS9D

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Peckleton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Peckleton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Peckleton, par. and vil., Leicestershire, 4 miles SE. of Market Bosworth, 1583 ac., pop. 267; near the vil. is Peckleton Hall, seat.

Peckleton in the Domesday Book

A village in Guthlaxton hundred, in the county of Leicestershire.

- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Hugh of Grandmesnil
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Hugh of Grandmesnil
- Taxable Value: 6 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 5 shillings in 1070; £3 in 1086
- Households: 3 smallholders; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough (4 plough lands)

British Place Names

Peckleton, Leicestershire

Peckleton is a village in Leicestershire

Peckleton in historic gazetteers

Peckleton in the Domesday Book