Shackerstone, Leicestershire

Description
Shackerstone, a village, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire. The township lies 4 miles NW of Market Bosworth, and has a station on the Ashby and Nuneaton branch of the M.R. and L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Atherstone; money order office, Twycross; telegraph office, Nailstone. Acreage, 1186; population, 252. The parish contains also Odstone hamlet. Population, 437. The manor belongs to Earl Howe, who is chief landowner. It is in the coal district, and has a wharf on the Ashby Canal. The living is a vicarage, with Odstone annexed, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint gross value, £144. Patron, Earl Howe. The church is an Early English building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and embattled western tower.