Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire

Description
Sheepy (originally Shepey) Magna, a village, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire. The village stands near the Warwickshire border and on the river Sence, 3 miles NE by N of Atherstone station on the L. & N.W.R., and 6 WSW of Market Bosworth. It has a post and money order office Tinder Atherstone; telegraph office, Atherstone. The parish includes Ratcliffe Culey chapelry and the township of Sheepy Parva, which are noticed separately, and comprises 3100 acres; population of the civil parish, 470; of the ecclesiastical, with Sheepy Parva and Ratcliffe Culey, 716. Sheepy Hall is a chief residence, and the seat of the Lowe family, who are lords of the manor. The living is a rectory, united with Ratcliffe Culey and Sheepy Parva, in the diocese of Peterborough; joint gross value, £7 2 5. The church is an edifice of stone in the Norman and Early English styles. There are a Congregational chapel and a few small charities. Pinwell is a hamlet about 1 1/2 miles S.