Ratcliffe Culey

Trevor RICKARD has a photograph of All Saint Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.

• The parish was in the Atherstone sub-district of the Atherstone Registration District.
   
• The 1851 census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church in Ratcliffe Culey is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church was built circa 1320 and has a western tower with 2 bells.
   
• The church church was partially restored in 1898.
   
• Rob FARROW has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2006.
   
• Trevor RICKARD has a photograph of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1585.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (first portion).
   

• The parish was in the Atherstone sub-district of the Atherstone Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

Ratcliffe Culey is a township, a chapelry a parish and a small village sitting on the border of Warwickshire, near the confluence of the rivers Sence and Anker. The parish covers 1,238 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, from the A444, just south of Sibson, turn west onto Sibson Road for Ratcliffe Culey.
   
• David LALLY has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2009.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Ratcliffe Culey to another place.

David LALLY has a photograph of "The Gate" public house on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2009.

• The webpage author found no mention of a Ratcliffe Culey House or Hall in his sources.
   

• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map #232, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
   
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SP327995 (Lat/Lon: 52.592321, -1.518723), Ratcliffe Culey which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

There is a plaque inside All Saints Church for the five men lost in World War I. The names, ranks and regiments are listed, but not the dates of death.

Able Bodied Seaman Harry EMERY was lost on HM Submarine E.37 when that ship went down in the North Sea on 1st December 1916. He was the son of John EMERY, and was born 1866 in Sheepy Magna.

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Sheppy Magna parish of Leicestershire and was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in Decmber, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred (Wapentake) in the southern (or western) division of the county.
   
• This Civil Parish was abolished in April, 1935, and amalgamated into Witherley Civil Parish.
   

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Atherstone Poorlaw Union in Warwickshire.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Market Bosworth petty session hearings.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1871	210
1881	228
1891	220
1901	212
1911	205
1921	220
1931	184

• The children of this place attended school in Sheppy Magna.