Shackerstone

The churchyard was closed for burials in in 1987. The Parish Council was able to open a new cemetery in 1993. It is a strip of land adjacent to the Churchyard but administered separately by the Parish Council.

• The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth 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 for Shackerstone is dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• The church is considered "very old" and has a massive tower with 3 bells. The church was built before 1660.
   
• The church seats 240.
   
• Tim GLOVERS has a photograph of Shackerstone Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2003.
   
• Christine MATTHEWS also has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1630.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (first portion).
   

• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration DIstrict.
   

Shackerstone is a small village, a township and a parish about 108 miles north of London, 14 miles west of Leicester city, just 3 miles southwest of Ibstock, 4 miles northwest of Market Bosworth and 8 miles south of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The parish covers about 1,031 acres and includes the township of Odstone.

The River Sence runs along the east side of the village and the Ashby Canal runs along the northern edge of the village. If you are planning a visit:

• Rail passenger service stopped here in 1931. Today the village is on the "Battlefield Line" to Bosworth.
   
• By automobile, take the A447 to Ibstock and turn west onto the B586. Follow that for about a half mile to Heather and turn south. As you cross the Ashby Canal, you'll enter Shackerstone.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• By the mid-1850s, the local coal mines had been worked out. Most of the inhabitants of this parish were farmers in the latter half of the 1800s.
   
• By 1900 the village had a brickworks company.
   
• The village had a wharf on the Ashby Canal.
   
• Roger KIDD has a photograph of an ancient motte and bailey on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2010.
   
• Christine MATTHEWS has a photograph of The Rising Sun Public House on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
   
• These are the names associated with the Rising Sun Inn in various directories:
   

Year	Person
1849	Thomas BARBER, maltster
1861	Samuel MASKELL, vict.
1881	Samuel MASKELL
1908	Mrs. Sarah MASKELL
1912	John BLOCKLEY
1925	John RICHARDSON

In the Elizabethan era the HALL family were prominent in the village. They occupied the hall next to the church, known as Shakerstone Mannor.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK374068 (Lat/Lon: 52.657641, -1.448522), Shackerstone 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.

During the Civil War, Shackerstone was near enough to Ashby de la Zouch to attract the attention of both parties. Parliamentary soldiers from Tamworth and Coventry stole horses, including a mare worth ten pounds from Mr. HALL.

There are three stained glass panels in a window of St. Peter's Church which are a memorial to those men lost in World War I. The memorial was dedicated in August 1920.

• This place was an ancient parish in the county as became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the western division of the county.
   
• On 18 August, 1882, the parish was enlarged by gaining part of Nailstone Civil Parish.
   
• On 25 March, 1886, the parish was reduced to enlarge Congerstone Civil Parish.
   
• On 1 April, 1935, a large number of parish realignments were mandated. This parish was enlarged by the abolition of four civil parishes; Barton in the Beans (846 acres), Bilstone (713 acres), Congerstone (814 acres), and Odstone (1,134 acres). The parish went from 1,186 acres to 4,693 acres.
   
• You can contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they can't assist in family history searches.
   
• The Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council provide district governance.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Sparkenhoe (Market Bosworth) petty session hearings each week, alternating between Hinckley and Market Bosworth.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, Shackerstone became part of the Market Bosworth Poorlaw Union.
   

For the most part, these figures are for the township of Shackerstone, not the parish.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	431
1841	524
1871	315
1881	288
1891	252
1901	277
1911	229
1921	258
1931	214
1961	712

• The children of this parish attended schools in Congerton and Barton-in-the-Beans.