PECKLETON, a parish in the hundred of SPARKENHOE,
county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (N. E., by N.)
from Hinckley, containing, with the hamlet of Tooley,
359 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in
the king's books at £8, and in the patronage of the
Rev. Mr. Cooper. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
Pecldeton is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster,
and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas
held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery
of debts under 40a.