SHACKERSTONE, a parish in the hundred of SPARKENHOE, county of LEICESTER, 5 miles (N. W.) from Market-Bosworth, containing, with the hamlet of Odestone, and exclusively of a portion of the township of Barton in the Beans, which is in this parish, 486 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £5. 2. 3., and in the patronage of G. Greenaway, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The Ashby de la Zouch canal passes through the parish.