SHEEPY (MAGNA), a parish in the hundred of
SPARKENHOE, county of LEICESTER, 3 miles (N. E.
by N.) from Atherstone, containing, with the chapelry
of Ratcliffe-Culey, 638 inhabitants. The living is a
mediety of the rectory of Sheepy Magna and Parva, in
the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £13, 4. Q., and in the
patronage of the Rev. T. C. Fell. The church is dedicated
to All Saints. At the Mythe, which formerly belonged
to the monks of Merevale, are some slight
remains of an ancient chapel. This parish 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
forty shillings.