Description
Ratcliffe Culey, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Sheepy Magna parish, Leicestershire, bounded on the N by a stream called Saynte (a tributary of the Sence), and on the W by the Sence, 2 miles NE of Atherstone station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Atherstone. Acreage, 1238; population, 220. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the rectory of Sheepy Magna, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early Decorated style, of which the chancel is a very good specimen, the sedilia being almost unique. It consists of chancel, nave, and an embattled. western tower and spire with two bells.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
