Shackerstone is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. It is situated on the Ashby Canal. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 811. In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the smallest unit of local government. ... Hinckley and Bosworth is a local government district with borough status in south-western Leicestershire, England, administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. ... Leicestershire (abbreviated Leics) is a landlocked county in central England. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK... The Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal is a 22 mile (35 km) long canal in England which travels between Bedworth in Warwickshire and the Leicestershire village of Snarestone. ...
This event is run by the villagers of Shackerstone, the Shackerstone Railway Society and the Ashby Canal Association.
Shackerstone Mill was situated by the River Sence and was demolished when the railway was constructed to make room for the embankment and cattle arch (necessitated to retain a bridal path to Barton in the Beans).
Shackerstone, with its station, canal, church, inn, chapel, Post Office, shop, mills, bakery, small butchers shop, smithy, carriage and cart building works and brickyard was a very self sufficient village with good communications a hundred or more years ago.
In the 1851 Census for Shackerstone, forwarded by Jessie (Holness) Moretti, there is a family headed by Sarah Choyce, age 62, born at Shackerstone, a grocer.
Also in the house were her son, Samuel, aged 16, born at Shackerstone; her married daughter Ann Jackson, age 20, born at Shackerstone, assistant grocer; and John Jackson, age 22, son-in-law, an agricultural laborer, born at Billeston.
Shackerstone is about two miles northeast of Twycross and Measham is about four miles further north of Shakerstone.
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