Peatling Magna
Corner of Main Street and School Lane, Peatling Magna
Peatling Magna Location within Leicestershire
Population	210  (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	SP593930
Civil parish	Peatling Magna
District	Harborough
Shire county	Leicestershire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LEICESTER
Postcode district	LE8
Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	South Leicestershire
List of places UK England Leicestershire 52°31′56″N 1°07′35″W / 52.5322°N 1.12627°W / 52.5322; -1.12627

Peatling Magna (also once known as “Great Petlyng” and later as “Great Peatling”) is a village in Harborough district, south Leicestershire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 210.^[1] It lies 3.7 km north-east of Ashby Magna and 2.9 km north-north-east of Peatling Parva.

Church

The church of All Saints is mainly of the 14th and 15th centuries and contains some fine examples of carved woodwork of different periods.^[2]

Medieval notableness

• In 1265, Peatling Magna stepped onto the national stage when, after the battle of Evesham, the villages refused to co-operate with men of the victorious royal forces, on the grounds that the latter were “going against the welfare of the community of the realm”.^[3] The fracas which followed eventually led to the village appearing in court, as recorded in the Plea Rolls of 1266, in the person of the reeve and four men as representatives of “the community of the vill.”^[4] F. M. Powicke saw the case as indicative of the penetration of communal ideas, local and national, to the smallest village level in 13th century England.^[5]
• In 1384, Peatling Magna was mentioned as "Great Petlyng" in a pardon granted to Thomas Astell, Thomas Mathew, and John Scot of "Great Petlyng" for the death of Nicholas Man of "Great Petlyng", as William de Skypwith and other justices assigned to deliver the gaol (jail) at Leicester Castle found that Astell and the others had acted in self-defence. (Just how three men killed one man in "self-defence" was not explained.) ^[6]