Pickwell

Pickwell
All Saints church
Pickwell is located in Leicestershire
Pickwell
Pickwell
Location within Leicestershire
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
List of places
UK
England
Leicestershire
52°41′38″N 0°50′24″W / 52.694°N 0.840°W / 52.694; -0.840
Signpost by listed barn in the village[1]

Pickwell is a small, hill-crest village 5 miles (8.0 km) south-east of Melton Mowbray in the Melton district, in Leicestershire which used to have an ecclesiastical parish of its own and is since the early 20th century has been in the civil parish and Church of England parish of Somerby which is 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the SSW, connected by an almost straight lane.

A spring rises here as the source of a small stream which explains the well part of its name. It is also pronounced like ‘Pickle’

  1. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1061245)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 July 2013.