Ratcliffe Culey is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Witherley, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district, in Leicestershire, England, near the county boundary with Warwickshire.

The toponym "Ratcliffe" is derived from Old English, referring to the local red clay and the fact that it is on high land.

In June 1646 the town of Ratcliffe Culey submitted claims to the Warwickshire county committee for losses and free quarter from the parliamentary garrisons in Warwickshire.

Colonel Purefoy, Captain Potter and Major Pout of the Coventry garrison were charged for "free quarter" worth an estimated £12 6s 8d Captain Turton is said to have taken six horses worth £6.

[3] Ratcliffe Culey was formerly a chapelry in Sheepy-Magna parish,[4] from 1866 Ratcliffe Culey was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1935 and merged with Witherley.