DIRECTOBY.] . LI'rrLE :BOWDEN. 41 catechism; Saunt's charity, amounting to £12 18s. servoir on Burnmill hill, are in this parish. Lord Barnard annually, is for distribution in blankets, clothing and coals is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Christ to householders, being Protestants, and not in receipt of Church, Oxford, the trustees of the late Guy Paget esq. parish relief; William Wimants, in 1849, left £500, now of Hnmberstone, J. W. Chater esq. Thomas Rowlatt esq. invested in £3 per Cent. Annuities, for the benefit of the J. C. Lefevre esq. William Henry Barfoot-Saunt esq. Mrs. National school; the interest amounts to £14 yearly; a Pow ell, E. K. Fisher esq. and William Cranfi.eld esq. The sum of £3 8s. 4d. being the interest of £II4 IS. Id. the land is entirely used for grazing. The acreage is 3,178 ~ residue of moneys left by Mrs. Shuttleworth,is distributed rateable value, £20,776; the population in 1891 was 2,259 to ten poor persons not receiving parochial relief; (including 109 officers and inmates in Benjamin Cort, a former resident here, left £400, which workhouse). in the year 1889 was invested andJ the interest is distri- Parish Clerk, Arthur Wilford. buted annually at Michaelmas, at the discretion of the Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity &; vicar of the parish and the churchwardens to poor persons Insurance Office.-Mrs. Eliza March, sub-postmistress. over 70 years of age. The Congregational chapel, erected Letters received through Market Harborough; arrive in 1886 in the place of an older building at a cost of about at 6.45 a.m. & at 6.30 p.m.; dispatched at 2.40 & 6 £800, is of red brick from designs' by Mr. Talbot Brown, p.m.; no sunday post of , and has 250 sittings. The Market National School (mixed), built in 11J39 & enlarged in 1873. Harborough workhouse and Gas works and the wharf of for 160 children; average att~dance,140; HarryHayter~ the Union Canal Company, together with the service re- master; Mrs. Susan Hayter, ir.fants' mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Archer Benjamin, tailor Mayo lValter J. wheelwright & coach Bishop William H. Highiield house Archer J. T. tailor builder; body work & smithing done Bland Mrs. Ivy house Bailey Thos. Three Horse Shoes P.H for the trade Brutzer Rev. Henry Wm. B.A. (vicar) Burditt David, Red Lion P.H Northan Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Bullivant Thomas Burditt Henry, brush maker Northrop Charles, cattle dealer Burditt John B Butler William, baker Payne Thomas, baker Chater John Woolston Cave Frederick, Queen P.R Pearson Eliza. (Mrs.), shopkeeper Cumming Rev. Joseph (Congregtnl) Cemetery (W. W. Wartnaby, Markf't Pepperday Robert, wheelwright Dudgeon William, Langton villa Harboro',clerk to the burial board) Pettefer Thomas, carpenwr & joiner HayWm.Harrington,GreatBowden hall Clarke Henry, butcher Robins Matthew, brick maker Herron Mrs Cort Lewis, coal dealer Robinson George, tailor Hickman Cornelius John Cox Mary (Mrs.), butcher Saddington Jonathan, Shoulder of Rowell Robert, Dingley road Eldridge Amelia (Mrs.). laundress Mutton P.H Po chin Major Norman Vansittart Ston- Fox Mary Ann (Mrs.), dress maker Saddington Thomas, blacksmith house B.A., J.P. Burnmill hill Francis John, Royal Oak P.H Shilcock Emma. (Mrs.), grazier Poole William Henry, Beaconsfield viI Greenwood Fairlamb, gardener to W. Stokes Edwn. Wm. horse dlr,Springfld Seabroke Thos. Pickford, The Grange H. Hay esq Stokes ,",ohn Henry, dealer In Stokes Edwin William, Springfielu Hardy Jame.S!, gardener to J. H. hunters & grazler, Stokes John Henry, Nether house Stokes esq house; telegraphic address., Stokes Mrs'. sen Hodson Charles-, joiner .. Hunters JJ Turner James Hufl'er Thomas, grazier Webb GeOTge, grazier Ward Mrs ~Iarch Eliza (Mrs.), carrier, Post office 'VeIls. Edward, shopkeeper Wright May Martin Edward, builder Wheatley Edward, boot & shoe makey COMMERCIAL. .Mayo Frederick, boot & shoe maker Wilford Sam.shoeing & jobbing nnith AlIen Jane (Mrs.), coal dealer Neal Williaru, jun. baker Wright Jefl'rey. grazier

LITTLE BOWDEN is a parish and village on the river Letters through Market Harborough, which is the nearest Welland, adjacent to Market Harborough, II miles north- money order & telegraph office west from , 16 north-west from , in Northampton County Magistrates for Petty the union and county court district of Market Harborough, Sessional Division. petty sessional division of Market Harborough, rural The parish of Little Bowden having been transferred to the deanery of Rothwell (second portion), archdeaconry of county of Leicester is not now included within this petty Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. Under the .sessional division, but the magistrates for this division provisions of the "Local Government Act, 1888," the of the county of Northampton still meet here as formerly whole of this parish has been transferred from Northamp- Stratton George esq. M.A. Wheler lodge, Hus·bands Bos- tonshire to this county, except for Parliamentary pur- worth, Rugby, chairman poses, and is within the district controlled by the Market Downe Viscount C.I.E. Dingley park, Market Harborough Harborough Urban District Council. The church of St. Barfoot-Saunt Wm. Hy. Oxenden hall, Market Harborough Nicholas is an edifice of stone, in the Early English and De Trafford Charles Edmund esq. Hothorpe hall, Rugby Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, Eady Joseph Chamberlain, St. Mary's, Market Harborough north aisle, south porch and an embattled wooden towe.r, Hawkesbury the Right Hon. Lord, 2 Carlton House ter- 35 feet in height, at the west end, containing 3 bells: race, Pall mall, London SW there are memorial windows to Admiral Sir Robert Barlow Kennard Edward esq. Talbot house, Market Harborough. G.C.B. d. May, 1843, and to the Rev. Thomas William Loder Reginald Bernhard, Maidwell, Northampton BarIow, vicar of Halberton, Devon. The register dates Naylor Rchd.Christopher esq.Kelmarsh hall, Northampton from about the year 1580. The living is a rectory, aver- Pearson Captain George John Hook, house. age tithe rent-charge £3, net yearly value £320, including Market Harborough 150 acres of glebe, with residence, in the. gift of the present Pell Albert esq. Hazlebeach Hill, Northampton rector and J. B. Jerwood esq. and held since 1874 by the Rokeby Rev. Henry Ralph B.A. Arthingworth manor~ Rev. Thomas Frederick Jerwood B.A. of Trinity Hall, Northampton Cambridge. The rectory house was built in the 17th Symington Samuel, Brooklands, Market Harborough century by Richard Mow8e. There is a lVesleyan chapel. Underwood Francis, Little Oxendon, Market Harborough An estate producing £106 a year, to be applied in charity, Clerk to the Magistrates, Fdk. Lamb,West st.Kettering which had been lost, has been recovered; one half of the Petty sessions are held once a month, at the Police station, yearly income is appropriated for apprenticing, and the at 11.30 a.m remainder is applied to the relief of sick and poor people: The places in the division are :-Arthingworth, Ashler, the interest of £300 left by the late Mr. Barfoot-Saunt is , Braybrooke, Clipstone, Dingley, East distributed in coals and blankets. Viscount Downe C.I.E. Farndon, Great Oxenden, Hothorpe, Kelmarsh, Maid- is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are well, Marston Trussell, Naseby,Sibbertoft,Stoke Albany, Messrs. 'Villiam Thomas 'Vest, William Henry Banoot- Sulby, , Weston-by-Welland, ', S~u~t esq: of Oxenden H~Il, and F. Hewson esq. T.he Thorpe, Lubbenham soil IS a TIch loam; SUbSOIl, clay and grll:vel. The ChIef Police Station, William Knight, sergeant crops are wheat and barley. The ~re~ IS 1,867 acres; Parochial School (infants), built by SUbscription in 1874. rateab~e value, £1O'71~; the populatIOn ill 1891 was ;,516, for 90 children; average attendance, 60; Miss Mary of. W.hIch I,486 are ill the Market Harborough Urban I Ann Goddard, mistress DIstnct. The elder children of this place attend Market Harborough Parish Clerk, William Iliffe. school Cam-Hunt Clement, The Chestnuts ISmith Joseph COMMERCIAL. Jerwood Rev.Thos. }<'redk.B.A.RectorYj,vest John, )fanor house Barber Henry Herbert,Greyhound P.B Kennard Edward J.P. Talbot house West l\Irs Bird Ann (Mrs.), baker Rawlins Percy Lionel West William, Westbrooke house I)Iartin Albert Edward~Cherry Tree inn