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Alexander E. Disney M.I.M.E.MiHxm ho Beeson Thomas, far~er Elliott Robt. farmer & assist. overseer Asplin J ames, Manor house Birch Chaxlotte M. (Mrs.), Grey- Garrett Samuel, farmer, Hobb end Broom Rev. Edward Richd. (Baptist) hound P.H ~Ianning Charles Norman, farmer Dent Miss, Hobb end Butcher Joseph, farmer, Glebe farm Robinson Charles, shopkeeper East Waiter Francis, The Laurels Campion John, farmer Spokes Thomas, farmer Gross Rev. Alfred William L.Th. The Clarke J ane (Miss), ladies' school Stockford Benjamin J ames, shopkeeper Rectory Clarke Wm. "Warren, market gardenr & beer retailer Marriott Mrs. The Grove East W. J. & Co. Limited, brewers, Surridge George, carrier Montgomery Miss, Mortiliers Hope brewery; & agents & stQres at Turner J ames, blacksmith .Allbr~ght Susall (~Irs.), Compass P.H 51 Woolmonger street, Northamp- Workman's Rest Reading Room (Henry Asplin John,. butcher ton; Poddington, Wellingborough & Hillyard, caretaker) .Asplin William, builder Eden street, Kettering MORETON PINKNEY is a parish and village, in 1889 by the :Misses Grey. At the south-west extremity with a station on the East and West Junctioll railway, of the village is a strong chalybeate spring. Lace making ",hich runs from Broom Junction, where it joins the is carried on. A market for cattle is held at the Red Midland :;;ystem to Towcester, on the Korthampton and Lion inn fortnightly on ~Iondays. Charities :-The poor's Banbury railway, whence there is communication with land of 12 acres produces yearly, with other bequests, Blisv.-orth on the L. & N. W. railway and t-o OIney, via about £Ig, whiC'h is distributed among the poor on breacl the ~Iiiland railway, for goods only; Oulworth station, on and money. The old manor house, called ::\Ioreton Pink­ the Great Oentral Railway, is about half a mile from ney Manor, and now the property and residence of the­ the village, which is 9 miles west from Towcester and 9 :YIisses Grey, daughters of the late .Admiral the Hon. north from Brackley, in the Southern division of the Georgl' Grey J.P. is an ancient mansion, and bears on it county, hundred of Green's :Korton, petty sessional divi­ the shields of the families nf Cope and Candler; in 1860 sion, union and county court district of Brackley, rural it was restored and considerably enlarged, and is ap­ deanery of Brackley (first portion), archdeaconry of proached from the village by a lodge, above the gates ot Korthampton and diocese of Peterborough. The chief which, carved in stone, are the armorial bearings of the­ part of the village is well supplied with water from Sempills, Barons Sempill, who formerly resided here. gravitation works constructed in 1892. The church of The Duke of Grafton K.G., C.B. who is lord of the­ St. ~Iary the Virgin is an ancient building of stone in IIlanor, the ~Iisses Grey, the Misses Thomason, John and mixed styles, consisting of a chancel, clerestoried nave, George Branson, T. R. Pratt and W. Douglas esqrs. aisles, north and south porches and a low embattled are the principal landownars. The !,oil varies, but is western tower containing 5 bellS' and a clock: the chancel principally light; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are­ retains an elegant double piscina, and there is another in wheat and beans, with a fair proportion of pasture. The­ the south aisle: the chancel was- rebuilt in 1845 by the im­ area is 2.438 acres; rateable value, £3,330; the popu­ propriators, the Provost and Fellows of Oriel College, lation in 1901 was 378. Oxford, and in 1846 the church was restored, reseated, Sexton, Ellis Buckley. refloored, and partly new roofed, at a cost of £800: in Post & ~I. O. 0., S. B. & A. &; 1. O.-Mrs. Henrietta 1891 the tower was completely restored and the bells Chambers, SUb-postmistress. Letters received at 8.3C> rehung, at a cost of over £300, but on Sunday, January a.m. & 4.15 p.m. (for callers only), through Byfield 8th, 1893, a fire occurred in the tower which destroyed Railway Sub-Office; dispatched at ILI5 a.m. & 4.45 all the woodwork, damaged 4 out of the 5 bells, and p.m. week days only. The nearest telegraph office is at destroyed the clock: the whole hai!i again been restored Culworth Railway station, I mile distant frum plans by Mr. Edmund Law, of Northampton, and Police Station, Robert Cowan, constable the bell~ recast and rehung, at a total cost of £360, National School (mixed), built in 1822 & enlarged in this being covered by insurance: a new clock has 1876, for go children; average attendance, 74; there­ heen placed in the tower as a memorial to the Right is a residence for the master & mistress; lohn Lewis Rev. Ashton Oxenden D.D. late Bishop of Montreal and .Tones, master; Mrs. Annie Matilda Jones, infants' & Metropolitan of Canada (186g-78), d. r8g2: thfre are sewing mistress sittings for 300 persons: an addition of one-eighth of an acre, the gift of the late Baroness Sl'mpill, was Railway Stations. made to the churchyard in 1876. The registers Northampton & Banbury Junction Railway, "Yilliam Days~ date from the year 1641. The living is a vicar- station master a~e, lIet yearly value £lgO, with residence, in the gift of Culworth, Great Oentral Railway, "William Dean, station the Prov,)!;t and Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford, and master held since 1875 by the Rev. Robert Dusautoy "rhite MA. Oarriers to Banbury-Wallace Seckington Jeffs, mono &> of that college and chaplain of Oanons Ashby. Here is a thurs. & Alfred Mark Franklin, thurs.; Northampton- Baptist chapel. A coffee house and reading room, for Wallace Seckington Jeffs, sat. & Alfred ~Iark, FTanklin~ the free use of the men of the parish, was opened here sat Grey Misses, Moreton Pinkney manor Clarke Benjamin, Red Lion P.R Kirby Edmund, coal merchWlt Matthews Mrs. Oak cottage Oox Henry, coal agent Lenton Thomas, Crown inn P.R White Rev. Robert Dusautoy M.A. Vi- Cullen Thomas, farmer, Lodge farm Linnell Richd. grazier, Bullers grounds carage Franklin Alfred Mark, carrier Merivale "Vm. Thos. (Mrs.), dress ma C01!YERCTAL. French James, haulier & graz~eT Parrish Charles, farmer Bazeley John Henry Bull, farmer Gascoigne John Thomas, blacksmith Parrish Henry, farmer, Glebe farm Bazeley Thomas Bull, farmer & rate Goodridge John, James & 'Ym. frmrs Rogers James. stone mason &. graziel' collector Hemmings George, farmer & grazier, Spacey Francis, farmer Bishop George, dog trainer Lawn hill Thomason Fredk. farmer, Foxhill frm Branson George, farmer Hemmings Sarah (Mrs.), dress maker Thomason Richard "William, farmer, Branson John, farmer, Hill farm Higham Thomas (Mrs.), 'baker, shop- grazier, grocer & draper Brazell Arthur, grazier keeper & butcher Tucker Andrew, beer retailer Brockliss Joseph, tailor Hig-ham William, Dun COW P.R Ward Edwin, farmer, Manor farm Brockliss Richard W. grazier Jeffs Thomas, carpenter & wheelwright" Welcome" Reading & Refreshment Burman Job, farmer, Pewitt farm .leffs Wallace Seckington, carrier Room (George Pates, caretaker) Chambers Henrietta (Mrs.), shop- Johnson John, carpenter & wheelwright WhittQn William, farmer keeper, Post office MOULTON is a large village and parish, near the for 23 years) and his wife: the tower consists of three road from Northampton to Kettering, 4 miles north-east Decorated stages, above which has been added an Early from Northampton and 8 west-south-west from Wel­ Perpendicular belfry of much elegance: both north and lingborough, in the Mid division of the county, hundred south doorways to the rood loft remain, and the chancel of Spelhoe, union of Brixworth, petty sessional division and both aisles Tetain piscinre: the clerestory and porch and county court district of Northampton, rural deanery were added in the 14th century: in 1880 the tower was of Haddon (second portion), archdeaconry of Northamp­ new roofed, at a cost of £50, and the wall iriclosing the ton and diocese of Peterborough. The church of SS. SQuth and east sides of the churC'hyard rebuilt, at a cost Peter and Paul is an edifice of stone, in the Norman, of £60, including new gates: in 1884 the bells were re­ Tran,itional and later styles,. consisting of chancel, hung, the interior of the tower restored, the clock re­ clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and paired and a new clock floor relaid, at a cost of £200: a lofty embattled western tower containing- 6 bells, and the church has since been thoroughly restored under a chiming clock, placed in the tower II Dec. Ig02, at the direction of :Mr. E. Law, architect, of Northampton, a cost of £200, as a memorial to Daniel George Lewis at a cost of about £3,500, when the north aisle was re­ esq. M.RC.S., L.B.C.P. (who harl practised in this "district built, the whole structure new roofed, and the interior