[.] . 524 [POST OFFICE THE BARROWS is a hil1, a mile south-west.. WALL Box cleared 4.}0 p.m. week days only. Letters from THORPE (or Thorpe-by-Water) is a small hamlet and U ppin~ham arrive about 8.30 a.m. by foot messenger. The township on the north bank of the river Welland, about 2 nearest money order office is at miles south, containing in 1871 a population of 68, and National School.~. Samuel Cowdell, master; Mrs. Ruth 613 acres of land. Cowdell, mistress Parish Clerk, Frederick Stanger. Railway Station, John Adams, station master Burgess Miss Cooke Robert, coal & stone &c. agent Robinson Joseph, farmer & grazier~ Heycock Rev. Thomas, M.A. [rector] for Ellis & Everard, Station Thorpe Knox Mrs Cousins John, farmer,grazier & maItster Ro}ce J osiah, miller, farmer & grazier COMMERCIAL. Crowden John, butcher,tarmr.&grazier SeweIl Benjamin, farmer & grazier Adams John, station master Deacon John, grazier Shelton J ane (Miss), landowner&~razr Baines WiIliam lnchley & Amos, far- Ellis & Everard, coal merchants, Station Siddons George, brick & tile maker~ mers & g-raziers Fox John, Thl'ee Horseshoes, & Station Bennett William, brick ma. & shopkpr blacksmith Stanger Ashton, stone mason & slater Broome Richard, gardener &c Freeman John, baker & grocer Stanger Frederick, stone mason, parish Brown Keziah (Miss), dress maker Goodwin N athaniel, miller, Thorpe clerk & shopkeeper Bryan Thomas, farmer & grazier, The !slip William, wheelwright Thompson John, boot & shoe maker Lodge Langley Joseph, blacksmith Thompson John Drake, boot & shoe Carter William, carpenter &c Northen John ~:Iarsh, coal merchant maker, Thorpe Clarke Mary (Mrs.), George~Dragon &c. Station Thompson Richard, boot & shoe maker- Colwell Ann (Mr:::.), farmer & grazier, N orthen Wm. farmer & grazier, Thorpe Tomblin Robert, farmer & grazier Thorpe Pickering WiIliam, carpenter &c Winter Robert, grazier & jobber

STOKE DRY is a parish and small village, situated on a Exeter, and held by the Rev. WilIiam Hamilton Thompsonr height. from which the view extends over M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, who resides at the rectory ~ and the vale of the river Eye, which separates the parish a handsome modern Elizabethan building. This was the from , 3 miles north from Rockingham Castle native place of Sir Everard Di~by, who was engaged in the station, and 2 south-by-west from Upping-ham, partly in the Gunpowder Plot: some remains of the family mansion still hundred of Wrangdike, and partly in that of Gartree in exist. The Marquis of Exeter is lord of the manor and sole Leicestershire, union and county court district of Upping­ landowner. The soil is rich loam; subsoil, chiefly blue ham, rural deanery of Rutland, archdeaconry of Oakham, Has clay, part gravel. The parish comprises 1,424 acres and diocese of Peterborough. The church of St. Andrew is (including Holy Oakes), nearly all pasture, of which 85 are a very old building, in the rudest Gothic style, and consists free of tithe; rateable value, £1,620 16s. 8d.; the popu­ of chancel, nave, aisles, and small chapel on the south side, lation in 1871 was 45, besides 7 in the liberty of Holy Oakes, and has a square tower: the porch is very curious, and which is in Leicestershire. nearly covered with ivy: the interior is interesting from Parish Clerk, Alfred Wadd. the monuments, chiefly of the Digby family. The register dates from the year 1559. The living- is a rectory, yearly Letters through Uppingham, which is the nearest money value £420, with residence, in the gift of the Marquis of order office Thompson Rev. WilIiam Hamilton, I Bryan Capt. John Henry, farmer & I Peach Cooyers, farmer & grazier M.A., J.P. Rectory grazier 'Vard Thomas, grazier

STRETTON is a villag-e and parish, 6! miles from Ash­ Ram Jam inn, which was a very famous house in coach­ well station on the Midland railway, and about the same ing days, is on the other side of the turnpike road in. distance from Little Bytham, on the Great Northern rail­ Greetham parish. On the north side- of the parish, about way, 98 milE'S from , a quarter of a mile east from It miles from Stretton, is Stocken Hall, near the boundary the Great North Road, Smiles north-west-by-north from of Lincolnshire, closely surrounded by woods and planta­ Rtamford, and 8 north-east from Oakham. in Alstoe hundred, tions: it is now occupied by Lord Francis Cecil. Lord Oakham union and county court district, rural deanery of A ... eland is lord of the manor and principal landowner. Rutland, archdeaconry of Oakham, and diocese of Peter· The soil varies; subsoil, same. The chief crops are wheat, borough. The church of St. Nicholas is an old building, barley, oats, beans, mots and hay. The area is 1,934 acres;. in the Norman. Early English, Decorated and Jacobean rateahle value, '£2,374 ; in 1871 the population was 173. styles of architecture, consisting of chancel. nave, north Parish Clerk, WilIiam Todd. aisle, and north and south transepts, with 2 bells hanging in a small turret. The register dates from the year 1631. The living is a rectory, yearly value £300, with residence, POST OFFICE.-WiIliam Todd, receiver. Letters arrive in the gift of Lord Aveland, and held by the Rev. Edward from Oakham at 8.20 a.m.; dispatched at 5.40 p.m. The Bradley, B.A., of Univprsity College, Durham. The tithes nearest money order office is at Cottesmore were commuted in 1846 for 3s. 6d. per acre. There is a National School, Mrs. Elizabeth Babington, mistress school, which was built by Lord Aveland in 1872. The CARRIER TO STAMFORD.-Young, every friday Bradley Rev. Edward, B.A. [rector], Elson John, grazier Thraves John Hack, White Horse,. Rectory Gutteridge John, joiner farmer & butcher Cecil Lord Francis, Stocken hall Hart William, farmer,butcher & wheel- Todd WilIiam, shoe maker COMMERCIAL. wright Wilband William, gamekeeper to Lorli Bott Charlotte (Mrs.), shopkeeper Merry Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer & grazier Aveland Dickenson George, farmer & grazier, l\fuuton John, farmer & machine owner Wilson George, farmer & grazier; & at. Hooby lodge Musson Elizabeth (1\Irs.), grazier Greetham Doubleday Thomas, farmer & grazier Preston Edward, farmer & grazier Young Leonard, blacksmith & carrier-

TEIGH is a small parish and village, 5 miles north from Harry Lee Wingfield, esq., ofTickeneote Hall, WiIliam Ann Oakham, n south-east from Melton Mowbray, and 2 north­ Pochin, esq., of Edmondthorpe, R. Thompson, esq., o:li east from Ashwell station, in Alstoe hundred, Oakham Stamford, and Mr. J oseph Bennett are the landowners. union and county court district, rural deanery of Rutland, The soil is red loam; subsoil, same. The chief crops are archdeaconry of Oakham, and diocese of Peterborough. wheat, barley, oats, beans, roots, and hay. The area is The village stands on a height, on the borders of Leicester­ 1,248A.IR. SP.; rateable value, £2,228 10s.; the popula­ shire. The church of the Holy Trinity is in the modern tion in 1871 was 113. Gothic style, consisting of nave and square tower with 3 Parish Clerk, Thomas Woolley. bells. The register dates from the year 1550. The living' is a rectory, yearly value £430, with residence, in the gift of Letters arrive from Oakham at 9.30 a.m. by foot messenger, Richard Thompson, esq., of Stamford, and held by the Rev. who returns at 5 p.m. The nearest money order office is Anthony Singleton Atcheson, of St. John's College, Cam- at Wymondham & the nearest telegraph office is at bridge. R. Thompson, esq., is lord of the manor. John Oakham Atcheson Rev. Anthony Singleton, IFrisby Charles, farmer & grazier Perkins Mark, farmer & grazier [rector] Harris Phillip, grazier Wass George, farmer & grazier COMMERCIAL. Hinman Alfred, farmer & grazier Williamson Sarah Ann (Mrs.), shopkpr­ DarnesWilson, farmer&grazier, Teigh ho J ackson Elizabeth (Mrs.), grazier IWood George, farmer & grazier