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Higginson Mrs. Sarah PUBLICANS. SHOPKEEPERS. Higgimlon Thomas Freeston Frederick, wheelwright & Bennett Wm. I Chamberlain John Johnson Thomas Y, Bnll's Head Cheney William I J ohnson Thomas Nurse William, h Sapcote fields James HarolU. Ernest, v, Wht Horse CARRIER. Richardson William, and carpenter Ladkin Miss Jane, grzr & v, Q1~een's Johnson Samuel, to Hinckley M, Stevens Tom, and butcher Arms W. and Sat. LOCKINGTON is a township and parish in the £30,000, with terraces, in the centre of a well-wooded northern division of the county, 'Vest Goscote park of 75 arres. The parish includes the township hundred, rural deanery of West Akeley, Shardlow of Hemington, and comprises an area of 1695 acres, union, and County Court district. rateable value £3730. In 1881 the population of It is 2! miles N. W. from Kegworth station, 2 E. by the parish was about 600, of the township, 175. N. from Castle Donington, and 7! N. W. by N. from ST. NICHOLAS CHURcH.-Services, Sunday at 11 Loughborongh. St. Nicholas Church is an ancient and 3. Communion about six times a year. Rev. Early English structure, comprising chancel, nave, Robert L. Story; TVardens, Messrs. Hatchett and aisles, south porch and massive tower, in which are Finney; Organist, Mrs. Story; Clerk, Robt. Joyce. five bells. The Register dates from 1557. The living Hymns A. and M. is a vicarage, annexed to Hemington, of the joint POST OFFICE at Mr. R. Brown's. Letters via annual value of £330 with residence, in the gift of Derby arrive at 6-25; box eleared at 7 p. m. on week- Mr. N. C. Curzon, lord of the manor and chief land- days, at 5 on Sundays. The nearest Money Order owner. The Hall was built several years ago by the and Telegraph Offices are at Castle Donington and present owner, in the Italian style, at a cost of Kegworth. Brown Robert, cowkeeper, Post off \Valton John Atkinson, steward to FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. Curzon Nathaniel Charles, Esg, J.P, Mr. Curzon Hatchett J ames Thomas, and over- Lockington hall seer, Dale Acre farm Joyce John, shopkeeper COTTAGERS. Porter Charles, the Hall farm Joyce Robert, parish clerk Halford Mrs. Sarah Potter Wm. Hallam, Lockingtn gnds Kelham William, blacksmith North Mrs. Mary Shepperson GeOl'ge Spencer Story Rev. Robert Laycock, the North Samuel I Poxon William TUl'ller Robert, bailiff to Mr. N. C. Vicarage Ross William Curzon, the Grange fa.rm

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LOUGHBOROUGH is a thriving and increasing manufacture of lace has been for severa.l years given market town, the second in size, popula.tion and im­ up in the district, but it is still a flourishing centre portance in the county, the heau of a Union, Petty of the hosiery trade, and the factory of Messrs. Cart­ Sessional and County Court district, with station on wright and Warners, on the Nottingham road, is one the main line of the . There is also a of the largest in the Midland district, and employs new single line, the railway, from over a thousand hands. The N ottingha.m Manufactur· Loughborough to Sheepshed, and Coal­ ing Company have a large factory, and there are several ville. It was opened on the 16th of April, 1883, and other influential firms actively employed in the staple is worked by the London and North Western Com­ trade, which gi\'es wealth and influence to the town. pany. It is about 9 miles in length. The town is There are in the town and vicinity many stocking pleasantly situated on the western side of the Soar, frames and framesmiths, several iron foundries, one near the border of the county, 11 miles N. from or two corn mills, commodious wharves, and one Ll'icester, 16~ S.E. from Derby, 15 S. by W. from of the principal bell foundries in the kingdom. Nottingham, and 108 N.N. W. from London. Lough­ In the neighbourhood are many pleasant walks and borough, which is in the rural deanery of Akeley, drives, notably those of Charnwood forest and Quorn and hundred of West Goscote, is a polling place for wood. Before the opening of the railway, in 1839, north . The navigation of the Soar is more than thirty coaches. besides other conveyances, brought to the east side of the town by a canal, cut daily passed through the town. In 1759 an Act was about 1776, and communicates with the Trent, Lei­ obtained for enclosing the open fields, &c., in the cester, and the Union canal. The town is mainly lordship of Loughborough, and for the commntation indebted for its rapid increase to the introduction of of tithes, and much advantage has been derived by the worsted manufacture, by the late Mr. J oseph Paget the district from the cultivation of large portions of and Mr. John Cook; to the spinning of angola, for Charnwood forest, which lies to the south and west. which a patent was taken out by the late Mr. Cart­ Two rivulets run from the forest towards the town, wright, and to the introduction of the lace machine and as the surface is generally low, forming the water­ by Messrs. Heathcoat and Lacer, in 1809. The shed of the largest range of hills in tl~e county, it is AA