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There is an apprentice fund of £47 yearly for the parishes of WINDMILL HILL is a mile and a half south~ea..~t. Bunny, Bradmore, and Costock, and charities of £15 Parish Clerk, Thomas Buxton. yearly value. Bunny Park, the seat of Miss Hawksley, is a large and spacious mansion, with a brick tower, which is very ancient : the park and plantations are extensive. Letters arrive from Nottingham at 9.30 a. m.; dispatched at Miss Hawksley is lady of the manor and the principal land­ 5 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at owner. The soil is red clay and 1and; subsoil, mnrl. The Ruddington cllief crop• are wl1eat, barley, beans and roots. The acre­ Endowed School, Miss Elizabeth Pratt, mistress age is 2,050; rateable value., £3,390; the population in 1871 was226 CARRIER TO NOTTINGHAM.-Thomas Wildbore, sat Hawksley Miss, The Hall Lane Henry, Ranclljfe Arms Walker Thomas, brick maker & farmer Kingdon Rev. Alfred Cory,M.A. [vicar] Langham Thomas, shopkeeper Wallis Nathan, farmer Buxton Thomas, tailor Nixon Philip, farmer Webster John, shoe maker Collins Oliver, butcher Smeeton John, farmer Wildbore Thomas, baker & carrier Eggleston Francis, blacksmith Smith John, butcher & farmer Wilson John, auctioneer & valuer, Henson William, carpenter Smith Rouert, farmer builders' surveyor & willow merchant

BURTON JOYCE is a village, parish, and station on in 1868, at a cost of £800. The Earl of Carnarvon, who is the Nottingham and Lincoln branch of the Midland rail­ lord of the manor, Frederick W. A. Wilson, esq., Joseph way, the navigable river Trent, and on the road from Hemington, esq., Joseph Alvey, esq., Lieut.-Col. Leigb, Nottingham to Southwell, 135! miles from London, 5! ~.P., James Fletcher, of Bulcote, and lsaa.c Mosley, are the north-east from Nottingham, and 0~ south-west from principal landowners. The soil on the highland is stiff Southwelll in the Southern division of the county, southern clay, on the lowland of a sandy nature; subsoil, clay. The division ot the wapentake of Thurgarton, union of Bastard, chief crops are beans, wheat and barley. The area of the county court district of Nottingham, rural deanery of parish is 1,940 acres; rateable value, £2,9M; the popula­ Nottingham No. 2, archdeaconry of Nottingham, and tion in 1871 was 787, including Bulcote, which see. diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Helen is an old and Parish Clerk, Elijah Lindley. large buildin~, with tower, spire and 3 bells; it is at present in a dilapidated state: it contains some old tomb§. PosT OFFICE.-Miss Patty Jackson, receiver. Letters Earliest date of register, 1555. The living is a discharged arrive from Nottingham at 8.45 a. m. & 2 p.m.; dispatched vicarage, with the cbapelry of Bulcote annexed, yearly at 7.15 p.m. The nearest money order office is at value £180, with 78 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Earl Carlton of Carnarvon, and held by the Rev. Henry Courtney Railway Station, Joseph Peel, station master Jenour, B.A., of St. John'8 College, Cambridge. There are CARRIER To NoTTINGHAM.-Mrs. Elizabeth Godfrey, Wesleyan Methodist and Independent chapels in the villag-e, wednesday & ~a.turday and three Sunday schools. The National school was built National School, Miss Eliza Parrot, mistress Attenboroug-h Richard Alvey Abel, framework knitter Cragg William, framework knitter Comport George Henry, The Vinery Alvey Joseph, farmer Gale John, framework knitter Hearnshaw Thomas, Brusty cottage Baguley Mark, farmer Hall Henry, framework knitter Hurst George Barnes John, butcher Harby William, baker & shopkeeper Jenour Rev. Hen.Courtney,B.A.[vicar] BaJ'rowclifle Edward, shopkeeper & Hempshall Hannah (Miss), grocer Martin Garvace letter carrier Hogg John, Cros.o: Keys Martin Wdliam Bellamy Henry, framework knitter Hucknell Jolm,joiner Milne Samuel, The Grove Bestall J oseph, framework knitter Mason William, shoe maker Snook James, Tbe Hall Bidgood Jacoh, wheelwright Mosley Isaac, farmer & landowner Stanton George, Prospect house Blatherwick John, Wheatsheaf, & Peters William, framework knitter Towers Thomas farmer Prescott Ann (Mrs.), farmer Waite Thomas Brett Frederick William, farmer Seston John Joseph, blacksmith Whitchurch Robert Burton Joyce Co~operative Society Seston William,joiner Williamson Mrs (William Foster, sec) Shaw Alfred, Lord Nelson COMMERCIAL. Cl1adwin Elizabeth (Miss), farmer Slater Edward, butcher Allcock Thomas, harness maker &c Cheshire John. farmer Tomlinson Deborah & Mary (Misses), Allcock William, gardener Cooper John, farmer farmers ·

WEST BURTON is 8 parish, within the parliamen­ College, Cambridge, who is also vicar ot Hayton. There tary borough of East , 3 miles south-west from is a charity of 19s. 4d. ~iven to the poor. Lord Middleton Gainsborough, and a mile and a half north-east from is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is clayey; Sturton station, in the Northern divi!:lion of the county, subsoil, marl. The land is chiefly in pasturage for graziu~ Bassetlaw wapentake, union of Gainsborough, county court purposes; willows are grown here to a. considerable extent, district of ·Retford, rural deanery of Retford No. 1, arch­ in the old bed of the Trent. The parish contains 032 acres ; deaconry of Nottingham, and Lincoln diocese. The river rateable value, £1,964; the population in 1871 was 36. Trent here separates this county from Lincolnshire. The Parish Clerk, J ames Atkinson. church of St. Helen is a small old stone buildin~ with I • bell in a turret: it has seats for 26 people. The living is 8 vicarage, yearly value £56, in the gift of Lord Middleton, and Letters received through Lincoln. The nearest money held by the H.ev. William Chapman Mee, M:.A., of Christ's order office is at Gainsborough. Lister Samuel I Foster Thomas, farmer Clarke Charles,foreman to l\Jr. John Wilkinson, farmer Sampey John, farmer

• CALVERTON is a parish and village, 7 miles north­ house, for which and a payment of2d. per week, the master north-east from Nottingham, 8 west-so11th-westfrom South­ teacheR all the boys ; also a National school fur girls, with well, and 4~ north-west from station, in the certificated mistress. The Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Southern division of the county, southern division of the and Baptists, have each a chapel in this villa~e. The poor wapentake of Thurgarton, Basfo!d union, Nottingham receive £2 10s. the rents of three closes, which were be· county court district, rural deanery of Southwell, arch· queathed by Jane Pepper, besides £7 6s., rent of the poor'~; deaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of Lincoln. The land of 2 acres. The Rev. William Lee, inventor of the parish is watered by the Dover Heck on the north-east. stocking-frame was born here, and held the vicarage of The church of St. Wilfrid is a fltone building, in a Cal vertun: above 400 frames are at work in the villa~e alone. dilapidated condition: it consists of chancel, nave, tower There are many plantations and covers. J. S. W heatley, and 2 bells. The re~ister dates from the 16th century. esq., resides at The Hall, a handsome modern man~ion, situ­ The living is a vicarage, yearly value about £200, arisin~ ated in the centre of the village with extensive grounds at­ from 210 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of tached to it. 'fhe Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manor. Manchester, and held by the Rev. Thomas Woollen 'l'he principal landed proprietors are the Duke of Portland, Smith, X.A., of Worcester College, Oxford. There is a W. H. C. Oates, esq., W. and T. Redgate, esqs-., W.Williams, Free echool for boys, endowed witll £40 yearly, and a esq., W. F. Webb, esq., H. Sherbrooke, esq., and Mr. B.