DIRECTORY. ] . LANGTON. 103 Fletcher Frederick William Mules ]\frs Holmes Fanny (Mrs_), farmer Hodson William Campbell COMME1WIAL. Scorror Edward, farmer Knox Rev. FrederickWm. M.A.(chap- Cant Mary Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkpr Senescall John Edwd. baker & grocer, lain to the Duke of RutIand K.G.), Clark Elizabeth (Mrs.), joiner assistant overseer & clerk to parish Knipton priory Draper George, farmer council, Post office NicoJ'Is Rev. Edrward Richa~d Jeffreys Finn John W. carrier Swain Thomas, butcher M.A., J,P. Rectory Golling William & Son, monumental Towers Thomas, carpenter Scott Hon. Henry Robert Hepburne- masons & stone carvers Tyle Sarah (Mrs.), beer retailer J.P. The Lodge Hart Thomas, saddler Wrillht Freeman, grazier KNOSSINGTON is a township, village and parish, 1718, to be distributed in bread to the poor on St. (In the borders of Rutland, 4 miles west from Oakham Thomas' Day, and chargeable upon a field called" Rickle­ station on the Syston and! Peterborough branch of the burrow Hill; " another is a. hospital. founded by William Midland railway, and 5 miles east from John O'Gaunt Smith, of Croxton, for four clergymen's widows, two being station on the Newark and branch of non-reliiident, endowed with 63 acres at Hose, in the vale the Great Noxthern and London and North Western joint of Belvoir, which, with intexest, prodnces about £150 a railways, and 16 cast frvm Leicester, in the Eastern year. The third' consists of two acres of garden ground, division of the county, Gartree hundred, Melton Mow- let at about £3 16s. yearly, for the benefit tlf the most bray petty sessional division, Oakham union and county necessitous and deserving persons in the parish. Edward court district, rural deanery of Goscote (firsD portion), Frewen esq. of Brickwall, Northiam, Sussex, who is lord archdeaconry of Leicester and: diocese of Peterborough. of the manor, and Alexander Lauderdale Duncan esq. The church of St. Peter is an ancient building of stone, D.L. of Knossington Grange, are the principal landowners. in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, with The soil is clayey; subsoil, chiefly clay. There are aisle's', south porch and a western tower containing 2 crops of wheat, barley, oats, beans and a few tnrnips. bells: the church was restored in 1883 at a cost of but the land is chiefly in pasture. The area is 1,443 £2,500 by A. Duncan esq. and has 150 sittin~s. Th~ acres; rateable value, £2,028; the population in 1891: register daies from the year 1558. The living is a was 323. rectory, tithe rent-charge £256, average £190, net yearly Sexton, William AlIen. value £179, with residence and: 42 acres of glebe, in the Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- gift of Edward Frewen esq. and held since 1878 by the Alexander Mathieson, sub-postmaster. Letters through Rey. John Henry Turner Mitchell de-Mowbray M.A. of Oakham arrive at' 7.22 a.m.; dispatched at 6.15 p.m. Oriel College, Oxford and' rural dean of Goscote (first. The nearest telegraph office is at Somerby portion). There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1830, National School (mixed &; infants), for 80 childTen; There. axe three charities, one ecclesias,tical and two average attendance, 63; !Frank Richard Lovell, parochial, one of 8s. annually, left. by Richard Bell in master; Miss Susan Weatherstone, infants' mistress Chamberlain l\Irs Eayrs Thomas, grazier Moyses Charles, builder Creighton Mrs Eayrs William, grazier, Bleak house Moyses William, shopkeeper de-Mowbray Rev. John Henry Turner Fox Stafford, grazier Palmer William Josiah, grazier Mitchell M.A. Rectory Gale Wm. miller(wind),farmr.& grazr Payne Joseph, watch maker Duncan Alexander Lauderdale D.L., Grant Mary Ann (Mrs.), laundress PhiIfips Francis, farmer &; grazier J.P. Knossington grange Harding Thomas, grazier Randall John, grazier Godfrey Miss Hill Edith (Miss), grocer Scott Charles Henry, architect Wilson Mrs Hill Rowland, grazier Smith William Gowan, farmer &i CO:llMERCIAL. Leadbetter George Percival, grazier grazier, Whalebone lodge AlIen Wm. Fox & Hounds P.H. &, grzr Lenton Josiah &; Son, builders Spence Charles, blacksmith Bal"net John, grazier Lenton Herbert, grazier Stanbridge Thomas, shopkeeper Broom Charles'R. baker & grazier Lockwood WaIter, builder Stapleford Henry, grazier Cameron John, stud groom to A. L. Mathieson Alexander, boot maker &; Tidd Thomas, carter Duncan esq grazier, Post office Vincett Joseph, grazier Cox William, chimney sweeper Mitchell James, farm bailiff to Alex. Weather stone 1\Iartha (Mrs.), Grey- Dormer John, painter &c L. Duncan esq hound P.H LANGLEY PRIORY is a parish, I! miles east from mansion erected on its site, and now called the Priory, Tonge. station on the Derby and Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch has a. fine sheet of wate.r in front, and is surround'ed by branch of the Midland railway, 7 west from Lvugh- undulating woodland scenery; and in one of the rooms borough, 7 north-east from Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 3 is a very fine piece of tapestry, said to be the work of the /louth from Castle Donington, in the Mid division of the nuns. This is now the seat of Charles Shakespear esq. county, hundred of West Goscote, union of Shardlow, J.P. lord of the manor and landowner. The soil is Loughborough petty sessional division and county court strong red loam; subsoil, clay; the land, pasture and distxict, rural deanery of East Akeley, archdeaconry of arable. The area is 564 acres; rateable value, £576; Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. The Priory of the population in 1891 was 16. Langley was founded by WilIiam Pantulf, about IIOO, Letters through Derby arrive at 8 a.m. Castle Doning- for Benedictine nuns; at its dissolution in 1535, there ton is the nearest money order & telegraph office were eight nuns and revenues estimated at £29: the The children of this place attend the school at Diseworth Shakespear Charles J.P. The priorylBrooks George, head gardener to C.\Fletcher Thomas. bailiff to C, Sliakes- Shakespear esq. The Priory pear esq. The, Priory LANGTON (or Church Langton) is a parish and the benches are of carved oak: and the font bears the village, with a station on the main line of the Midland initials T. G. W. C. and the date 1662: in the south railway, 4! miles north from Market Harborough, 86 aisle is a canopied' tomb with the incumbent effigy of a from London and II south-east from Leicester, in the knigh t in armour, and an inscription to Sir Richard Southern division of the county, Gartree hundred, Market Roberts, knight, ob. Oct. 30, 1644: the church was Harborough petty sessional division, union and county thorou.ghly restored in 1866. at a cost of £3,000, by the court dist.rict, rural deanery of Gartree (first portion), trustees of Hanbury's charity, under a scheme of the archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. Court of Chancery, when an organ chamber was ~on­ The parish comprises the townships of Tur Langton, structed in the chancel: a reredos in alabaster was in West Langton, East Langton and . In 1890 erected at a cost of £100, with a representation in 1885 by Local Government Board Orders a detached panel of "The Last Supper: " there are 442 sittings, 187 part of East Langton and West Langton were transferred being free. The register dates from 1581 for baptisms, to Thorpe Langton and parts of Thorpe Langton and 1654 for marriages: and 1651 for burials. The living is West Langton to East Langt.on and parts of Thorpe a rectory, consolidated with the chapelries of Thorpe and Lau,gton to Welham and East Langton. The church of Tur Langton, joint net yearly value £400, with J'esi­ St. Peter, in East Langton, is a large and ancient dence, including I05! acres of gle'be, in the gift of and building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting held since 1848 by the Rev. Thomas Hanbury :M.A. of St. of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a lofty em­ Edmund Hall, Oxford. There are several owners .of the battled tower containing a clock and 8 bells, 4 of which manorial rights. The principal landownerS! are Oapt. are dated 1615, the remainder 1741 ~ the chancel retains William Po chin Warner J.P. of West Langoon Hall and a piscina and a sedilia; there is another piscina in the Mr. Thomas Watson. The soil is clayey loom; subsoil, north aisle, and a piscina. and sedilia in the south aisle: clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. the stained east window, a memorial to the Rev. ·William The popUlation of the parish in 189! WllS 639. Hanbury M.A. founder of the Free School, is dated In8 : Parish Clerk, Henry Coleman.