DIRECTORY.] . EARLS BARTO~. 75 Goude Charles, shopkeeper Perkins Thomas, beer retailer Tncker H. (Miss), dress maker Handscomb Arthur Smith Harriet (Mrs.), beer retailer Watkin John James,lime burner, brick Hart Harry William Smith John William Frank, shop- maker & farmer, Hopping hill Harton Alfred, Dairy farm keeper, Post office Wells Frederick James, sh~pkeeper Hult Charles, Ivy dene Thomas .Albert Wilkins Henry. tailor EARLS BARTON is a parish and large village, north-west of the village, and formed in 1890, has an pleasantly seated on the northern ridge of the fertile area of four acres, and is managed by the Parish Conncil. valley of the Nene, which flows through the parish on The charities include a sum of about £30 a year, arising th~ east side, 6~ miles east-north-east from North- from a field of 9 acres and 3 roods, called the" Church ampton, 3~ south-west from and 1! and Clock Close," and originally intended to defray the north from Castle Ashby and Earls Barton station on the expense of cleaning and repairing the clock and dials, is and Peterborough branch of the London now generally applied to church expenses and repairs. and Korth Western railway, in the Eastern division of Whitworth's charity consists of 16 half-crowns and 7 the county, hundred of Hamfordshoe, petty sessional gowns for distribution on St. Thomas' day; the Rev. division, union and county court district of Welling- William Farrow's of ten shillings to his poor relations and borough, rural deanery of Rothwell (first portion), arch- two coats on St. Thomas' day; and the Rev. H. Med­ deaconry of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. bury·s of ten shillings for poor widows, increased now to The church of All Saints, situated on higli ground, is a sum of £3, to be disposed of as the vicar and church­ an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, with organ wardens see fit and £1 to the vicar. This parish obtained chamber and vestry on the north side, nave with clere- its name of "Earls Barton" from the Earls of Hunt­ story, aisle!', south porch, and an embattled western ingdon, who were anciently lords of the fee. The manu­ tower containing a clock and 6 bells: the east end of facture of boots and shoes is carried on here to a con­ the chancel, which retains a piscina and sedilia, is Early siderable extent and affords employment to a large English; the western portion of it has a Norman arcade number of the inhabitants. There is no lord of the rruanor. and the inner doorway of the porch is also of this date: The principal landowners are 'William Chetwode Whit­ the aisle!! are Decorated; and there is a piscina at the worth esq. F. H. Thornton esq. of Kingsthorpe Hall, the east end of south aisle: the most remarkable and inter- trustees of J. W. Sharman esq. the Rev. J. F. Mercer M.A. esting portion of the church is the reputed Saxon tower, rector of East Carlton, Major-Gen. Frederick Edward a lofty structure of four stages, without buttresses, but Sotheby J.P., F.Z.S. of Ecton Hall, Robert H. Whitworth with long and short work at the angles; each face of the esq. the trustees of the late John )Yard. and the trustees tower is ornamented externally with flat vertical strips of the late Rev. John Slater Hall M.A. of Wilby (d. 1901). of stone projecting slightly from the surface; the string The soil is red loam; subsoil, ironstone and limestone. course of the lower storey is surmounted by a kind of The chief crops are cereals. The area is about 2,286 scolloped arcading and above that of the second storey acres of land and 21 of water; rateable value, £9,527; runs a banding of ribbed work disposed in diamonds: the population in 1891 was 2,602 andl in 1901, 2,914. the belfry storey has open windows, each with six Acting Parish Clerk, William Miller. balusters: the embattled parapet is of Perpendicular Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. & date: the stained east window was presented by E. 1. O.-Miss Martha Hougbton, sub-postmistress. Let- Thornton esq.; there is also a memorial window to ters arrive from Northampton about 6.5 a.m. & 1.30 Edward Thornton and his sister Eleanor, another to p.m.; dispatched at II.40 a.m. & 5.55 & 7.10 p.m. on \Villiam Whitworth esq. and one on the south side placed week days only by the late vicar in 1874: in the nave is a brass with Police Station, Waiter Evans Powell, constable in charge effigies to John ~Iuscote, one of the prothonotaries of Schools. thl' Common Pleas, ob. 1512, Alice his wife and 6 children: one evangelistic symbol remains; others, and A. School Board of 5 members was formed Feb. 19, 1875 ; figures of children, are lost: there are several mural Willan Jackson, Wellingborough, clerk to the board; tablets, one of which, to William Farrow, is dated 1735; 'George Bayes, Earls Barton, attendance officer a fine 15th century screen was replaced: at the restoration Board (mixed & infants), built in 1868, as a British of the church in 1872, to which the upper part and cross school, at a cost of £1,365, for 250 children; the were added in 1892: the whole of the fabric has been school has been enlarged at various times, &; will now restored at intervals since 1871, at a cost of £4,253, of hold 570 children; average attendance, m[xed 234, which £1,400 was raised by subscriptions and upwards infants 130; George Peacock, master; Miss Ellen Hod- of £2,700 contributed by the patron, at whose expense son, infants' mistress the north aisle was restored in 1877. The register dates National (mixed), built in 1844, for 145 children. & from the year 1558. The living is a discharged vicarage, enlarged in 1885 for 200; average attendance, 148; net yearly value £287, including 88 acres of glebe, with Herbert Turner, master residence, in the gift of Fras. H. Thornton esq. and Railway Station, Edward Gill, station master held since 1883 by the Rev. Robert Russell Cobbold M.A. Fire Brigade, Charles Goodman, chief offic~r; J. Head, of Cains College, Cambridge. The Wesleyan chapel, 2nd officer & II men built in 1870, will seat 800 persons; the Baptist chapel, Carriers to :-Northampton, A. W. Bird & Coles, mono built in 1874, has 300 sittings, and there is a Calvinistic tues. wed. fri. & sat.; Wellingborough, Fred Carter, Baptist chapel. The cemetery, aJ;lout a quarter of a mile daily, except thurs Cobbo!d Rev.Rbt. Russell M.A.. Vicarge Clarke Thomas, insurance agent Goodman William & Son, coal & coke Earl Miss Clifton & Knight, boot manufacturers merchants, Castle Ashby station Hornby Mrs. The Grange CDbb Thomas, beer ret3liler Green Francis Turland, shopkeeper Hyde John Knowler Coleman .Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hardwick George, grocer Lawrence SydneyCameron,New Barton Coley William H. chemist Harris John, builder Preston George Henry, Old Vicarage Conyard Thos. C. baker, Station I'd Head John, blacksmith Sheffield Daniel, The Poplars Cooper Caleb, shopkeeper Houghton John, hair dresser Short Rev. Henry (Baptil!lt) Cooper EH, Boot P.R Houghton Martha (Miss), stationer, Wbitworth Mrs. Earls Barton house Co-'operative Stores Limited (Thomas Post office CO~ERCIAL. Marsh, sec Hyde John Knowler M.R.c.s.Eng. phy- Early closing day, Thursday. Cousins William Charles, tailor sician & surgeon & medical officer, Abbott Daniel, beer retailer Creasey Horace, draper Earls Barton district, Wellingboro' Abbott George, currier Day Henry & J oseph, farmers union & certifying factory surgeon Allebone Abraham, shoe manufacturer Deiton Walter, hairdresser Ingram Charlotte (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Austin Charles, baker Dunkley Charles, shopkeeper & beot New Barton Austin Charles, greengrocer manufacturer James Charles, shopkeeper, Station I'd Austin Harry, beer retailer, Kw. Brtn Dunkley Frederick, Stag's Head P.R James Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Baker James, Fox & Hounds P.R Dunkley George, slipper manufacturer Johnson Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer Barker A. &; Son, boot manufacturers Dunkley Thomas, shopkeeper Knight Samuel, builder Barker Frederick A.. greengrocer Earls Barton Cemetery (Willan Jack- Lawrence Sydney Cameron M.R.C.S. Bazeley George, fishmonger,NewBartn son, clerk; Sml. Chamberlain, kpr) Eng., L.R.c.p.l.ond., D.P.R physician Bird Archibald )Vm.carrier,New Bartn Elson William, shopkeeper & beer rtlr & surgeon, :;'ij"ew Barton Brooks William J. boot manufacturer, Freeman Charles, shopkeeper Leach 1Villiam, shopkeeper New Barton Frost Richard, butcher Lester Alexander, shopkeeper 'Capital & Counties Bank Lim. (The) Gamer WaIter, coffee rooms Line Albert, fishmonger (sub-branch to Wellingborough); Geeson Frnncis W. grocer & agent for Line Alfred, farmer open sats. 9 till II; draw on head W. & A. Gilbey Limited, wine & Line Daniel, farmer office, 39 Threadneedle st.London EC spirit merchants Line Harry, shopkeeper &; beer retailer Carter Frederick, carrier