DIRECTORY. ] . . 645 Roberts John, carpenter Vann Absolom, hair dresser weston Robert Henry, cartman Shenton George, shopkeeper Wells Brothers, bag hosiers Whetstone Co-operative Society Ltd. Smith Joseph, bag hosier ¥ ells Leonard, shopkeeper (Alfred Bodicoat, manager) Smith Thomas W. farmer IWest Robert Wm. Bull's Head P.H IWhetstone Shoe Co. boot &, shoe mfn WHITWICK is a parish and township, with a station I esq. of Grace Dieu, and raised in 1848 to the dignity of an on the Charnwood :Forest railway ( and North abuey, Father Bernard (John Palmer) being appointed Western) from to , 5l miles the first mitred Abbot, this being the first Latholic east-by-south from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 13 north-west abbey built and continuously used as such in from and 120 from London, in the Mid since the Reformation; the buildings, designed by the division of the county, hundred of West Goscote, petty elder Pugin, comprise a church, cloisters, chapter house, sessional division, union and county court district of refectory and other domest.ic buildings, museum, library. Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch, rural deanery of South Akeley, infirmary, guest house and a. house for the poor; there archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. are also farm buildings and a cemetery, and in one part The original parish of Whit wick contained the town- of the grounds a "Calvary," formed on a huge. and ships of Whit wick, Swannington and , out of lofty mass of rock: the buildings are, fur the most which have been formed the civil parishes of Whitwick part, in the Lancet style; the church, which is dedi. St. George (Swannington), Whitwick St. Andrew ('l'hring- cated to Our Lady and St. Bernard, at p1"esent consists stone) and part of that of , Whitwick Urban only of nave, with aisles: the abbey is open to visitors District being dissolved by Local Government Board by permission from the Superior. Whitwick Castle, urder No. 28,085, May 31, 1892. The government of some traces of which remain on the Castle hill, the parish is under the Coalville Urban District CounciL belonged to the Earls of Leicester, and was once an The parish church of St. John the Baptist is of Saxon important fortress. Almshouses were erected on Castle foundation, the tower and crypt being of that period; I hill in 1846 'by Joseph Almond Cropper esq. fonnerly the present church is a building of stone, being, with I of Loughborough. Abbots Oak is the residence of the­ the exception of the tower and crypt, in the Gothic Right Hon. Sir Matthew Ingle Joyce J.P. The truffiees style of the 13th century, and consisting of chancel, of the late Lord Donington (d. 1895), who are lords of: nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a noble the manor, Major Sir George Arthur Hamiltan Beau-· western tower containing 8 bells, four cast in the 17th mont bart. the community of St. Bernard's Abbey" century and four new bells hung in 1891, when the Everard March-Phillipps-De Lisle esq. D.L., J.P. and~ old bells were rehung and the belfry put into thorough R. H. Tayleur esq. are the chief landowners. Major repair: the east window is stained: in 1887 several Sir George A. H. Beaumont bart. is impropriator. 'Ihe­ stained windows were placed in the south aisle, and soil is mixed; subsoil, chiefly clay, sandstone and~ in 1902 and 1912 others were inserted in the aisles: granite rock. The-- usual crops are· grown. The area under the . chancel is a crypt, and in the north aisle of the is 3,216 acres of land and 4 of water; an ancient tomb with recumbent knightly effigy to rateable value, £16,971; the population in 19I1 of the­ a member of the Talbot family; the knight's helmet civil parish was 4,133, and of the ecclesiastical 3,650. bears the mutilated inscription, "Miserere, ~ei De~s, By Local Government Board Order No. 31,758, Sept. Jesus ~azare:rlU.s, Rex Judc.e.orum"; a~ to whIch famIly 29, 1894, part of Whitwick was taken to form the civil the:e I~ a dlstlCh current m the pal'lsh, "Nought re- parish of Coalville. mams m Talbot's name, but Talbot wood and Talbot S t G W t lane": the church was partially· restored in 1848-9, at ex on, eorge es. a cost of nearly £1,700, under the direction of J. P. Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office. St. Aubyn esq. architect, of London: in 1875 the chan- -Mrs. Nellie Harris, postmistress. Letters arrive' eel was decorated and a stained east window inserted, from Leicester at 6.35 & 11.15 (to callers only) a.m. and in 1898 a new organ was provided and further & 2·30 p.m.; dispatched at 10·55 a.m. & 6.25 & 7.$0' I'estoration carried out: in 1914 three stained windows p.m. on week days; sundays at 5.35 p.m were added; one in the north aisle is to the memory Wall Letter Boxes.-Opposite the Vicarage, cleared at· of the colliers and quarrymen who lost their lives in 9.30 a.m. & 6.50 p.m.; Gas Works, cleared at II.Hl- the local pits and quarries; there are p.o,!" eleven a.m. & 7.45 p.m.; North street, cleared at 10.15 a.m. stained ~indows in the church: there are 50.0 ~ittings. & 6.10 & 7.10 p.m.; sundays at 5 p.m.; Cadelllan· The regIster dates from the year 1601 and IS III good street, cleared at 8.30 a.m. & 7.10 p.m. ; Forest Rock .... condition. T~e liv.ing is a vicarage, net. yearly. value cleared at 10.30 a.m. & 7 p.m. & sundays at 12.20" ~bout £5.00, mcludmg 69 acres of glebe, WIth reslde~ce.. p.m.; Green Hill, cleared at 9 a.m. & 7 p.m.; no ~ m the gIft of the Duchy of Lancaster, and held Slllce sunday collection 1913 by the Rev. Thomas William WaIters M.A. of Queens' COllege, Cambridge, who is a surrogate. The PUBLIC OFFICERS. Catholic church, erected in 1837, is dedicated to the Assistant Overseer, William D. McCarthy, Belvoir road,. Holy Cross, and has a small adjoining cemetery: the Coalville presbytery. is at present occupied by Sisters of Charity, Collector of Rates to Coalville Urban Dilltrict Council., a new residence close to the church having been built John Pegg for the priest: the new Catholic church, dedicated to Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, No. 4 district" the He>ly Cross, erected in 1905, is a plain edifice of Ashby-de-la-Zouch Union, John Colley Smyth Burkitt­ red brick. Thet'e is a Baptist chapel, erected in 1823, M.D., M.Ch., DP.H with 350 sittings; also Wesleyan, Reformed Methodist Registrar of Births & Deaths, Whitwick sub-district,.. and Primitive Methodist chapels. The Cemetery, Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch Union, William Jacob Newbury consecrated 24 June, 1874, contains about four acres of land. and is divided into thi'ee parts, appropriated SCHOOLS. respectively to the Church of England, Catholics and Nonconformists; there are no mortuary chapels; it is Public Elementary, enlarged in 1903, for 43 8 mixed &- entered by a lych gate, and has also a lodge for the 250 infants; Henry T. Ba~tard, master; Miss Hunt, caretaker, and is under the control of a. Joint Burial inf.ants' mistress .. . Committee. The original grant of the market dates P~bhc Elem~ntary, H~ly Cross (CatholIc), bmlt.m 1902, from 1288; the market day was Saturday. Charnwood Lor 514 chIld:ren ; ~bc~ael Downes, master; MISS E. J. Forest commences in this parish, and amid the forest Bretherton, mfants mIstress hills. and about a mile from Whitwick railway station I"Police Statio~, Sergeant Betts ., . is the modern Cistercian abbey of Mount St. Bp.rnard, Railw~y StatFlll (L. & N. W.), WIlham Thomas DIckens, founded in 1835 by the late Ambrose Phillipps-De Lisle statlOn master . Marked- thns * should be addressed *Jovce Ri<>"ht Hon. Sir Matthew Ingle *Turner Jepson. Greenhill house Coalville, Leicester. J:P. Abbots Oak; & 16 Great C.:un- Walters Rev. Thomas William M.A. . PRIVATE RESIDENTS. berland place, London W (vicar), Vicarage -Bell Mis!'. Ca~tlf· Rock MacNaughten Hon; Malcolm, Grace Residents at Mount St.Bernal'dAbbey. Brooks Mrs. Brook viI. Hermita.ge rd Dieu cottage . . Burldtt In Collpv Sm,-th M.D .. J.P O'RRillv Rev. Matthew Joseph M.R. (Letters through C~alvllle,LelcP8t~r.) *Clarke Shil'ley William, Charnwood (Catholic), The Presbytery Car~w VeryRev.Lou~s O.C.R(supr~or) Clarkson Miss. Fair Oak villa R lhins"n Joe Barry,Charnwood knoll, C·)llms Rev. Augustme O.C.R. (prIor) Crane Mrs. Chal'nwood Dale Leic(lster road Corcoran Rev. Cuthbert O.C.R Grimley Mrs. Gracp Dieu road Sharp John Joseph, The White housp Dewhurst Rev. Jerome 0 C.R *Havdock Mrs. Charnwood tower Stinson George, The Bl'ackpns Dunne Rev. Malachy O.C.R Rnli Edward, Forest Rock view . Stinson Williant; sen. Sharpley house Power Rev. Joseph O.C.R.(sub-prior) ] l"Jrs. & RUT. 2. t