210 SHEEPY :l\1AGNA rCOCNTY

SHEEPY MAGNA is a township, village and Rev. 'Vm. Inge, D.D., and the Misses Lowe. Area, parish, on the borders of Warwiekshire and the river including detached parts of Merevale, for rating pur­ Sence, 3 miles N.N.E. from Atherstone, 5! 'V.S.W. poses, 3,002a. Or. 2p. ; rat€able value, £4,275 188 4d. ; from Market Bosworth, in the Bosworth division, population (exclusive of Ratdiffe), about 440. PinweU hundred and rural deanery of Sparkenhoe, Ather- hamlet is 1-&- miles distant. The wakes are in the stone Union and County Court district. This place Easter week, the Club feast at Whitsuntide. forms the centre of a division for the County Council. All Saints' Church is a Gothic structure, partly Early All Saints' Church. Services, Sunday 10.45 and English and Decorated. The Registers date from 6.30. H.C. first Sunday in month. Rev. W. G. 16~7. The living is a rectory, with Ratcliffe Culey Southwell, M.A.; Wardens, Messrs. A. Brown and and Sheepy Parva annexed, of the joint yearly value H. Stafford; Organist, Mr. F. E. Smith (Atherst-one) ; of £720 (gross), with residence, in the gift of Mrs. Clerk, Samuel Jackson. Hymns A. and M. - M. E. De B. Southwell. There are National and Independent Chapel. Service, Sunday at 3 p.m. Infant Schools, also an Independent Chapel. The Keeper, Michael Starkey. Poors' land of 7 acres produces about £15 a year, Parish Council. Messrs. A. Sale (chairman), R. which is expended in fuel; and £7 10s., the int~rest Hanmer (vice-chairman), A. Brown, G. Jinks, M. of various benefactions, is disbursed in bread and Starkey, and T. Timbrell. Clerk, G. Skelton. clothing. The Misses Lowe are ladies of the manor. Post and Money Order Office at Ths. Edward The principal landowners are the Rector, Sir G. Joyce's. Letters from Atherstone delivered at 6 a.m. Chetwynd, Bart., Mr. F. E. A. \Vollaston, Captain (and at one to callers) week-days, 7 on Sunday; box Greslev, R.N., :Mr. Charles Roumieu, Mr. G. J. Moore, cleared at 8.54 p.m. Telegraph Office at AtherstSnarestone Faux Mr. PinwalI cottage Starbuck WaIter, butcher Grimmer Tom Percy, Blue Brick ho Green Miss Rosa, mist. Infant schl Veasey Hbt. bkr. beer rtlr. & shpr Harris John, Righfields house Ranmer Richard esq. Sheepy lodge Wollaston Mrs. Josetta Eliza Jane, Jinks George, Hill farm Holyoake Wm. shoeing & jbg.smith Sheepy lodge Lowe Misses Mary Jane & Alice~ Hoyes James Amcoats, The School Farmers & Graziers. The Hall Joyce Thomas Edward, painter, Staffod Mrs. Ann & Rob€rt plumber & sub-postmaster Briggs Fnk. & v. Red Lion, Pinwall Morris Albert, p. c Brown Arthur Carrier to Atherstone. Schwind Mr. Arthur Fredk. Anker Burton Wm. Saml. & tax collector hill. Pinwall Clark Robert, Benn Hills farm Smith Mrs. M. A. through from Skplton George, assistant overseer Crichlow EH, The Grange, Pinwell Twycross daily & clerk to Parish Council Eadon Thomas SHEEPY PARVA is a hamlet in the parish of of the manor), and the Rector. Acreage, 6ooa. ; rate­ Sheepy Magna, 4 miles N.E. from Atherstone, 5 W. able value, about £1,050; population about 80. Let­ by S. from Market Bosworth, from which it is sepa- ters through Atherstone (see Sheepy Magna). rated by the river Sence, which is here used in working Directorv.-Thos. Edwin Sharpe, commercial travel- an extensive corn mill. It is in the Bosworth Parlia- "" mentary division, Sparkenhoe hundred, Atherstone ler; William Henry Wheatley, jobbing blacksmith. Union and County Court district. The inhabitants Farmers and Graziers.-Thos. Evans, C. B. Lowe~ attend the church and school at Sheepy Magna. The Ltd. and millers, William Leake, Thomas Timbrell~ principal landowners are Sir Thomas Blomefield (lord mill foreman, Cornelius Wilson. SHENTON is a small village and chapelry in the school. There is a small charity. Shenton hall is a parish, division, Union and County Court district of fine Elizabethan mansion in a noble park, and is the :Market Bosworth, and hundred and rural deanery seat of F. E. A. 'Vollaston, Esq., lord of the manor and (No. 3) of Spltrkenhoe, and division of Market Bos- chief landowner. Area, 1,468a. 2r. 18p.; rat€able worth for the County Council. It is 7 miles N. by W. value, £2,139 Is. (land, £1,191 9s.; buildings, £947 from Nuneaton, 2! S.W. from Market Bosworth, and 12s.); popUlation, 220. has a station on the Ashby and Nuneaton branch of Church.-Services: Sunday at 11, and at 3 and 6 the Midland and l.ondon and North 'Vestern railways. alternately. H.C. first Sunday in month at mid-day, The Church, which is cruciform in shape, is a Deeo- and third at 8 a.m. Rev. P. H. Bowers, M.A. (Mar­ rated :structure. It was nearly rebuilt in 1860-1, at a ket Bosworth) ; Curate, Rev. G. Rawlinson ; Wardens, cost of £3,000, defrayed by the late Major Wollaston. Messrs. F. E. A. Wollaston and W. Q. Woodroffe; There are several brasses, chiefly to the memory of Organist. Miss D. Duguid; Clerk, ·William Cheshire. the family, also a .stained east window, representing Hymns A. and M. " The Man of Sorrows." An organ has been pre- Post Office. Wm. Lea, sub-postmaster. Letters sented to the church by Mrs. Wollaston. The Regis- through Nuneaton delivered at 8.30 a.m. ; box cleared ters date from 1625. The chapelry is annexed to the at 6.30 p.m. on week-days only. On Sunday, dis­ rectory of Market Bosworth, in the gift of the family patched at 10.30 a.m. Nearest Money Order and of Sir A. B. C. n:xie, Bart. There is a parochial Telegraph Office at Market Bosworth. Cheshin William, parish clerk Wainwright John, gamekeeper to F. Holland David Guildford Mrs. Lydia, shopkeeper E. A. Wollaston esq Jeffcoat Mrs. Hannah Hayes William, station master \Vollaston Fdk. Eustace Arbuthnot .Jeffcoat William Hooke Wm. cottager, Beach house esq. J.P. The RaIl Matthews Lnrd. Aqueduct farm Large Miss Ada Fras. schoolmistrss Sands Mr;;. Charlotte Lea' \Villiam, sub-postmaster Farmers & Graziers. Sherwin Charles Henry Merrick Henry, shopkeeper Chantrill Thomas Sherwin James Sands. & carpenteJ:~ Rawlinson Rev. Geo. curate-in-chrg Cookson Edwin; h. Upton blacksmith & wheelwright Sherwin Joseph, carpenter Du(!'uid \Villi~m Hugh, bailiff to ~Ir. Spencer \Villiam Wolbston \Voodroffe Wi!li:tm Quintan