DIRECTORY. ] . CHILCOT.E.

Summerfield Thomas, farmer & butcher, lligh street West Riding (The) Pure Milk & Crea.tn Co. Limited; depot, Summerfield William, saddler & boot & shoe factor, Boro' st Station road Sutton George, plasterer, Station road White Joseph & Son, farmers, High street . Taylor John, baker & confectioner, Borough street White Fanny (Mrs.), Nag's Head P.R. High street Taylor William, tailor, Borough street White Richard· Septimus M.R.C.V.S. veterinary surgeon, Thompson George, blacksmith, Bondgate veterinary inspector under the "Diseases of Animals Trussell Arthur, Lamb P.R. Station road Acts" for district, High street Tunnicliffe Edith (Miss), dress maker, Borough street White Samuel Leonard, painter & decorator, Apes ~ate Victoria Hall (James Tunniclifie, sec.), Clapgun street White WaIter, paint.er & monumental mason, Bondgate Walker Joseph Henry, Moira Arms hotel, High street . Winfield Elizabeth (Miss), shoe dealer, Market street ~ Wallis, Starkie & Lowis, solicitors, Bondgate 1 Winfield James, shoe maker, Bondgate. . Webb Arthur, butcher, Market place Wright George, wheelwright & blacksmith, Bond'gate Webb Theo. farmer, High street Wright William, Jolly Potters P.R. Castle hill CATTHORPE, .the most southern and western parish re-copied; and the church also possesses a copy in black in the county of , is a parish on the borders of letter of the Paraphrase of Erasmws on the New Testament. and at a point near Dow- The living is a rectory, net yearly value .£249, with nine bridge on the Watling Street road, half a mile north-west acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Capt. J. L. Cross, from station on the Rugby and Peterborough and held since 1906 by the Rev. Robert Henry Baldwin . branch of the London and North Western railway, 5 south Crosthwaite M.A. of University College, Oxford. When from and 4 east-north-east from Rugby, in the commons were inclosed in 1655, 14 acres of land were the Southern division of the county, Guthlaxton hundred, set aside for the poor. Dovebridge ot Dowbridge, on Lutterworth union, petty sessional division and county the river Avon and Watling Street, is the suppose.d site court district,· rural deanery of Guthlaxton (second por- of the Roman station Tripontium. Catthorpe Towers is tion), archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. the residence of Capt. James Leslie Cross J.P. lord of the The church o~ St. Thomas is a small building of stone erected manor and principal landowner. Tire soil is loam; subsoil, about the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots ; and is chiefly in the Early English and Decorated styles, and the land is rich in pasturage. The area is 642 acres of with some portions of Perpendicular date and consists of land and 3 of water; assessable value, £1,146 ; the population chancel, nave, south porch and a low embattle9. western in 1911 was 176. . tower containing 3 bells, all dated 1770: the organ was pre- Parish Clerk, Bernard Robinson. sented by the late J. P _ Cross esq. of Catthorpe Tower", in 1886; in 1897 a memorial window was placed in the south Post & Telegraph Office.-Frank Bird, sub-postmaster. • side to the Cross family and another in 1908 to the late J. Letters arrive from Rugby, delivered at 7 a.m. (to callers, P. Cross esq.: the communion plate includes a paten dated 1.45 p.m.); sundays, 7 a.m.; dispatched at 8.15 p.m.; 1569 and a chalice dated 1568: the church was restored sundays, 8.45 p.m. Clifton, 2 miles distant, is the nearest and reseated in 1886, at a cost of over £1,200, and affords money order office 125 sittings. The register dates from 1573 and has been The children of this place attend the schools at Swinford Barnard Samuel, Catthorpe hall COMMERCIAL. Drake Ellen (Mrs.), laundress Cross Capt. James Leslie J.P. Catthorpe Allen Robert, farmer Miles William, stud groom towers . IClarke Leonard, Cherry Tree P.R Nash Edward, farm bailiff to Capt. J. L. Crosthwaite Rev. Robert Henry Bald- Donce William. head gardener to Capt. Cross J.P win M.A. [rector], Rectory I J. L. Cross J.P. Catthorpe towers Robinson Harry, grazier CHADWELL, see Wycomb and Chadwell. CHARLEY, formerly extra-parochial, is a parish in dedicated to St. Mary; in 1465 it was united to Ulverscroft; the ecclesiastical districts of and' Oaks-in-Charn- attached are extensive grounds, and the house was enlarged -wood, 2t miles south from . station and 3 east in 1891. Charnwood Lodge, the residence of Shirley William from station, both on the and Clarke esq. is a modern mansion, standing between the Nuneaton section of the London and North Western rail· wooded slopes of Greenhill and Collier Hill, 600 feet above way, 8 east from Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch, 4 miles west of Coal- the sea. The soil is a light loam; subsoil, rocky. The chief ville station on the , and 5 west-south-west crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The acreage is now from Loughborough; it is in the Mid division of the county, 1,334, having been extended in 1885 by the additions of petty sessional division, union and county court district of outlying portions of Newtown Linford and Markfteld; Loughb9rough. Charley is situated nearly in the centre of rateable value, £1,270; population in 1911, 138. Charnwood forest, which contains 18,000 acres, and was Letters from Loughborough arrive at 8.45 a.m. & from Coal­ inclosed in 1812 under an Act of Parliament. obt.ained in ville at 8 a.m. The nearest. money order office is at Mark­ 1808: it is under cultivation, except those portions reserved field & t.elegraph office at. N anpantan, about 2! miles as woods and plantations, and occupies a hilly region, com­ distant posed of igneous and metamorphic rocks, celebrated for t.he granite obtained from them. Mrs. Martin, who is lady The nearest. Wall Letter Box is at Oaks-in-Charnwood, of the manor, A. C. Tayleur esq. and William Montagu cleared at 4.40 p.m. week days only. The Box at High Curzon-Herrick esq. are the chief landowners. CharIey Tor Farm is cleared at 6.40 p.m. on week days, & 10.15 Hall, the residence of the Rev. John Martin M.A. is a hand­ a.m. on sundays & Bardon lodge, cleared at 6 p.m. some mansion built of forest stone, incorporating portions week days only I Of the priory of Austin friars founded here in the reign of The children of this place attend the Oaks-in-Charnwood 'Henry Ill. by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and & Copt Oak schools Clarke Shirley William,Charnwood lodge Gibson Samuel, farm bailiff to the Rev. Merriman Joseph, farmer, Rock farm (postal address, , Leicester) John Mart.in M.A. Hall farm Poole William, farmer (postal address, Martin Rev. John M.A. CharIey hall Matts Shipley, shopkeeper Markfield, Leicester) COMMERCIAL. Mayfield Henry, head gardener to Rich Richd. Hy. farmer, CharIey Mill Barnett John Oliver, farmer Shirley William Clarke esq. Charnwood Swift Frederick, farmer, Greenhill Bott James, farmer, Hill farm 10. (postal address, Coalville, Leicester) (postal address, Coalville, Leicester) ' is a township, on the river Mease, 3 miles on the western gable, containing one bell: previou3 to the sout.h-west from Donist,horpe st.ation on the Ashby and repairs of 1842 there was a round-head Korman doorway in Nuneaton branch of the Midland railway, 6i south-west the north wall of the nave: the church has a stained window from Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch, 8 north-~ast from Tamworth, on the nlJrth side, and affords 48 sitt.ings. The living is a and 9 south-cast from Burton-upon-Trent, in the Ashby chapelry annexed to the rectory of , joint petty sessional division, Ashby-de-la-Zouch union and coun~y net yearly value £613, including 103 acres of glebe, with court district and in the rural deanery of Tamworth, arch- residence, in the gift of G. H. Kite esq. and held since 1915 deaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield. by t.he Rev. Rowland William Reed M.A. of Christ Church, This township was transferred to Leicestershire from Oxford, who resides at Clifton Campville, Staffs. Christopher under the provisions of the" Local Government Spalding esq. is the principal landowner. The soil is mixed; ( and Wales) Act, 1888" (51 and 52 Vict. c. 41), by subsoil, sandstone, clay and gravel. The chief crops are the counties of and Leicester (Woodville &c.) Order, wheat, barley, beans, oats and turnips. The area is 1,351 which came into operation Sept. 30, 1R97, but Chilcote still acres of land and 6 of wat.er; rateable value, £1,526; the remains in the sout.h or Repton parliamentary division of population in 1911 was 126. - Derbyshire. The chapel of St. Matthew is a small building Letters through Ashby-de-la-Zouch arrive at. 9 a.m. Wall Box of st.one, in the Gothic style, repaired in 1842, and thoroughly cleared at 9 a.m.& 5.40j>.m.week days&IO.15 a.m. sundays. renovat.ed in 1885 by Mrs. Robertson, in memory of her N etherseal is the netrest money order & telegraph office la.te husband, Francis Robertaon esq. and their .only son; it consists of chancel, nave, north porch and a small turret The children of this place attend the school at N ethe~eal