604 . . [KELLY'S There is also a Wesleyan chapel. Edward Hussey Packe I Miss Sarah E. Walker, sub-postmistress. Letters from esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The arrive at 6.30 a.m. & 5 p.m. & di~­ acreage is 1,410; rateable value, £2,140; and the popu" I patched at 9.30 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. week days only. lation in 1911 was 251. is the nearest money order office Post, T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, Boton.- Carriers to Loughborough pass through daily PRESTWOLD. IChapman William, market gardener, IHall Bartholomew, market ga,rdener Allsebrook Robert Pole J.P Burton Bandalls Lacey George, farmer Pacl;:e Edward Hussev D.L.. .LP. Hallam Henry, farmer. Mills John Edward, farmer & the Bon.Mrs.Packe,Prestwold hall *Hul'vey George, fa~mer ' Harvey John, farmer,Burton Bandalls . COMMERCIAL. *Haryey John Shipman, farmer, Top Bedford Roberl Thomas, Fairholme Allsebrook Robert Pole, farmer farm, Burton Wolds Brotherton ATth. Tyler, Rose cottage Boberts Daniel, head gardener to E. Rarrison William, head gardener to Hill Henry H. Old parsona~ H. Packe esq Lord Ernest St. Maur Tavlor Rev. Robert Oswald Patrick Smith Charles, steward to Edward Hawes WaIter, head gamekeeper to ::\:LA. (vicar), Roton house Bussey Packe esq Lord Ernest St. Maur W ootton Albert, Falcon house Taylor Andrew, gamekeeper to E. R. James John, farmer (resides Wymes- Packe esq wold) COMMERCIAL. Marsh WilIiam Henry, farmer & AbeIl Brothers, blacksmithli BURTON-ON-THE-WOLDS. poultry farmer, Burton Bandalls Abell Frank, farmer Marked thus * receiYe their letters *Mason Alfred H. farmer Bennett Henry & James, graziers , through Six Hills, Leicester. Mills ~ary (Mrs.), grazier,Cliff house Clarke Arthur Edward, farmer 'Braund George Percy. The Cottage ~edmlle James, farme!, Darling Thos. Geo. market gardener St. Maur Lord Ernest Burton hall· ;::,chofield Handpl, aSsIstant overseer Eggleston Wm. farmer, The Hollies & 28 Berkeley squar~. W 'I & clerk to Parish Council Hall John, farmer, Gorse farm I Stal Hobert, farmer, Village farm Hall Thomas, farmer COMMERCIAl.. *Shepherd Ernest, farmer Jackson Thomas, farmer, Baton hills Ashmore William Charles, grocer Tomlinson Robert, shopkeeper Pepper James, market gardener Barnett Bertie Arthur, farmer, Borse *Towle Henry, farmer, Spinnpy farm Proudman John Henry, grazier Leys farm Towle Samuel, farmer, Manor farm I Sim John & Son, farmers, Roton hills Barnett. Thomas, farmer *Tuckwood 'I'homas, farmer I Thornton Herbert, grazier ' Black William, blacksmith Wilkinson John, Greyhound P.R Tomlinson Samuel, boot maker *Bowley Alfd. farmer, Burton Wolds Walker Edward Haines, grazier & Brickwood 1Villiam &, Sons, farmers COTES. assistant ovprseer Chadfield Jas. farmr .Burton BandaIl.s IAbell Brothers, blacksmiths Watkin William & Edward, farmers Chadfield Thomas Henry, farmer J Brickwood William, farmer Wright Walter,_ Packe Arms P.H PRIMETHORPE, see Broughton Astley.

QUENIBOROUGH is a township, pleasant village in 1821, with 100 sittings, and a Primitive Methodist and parish, 7 miles north-north-east from Leicester, 2 chapel. Benjamin Adcock, in 1872, left £100, the in­ east-by-north from station on the main line of terest for the benefit of the church school; in 1879 the Midland railway, in the Eastern division of the Catherine Adcock left £93 for the same purpose; .AlIen county, hundred of East Goscote, Barrow-upon-Soar Bent, in 1873, left £50, the interest to purchase coal at union, Leicester petty sessional division and county Christmas for poor widows; William Adcock, in 1879, court district, rural deanery of Goscote (second portion), bequeathed £500, the interest of which is yearly dis­ archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. tributed to the poor in coal. The principal landowners The church of St. Mary is a building of stone in the are Col. BIake and William Newton esq. The soil is Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, soutb partly sand and partly clay; subsoil, gravel and clay. porch and a western tower with lofty spire containing Much land has been laid down for grazing. The area is 4 bells, dated 1619, 1697 and 1858: there is a brass to 2,170 acres of land and 12 of water; rateable value; Margaret Bury, ob. 1633: the church was restored and £5,269; the population in 19II was 557. reseated by voluntary contributions in 1858; the spire Parish Clerk, William Walton. and tower were restored in 1883, and the interior re­ Post & Telephone Call Office.-Frederick Mansfield, sub­ novated in '1885; and a new clock, with two dials, was postmaster. Letters through Leicester arrive at 7.30 provided in 1893: the church was again restored in a.m. & 6.15 p.m.; dispatched at 9.40 a.m. &; 6-45 1903-4. at a cost of about £150, and affords 378 sittings. p.m.; sundays, arrive at 8 a.m. Syston, 2 miles The register dates from the year 1561. The living is a distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office discharged vicarage, gross yearly value £200, includ­ ing 9 acres of glebe an.:i residence, in the gift of the Public Elementa.ry School (mixed), built in 1847, for 8S Peache trustees, and held siI}ce 1913 by the Rev. George children; Mrs. Susan Clift, mistress Hebden Roberts. There is a Baptist chapel, founded Carrier to Leicester.-J. H. Ballard, wed. & sat PRIVATE llESIDENTS. Woodhouse VivianMackay,TheOld hall Mansfield Frederick,carpenter & shop- Grieve Mrs. Bel~ave house COMMERCIAl.. keeper, Post office Hammond Alfred Ballard Joseph Henry, farmer, carrier Mansfield Stafford, butcher Barding Henry Rowland, The Firs & assistant overseer Neale Amos. farmer Holmp~ Mrs. The Laurels, Melton rd Bednall Josrph Pailthorpe, farmer PowelI WilIiam, farmer, Barrow Cliff Ogden Perey Ernest. CllI'Zon lodge Biggs Charles Wm. farmer & grazier San some William.Horse & Groom P.H Reynolds Mrs. Queniborou!;h hall Bishop Samuel, farmer Sarson Andrt'w, blacksmith Boberts Rev. George Hebdrn (vicar), Cravdord Geo. farmr.The Manor frro Sarson Robert James, farmer Vicarage ' Crawford Thos.frmr.The Cottage frm Stubbs ,John, farmer, Croxton road Seer Alfred, Bradwardine Eaton Samuel,farmer, The Homestead Tailby Rllen (Mrs.), Britannia P.H Smith Mrs. The Grange Fost-er Robert James, farmer Tyers Louisa & Emily(Misses),grocers TyIer Albert, lodge Fox Annie (Mrs.), laundry WadswQfth William, florist Warren Mrs. The Beeches Greenwood Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Walton David, farmer Willcox Samuel. Bolly lodge Hyman William, grazier Watson Albert R. grazier,Th~ C(}ppice QUORN (formerly called Quorndon) is a township and "Local Government Act, r894" (56 and' 57 Vid. c. 73). civil parish formed out of Barrow-on-Soar in 1868, en The village is lighted with gas by the Quorndon and the west side of the navigable river Soar, and on the Gas, Coke and Coal Company from works road from Leicester to Loughborough, with a station on in this parish, which also supply Barrow-on-30ar. the Great Central railway, and I mile south-west from Water is supplied by the Corporation of Leicester from Barrow-on-Soar station on the main line of the Midlanrl the S'withland reservoir. The church of St. Bartholo­ railway, 2~ miles south-east from Loughboroug-h, 8~ mew is an ancient 'building of granite, chiefly in the north from Leicester and I06! from London, in the Mid Early English style, consis~ing of chancel, nave, aisleil division of the county, West Goscote hundred, Loug-h- (the south aisle being the Farnham chapel). south borough petty sessional division and county court dis- porch and an embattled western tower containing a trict, Barrow-on-Soar union, rural deanery of East clock and 8 bells, five cast in 1773, one in 1777 and two Akeley, archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peter- in 1886: the chancel windows are stained, the east win­ borough. The township was governed by a Local Board dow being a memorial to Charlotte Elizabeth, only from 1864, but an Urban District Council of nine mem- daughter of Edward Warner esq. of Quorn Hall, and bers has been established under the provisions of the another, e1'ected by subscription, is a memorial to the