] 04 LANGTON. . [ KELLY'S Letters through arrive at 8 a.m. station on the main line of the Midland railway and 5, The nearest money order & telegraph office is at East north-west from Market Harborough. The church of St. Langton Andrew, built in 1866 by the trustees of Hanbury's Letter Box cleared at 5 p.m.; no sunday collection charity and private subscription, at a cost of £2,800, is Railway Station, Richard Oliver, station master an edifice of brick, with stone dressings, in the Early English style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, small EAST LANGTON is a pretty village and township, 4 transept, vestry and a western tower, with a lofty spire, miles north from Market Harborough, and 12 south­ containing one small bell: all the lancets in the apse east from Leicester; the mother church of St. Peter is are stained: there are 281 sittings. The register dates here. Here is also a Congregational chapel, erected in from the year 1606. The living is a perpetual curacy, 1881, in the Early Gothic style, from des1gns by Mr. consolidated with Church Langton. Here is also a Con. John Wills, architect, of Derby, at a total cost, including gregational chapel. Charles I. in his· flight from the !!lite, of £450. There are several lords of the manor. Battle of Naseby, 14 July, 1645, is said; to have watered The principal landowners are William Goodman esq. his horse here, and the place still retains the name of Hanbury's Charity, William Norman esq. Rev. Thomas "King Charles's Well." The area is 1,413 acres; rate­ Hanbury M.A. rector and Oharles Lefevre esq. The able value, £2,777; the population in 1891 was 235. ·soil is a loamy clay: subsoil, clay. The chief crops are Parish Clerk, Thomas Ward. Wheat, barley and beans. The area is 992 acres; rate­ Post Office, Tur Langton.-George Woodcock, sub-pos,­ able value, £3,378; the population in 1891 was 225. master. Letters received through Leicester at 9 a.m. ; & & Post, M. O. T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery Annuity dispatched at 5.15 p.m. East Langton is the neare~t & Jnsurance Office.-Mrs. Sophia Smith, sub-post­ money order & telegraph office mistress. Letters dispatched at 5.30 p.m.; arrive at 7.15 a.m. by mail cart from Market Harborough; no WEST LANGTON is a small township. 'West Langton sunday collection Hall, an ancient mansion of stone, standing on an eminence, in a small, well-wooded park, and com­ is a chapelry nnd township, 3~ manding extensive views, is the property of Capt. miles nort,h-by-east from Market Harborough. The William Pochin Warner, who is lord of the manOf church of St. Nicholas is a small but ancient building of and principal landowner. The area !is 829 acres; rate­ stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, able value, £5,265; the population in 1891 was 71. nave of three bays, aisles, south porch, and a western tower, with pinnacles and an octagonal ,spire, containing Letters by foot post from Market Harborough arrive at 7.45 a.m. The nearest money order '& telegraph office a clock and 3 bells: the stained east window was given is at East Langton by Mrs. Roberts, formerly lady of the manor: the chancel is divided from the nave by an old screen: the Schools. rood loft stairs remain in the south aisle, and in the east The Rev. William Hanbury M.A.. in 1767 founded & en­ window of the north aisle there are some fragments of dowed a Free School & made bequests of several old stained glass: the font is also ancient: in 1868 the hundred pounds for various benevolent purposes in sum of £1,000 was expended by the trustees of Han­ the parish, the money so left to be vest.ed in six bury's charity in the restoration of the church and in trustees until it should accumulate to £1,000 1883-4' the church was further restored at a cost of yearly; which sum has since been realized. Free £540: there are ISO sittings. The register dates from Schools were erected in 1873, with residences for the year 1606. The living is! a chapelry, consolidated a master &; lIllistress, by the trustees of Hanbury's with Church Langton. Mrs. Pearson is lady of the manor. charity, at a cost of £3,000, & endowed with salaries The principal landowners are Marston Clarke Buszard for the master & the mistress; the number of chil­ esq. Q.C. and Messrs. John George Kendall, Thomas dren on the books is about 41 boys, 40 girls &; 28 Walker, Charles C. Chamberlain and George Kendall. infants; average attendance, 34 boys, 31 girls &; 30 The area is 1,167 acres of land and 8 of water; rate­ infants; Oharles Cherry, master; Ellen J ane Kelley, able value, £2,723; the population in 1891 was 108. mistress; Mrs. Harriett Kendall, infants' mistress Parish Clerk, James Buzzard. Letters received through Market Harborough, arrive The Hanbury Charity provides the sum of £25 to be about 7 a.m distributed annually in beef to the poor, also £50 Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.45 p.m.; no sunday col­ per annum available for medical relief &; £70 per lection annum for the salaries of the organists to the three churches in the parishes TUR LANGTON is, a chapelry, township and pleasant, Carrier.-William Green, to Market Harborough, tues. well-built village, 2 miles north-east from Kibworth from his own house; to Leicester, wed. & sat

CHURCH LANGTON. COMMERCIAL. Goodman William, farmer Hanbury Rev. Thomas M.A. Rectory Chamberlain Chas. Chapman, grazier, Green William, shopkeeper & carrier' Stock Rev. John (curate) Vine house Hackney Richard, grazier Cockayne Anne (Mrs.) dress maker KendalI Geo. Edwd. farmer & grazier Hayr Richd. S. (exors. of), farmers ~ Hardy Wm. Chas. Langton Arms P.R Kendall John Geo.grazier,The Grange graziers, M~nor house Hayr James, grazier Payne Thomas, Barley Mow P.H. & Ingram FrancIs, saddler Hayr RQbert (Mrs.), grazier carpenter Jarratt James, estate ca~penter Hyde William, grazier Row~att Emma Elizabeth (Mrs.), Joh~son G.eorge ~. grazIer Sedgeley In. Hy.grazier,The White ho prIvate school Lewm DavId, graZIer EAST LANGTON Sedgeley Bryan Barron, Bakers' Norman Albert Cartwright, graZIer &; .1. • Arms P.H salesman, The Elms Bethell James Burnet Spriggs John William, grazier Norman William Andrews, farmer &; Brown Thomas Tilley Jesse, grazier grazier, The Elms Logau John William, The Grange Tipler Charles (Mrs.), grazier Owen Joseph, carpenter COMMERCIAL. Vendy Eli, grazier Rogers William, blacksmith Faulkner Zillah (Mrs.), The Bell P.B Vendy Matthew, grazier Smith Arthur John, BuIl's Hood P.l1 Gibbs Thomas & William, millers Walker Thomas, grazier Tailby William, timber merchant (steam) & bakers Walker Watson, grazier Vine Irad, Chequer inn Jesson James, butcher ·Ward Thomas, shoe maker Langton & District Liberal Association T1JR L.A...1\l"GTON. Ward William, shoe maker (George Read, sec) (Letters received through Leicester.) Williamson Alfred, cattle dealer LovelI Arthur, shopkeeper Gray Mrs. Elizabeth Woodcock Geo. shopkpr. Post office Raynor Thomas, cowkeeper HayI' Mrs. R. S. Manor house Read Geo. gardener to J.W. Logan esq Johnston George Gibson WEST LANGTON. Swingler Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Warner Capt. William Pochin,The Hall Thornton John, blacksmith COlflt:ERCIAL. Harding Elizabeth (Mrs.), grazier Cookson James, grazier Harrison Thom'ls, head gardener to THORPE LANGTON. Cox Samuel, Crown P.H Capt. W. P. Warner KendalI George Freestone Francis, baker Vendy Charles, grazier

LAUGHTON is a parish, 2 miles north from Tbed- borough petty sessional division, union and county dingworth station on the Rugby and Stamford branch court district, rural deanery of Gartree (first portion), of the London and North Western railway and 5~ west- arch deaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. by-north from Market Harborough, in the Southern The Grand Union canal passes the south boundary of division of the county, Gartree hundred, Market Har- this parish. The church of St. Luke is a small but