• • DIRECTC>RY.] HUNTINGDONSHIRE. COLNE. 15 • and 4 bells : in the chancel is IL fine piscina : the stained chief crops are wheat, barley, peas, beans. and seeds. east window rs a memorial to Harriett (ob. 1876), The area is 3,094 acres; ratelllble value, £2,355 ; the daughter of Major-~neral William Croxton: the com population in 1891 was 547 ·in the civil and 524 in t4e munion table of carved oak is inscribed, " The gift of ecclesiastical parish. Thoma.s Ekins, in the year 1634," and there is a small PosT & M. 0. 0., S. E. & Ammity & Insurance Office ...... mural tablet with the figure of an angel holding a shield Henry Eull, 11nb-postmaster. Letters arrive through of arms and an inscxiption in Latin to Elizabeth Erude Huntingdon at 6 a.m. & I p.m. (callers only); dis nell, ob. 1656: .in the 110uth aisle is a .mural monument patch€d at 6 p.m. Leighton, 3 mi:es distant,. is the to Dr. John Lawton and Rose (Driden), his wife, a niece of nearest telegraph office John Drydcn, the Poet Laureate;. she died 1710: the National School (mixed), built, with master'a house, in church was restored in 1876, at a cost of £1,300, raised 1873, for ISO children; average attendance, 72; Thom~s by subscription, about £700 being given by tpe rector: John 1V:hite, master r there are 250 sittings : in the churchyard are several CARRIER.--'Charles Peacock, to St. N eots, on thursday fine yew trees. The register dates from the year 1566. County Police Station, Thomas Middleton, constable The living is a rectory, net yearly value £285, including 70 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Brasenose Little Catworth, formerly a hamlet of Stow Longa, College, Oxford, and held since I89o by the Rev. William though attached as already mentioned to Great Cat Woodward, of St. Eees. Here are Eaptist and Wesleyan worth for civil purposes, is for ecclesiastical purposes chapels. The charities for distribution in coal amount still connected with Stow Longa; a portion of Little to £8 yearly. The proceeds of the church land of Catworth formed part of Great Catworth previous w So\. 2R. 2oP. is for church purposes; Banks, Maddock the alteration; it is distant three-quarters of a mile and Evanson's charities, consisting of a house, orchard east from Great Catworth and It miles north-by-west and 2A. 3R. of land, are for apprenticing, and there is a from Stow Longa. The Little Catworth Town Land parish clerk's charity, comprising a house and garden, Charity, consisting of a grass field of 5 acres, yearly and IR. 24J'. of ground. The Duke of Manchester, who value £7, is distributed in money on the Wednesday is lord of the manor, George Charles Wentworth-Fitz- after Michaelmas Day. The Duke of Manchester is lord william ;r.P. of Milton House, Peterborough, John William of the manor. The principal landowners are the Ec Rawson-Ackroyd esq. of Dean Grange, Kimbolton, clesiastic:U Commissioners, Dean School, Beds (nea,r Mr. William &l Mrs. Pashler and Edwa,rd Leonard Wel- Kimbolton), the Society in Scotland for Propagating stead esq. ;r.P. of St. Neots, are the principal land- Christian Knowledge and W. S. Chapman esq. of Ki~ owners. The soil is clay; subsoil, strong clay. The bolton. There are only four cottages. Smith Mrs • .Orchard house Button .John, carpenter Ives Jeremiah, plumber '& decorator Woodward Rev. William, Rectory Clark John, Waggon & Horses P.H Mason Peter, ahimney sweeper Clark Samuel, boot & shoe maker Norman George William, wheelwright COMMERCIAL. Coe Peter, draper, grocer & wine mer Pashler William, jun. frmr. Erook end Barnard James, shoe manufacturer; & Cooke Thomas W. wheelwright & Pashler Mary (Mrs.), Ianoowner & at Thrapstone blacksmith farmer, Church end Beesley Rhoda (Miss), fancy repository Dickens William Alfred, bricklayer Pashler William, landowner & farmer, Berridge George, sweep Dunkley Frederick, Black Swan P.H Erook end Bridge William, baker Gray John, Fox P.H Peacock Charles, beer retailer , Brown Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Gray Lewis ·G. farmer Robinson Joseph, fishmonger Brown Samuel, butcher Holmes Samuel, farmer, Hill fa1m Salsbury .Ann (Mrs.), baker & farme'r Bugby Edwin, saddler & farmer Howell William Mousley, poulterer & Smith George, baker Bull Henry, shoemaker, Post office egg merchant CHESTERTON (so named from its situation near the relief: at the east end of the south aisle is a large mural site of the Roman stat-ion Durobrivae, at Castor, near tablet of marble, with long Latin inscription to John Peterborough) is a village and parish, on the borders of Driden, cousin of the poet, and grandson of Sir Robert N-orthamptonshire and the south bank of the navigable Bevill above-mentioned, dated 1707: there are 8o sittings. river Nene, which separates the two count
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