• • DIRECTC>RY.] . 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 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 , 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