68 OROFT. LEICESTERSHIRE, [KELLY'& mostly light; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, Wall Letter Box, near Railway Station, cleared 6.15 p.m. ; barley and roots. The acreage is 1,087; rateable value, sunday, 7.30 p.m £4,360; the population in 1911 was 742. Public Elementary School (mixed), erected on glebe land Parish Clerk, Ephraim Smith. in lE54 & since enlarged, for 251 children; Charles R. Weston, master Post, M. O. & T. Office.-Harry Pears, sub-postmaster. I Railway Station, Frederick Chandler, station master Letters from Leicester arrive at 6.50 a.ID.; dispatched at I1 Carriers to Leicester.-E. Smith, wed. & sat.; S. Wapples, 6.10 p.m sat PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Croft Conservative Association(E.Hollier Hearne John, butcher Marked thus * are in Broughton esq. president; E. Heath, hon. sec) Hollier Elliott, farmer, Croft lodge Astley parish. I ~roft Floral, Horticultural & Cottage Bunt John, insurance agent, assistant Barker John, Arbor villa Garden Improvement Society (E. overseer & clerk to Huncote Parish Beck Albert Reginald, The Cottage Heath, sec) Council, The Shrubbery Blackwell Fredk. Beale, The Hollies Croft Granite, Brick & Concrete Co. Lewin Joseph, Heathcote Arms P.H Brookes Rev. James M.A. Rectory Lim. (Charles Henry Robottom, Morton Caroline (Mrs.), shopkeeper *Foxon Charles, :Fossebrook secretary & manager). TA" Ada- Norman Annie (Miss), dress maker Ison Mrs mant, Croft, Leicester;" TN 48 Pears Harry, grocer & draper & sub- *Robottom Charles Henry, Fosse house Narborough. See advertisement postmaster Sharman Thomas Wm. Stoneleigh house page 13 Place Frank, coal merchant • Vincent Frederick, The Chase Croft Industrial Co-operative Society Roberts Frederick, news agent WaIter Edward, Croft house Limited (C. Armston, sec) Smith Ephraim, carrier, dairyman" Watson Miss, The Gables , Cunnington Harry, smallware dealer farmer & parish clerk COMMERCIAL. *Curtis WaIter, coal merchant Swain John, grazier Clarke Alfd. Edwin, farmer, Hill farm Follows Arthur & Son, boot makers Taylor Richard, farmer Cooper James, farmer Goodman John, boot maker Village Hall (George Place, caretaker! Crick Frank, boot repairer Hands J oseph J. beer retailer,Main street Wapples Samuel, carrier CROXTON KERRIAL, anciently called "Cryoll" in Great Northern £4 per Cent. Preference shares, the and later "Kyriell" and "Kerrial," from Bertram de income to be used for the maintenance and repair of the Crioll, who held this manor, is a parish and village, 7 fabric of the parish church. I):nipton reservoir is partly in: miles from Redmile station on the joint Great Northern this parish. Between the village and Saltby are traces of an and London and North Western line from Newark to entrenchment, supposed to have been made during the Market Harborough, 7. miles south-west from Grantham Commonwealth. Here was once a monastery of the Pre and 9 north-east from Melton Mowbray, in the Eastern monstratensian order, founded in 1162 by Porcher de Linus division of the county, Framland hundred, Belvoir petty and Sir Andrew Luttrell, and dedicated to St. John the sessional division, Grantham union and county court Evangelist; its income at the Dissolution was valued at district, rural deanery of Framland (first portion), arch- £458 19s. lId. and there were then 20 canons; one of deaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. For the abbots was physician to King John, whose heart the purposes of out-door relief this parish is included in was interred in the church. Croxton Park is about and belongs to the Belvoir contributory union, and for 2 miles south-west of the village; the mansion was built other parochial purposes is included in and forms part of in 1730, and has been partly pulled down; the park com the Belvoir Rural District Council. The church of St. prises about 777 acres, in which races are held annually John the Baptist is a stone building in the Early English about the end of March or early in April: these races style, consisting of chancel, c1erestoried nave of three have long been celebrated and are numerously attended bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled central tower by the nobility and gentry of the Melton and neighbour with pinnacles and a clock, and containing 6 bells, two ing hunts.;. the principal stakes are the Granby Handi of which are dated respectively 1603 and 1674: the old cap, the Belvoir Welter Plate,
Vicarage Holmes John, grazier . I Stannage Herbert, farmer Dent Mrs. F. The Old Hall . Knott George Richard, butcher & grazier Stannage Prudence Wright (Mrs.), frmr .Knott Robert, The Peacock P.H Stratton Charles, shoe maker com1ERCIAL. 'Martin James, wood bailiff to the Duke Tipping Herbert, cowkeeper Annis John, farmer of Rutland (postal address, Knipton) Tipping Lucy Elizh. (Mi.ss), shopkeepeJ Annis Robert, farmer .Mount John Thomas, carter Tipping WaIter, butcher Cobley Thomas G. blacksmith Mount Joseph, grazier Ward James, sen. carrier Cobley Thomas E. farmer Mount William Robert, collector & Wand James, wheelwright Dent Thomas Henry, park keeper & aSSeSsor of income tax Wild Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Church fro gamekeeper to the Duke of Rutland Roberts Thomas, farmer, & hon. clerk Wildman John Hutchin, carpenter Dewey George Henry, grocer to the Parish Council, Blackwelllodge Wrigbt Thomas, farm bailiff to the Duke- Durrands John, farmer Sessions Frederick, carter of Rutland Fardell John, cowkeeper Shipman Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Farnsworth Robert, cowkeeper Croxton 10. (letters through Harston) SOUTH CROXTON is a village and civil parish The Croxton stream flows to the south-west of the 3! miles from Ingarsby station on the Great Northern parish. By Local Government Board Order a detached railway and 5~ south-east from Syston Junction station part of Barsby was in 1884 transferred to Croxton and on the Midland railway, 9 north-east from Leicester and at the same date a part of- Croxton added to Barsby. 8i south-west from Melton Mowbray, in the Eastern di- The church of St. John is an ancient building of stone vision of the county, East Goscote hundred, Barrow-on- in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, Soar union, Leicester petty sessional division and county aisles, south porch and a western tower with spire, con ('ourt district, rural deanery of Goscote (first portion), taining 4 bells, dated 1636: there is a brass to Mrs~ arcbdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. Chambers, dated 1578, and an ancient font: there are , .