DIRECTORY.] . EAST HADDO :X. .stands iu a park of about 40 acres. The Grange is Wall Letter Box, near the Grammar school, cleared at 'the residence of Edward Da\l"kins esq.; 5.20 p.m. week days only ·House, of Lieut.-Ool. Wm. Gordon Renton J.P. and Gils- Schools. 1borough Court, of Arthur Byass esq. Rose Cottage, Nor­ Free Grammar, erected in 1668 &; endowed by Sir John toft, the residence of Mrs. Dowell, was erected in 1686. Langham hart. for the education of an unlimited .Allesley Boughton Ward-Boughton-Leigh eEq. of Browns­ number of boys ; the endowment, derived from money .-over Hall, Rugby, who is lord of the manor, Sir Herbert in Consols, now amounts to £8o yea.rl7; Rev. FrQderic Hay Langham bart. of , M•rs. Lees, the William Kingston M.A. Carob. bead master trustees of John Augustus Stephens esq. and Miss Public Elementary (mixed), built in x867, at a cost Mansell, of Sulby Hall, are the principal landowners. of 1,1oo, by the Rev. T. S. Hichens, then. vicar, for The soil is Ted loom and elay; subsoil, clay. The land xso children; average attendance, xoo; the school 'is principally pasture and arable. 'JThe area, with Nor­ is partly supported by a bequest of £so in 16og, by -tuft, is 2,245 acres ; rateable vaJue, £4,296; the popu­ Will1am Gilbert, for educational purposes & an ad­ lation in 19ox, with Nortoft, was 513. ditional £so raised by subscription, which. sums, to­ Nortoft is a hamlet of Guilsborough, united to and gethe-r with other donations, were expended in the iorming the northern part of the village ; it is watered purchase of land, now producing £55 yearly; the school is otherwise partly supported by swbscriptions ; by the Stowe brook. The area is 1,5o2a. 2r. 15p. George William Brunner, master; Mrs. Brunner, Sexton, Charles Smith. sewing mistress; Miss Bessie Sibley, infants' mistress Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. & Conveyance.-Watts' conveyance to every I. 0.-

" is a parish, on the road from which is under the management of the vicar, church­ Northampton to Rugby, xi miles from A.lthorp Park wardens and overseer. Here is a Congregational chapel, .11tation, on the London and North Western railway, 7! erected in 1834, seating 150 persons. In the village is 'llOrth-west from Northampton, 9! south from Welford a nursing home, e!ltablished in xgoo by Mrs. Guthrie, &nd 12 south-east from Rugby, in the Mid division of of East Haddon Hall, for the benefit of the villagers the county, hundred of Grove, union of Brix­ (Sister Edith Dimmock, matron). East Haddon Hall, worth, petty sessional division and county court district a plain building adjoining the church, is the seat of of Northampton, rural deanery of Haddon (first portion), David Charles Guthrie esq. J.P. Capt. Edward Henry archdeaconry of Northampton and dioces~ of Peter­ Bridgman Sawbridge J.P. of Elcot Park, Hungerford, borough. The church of St. Mary, situated nearly in is lord of the manor, and Lady A.nnaly is the principal the centre of the village, is an ancient building of stone, landowner. The soil is principally a light mixed ; in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting subsoil, rammel and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, uf chancel, clerestoried nave, south aisle, south porch barley, oats and potatoes. The area is 2,753 acres; ~nd an embattled western tower with pinnacles, con­ rateable value, £5,627; the population in 1901 was 546. taining a clock and 5 bells : the chancel retains a pis­ dna and three stone sedilia: the Norman font conl'lil!lts Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. & • 'Of a circular basin, rudely carved, -with a human figure I. Office.-Thomas Roberts, sub-postmaster. Letters holding two winged serpents : the qrgan was presented arrive from Northampton at 6.20 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. by the late H. B. Sawbridge esq. in ;1843: the tower was (callers only); dispatched at x::1.5 & 6.14 p.m Tebuilt in 1673 and the aisle and porch in 1839: the -church was restored in x877, under the direction of Mr. Public Elementary School (mixed),. built in 1851 by the "E. Law, of Northampton, at a cost £x,8oo, and has late H. B. Sawbridge esq. & enlarged in 1904, for 146 '26o sittings. The register dates from the year 1552. children ; average attendance, x12 ; there is a house 'The living is a diilcharged vicarage, net yearly value adjoining for the master; Edward Thompson, master ; Mrs. Emily Thompson, mistress £160, including 98 acres of glebe, with residence, in the • gift of Mr. Christopher Smyth, of Chalford, Glos. Police Station, Albert E. Clark, constable who has two turns, and Capt. E. H. B. Sawbridge, who bas one turn, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Vincent Carriers to Northampton.-James Chapman & Owen John Leatherdale M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. The Andrew, wed. & sat. at 9 a.m. returning at 7 p.m. ; churl'hyard was closed in x889 by order of the Local the , , Crick, Ravensthorpe Government Board, and in 1891 "\ cemetery was formed & carriers also pass through the village • ,.. NORTHANTS. •