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Banks J oseph Flavel COMMERCIAL. Newman Henry Thos. market gardener Crow George, Ash cottage Cockerill Louisa (Miss), dress maker Ogden J o.hn Frederick, blacksmith & Dunckley Mrs. The Poplars Douglas Fred, baker & carrier assistant overseer Elliott Thomas Clarke, The Orchards Faux John Burell, Royal Oak P.H Savage Charles, farmer, Glebe farm Frend Rev.John Palliser M.A.(rector), Frost Harry, market gardener Smith Joseph W. Wooden Walls of Rectory Keggin William Geo. farm bailiff to Old England P. H Newitt Mrs. Holmwood the exors. of the late P. Phipps esq Ward William G. farmer COLLYWESTON (or Colley Weston) is a parish Christ's Colleges, Cambridge, resided here and died on the borders of Rutland and the road from North­ seised of this manor in the first year of Henry VIII. ampton to Stamford, I mile from Ketton stc.tion on (29th June, 1509), when it fell to the Crown; the the Peterborough and Leicester section of the :Midland manor was subsequently for a long period in the Tryon railway, 3l south-west from Stamford and 6! north-west family, and is now in the possession of the Marquess from Wansford, in the Northern division of the county, of Exeter: there are now no remains of the mansion, hundred of Willybrook, petty sessional division of but the terraces may be distinctly traced, and there Onndle, union of Stamford, county court district of is an old dovecot, bearing the initials of Queen Eliza­ Peterborough, rural deanery of Peterborough (second beth, "E. R." and the date " 1578," and beneath it an portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peter­ ancient sundial. The Marquess of Exeter J.P. is lord borough. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of principally limestone and slate ; subsoil, limestone. ch'lncel, clerestoried nave, north aisle, south porch and Slate quarries are numerous and extensive in this an embattled western tower of Barnack stone with four neighbourhood; the Colley Weston slates are well known

crocketed pinnacles and containing a clock and 2 bells : and are of a vellowish-white• colour and much used for in the church is a memorial tablet to the Rev. Pos­ roofs of churches and Gothic buildings. The chief thumus Belgrave B.D. twenty-two years curate of this crops are wheat, barley and clover. The area is 1,569 parish, d. 1840; a brass to Elizabeth Follett, d. 1558, acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value, £2,220; and an old chapel belonging to the Tryon family: there the population in 1901 was 361. are five stained windows : the church was restored in Parish Clerk, Thomas Boothey. 1857, and has 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1541. The living is a rectory, net yearly value Post Office.-Mi~s Sarah Arnold Close, sub-postmistress. £245, including 50 acres of glebe, with residence, in the Letters through Stamford arrive at 7.10 a.m. & 1.20 gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1908 by the p.m. ; dispatched at Io.so a.m. & s.so p.m. ; no Rev. William McCarthy M.A., B.C.L. of University Col­ sunday delivery or collection. The nearest money lege, Durham. There was formerly a mansion here, order & telegraph office is at Easton, r! miles distant built or enlarged by Ralph Lord Cromwell, treasurer to Public Elementary School (mixed), built, with teacher's Henry VI. who died in 1455· The Lady Margaret house, in 1877, at a cost of £750, for 70 children, & (Beaufort), Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother enlarged in 188g, for 100; average attendance, 78 ; Mr. of King Henry VII. and foundress of St. John's and & Mrs. Waiter Kirby, master & mistress Harrisson Lionel G. Colly Weston ho Close George, beer retailer Knapp James, slater & lime burner Harrisson Mrs. Colly W eston house Close Robert, farmer, Geeston Lilley John Colston, farmer, Park frm McCarthy Rev. William M.A., B.C.L. Close Sarah Arnold (Miss), grocer, \iitchell John, slater Rectory Post office Pick William G. farmer, Manor farm Munro Charles Fredk. The Poplars, Colston Thomas Rowell, grazier Rogers Catherine (Mrs.), shvpkeeper COMMERCIAL. Goodwin Thomas, shoe maker Shaw Francis, assistant overseer & Boothey Thomas, wheelwright & Goodwin William, slater clerk to Parish Council parish clerk Gray Clarke, Slaters' Arms P.H Stoke~ Charles, beer & wine retailer Burbidge J ames Frederick, farmer Hand John, slater & lime burner Wyles Mary Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Close Arthur, baker Hill Richard A. beer retailer Wyles Sarah Elizh. (Miss), dress makr

CORBY is a parish ()n the road from Oundle to Charles II. 'J'his charter exempts the residents from the Market Harborough, with a station on the , payment of market tolls, and was last commemorated 18 Manton and Nottingham section of the , May, 1902, when the fair was proclaimed at 4 a.m. and 8 miles north-north-east from Kettering, in the Northern the charter read by the rector and the chairman of the divison of the county, hundred of Corby, Kettering Parish Council. The Countess of Cardigan, of Deene petty sessional division, union and county court district, Park, Wansford, who is lady of the manor, James Pain rural deanery of Weldon (first portion), archdeaconry esq. and Lloyd's Ironstone Co. Limited are the principal of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. The church landowners. Lloyd's Ironstone Co. Limited gives em­ of St. John the Baptist is an ancient building of stone, in ployment to soo men. There is also a brickyard the Early English style, consisting of chancel, clere­ employing several men. The soil is clayey; subsoil, storied nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower clay and rock. The chief crops are hay, wheat, narley with spire containing a clock and 4 bells : the church and beans. The area is 2,640 acres ; rateable value, was restored in 1902 at a cost of £4,400, the Rev. T. G. £8,246; the population in 1901 was 1,022. Clarke M.A. and Mrs. Clarke contributing £2,500; the Post & M. 0. Office.-Mrs. J oseph Chap man, sub-post­ restoration included the removal of the west gallery and mistress. Letters arrive from Kettering at 7 a.m. & the building of a new north aisle ; a new carved oak 2.35 p.m.; dispatched at 1.5, 6.5 & 8 p.m.; no Sun­ roof was also erected, the windows repaired and two day delivery. The telegraph office is at the W eldon & stained glass windows presented by Mrs. Barwell Ewins Corby railway station, which is closed on sundays and Mrs. Hales, of Corby: an organ was provided in 1903 at a cost of £420, defrayed by the rector and Mrs. Police Station, George Woodroffe, constable T. G. Clarl