DIRECTORY.] . GROB¥. 89 Brutnell Joel, carpenter, Post ojice Lock George, cowkeeper Morris Henry, farmer Carter William, farmer Lowe Ernest, farmer Rowbotham Thomas, farmer Foister Thomas Solomon, grazier Mackley Robert, ~azier "\Vard Alexander, grazier Kirk John William, farmer Mayfield J ames, farmer , formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish, about 600 acres, well stocked with deer, and contains and for ecclesiastical purposes is annexed to Norton-juxta­ many family portraits and other pictures by old masters; Twycross, 2 miles west from Shackerstone station on the attached to the house is a beautiful chapel, with com. Midland and London and North Western railways and 6 munion table, seats and wainscoting of carved cedar ; north-west from , in the "'estern division here, it is said, Handel composed his •· Messiah." The of the county, hundred of Sparkenhoe, Market Bosworth area is 729 acres ; rateable value, £1,124; the population union, petty llessional division and county court district. in 1901 was 22. Gopsall Park is the seat of the Earl Howe G.c.v.o.; the Letters through Atherstone, arrive at 8 a.m. The nearest mansion is a large and handsome building, situated on a post, money order & telegraph office is at Twycross, gentle eminence nearly in the centre of a fine park of about 1 mile distant. Howe Earl G.c.v.o. Gopsall park; & Curzon house, I Marlborough clubs sw, Constitutional club we & Bachelors' 21 Curzon street, Mayfair w & Carlton, Travellers' & & Turf clubs w, London GRACE DIEU, see Belton. GRIMSTON is a small village and parish, on the Wold standing on the village green. Saxelbye Park {in this Hills, with a station 1 mile south-east from the village parish), the property of Charles W. Wright esq. J.P. is a (locally in the parish of Saxelby), on the Melton and handsome modern mansion standing in extensive grounds. Nottingham branch of the Midland railway, 5 miles west­ Francis Reckitt esq. of 178 Queen's gate, London sw, is north-west from Melton l\Iowbray and 114 from London, lord of the manor and principal landowner ; the other in the Eastern division of the county, East Goscote hundred, landowners are Charles ,V. Wright esq. and the trustees Melton Mowbray petty sessional division, union and county of the late Mr. Thomas Warner, of Leicester Abbey. The court district, rural deanery of Framland (third division), soil is clay and sand ; subsoil, clay. The land is chiefly archdeaconry of Leicester anJ diocese of Peterborough pasture ; corn and root crops are grown. Stilton cheese The church of St. John is an ancient building of stone, is made here. The acreage is 1,064; rateable value, partly in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, £1,864; the population in 1901 was 136. clerestoried nave, south transept, south porch and an ' Parish Clerk, William Dale. embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 3 bells, two of which are respectively dated 1749 and Post Office.-Mrs. Deborah Sleath, sub-postmistress. 1'780: the church was restored in 1866, and has 160 Letters through Melton Mowbray arrive 7.45 a.m. & 4 sittings. The register dates from the year 1635. The p.m. ; dispatched 11.10 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; sunday, delivery living is a vicarage, consolidated with that of Wartnaby, 8.15 a.m. ; dispatched 11.5 a.m. Old Dalby is the joint net yearly value £80, with 50 acres of glebe, in the nearest money order & telegraph office for general delivery. gift of the vicar of Rotbley, and held since 1895 by the Grimston station telegraph office ; telegrams are only Rev. Elgar Hicks Th.ASSoc. of King's College, London and of delivered within 1 mile of the station Durham University, who resides at 'Vartnaby. Here is a Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1867, to hold Wesleyan chapel, built in 1892. In 1883 £100 was left by 46 children ; average attendance, 39 ; :.\Iiss Bertha Towle, the late .joseph Bishop esq. of l\Ielton Mowbray, and in­ mistress vested in Consols, the interest of which is devoted to the Railway Station, Herbert Gilbert, station master benefit of the school. A portion of the old stocks is still Forester Capt. Francis William M.F.H. Barnes John, grazier Kirk Herbert, farmer Saxelbye park Freestone Edward, grazier Mills Henry, farmer Wright Chas. Wm. J.P. Walton Fields Garton Joseph, grazier Simpkin W right, grazier Hill Charles, grazier Wardle Arthur, Black Horse PH COMMERCIAL. Hill Elizabeth (Mrs.), grazier Webster Fredk. estate building surveyor .Atkinson George Francis, grazier Hitherley Ann {Miss), grazier GROBY {or Grooby) is a parish and pleasant village on pany, who produce a material much used for flagging in the Asbby road, eccle,siastically annexed to , and has the metropolis anr'. elsewhere, and tber~ is a slate quarry, a loup line for goods only, connecti:1g the quarries with the but not now worked. Of Groby Castle there are no Leicester (West bridge) and branch of the Midland remains beyond the mound. Groby Pool is a sheet of railway: it is 2! miles east from Glenfield station on the wilter covering 38 acres. Bra:lgate House. the property of same line, and 4! north-west f.'om Leicester, in the Mid Mrs. Katherine H. V. Grey, of Sutton Hall, Easingwold, divi;ion of the county, Sparkenhoe hundred, petty session•.! lady of the manor and principal landowner, is a large and division of Leicester, Market Bosworth union and Leices- handsome mansion, in the Elizabethan style, erected in ter county court district. The chapel of ea>e, Prected 1856, with stabling for more than 50 horses, and is sur­ in 1840, at the sole expense of the late Earl of Stamford rounded by extensive pleasure grounds and is now occupied and Warrington, is a small building of granite, with slate by Thomas William Everard esq. D.L., ;J.P. The eldest dreisings, in the Norman style, con isting of chancel, r.ave, son of the Earls of Stamford {if any) takes the title of south porch and a small embattled western tower con· Lord Grey of Groby from this place. The soil is strong taining a clock and 6 bells, dated 1840 : a new chancel is loam and gravel ; subsoil, sand and gravel. The chief now {1912) in course of erection: there are 300 sittings. crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 2,040 acres The register dates from the year 1840. The living is a of land and 34 of water ; rateable value, £4,856 ; the chapelry annexed to the vicarage of Ratby, joint net yearly population in 1911 was 910. value £250, derived from Bradgate estate, in the gift of Parish Clerk, Edward Geary. Mrs. K. H. V. Grey, ot Sutton Hall, Easingwold, and held Police Constable, Harry Follows. since 1902 by the Rev. George Ernest Gilbanks M.A. of Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-:.\liss Fanny Rudkin, sub-post Trinity College, Oxford, who resides at Ratby. There is a mistress. Letters received through Leicester arrive at Congregational chapel, erected in 1858, with sittings for 5.40 a.m. by mail cart ; dispatched at 7.45 p.m. ; sundays, 180 persons. Here are granite quarries, worked to a con- 7 p.m siderable extent; the stone is a true syenite, being corn- Public Elementary Schooh (mixed & infant>), erected by posed of pinkish felspar and green partly decomposed horn- the Countess of Stamford & \Yarrington in 1873, at a blende: since the formation of the Groby Granite Company cost of about £1,10), for 123 children; average attend· the quarries have been more extensively worked, and are in ance, 139; William James Waldron, master direct communication with all the principal railways. Carriers to Leicester.-Richard Foulds, wed. & sat. & Here also are the works of the Patent Victoria Stone Corn· Charles Geary, mon. wed. & sat PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bower Thos. H. Earl of Stamford ArmsP.H Groby Granite Company Limited Annan Waiter Chaplin Everard, butcher {William Harry Harris, manager) Everard Thomas William D.L., J.P. Brad- Cooper James, blacksmith Jordan Thos. frame S1nith & machinist gate house Dodson Tom, shopkeeper l\Iurby Henry Spence, beer retailer Harris William Harry Doleman Fred, farmer Parkinson Wallace, bee keeper Morley Thomas Foulds Richard, carrier Patent \'ictoria Stone Co. Limited Thomson Mrs. Grey lodge Gregory William, farmer & grazier (C. E. Stubbs,manager),Groby quarries Thomson Robert Donald, Pool house Gregory William, jun. farmer Saunders Edward, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Grimes Harriett (Miss), dress maker Savage Evan, farmer, Manor house Appleby John, farmer Groby Co-operative Society Limited, Spencer George, rate collector & clerk Biggs & Pimlott, Groby Park farm ... grocers & bakers(Thomas Frost,mngr) to Parish Council