DIRECTORY.] . EAST HADDOX. 93 tile chancel are three memorial windows to Adelaide, Nortoft is a hamlet of , united to and Countess Spencer, who died 2g Oct. 1877: in the north forming the northern part of the village; it is watered aisle is one presented by the Lady Eleanor Cecily Clifton, by the Stowe brook. The area is I,S02A. 2R. 15p. in memory of her husband, John Talbot Clifton esq. Sexton, Charles Smith. of Lytham Hall, Lancashire, d. 16 April, 1882, and ber son, d. 188o: the chancel was repaved in 1868, at County Constabulary, Levi Stokes, constable the cost of the parishioners, to commemorate the late Post,:M. O. &, T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. &; Rev. John David Watson B.A. vicar 1835-64, d. 1868: 1. O.----<:\iiss ~Iary Reeve, sub-postmistress. Letters at the east end, below the communion table, is a gilt arrive by mail cart from at 7 a.m. &, at ~asting representing the "Lord's Supper:" the reredos, I 11.55 for callers only; dispatched at g.lo a.m. & 5·45 stalls and sittings throughout are of carved oak: a new p.m.; sundays 5.45 p.m ()rgan was provided in 1897. The register dates from Wall Letter Box, near the Grammar school, cleared at the year 1560. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value 5.20 p.m. week days only £360, including 180 acres of glebe, with residence, in the Schools. gift of Rev. Canon Thomas Sikes Hichens M.A. vicar Free Grammar, erected in 1668 & endowed by Sir John 1864-1902: and held since Ig02 by Rev. John Oldham Langham bart. for the education of an unlimited Hichens M.A. of Trinity College, Oxford. The Baptist; number of boys; the endowment, derived from money chapel here was erected in 1793· The village club, es- in Consols, now amounts to £80 yearly; Rev. Frederick tabli-hed in 1880, by the vicar, comprises reading and William Kingston M.A. Camb. head master recreation rooms, with a billiard table, and is supplied National (mixed), built in 1867, at a cost of £1,100, by with local and London papers and periodicals, and has a the Rev. T. S. Hichens, then vicar, for 150 children; library oontaining over 200 vols. Guilsborough Hall, a average attendance, IIO: the school is partly supported mansion of stone, belonging to the trustees of the late by a bequest of £50 in 160g, by William Gilbert, for E. A. B. 1Yard-Boughton-Leigh esq. and now the resi- educational purposes & an additional £5 0 raised by dence of Capt. Charles Piggott Harvey, stands in a park subscription, which sums, together with other dona- ()f about 40 acres. The Grange is the residence of tions, were expended in the purchase of land, now Edward Dawkins esq.; Guilsborough House, of Capt. producing £55 yearly; the school is otherwise partly William Gordon Renton and Guilsborough Court, at mpported by subscriptions; George William Brunner, Arthur Byass esq. Rose Cottage, the residence of :Mrs. master; Mrs. BlIunner, sewing mistress; Miss Bessie Dowell, was erected in 1686. The trustees of the late Sibley, infants' mistress Edward Arlesley Boughton Ward-Boughton.Leigh esq. of Brownsover Hall, Rug-by, who are lords of the manor, Conveyance.-Watts' conveyance to every Sir Herbert Hay Langham bart. of O:>ttesbrooke, morning at 9·15; sat. at 4 p.m.; also John Manning Mrs. Lees, the trustees of John Augustus Stephens esq. Collyer, to Northampton, every sat. 9·30 a.m. &, re- lInd Miss Mansell, o~ Sulby Hall, are the principal land- turning at 4 p.m owners. The soil is red loam and clay; subsoil, clay. Carriers. James Smith, to Northampton, wed. & sat. at The land. is principally pasture and arable. The area, 8 a.m. returning about 4.30 p.m.; John Valentine, to with Nortoft, is 2,245 acres; rateable value, £3,864; the Northampton, wed. & sat. at 8 a.m. returning about population in 1901, with Nortoft, was 513. 4.30 p.m GUILSBOROUGH. Edgeland Arthur W. H. M.S.A. physi- Watts Martha. (Mrs.), shopkeeper Eyass Arthur, The Oourt cian & surgeon & public vaccinator Webster WaIter W. builder Dawkins Edwd. Guilsborough grange Free Grammar School (Rev. Frederick Wormleighton Charles, blacksmith Dennys Miss, The Cottage Wm. Kingston M.A. head master) Edgelow Arthur Wilberforce Rennen Guilsborough Reading Room (Rev. T. NORTOFT. M.S.A. S. Hichens, president; George Wm. Dowell Mrs. Rose cottage Faber Capt. Walter, The Lodge Brunner, sec) Harris John Tower house Barvey Capt. Charles Piggott, Guils- Halford Misses, laun.dry. Lovell Isaac' Edward J.P. Nortoft ho borough hall Halford Thos. thrashmg machme propr . Bichens Rev. Canon Thomas Sikes M.A Heep Albert Norman, blacksmith & COMMERCIAL. Hic'hens Rev. John OldhamM.A.(vicar) cycle agent Beardsrnore Alfred, grazier Kingston Rev. Frederick William M.A.. Hapkins Ann (Miss), beer retailer Beale John, draper & grocer (head master), Grammar school Johnson Fred, farmer CoUyer John Manning, wheelwright Line Francis Kingston The Misses, day school Emerton Frederick, farmer ()llivant Sir E. Charles KayU X.C.I.E. Nicholls Smith, shoe maker Gardner Henry, farmer Glege cottage Payne William Henry, farmer dardner John, coal merrhant, Holly 10 Renton Capt. William Gordon J.P. Porter John, baker Harrison Henry P. farmer Guilsborough h011se Reeve Ylartin, butcher Hollis William, farmer Walker David Elder M.B Reeye Mary (Miss), stationer & grocer Hopkins Robert, farmer Williams Henry William M.D. Hillside & agent for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, Letts Edward, baker COMMERCIA.L. wine & spirit merchants, Post office Newitt William, Red Lion P.H. good Eott William, tailDr Smith James, carrier stable accommodation & also for "Erown Charles, cab proprietor Starruer George, shopkeeper cyclists Drown Stephen, Ward Arms commer- Steel Gerald, farmer Perkins Thomas, shopkeeper cia! inn & livC'I'y stable keeper Stokes Eliz. & Mary (Misse.s), grocers Perkins Watts, builder & oontractor, Brunner George William, rate collec- Thompson Edward, grazier undertakeT, wheelwright & house tor & assessor of taxes & assistant Turland WaIter, butcher decorator, electric bell fitter & bell overseer Valentine John, carrier hanger Coleman John, farmer Valentine Joseph, draper Soden Samuel, shoe maker (.'ullen James, farmer & overseer Walker David Elder M.B., C.M. physi- Watts Ernest Albert, saddler & har- "Eady Thomas, butcher, oil merchant cian & surgeon, & medical officer ness maker & boot & shoe maker & beer retailer No. 2 district, Brixworth union Wormleighton Joshua, carpenter

EAST HADDON is a parish, on the road from rebuilt in 1673 and the aisle and porch in 1839: the "Northampton to Rugby, I~ miles from Park church was restored in 1877, under the direction of ~Ir. "Station, on the London and North Western railway, 7! E. Law, of Northampton, at a cost £1,800, and has north-west from Northampton, g! south from Welford 260 sittings. The reg-ister dates from the year 1552. -and 12 south-east from Rugby, in the Mid division of The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value the county, hundred of Grove, union of Brix- £160, including 98 acres of glebe, with residence, in the worth, petty sessional division and county court district gift of Mr. Christopher Smyth, of Chalford, Glos. ()f Northampton, rural deanery of Haddon (first portion), who has two turns, and Capt. E. H. B. Sawbridge, who -archdeaconry of Northampton and dioces~ of Peter- has one turn, and held since 18g8 by the Rev. Vincent borough. The church of St. Mary, situated nearly in John Leatherdale M.A. of Exeter College. Oxford. In the the centre of the village, is an ancient building of stone, village is a nursing home for the benefit of the villagers, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting established in 1900 by Mrs. Guthrie, of "(If chancel, clerestoried nave, south aisle, south porch Hall (Sister Rose Jennings, matron). East Haddon Hall. :and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, con- a plain buildin~ adjoining the church, is the seat of David taining a clock and 5 bells: the chancel retains a pis- Charles Guthrie esq. J.P. Capt. Edward Henry Bridgman -ema and three stone sedilia; the Norman font consists Sawbridge J.P. of Basildon Park, Reading, is lord of the 'Of a circular basin, rudely carved, with a human figure manor, and Lady Annaly is the principal landowner. The 'holding two winged serpents: the organ was presented soil is principally a light mixed; subsoil, rammel and by the late H. B. Sawbridge esq. in 1843: the tower·was . gravel. The chief crops 8.r& wheat, barley, oats and