50S POTTERS MARSTON [C. N. WRIGHT'S

WESLEYAN CHAPF.L.-Services, Sunday 2-30 and 6. Letters from Hinckley delivered at 8-15 a. m. Wall Keeper, Mrs. Bridgett Wells. box cleared 5-30 p. m. on week-days, 10 a. m. on Sun­ SCHOOL BoARD.-Rev. T. E. Chataway (chairman days. Nearest Money Order and Telegraph office at and clerk), Mr. T. W. Jee (vice-chairman), Messrs. Earl Shilton (2~ miles). W. Sharp, J. Sharp and D. Burchnall. Arden Miss Florence, mistress Board Timson Miss Emily, dressmaker Jee Thomas Wightman, and land· school Timson Joseph, wheelwright and owner, Peckleton hall Burdett Mrs. Emma, blacksmith bhs, Brown Horse N eale Charles, Peckleton fields Chataway Rev. Thomas Eagle, M. .A, Wardle Josuph, bootmaker Powers George, h Barwell The Rectory Price Francis Allen, Stockhouse Copson John, cowkeeper FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. farm, h Barwell house Jordan Waiter Thomas, butcher Archer Ar. I Burchnall Danl, Tooley Price James, and brickmaker and v, Bull's Head Cart James, h Desjord Richardson Thomas, Alder hall Linney Abraham, baker and grocer Cooper Richard, The Retreat Sharp John, Shericles farm Manners Norman Cecil, land agent 'Cooper Thomas Henry, Tooley park Sharp William, The Elms and surveyor, Manor house Grewcock William, farm bailiff to Sharp John, jun, grazier Captain Stanley Williams CARRIER (to Leicester). Summerfield William, tailor Gutteridge Mrs. Mary, Broom hills Linney Abraham, W. and S.

POTTERS MARSTON is a chapelry and small Richard Boothby Heathcote is the sole landowner. township, ll miles from , 4~ from Area, 613a. ; rateable value, about £240; population, Hinckley, in Barwell parish, union, Bosworth 81. Letters through Hinckley delivered at 8 a.m11 division, hundred of Sparkenhoe, and division of and posted at Croft. The nearest Money Order Office Desford for the County Council. St. Mary's Church is at Earl Shilton. is a small plain building, with nave. It was newly Service at the Church first Sunday in each month floored, and a reading desk added, in 1871. The at 3 p. m., conducted by the rector of Barwell. cbapelry is annexed to the rectory of Barwell, worth Warden, Mr. J. Choyce; Harmonium, Miss L. M. £865 per annum, and held by the patron, Rev. Hobil (). Richard Titley, M.A. The Hall, the residence of the Boothby family in the 17th century, is now occupied John Choyce, farmer, The Hall ; William Hunt, as a farm by Mr. John Choyce. In the entrance hall farmer, h Croft; Thomas Kendall, farmer, h Croft; is a remarkably ancient carved chimney piece. Mr. James Pratt, farmer, h 01·ojt.

PRESTWOLD is a considerable parish, including land, producing about £30 a year ; and another built the townships of Prestwold, Burton-on-the-Wolds in 1834 by the late Mr. T. W. Packe. It has been (seep. 366), Hoton, and Cotes, in the Loughborough converted into a Board School, and in pursuance of division of , rural deanery of Goscote a new scheme the proceeds of the trust are expended No. 2, archdeaconry of Leicester, diocese of Peter- in defraying the scbool fees of poor children, and in borough, Loughborough union and County Court giving fuel and clothing to indigent and deserving district, and division of Wymeswold for the County persons in the four townships. The charities amount Council. The township of Prestwold is 3 miles E. to about £26 a year. Prestwold Hall, the seat of by N. from Loughborough railway station, 13 S. from Mr. Packe, is a spacious and beautiful mansion, Nottingham, and 13 N. from Leicester. It is situated situated in a well-wooded park. It was built early at the western extremity of the Wolds. St. Andrew's in the last century, but the greater part was re- Church, which occupies a charming position within constructed some forty years ago, and cased with the park, and near the Hall, is a handsome stone Ancaster stone. The principal front faces the south, building, comprising chancel, nave, and embattled and has an elegant Doric portico. The park is inter- tower, with clock, chimes, and five bells. It was sected by a rivulet, which flows into the Soar on the repaired in 17 43. Among the monuments in the west side. Area of the township, 896a. Or. 31p. ; chancel is one in memory of Sir Christopher Packe, rateable value, £1617 10s. ; population in 1881, 83. who was prominent during the Protectorate; one to ST. ANDREW's CHURCH.-Services at 11 and 3 on Major Packe, who fell at Waterloo; and another by alternate Sundays; Communion about eight times a Theed to the late Lieut.-Colonel Packe. A beautiful year. Rev. J. H. Killick, M. .A. ; Warden, Mr. Henry monument by Westmacott commemorates the eldest Buxton ; Organist, Mr. J. R. C. Moore, Loughboro'; son of Lieut.-Col. Packe, who died at Eton, at the Clerk, Haines Walker, Hoton. Hymns A. and M. age of 15; another is to Lord Chief Justice Neale ScHOOL BoARD.-Mr. G. Henson (chairman), Rev. (1560); and a well executed marble tablet on the J. H. Killick, and Messrs. J. H. Wale, W. Voce, T. north wall of the chancel is to the memory of Lieut.- Gill, E. Attenborough, G. Lacey(Cotes). Clerk, Mr. Col. Packe's infant son, deceased, 1874. The Registers Jph. Hands (Loughboro'); Master, Mr. H. Schofield. date from 1560. The living is a donative, in the gift Letters through Loughborough, which is the nearest of Hussey Packe, Esq., lord of the manor, impro- Telegraph Office, delivered about 8 a. m., and collected priator, and owner of the township. A school was at 5-30 p. m. (week-days only). Nearest Money Order endowed by Myles Newton in 1657, with 42 acres of Office at Wymeswold. Goodburn Edward, parish constable Killick Rev. J. H, M. A, h Hoton Schofield Handel, mstr Board school Henson George, farmer and overseer, Packe Hussey, Esq, J. P, and Packe Smith Charles, farmer and steward Prestwold farm Lady Alice, Prestwold hall to Mr. Packe Holden John, head gamekeeper Roberts Dvd, head grdnr at The Hall White Henry, farmer QUENIBOROUGH is a township, village, and East Goscote, in Barrow union, and Leicester County parish, 6 miles N. E. by E. from Leicester, 2 E. by N. Court district. It is 2 miles from the Syston station, rom Syston, in the Melton division, that of Barkby on the Peterborough branch of the Midland line. or the County Council, hundred and rural deanery of The village is built mainly upon the sides of a long