DIRECTORY. ] . 633 Mackenzie Donald, head gamekeeper to IMerry Robert, grazier Thraves Joseph, farmer & butcher Chas. H esketh Fleetwood-Hesketh esq Preston Edward, farmer & grazier Young Leonard, carrier & farmer Merry GeOIge, farmer & grazier,Lodge fm Robinson William, farmer & grazier / TEIGH is a small parish and village, 2 miles north- 1782: the seats, arranged in tiers, facing inwards OIll east from Ashwell statjon on the Leicester and Peter- either side of the nave, afford 126 sittings. The register' borough and Nottingham and Kettering branches of the dates from the year 1550. The living is a rectory, net Midland railway, 5 north from Oakham and 8! south-east yearly value £280, with residence, and including 60 acres. from Melton Mowbray, in Alstoe hundred, Oakham union of glebe, in the gift of and held since 1876 by the Rev and county court district, rural deanery of (first Alfred Ryle Newby, of St. Bees. Simpson Gee esq. of portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peter- Leicester, who is lord of the manor, and Maj. John Maurice­ borough. The village stands on a height, on the borders Wingfield D.S.D. of Tickencote Hall, are the principal land­ of Leicestershire. The church of the Holy Trinity is a owners. The soil is red loam; subsoil, same. The chief plain but ancient building, now consisting only of an em- crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans, roots and hay. The battled nave and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles area is 1,289 acres; assessable value, £1,976; the population containing 3 bells: a part of the east end of the nave is in 1901 was 108. railed off so a3 to f rm a quasi-chancel: there is a Parish Clerk, John Tidd. curious carved mahogany font, supported on a brass Post Office.-Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Rate, sub-postmistress.- bracket let into the communion rails: the font in use Letters arrive from Oakham at 7.10 a.m. & 6.5 p.m. was carved by a former rector: the pulpit of carved oak by mail cart; dispatched at 7.15 a.m. & 6.5 p.m. AshweIl,. is, with its canopy, affixed to the west wall of the tower 2 miles distant, is the nearest telegraph & money order facing eastwards, the western entrance to the church office being underneath it, and on either side, at a lower The children of this place attend the schools at Ed~ond- level, are the reading and clerk's desks: the ceiling thorpe & Market Overton is panelled and displays the arms of the Harborough Carrier to Oakham.-Percy Beecroft, from Market Overton,. family and other coats: the church was partly rebuilt in sat. & to Melton, tues Newby Rev. Alfred Ryle, Rectory /GillSOn Thomas Jos