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Bass Joseph, shoe maker Gaunt William, grazier Noble Thomas, White Hart P.H Dunkley Levi, thatcher Hankins Charles, farmer Nunley Harris, grocer & draper Gambrell George, blacksmith Hankins William, grazier Selby Thomas, butcher Gambrell John, grazier Haxley John, farmer Slatcher WiIliam, grazier Gaunt John, shoemaker Howell Wm. Cooper, tailor, Post office Thomas John (Mrs.), farmer CALDECOT is a village and parish. on the borders of land, the produce of which, amounting in 1868 to £5 lSs. is Northamptonshire, 4t miles west from Holme station on the distributed in coals. The late J. C. D. Robertson esq. of main line of the Great Northern railway and 7! south·west Washingley Hall, left £100 for distribution in coal to th~ from Peterborough, in the Northern division of the county, poor of this and other parishes. John Ashton Fielden esq. hundred and petty sessional division of Norman Cross, union is lord of the manor and Henry Robertson esq. of Washingly and county court district of Peterborough, rural deanery of Hall, is the principal landowner. The soil is principally Yaxley, archdeaconry of and diocese of Ely. arable; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley. The church of St. Mary Magdalene, entirely rebuilt in 1874, peas and beans. The area is 720 acres, besides some waste at a cost of £1,000, is a small edifice of stone, in the Early lands adjoining the fens ; rateable value, £971; the population English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south in 1901 was 35. porches and a western bell.cote containing 2 bells: there are Parish Clerk and Constable, Samuel Willis. 100 sittings. The register dates from the year 1739. The living is a rectory annexed to that of Denton, joint yearly value Letters received through Peterborough, via Stilton, arrive at £UO, including glebe, with residence, in the gift of Lord de 8 a.m.; dispatched from Stilton at 7.50 p.m. Letter Box Ramsey, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Matthew Charles cleared 10 a.m. Stilton is the nearest money order & Whitelaw L.Th. of Durham University, who resides at Lutton. telegraph office, 2 miles distant The poor's estate consists of a cottage and a small piece of The children of this place attend the school at Denton Ward Charles William, Rectory I Hobbs Shadwell, farmer, Caldecot dyke I Speechley Thomas, farmer CATWORTH, formerly Great and Little Catworth, is 2a. 3r. of land, are for apprenticing, and there is a parish a parish and village, on the road from Kimbolton to Thrap. clerk's charity, comprising a house and garden, and 11'. 24p_ ston and near the Bedfordshire border of the county, It of ground. The Duke of Manchester, who is lord of the miles north-west from Kimbolton station on the Kettering manor, George Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam D.L., J.P. and Huntingdon branch of the Midland railway, 4 north of Milton House, Peterborough, John William Rawson­ from Kimbolton and 8 south-east from Thrapston, in the Ackroyd esq. of Dean Grange, Kimbolton, Mr. William Southern division of the county, hundred and petty sessional and Mrs. Pashler and Edward Leonard \Velstead esq. J.P. division of Leightonstone, union of St. Neots, county court of St. Neots, are the principal landowners. The soil is clay; district of Thrapston, rural deanery of Kimbolton, arch· subsoil, strong clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley. deaconry of Huntingdon and diocese of Ely. Little Catworth, peas, beans, and seeds, The area is 2,808 acres; assessable formerly a hamlet of , was included in this parish, value, £1,613; the population in 1901 was 444 in the civil for civil purposes, in 1885. The church of St. Leonard is and 431 in the ecclesiastical parish. an anciente~i~ceof stone,in the Decor~ted and Perpendicular Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & A. & I. O.-WiIliam Alfred Dickens. s~yles, conSIsting of chancel, clerestoned nave of four bays, , sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through Huntingdon at aIsles, south porch and an :mba~tled wes~rn tower, sur- 6 a.m. & 1 p.m. (callers only); dispatched at 6 p.m. mounted by an octagonal spIre WIth two tIers or dormers lRighton 3 miles distant is the nearest telegraph office on the cardinal sides and containing a clock and 4 bells: T' ' • :. , -. in the chancel is a fine piscina: the stained east window NatIOnal Sch~:JOl (mIXed), bUIlt, WIth master s house, III 1873. is a memorial to Harriett (ob. 1876), daughter of Major- for 150 chIldren; ave~age attendance, 79; Thomas Tatc. General William Croxton: the communion table of carved I master; Mrs. Tate, mIstress oak is inscribed, "The gift of Thomas Ekins, in the year Carrier.-Charles Peacock, to St. Neots, on thursday 1634," and there is a small mural tablet with the figure of an County Police Station George Elmor constable angel holding a shield of arms and an inscription in Latin " to Elizabeth Brudenell, ob. 1656: in the south aisle is a LITTLE CATWORTH, formerly a hamlet of Stow Longa. mural monument to Dr. John Lawton and Rose (Driden), .though attached as already mentioned to Great Catworth his wife, a niece of John Dryden, the Poet Laureate; she for civil purposes, is for ecclesiastical purposes still connected died 1710: the church was restored in 1876, at a cost of with Stow Longa; a portion of Little Catworth fonned £1,300, raised by subscriptions, about £700 being given by part of Great Catworth previous to the alteration; it is the rector: there are 340 sittings; in the churchyard are distant three-quarters of a mile east from Great Catworth several fine yew trees. The register dates from the year and It miles north-by-west from Stow Longa. The Little 1566. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £285, including Catworth Town Land Charity, consisting of a grass field 70 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Brasenose of 5 acres, yearly value £6, is distributed in money on the College, Oxford, and held since 1890 by the Rev. William Wednesday after Michaelmas Day. The Duke of ManchesteI \Voodward, of St. Bees. Here are Baptist and Wesleyan is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the chapels. The charities for distribution in coal amount to Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Dean School, Beds (near between £8 and £9 yearly. The proceeds of the church and Kimbolton), the Society in Scotland for Propagating ClIristhn of 5a. 21'. 20p. is for church purposes; Banks, Maddock Knowledge and Mrs. Chapman, of Kimbolton. There are only and Evanson's charities, consisting of a house, orchard and three cottages. Smith Miss, Orchard house Clark Samuel, boot & shoe maker Norman George WiIliam, wheelwright \Yoodward Rev. William, Rectory Coe Peter, draper, grocer & wine merchant Pashler Mary (Mrs.), landowner & Cooke Thomas W. wheelwright & fanner, Church end COMMERCIAL. blacksmith Pashler William, landowner & farmc:'. Berridge George, sweep Dickens WiIliam Alfred, bricklayer, Brook end Bridge WiIliam, baker Post office Peacock Charles, beer retailer Brown Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Dunkley Frederick, Black Swan P.H !Robinson Joseph, fishmonger Brown Samuel, butcher Gray John, Fox P.H Salsbury Arthur, baker & fanner Rugby Edwin, saddler & farmer Holmes Samuel, fanner, Hill farm Smith George, baker Button John, carpenter Ives Jeremiah, plumber & decorator & Strangward James Rose: poulterer & C'lark John, Waggon & Horses PH tax collector I egg merchant CHESTERTON (so named from its situation near the the chancel and porch, executed in 1841: the south ais'e site of the Roman station Durobrivae, at Castor, near Peter- retains~ a pi'3cina, and there is a chancel screen' of semi­ borough) is a village and parish, on the borders of North- classical character: the pulpit is of oak richly inlaid: in th" amptonshire and the south bank of the navigable river Rene, north aisle, beneath a coeval sepulchral arch, is a stone sla!> which separates the two counties; it is also on the Great with marginal inscription to William Beivyle, ob. 148,3 ~ Xorth Road from to Edinburgh, which separates at the east end of the same aisle is a monument of two stagco< it from the parish of Alwalton, and is 2t miles south-west to Robert Bevill and his wife, and his son Sir Robert Bevill from Overton station on the Peterborough and Leicester and lady; there are kneeling effigies of all these; abovp section of the London and Nortb. Western railway and 5! the monument are shields of arms, and below are figures west from Peterborough, in the Northern division of the of the children of both families in bas-relief: at the east county, hundred and petty sessional division of Norman end of the south aisle is a large mural tablet of marble, with ('ross, union and county comt district of Peterborough, rural long Latin inscription, to John Driden, cousin of the poet. deanery of Yaxley, archdeaconry of Huntingdon and diocese and grandson of Sir Robert Bevill above mentioned, dated of Ely. The church of St. Michael is an edifice of stone in 1707: there are 80 sittings. The register dates from the­ the Early English and Early Decorated styles, consisting year 1734. The living is a. rectory, with that of Haddon of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and a. western annexed, by Order in Council, dated March, 1863, joint net tower with octagonal broach spire relieved by two tiers of yearly value £450, including 30 acres of glebe, with residence. dormers, and containing 3 bells: the building is chiefly Early in the gift of the Marquess of Huntly p.c. and held since English, with the exception of the upper part of the tower 1901 by the Rev. Montague Frederick Alderson M.A., MUS.lIac. and spire, and some modern work of inferior character in of MerOOn College, Oxford. About a. mile and a half from