DIRECTORY.J . RATCLIFFE-ON-TBE-WREAKE. 607 • from station, on the north side of the old There is a SchOOl Council of 7 members; Freder'ick V. and Bwannington railway. Millington, Leicester, correspondent; F. Hanger, at­ Wall Letter Box, cleared at 6,4° p.m tendance officer ~EWTOWN UNTHANK is a hamlet on the north side Public Elementary School, Ratby (mixed liT; infants), of. the Leicester and Swannington railway; about 6; erected in 1873 &; enlarged in 1906, for 285 mixed & miles west from Leicester and a quarter of a mile 194 infants; John H. Butler, master; Miss M. E. north-east from Desford .station, in the petty sessional Ramsay, infants' mistress division and county court district of Market Bosworth. • Graby Hamlet will be found under a separate heading. Public Elementary School, Botcheston (mixed & infants), By. Local Government Board Order No. 46,276, Oct. erected in 1906,. far 80 children; Mrs. H. Dymock,mist ut, 190 4, part of was added to Ratby for Desford Industrial School, locall)" in Botcheston, under civil purposes. the control of the Leicester Borough Council, for 200 Post, M. 0., T. At Telephonic Express .Delivery Office. . boys ; Charles Oxley, superintendent -Miss Annie Astill, sub-postmistress. Letters. arrive from Leicester by mail cart at 5.55 a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; Carriers to &; from Leicester.-Richardson Bros. John di.spatched at 10.15 a.m. &i 7.30 p.m.; no sunday Henry Wood, Laurenc~ Wood & Charles Geary, eveq delivery. Wall Box at Ratby station cleared at 7.15 p.m wed. &. sat RATBY. "Grewcoc!, Waiter, grocer Smith George Isaac, insurance agent Cufflin William IGrudgings Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Stevenson John Thomas, boot maker Gilbanks Rev. George Ernest M.!. Hallam Ernest, frmr. The Old Hayes Todn Chas. beer retlr. The Yewtrees (vicar), Vicarage . . Ban'is John, farmer, Bondman Hays Tyler Wm. Sons &; Co. hosiery manu- Ramsay John, Ratby villa Hauison Henry, draper facture~s (T. Bentley, manager) Ing-ram Richard, hair dresser WaIlsgrove EdwardH.Bull's Head P.H • .COMMERCIAL. IJordan John, fishmonger Wesley John, grazier ,Ubright William, farmer, Woodlan

~ RATCLIFFE CULEY is a township, chapelry and free seats. The register dates from the year IS8S. The ~mall village, near the confluence of the rivers Sence living is a chapelry, annexed with Sheepy Parva to the and Anker and on the borders of Warwickshire, about rectory of Sheepy Magna, joint net yearly value £700, 2 miles north-east from Atherstone station on the Trent including 550 acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. M. E: Valley section of the Londou and North Western rail- de Beauvoir Southwell, and held since 10888 by the Rev. way and o! miles south-west from Market Bosworth, William George Southwell M.A. of 9ueen's College, in the Western division of the county, Sheepy Magna Oxford, who resides at Sheepy Magna. Stanes Brocket parish, hundred of , Market Bosworth petty Henry Chamberlayne esq. is lord of the manor and sessional division, Atherstone union and county court principal landowner. The soil is loam; subsoil, marl. district, rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (first portion), The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and roots. The archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. area is I,2J8 acres; rateable value, £1,761; population The church of All Saints is an ancient building of in 19I1, 205. . stone in the Early English style, consisti~g of .chancel, Parish Clerk, Henry Bolstridge. . nave and an embattled western tower, WIth spue, con- UT, 11 L tt B "I d t 5 & 6 55 L t .. b 11 • th h h rt' 11 . t d' .. a . e er ox" eare a 7·4 a.m. . p.m. e - t.<\lIlmg 2 e S. e cure was pala v les ore 1Il t th h Ath t . t 5 Sh 1898, and an oak lectern provided, at a cost of about el'S ~oug el'S one arrlVe a 7· t a.m. eepy · d t . d th 'ft f M Magna IS the nearest money order &. telegraph office [,,200: the stalne eas WIn ow was e gl 0 rs. Harvey, in memory of her aunt, Mrs. Corbett, who was The children of this place attend the Sheepy Magna lady of the manor: there are 140 allotted seats and 70 Public Elementary School Beck Charles, farmer. FOSlter John, farmer Mottram Harry W. J. Gate inn Brown Edward, farmer Hughes WaIter, farmer OrOOn Joseph &. Nathaniel, farmers . Gales Thomas. shopkeeper Jones Thomas, farmer Wathes Alfred, farmer Davies John, farmer Levi John, frmr. Ratcliffe House frm Wathes Cornelius, fa.rmer Edwards Henry, farmer :)le11ows John, farmer, Eightlands Wykes William, farmer . RATCLIFFE-Oli-THE-WREAKE is a village for Leicester~hire, by his widow, who also presented and parish, 2 miles north from Syston station on the a superb set of communion furniture, worked by her­ main line of the :Midlaud railway, 7 north-north-east self; the reredos is the gift of his only daughter, Irom Leicester and 7 south-east from Loughborough, in Emma, wife of Sir W. H. Salt bart. who died in 1892: the Eastern division of the county, East Goscote hun- the stained glass window at the western end was the dred,. Barrow-an-Soar union, Leicester petty sessional gift of John Dove HaITis esq. of Ratcliffe Hall, who also division and county court district, rural deanery of tharoughly restore.d the interior of the church, with the Gos~ote (second portion), archdeaconry of Leicester and exception of the chancel, in 1877, at a cost of £850: diocese of Peterborough. The village is near the Fosse- in the 'chancel is a. full-length recumbent stone effigy, way, on the navigable river Wreake, over which there said to be that of the founder of the church: the is a bridge of four arches. The church of St. Botolph, church plate is modern and was presented by the late ..rected in I3'I0, is a building of stone in the Early Earl Ferrers: there are 130 sittings. The register dates Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch from the yea~ 1:698 and is in good preservation. The and an embattled western tower, with' spire, containing living is a rectory and vicarage, net yearly value £220, a clock and 5 bells, recast in 1812 at the cost of Robert, derived from 83 acres of glebe and grant from the 7th Earl Ferrers F.S.A. on the rebuilding of the tower Ecclesiastical Commissioners, with residence, in the