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DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. LECHLADE 225 LARKSTOKE, a hamlet of llmington (Warwickshire), wars. The hamlet consists of two farms, called Lower is 4 miles nort'h-east from Chipping Campden station on and Upper Stoke. C. H. Corbett esq. is owner of the the Chipping Norton and Evesham branch of the Great former, and the trustees of the late P. H. Howard esq. of Western railway, and 5 north-west from Shipston-on- Corby Castle, Cumberland, are owneTS of the latter. The Stout. in the Eastern division of the county, upper divi- soil is rich loam; subsoil, clay. The crops are barley, sion of Kiitsgate hundred, Campden petty sessional din- wheat and roots. The area is 476 acres; rateable value, sion and Shipston-on-Stour union and county court dis- £601; the population in 1891 was 113' trict. In a field called the" Town" there is still standing Letters from Shipston-on-Stour, through llmington, an ancient font, supposed to have belonged to a chapel which is also the nearest money order office. The which existed here before the hamlet was attached to nearest telegraph office is at Mickleton, about 3 miles IImington, an arrangement said to have been made after distant this place had been destroyed during one of the early, The children of this place attend the school at llmington Berry Robert, farmer, Upper Stoke I Wilson John E. farmer, Lower Stoke LASBOROUGH is a. parish for ecclesiastical pur- Order in Council dated November IIth, 1868, joint net poses, but for civil purposes forms part of the parish of yearly value £351, including 78 acres of glebe, with Weston Birt; it is situated in a valley or "bottom," nea.r residence, in the gift of Capt. George Lindsay Holford the Bath and Cheltenham road, 6 miles south from C.I.E., J.P. and held since 1859 by the Rev. David Kit­ Nailsworth terminal station of a branch of the Midland cat M.A. of Trinity College, Oxford, who resides at railway from Stonehouse and 5 west from Tetbury Wesron Birt. Lasborough was a. Roman settlement, station, on the branch of the Great Western railway and in the parish is a tumulus. Captain George Lind. from Kemble Junction, in the Eastern division of the say Holford G.I.E. of Weston Birt House, is lord of the county, Longtree hundred, Tetbury union and petty manor and sole landowner. Lasborough Park is in the :sessional division, Malmesbury county court district, parish of Newington Bagpath. The soil is a light rural deanery of Dursley and archdeaconry and diocese brash; subsoil, oolite. The chief crops are wheat, bar­ of Gloucester. The church of St. Mary, rebuilt in 1861 ley and oats. The area, including Weston Birt, is 1,658 by the patron, after designs by Mr. L. Vulliamy, is an acres; rateable value and population is included with edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting Weston Birt. 1)f chancel, nave, south porch, vestry and a western Sexton, George Williams. turret containing 2 bells: the tenor bell was presented Letters received through Wotton-under-Edge arrive at 9 by Mr. G. Thomas, a former churchwarden, and the a.m. Kingscote, 2 miles distant, is the nearest post. font by the Rev. D. Kitcat M.A. rector: there are sit- money order & telegraph office. Newington Bagpath tings for 120 persons. The separate register dates from is the nearest Wall Letter Box, cleared at 4.15 p.m. the year 1827; earlier entries are included in the regis- week days only ters of Weston Birt and other neighbouring parishes. The children of this parish attend the schools at Newing- 'The living is a rectory, annexed to Weston Birt by an ron Bagpath &; Weston Birt VoIlett Geo.farm bailiff to Capt. G. L.Holford,Bowldown I Comely Walter, farmer, Lasborough farm LASSINGTON, a parish adjoining Highnam, is 3 yearly value. This parish has a share in Oox's (Badg­ miles north-west from Gloucester, in the Northern divi- worth) charity, which varies from £1 IS. to £1 lIS. 6d. sion of the county, Dudsrone and King's Barton hundred, yearly, and is distributed in money by the rector to the Gloucester union, county court district and petty ses- poor. In this parish there is an oak tree of great size sional division, and in the rural deanery, archdeaconry called" The Lassington Oak," and also a very large pear and diocese of Gloucester. The church of St. Oswald tree. Sir William Francis George Guise bart. D.L. of is an ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel, Elmore Court, is lord of the manor and chief landowner. nave, south porch and a. low western rower containing The soil in general is gravelly; subsoil, clay; ahout one bell, and was restored in 1875 at a cost of £810: two-thirds are in pasture and the residue is rich land, the nave and porch are Norman, the chancel Early Eng- lying on the banks of the Leadon. The area is 524 lish: there are sittings for 100 persons. The register acres; rateable value, £775; the population in 1891 dates from the year 1662. The living is a rectory, Det was 57. yearly value £49, including 7 acres of glebe, with resi- Letters through Gloucester, via Highnam, arrive by dence, in the gift of Sir W. F. G. Guise bart. for ~wo messenger at 7 a.m.; dispatched from Highnam at turns and the Bishop of Gloucester, who has every third 6.25 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office presentation, and held since 1883 by the Rev. Arthur is at Gloucester, 3 miles distant Rogers Winnington-Ingram. Here are charities of £23 The children of this place attend the school at Highnam Winningron-Ingram Rev.Arth. RogeTs,I Crump Martin.frmr.Lassington Ct.frmlRayer Mbert, farmer, Maidenhall farm Rectory Ponting Thomas, farmeT, Astmans LECHLADE is a parish and market town at the con_ church was restored in 1882-8 at a cost of about £1,814, lluence of the river Leach with the Thames, which is under the direction of Mr. F. Waller. architect, of Glou­ navigable up to St. Jo-hn's bridge for vessels not ex- cester, when the old pews and western gallery were ceeding 80 tons burthen, and has a station half-a-mile removed and the whole interior re-seated and re-floored north from the rown on the East Gloucestershire branch and the various monumental slabs re-set: a stained win­ of the Great Western railway, 6 miles north-west from dow was inserted in the south aisle in 1882 by Mrs. Faringdon. 22 south-east from Cheltenham, 20 south- Hudd, in memory of the families of Edmonds and Gear­ il&st from Gloucester and 85 from London, in the Eastern ing; there is another in the south aisle to George Mil­ division of the county, hundred of Brightwells Barrow, ward esq. late of Lechlade Manor: the chancel has been Fairford petty sessional division, Faringdon Berks union inclosed with screens of carved oak at a cost of £300 by and county court district, rural deanery of Fairford, Mrs. Robbins, in m~mory of her husband, G. A: Robbins archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester. esq. late of aay Hill House: a new organ costmg £300 St. John's Bridge of two arches, one crossing the has also been placed in the church: there are sittings proper and the other a backwater connected with the for 500 persons. The register dates from the Jear 1686. lock, spans the river a little more than half-a-mile from The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £450, with the town at a point where the counties of Gloucester, residence, in the gift of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Berks, Wilts and Oxford all adjoin; this is said to be and held since 1879 by the Rev. Alfred Clementson M.A. the second srone bridge that was built over the Thames, and late fellow of that college. Lawrence Bathurst esq. London bridge being the first; it is a quaint structure, by his will, dated 16th September, 1670, re-endowed the its centre pier resting on a small island: St. John's lock vicarage with the whole of the recrorial tithes. Here are is the nearest ro the source of the Thames of the 38 Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. A monthly market and locks on that river. The Trout inn here is a favourite auction sale, by Messrs. M. C. Innocent and Son, is held resort for boating parties and anglers. for sheep and cattle the last Tuesday in each month, and The Thames and Severn canal intersects the parish. an annual fair is held on the 9th of September. The 'The town is supplied with water by the Rural Sanitary charities amount to £100 yearly, of which £80 is derived Authority from a deep well in the oolite, and is pumped from Government £21 per Cents. and the remainder from up by wind power into a large tower. The church of allotment ground and cottages; one half the income is St. Lawrence is a handsome edifice of stone in the Per- given in rewards to the National school children and the pendicular style, erected towards the end of the 15th other to the Lechlade Provident Club, except in the case century. as is supposed, by Conrad Ney, then 'Vicar, of certain special charities which were not altered by th& -and the inhabitants; it consists of chancel, nave, aisles, Charity Commissioners. Clay Hill House, the property north porch and an embattled western tower with pin- and residence of WaIter Fox Tosswill esq.

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