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DIRBCTORY. ] SUTTON CHENEY 223 rated building. The chancel was restored and the rest St. Denis' Church.-Services, Sunday at 11.30 and of the church rebuilt in 1869 at a cost of £900, de 6. H. C. first and third Sundays in month. Rev. \V. frayed by subscription. In the chancel is an effigy, Coombe, M.A.; Warden, Mr. Wm. Pain; Hon. dated 1690, of Edmund Brudenell, also several mural Organist, Mrs. Wm. Pain; Clerk, Joseph Lee, jun. tab~ets to his family, who lived at the Manor house. Hymns A. and M. The .Registers date from 1538. The rectory is of the annual value of £170, with reiidence, in the gift uf Letters arrive from Market Harborough at 8 a.m. the Countess of Cardigan, lady of the manor and sole Wall box cleared at 4.45 p.m., week-days only. Money landowner. Area, 1,196a. Or. 25p.; rateable value, Order Offices at Hallaton and Kibworth. Telegmpn £868 ; population, 56. and Money Order Office at East Langton (2! miles). Farmers & Graziers. Coombe Rev. WaIter M.A. Rectory Pain William, & overseer Carrier. Fuge Mrs. Ann, Manor house Sedgley Brian Baron, grazier &. v. 'Varner Shadra.-:h, tJlrough from Lee Joseph, jun. parish clErk Fox & Hounds Glooston to Leicester, S. ; Market West \"-illiam Harborough, Tu STOUGHTON is a small scattered village, town· and laid out in excellent wte. A magnificent avenUtl ship and chapelry, 3i miles E.S.E. from Leicester, in of nob!e trees, chiefly chestnuts and Scotch firs, half Thurnby parish, Melton division, that of Billesdon for a-mile in length, leads from the Grange to the Church. the County Council, Gartree hundred and rural The children attend the school at Thurnby. The deanery No. 2, Billesdon union, and Leicester County township comprises, 1,482a. Or. 37p.; rateable value, Court district. St. Mary's Church is one of the largest £2,565; populat:on, 118. The feast is on the Sunday and handsomest in the county, and was rebuilt in 1866 following September 19th. at the w:e cost of Mr. Powys-Keck. The Registers St_ Mary's Church.-Services at 11 and 3 on alter date from 15-38. The chapelry, annexed to the vicarage nate Sundays. H.C. first Sunday in month. Rev. T. of Thurnby, is of the joint annual value of £258, in J. Redhead (Thurnby); Wardens, Messrs. J. P. the gift of H. L. Powys-Keck, Esq., lord of the manor Preston and J. J. Walker; Hon. Organist, Miss Mgt. and sole landowner, and is held by the Rev. T. J. Redhead; Sexton, Rd. Heighton. C. K. S. Hymns. Redhead, M.A. Stoughton Grange, the property of Letters from Leicesta (which is 'the nearest Money Mr. Powys-Keck, is a stately mansion, and was re- Order and Telegraph Office) delivered at 7.15 a.m. ; built in 1882-3. The park and grounds are extensive, wall box cleared at 7.15 p.m. week-days only. Atkins John Edn. rg. shoeing smith Oldham Thomas, head gardener Ellis Henry, & butcher at Leicester Belville Mrs. Emma, The Grange Pearson T. Howard, estate agent Fielding Franci~, jun. & overseer Bickley Mrs. Ann Preston Mr. James Pickering Herrick \Vm. & farmer, The Lodge Cl'amberlain Miss Susan, Lodge, . 'Yalker John Joseph, The Elms Stoughton grange Grazlers. Carriers (through to Leicester). Kirk John, estat~ carpenter Brown John Wm. bailiff to Mr.Ellis Adnitt, from Illston, 'V. & S Maund James, estate carpenter Burroughs Charles, farm bailiff to Stafford Benjamin, S Osbond John, head gamekeeper Mr. l'owys-Keck STRETTON PARVA is a small village and landowner. Acreage, 703; rateab~e value, £916 6s. ; chapelry in the parish of King's N orton (Billesdon population, 72. "Gnion), division of Melton, that of Billesdon for the St. John's Church.-Services at 11 and 3 on alter County Council, hundred and rural deanery of Gar- nate Sundays by the Rector of Gaulby. H.C. about tree, and County Court district of Leicester. Is is on six times a year. \Varden, Mr. Wm. Easom; Clerk, the old Gartree road, 6 miles E. S E. from Leicester, Ezra Thompson. 2~ E. by N. from Glen station (M.R.), and 3i S.E. Letters through Leicester de:ivered' about 9 a.m • by S. from Ingarsby station (G.N.R.). St. John the and called for about 4.30. Money Order Office at Eaptist Church is a small o~d building with nave, Glen; Telegraph Offices at Kibworth and Wigston south porch and tower. The Registers date from 1600. (4 miles). The chapelry IS attached to the vicarage of King's Farmers and Graziers: John Draycott, William Norton, which is in the gift of E. T. Heap, Esq. H. Jackson, Hy. Easom, Wm. Easom, grazier; and Henry L. Powys-Keck, Esq., is lord of the manor and chief Jarvis. SUTTON CHENEY (or SUTTON CHEYNELL, 1674. The vicarage, which is of the yearly value of s') called from a. former resident) is a. village, £150, is in the gift of the Rev. R. B. Lowe. The Wes township, and chapelry, 2 miles S. by E. leyan Chapel was built in 1820. The almshouse, ad from Market Bosworth, 5 N.N.W. from Hinck- joining the churchyard, was founded in 1612 by Sir ley, and 1* miles from Shenton station. It \Villiam Roberts, with an endowment of £24 per is traversed on the west by the Ashby a.nd Nun- annum out of land at Barwell, and is intended for six eaton railway, and bounded on the north and south by poor aged men. There are two rooms for every in two rivulets. It is in the division (Parliamentary and mate, also a garden, and £4 a year. There is a County Council), parish, union, and County Court parochial school. Area, 1,628a. Or. 27p.; rateable district of Market Bosworth, and rural deanery of I value, £2,110 9s. (land £1,563 13s., buildings, ISparkenhoe No. 2-. It was enclosed in 1794, when the £546 16s.); popUlation, 220. The feast is on the tithes were commuted for the yearly rent of £190. Sunday after August 6th; but the principal fea2t is . Col. Stuart, of Tempsford, Eeds, is lord of the manor, that of the clubs, on \Vhit Tuesday. and owner of the greater part of the land, the rest belonging to Ravenstone Hospital, and some smaller Parish Church.-Services on Sunday at 11 and 3 in freeholders Between the village and the canal is winter; in summer at 11 and 7. H.C. first Sunday in Redmoor plain, the site of the battle of Bosworth field. month. Rev. 'Villiam Crabbe. 'Vardens, Messrs. J. The Church is a Late Early English structure. The Thompson and G. Abell; Harmonium, Mrs. M. S. chancel was rebuilt by the rector in 1876. There are Cartwright; Clerk, John Coleman. Hymns A. and M. three sedilire and a piscina, also several monuments Wesleyan Chapel.-Services, Sunday at 2.30 and 6. and tablets. There is a large monument to Sir Wm. ~eper, Miss Clara May. Roberts (founder of the almshouses) and his two wives. Post Office at Mrs. Elizabeth Marriott's. Letters He died February 24th, 1633. The vicarage house wa~ from Nuneaton delivered at 7 a.m.; box cleared at huilt by subscription in 1861, at a cost of £1,000, Col. 7.40 p.m. on week-days and Sundays. Nearest Money Stuart presenting the site. The Rebri~ters date from Order and Telegraph Office at Market Bosworth (2 m). .