32 BLAKESLEY. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. [KELLY's • Mentha Rev. Frederick Henry M.A. Dunkley Albert Edwd. farmer (postal Wright Cyril Haworth B.A.Cantab., (vicar), Vicarage address, Maidford, Towcester) M.B., Ch.B.Edin., D.P.H.R.C.P.S. Mott Major Stanley Fielder, Green's Dunkley William, farmer Loud. physician &; surgeon, & park; & Naval & Military club, Elliot Frederick, Red Lion P.H.& coal medical officer & public vaccina tor, London W merchant, Railway station Blakesley d1strict, Bartonholme Newitt William Roddis, Ivy cottage Emery John, butcher, Post office Nicks:m Miss, The Cottage Franklin John, builder, assistant WOODEND. Wait Miss overseer & collector of rates PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Watt~ George, Rose villa Grantham John, Greyhound P.H Osborne Charles, Malin house Webb Miss, Westt>ria cottage Howkins Thomas, beer retailer COMMERCIAL. Welch Thomas ~enry Gascoigne Hudson & Co. sack contractors Brown Charles Frank, baker White J. Cathcart, Kendal house Kelcher John,· carrier Jefferson Hy. farmer,Kirby's grounds Woods Miss, Manor house Kingston Thomas Adkins, farmer Jones Arthur, Royal Oak P.H Wright Cyril Haworth E . .A.Cantab., Loydell Francis, blacksmith Kingston Andrew, farmer, Wars frm .M.B. Bart-onholme Martin Thomas Richd. briar pipe ma Kingston Levi, farmer · & grazier, COMMERCIAL. Newitt Henry Mountfort, farmer, Southfields Blakesley Co-operative Stores Limited Church farm Osborne Geo. Edwd. farmr.College fm Blakesley Hall Cricket Club (John Nickson John, farmer Osborne lsaac, farmer, Manor house Franklin, sec} Officer John, farmer, Seywell grounds Osborne Wm. farmer, Allwood farm Blakesley Reading Room (Thomas A. Ridgeway Richard Lines, farmer, The Partridge Chas. dairyman, Post office Kingston, sec) Walnuts Payne William, farmer, Cathanger Bodley Daniel, stone mason· Sheppard Frank Wait, farmer, Thl' Storer Alfred, farmer Brown Charles Frank,grocer & draper Poplars Sto"Vre Robert, carrier Burt Harry G. H.frmr.The Sycamores Wells James, gardener to C. W. Whitlock Sarah A. (Mrs.), coal mer Busby Robert John, boot maker Bartholomew esq Wilson Charles Edward, wheelwright Constable John Smith, builder 1 Wilkinson James, carter & collector of rates BLATHERWYCKE is a parish comprising the rectory hous9, erected in the year 1836, is a substantial parish of Holy Trinity and the ancient parish of St. building of stone. Healey's charity of £5 yearly, left in Mary Magdalene, united in 1448; the village is 3 miles 1684 by Benjamin Healey, of King's Cliffe, is for bread; south-west from King's Cliffe station on the Peter- Coles's, of £9, provides gifts of money at Christmas for borough to Rugby section of the London and North the six oldest men. Blatherwycke P-ark, the seat of Western railway and 9 north-west from Oundle, in the Horace Stafford O'Brien esq. D.L., J.P. lord of the Northern division of the county, hundred of Corby, manor and sole landowner, is a fine mansion, delight­ Oundle petty sessional division and union, Thrapston and fully seated on an eminence, in a park of about 400 Oundle county court district, rural deanery of Oundle acres, well ~>tocked with deer, and containing a lake (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of covering an area of 54 acres. The soil is clay; sub­ Peterborough. The Willow brook, a tributary of the soil, oolite. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats. river Nene, flows through the parish. The church of the beans &c. The area is 1,942 acres of land and 70 of Holy Trinity is an ancient building of stone in the water; rateable value, ,£1,954; the population in I9II Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel was 102 with north chapel, nave of two bays, north aisle, south . Sexton, Samuel Trayford. po1·ch and a western tower of stone, with plain parapet, and containing 2 bells: there are several stained win­ Post Office.-William Dams, sub-postma:>ter. Letters dows: the church was partially restored in 1855, a through Wansford, Northants, arrive at 6.30 a.m. & new south porch erected in 1868, and again restored in 12.25 p.m. & are dispatched at 1.40 & 6.5 p.m. week 1893 : there are sittings for 130 persons. 'l'he re~ister days & 6.30 a.m. & 6.5 p.m. sundays. The nearest dates from the year 16:n and is in good condition. The money order & telegraph office is at Bulwick, about 1 living is a rectory, net yearly value £310, including 135 mile distant acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Horace Stafford O'Brien esq. and held since 1906 by the Rev. Public Elementary School, with residence for mistress, Eben Waiter Collin M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. The for 30 children; Mrs. Mary Asher, mistress PIUVATB RESIDENTS. i COMMERCIAL. Needham Frank, farm bailiff to H. S. Collin Rev. Eben Waiter M.A. Dunkley John. grocer O'Brien esq. D.L., J.P (rector), Rectory Healey Thomas, gamekeeper to H. S. Oxenham Lucy M. (Mrs.), beer rtailr. O'Brien Horace Stafford D.L., J.P. O'Brien esq. D.L., J.P & farmer Blatherwycke park Rycroft John, estate carpenter BLISWOBTH is a large village and parish, with a crated in 1863. The register dates from the year 1551. station on the main line of the London and North West­ The living is a rectory, net yearly value ,£225, including ern railway, which here, but mainly in the parish of 291 acres of glebe, with residHnce, in the gift of the Boade, passes through a cutting averaging so feet deep Rev. Henry Thomas Barry M.A. of North Kensington, for 2 miles in length, constructed at a cost of £2oo,ooo; Lcndon W. and held since 1914 by the Rev. William the station is about one mile from the village, at the Wingfield Colley M. A. of Trinity College, Cam bridge. junction of the Peterborough branch and also of the The rectory house, west of the church, was erected in line to Towce&ter, Banbury and Stratford-on-Avon; the 1841. The Baptist chapel here was erected in 1825, and village is 4 miles south from Nort.hampton and 4 north­ in x865 vestries, a residence for the minister, and a east from Towcester, on the road to Northampton, in graveyard were added; school rooms were built in 1871, the Southern division of the county, hundred of at a cost of _£1,350; the organ, erected in 1891, at a Wymersley, petty sessional division, union and county cost of £260, was the gift of the late Joseph Westley court district of Towcester, rural deanery of Preston esq. ; attached to the chapel is a lecture hall, built (second portion), archdeaconry of Northampton and dio­ in 1885, and seating 300 persons. In the parish are cese of Peterborough. The Grand Junction canal runs several stone quarries, and a large q~antity of iron ore through the village and passes to the neighbouring parish is produced. There is a charity of 3os. yearly, derived of Stoke Bruern by a tunnel one mile and three-quarters from land at Abt:!Mlrpe, left 27th May, 1646, by Mrs. Jane in length. The church of St. John the Baptist is a Leeson; the proceeds are given to the poor in money; spacious edifice of stone, in the Decorated and Perpen· there is also an allotment of land, the rent of which, dicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, amounting in: 19o6 to about £2o a year, is appropriated aisles, north porch and an embattled western tower con­ to the repair and maintenance of the church. The Duke taining a clock and .; bells : there are memorial windows of Grafton K.G., C.B. is lord of the manor and principal to a son of the Rev. William Barry M.A. a former landowner. The soil is a light soil; subsoil, limestone rector, and to G. Stone esq. and his wife, erected by and ironstone. The chief crops are wheat, oats .&c. The their family: in the south aisle is an altar tomb with area is 1,952 acres of land and 12 of water; rateable brass effigies and marginal inscription to Roger Wake value, £7,867; the population in 19II was 823. esq. lord of the manor, 1403, and Elizabeth (Catesby). Sexton, William A.yres. his wife, with 10 children : the chancel is separated from the nave by an oak screen: in 1889 an organ was Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, erected and a memorial window to the Rev. William & Inland Revenue licences granted (letters should Barry M.A. rector 1839-84, placed in the chancel: the have Northants added).-Alfred Pike, sub-postmaster. church was restored in 1856, at a coat of £870, when Letters arrive 6 & u a.m. ; dispatched at 10.5 a.m. & the gallery was removed and the pews converted into 7·35 & 8.50 p_m. for the West & North week days only open benches, and there are now 400 sitting& : a new Railway Station office open always for dispatch of tele­ burial ground of half an acre was inclosed and conse- grams except from 6 a.m. sunday to 7 a.m. monday .