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DIUOTOBY.J LEICESTERSHIRE. NEwaOLD-DE .. VERDt1:f. 767 N ARBOROUGHis & township, parish and large village, Parish Clerk, George Heighton. pleasantly sitnated .on the west bank of the river Soar, with POST, M. O. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. a station on the Leicester and Nuneaton branch of tile Arthur Dawkins, postmaster. Letters arrive from Leices London and North Western rail way, 5 miles south-west from ter at 6.35 a.m. & r p.m. ; & are dispatched at XI a.m. Leicester, 9 north from Lutterworth and 100 from London, 6.10 &8 p.m in the Southern division of the c::lUnty, Sparkenhoe hundred, Blaby union, Leicester petty sessional division and county National & Sunday Schools, re-erected in 1872, for 200 court district, rural deanery of Guthlaxton first portion, children & 50 infants; average attendance, 136 children archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. The & 38 infants; Richard Meats, master; Mrs. A, Meats, church of All Saints is a building of stone in the Early sewing mistress English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, re CARRIERS TO Ll!:ICESTER.-James Southam, IJl{)n. wed. & built in 1881, south porch and a massive embattled western sat. ; Charles Haines, mono wed. fri. & sat tower containing 6 bells, dated 1672: there are memorial Railway Station, WiIliam Hatcheldor, stat,ion master windows to the wife of a former rector, to George Hunt, to Ueorge and Elizabeth Wills, to Henry Kirk and to Dr. and Huncote is a township, in the parish of Nal'borough. li Mrs. Orton: the church affords 500 sittings. The register miles west. Divine service of the Church of England is dates from the year 1599. The living is a rectory, average conducted on Sunday in the National school by the vicar of tithe rent-charge £290, net yearly value £275, with resi Narborough. Here are Baptist and Primith'e Methodist dence and including 83 acres of glebe, in the gift of and chapels. On the brook is a large corn mill. The Countess held since 1880 by the Rev. 'WiIliam Langley M.A. of Durham of Stamford and Warrington is lady of the manor. William University. Here is a Congregational chapel. Mrs. Ann Everard esq. of Narborough Wood House is the principal llingley's charity of £20, and Stephen Buckingham's charity landowner. The soil is sandy; subsoil, sand. The chief of £5, left in 1840 for poor persons. being members of the crops are cereals. The area of the township is 872 acres; Church of England, are distributed in money. Here is a rateable value, £2,157; in 1881 the population was 462. Penitents' home for women, under the care of the sisters POST OFFICR.-EIisha Chandler. receiver. Letters received from St. Mary's Home, Wantage, Berks. The principal through Leicester, arrive at about 7.15 a.m. ; dispatched at landowners are William Everard esq. R. P. Swain esq. 5.25 & 7 p. m. The nearest money order & telegraph office Charles Smith esq. and Mrs. Young. The soil is various. is at N arborough The chief crops are wheat and oats. The area of the parish, including Huncote, is 2,657 acres; rateable value of Nar National School (mixed), for 50 boys &' girls & 40 infants j borough, £5,148; in 1881 the population was 884, and of average attendance, 42 boys & girls & 38 infanLs i Mrs. the parish 1,346. In 1885 two detached portions of this Adams, mistress parish were amalgamated with Cosby. CA.RRIERS through to Stoney Stanton wed. & sat CO"OfERCTAL. Preston & Newett, coal merchants Narborough. Baker Henry, stone mason Rawson & Rawson, quarry owners Barber Ann K. & Mary (Misses), board- Southam James, carrier PRIVATE RESIDENTS. ing school for young ladies Thornton William John. wholesale & Batcheldor W Batcheldor William, station master retail florist & fruit grwr.TheNurseries Boden John Gibson Breward Georg~, shopkeeper Winks John Chas. painter & decorator Branford WaIter Brice Christopher WiIliam, saddler Young John, surgeon, & medical officer Brown J<1TJathan Redgat.e Briers George, baker & public vaccinator, Enderby district, Butler 'l'h·,mas Edward Bryan John,~butcher Hlaby union & certifying factory Garter Mr~ Cartwright Henry Uordon, surgeon surgeon, Narborough house Cartwright Henry Gordon Collis J. Narborough inn Cartwright Mrs. South '\"iew Cutter Henry Atkins. coach builder Huncote. Cooke Mrs Da:vkins Artbur, draper ~ gro. Post off Adams Frederick, The Hall E"erard Wm. Narborongh 'Wood house EllIs J oseph &Sons( Wm. F ~wkes,ag~t.), I Norman Misses Green Arthur coal &c. merchants, RaIlway statIOn Haddon Miss Enderby Co-operative Society Lim.(Jas. COMMERCIAL. Holyoak Edwin Herbert,sec.; Herbt.·Woodward,mgr) Atkins Uenjamin, brewer & maltster Knight Benjamin ENDERBY &. STONEY STANTON Chandler Elisha, shopkeeper, Post office L:mgley Rev. WiIliam M.A. Rectory GRANITE CO. granite merchants & Compt.on Christopher John, shopkeeper Lord Alfred quarry owners; chief offices; & at Crofts SamLmarket g-ardnr.& seedsman Payne Miss Stoney Stanton; Enderby; Huncote Enderby Co-operative Stores Limited Penruddock Rev. Francis Fredk. ~i.A. &Sapcote (Thomas Marson, manager) [curate] Geary Joseph, Bell inn, & backsmith Enderby tx, Stoney Stanton Granite Co. Pougher William, The Retreat I Harrison John George, florist granite merchants & quarry owners; Hobinson Joseph Haynes George, farmer & at Narborough; Stoney Stanton Robjolms Rev.Jas. Nelson [Congregntl] Hitchcock Isaac, farmer; Flash farm & Sapcote Simpkin Joseph Guy Home for Fallen Women (SIsters Want- Flewitt Louisa (Mrs.), maltster Smith John age in charge) Hobill John Thomas, miller (water) Sllmner Henry Knig-ht Thomas, coal merchant Holyoak Mary (Miss), farmer Swain Robert Paddy, The Hall Knight WiIliam, grocer Jesson John, farmer, Ureen's lodge Tebbitt :VIrs. South view Moore Lemuel, tailor Knight David, farmer, The Lod~e 'l'ibhitts WiIliam Nowell & Robson, quarry owners Marston Geor~e,quarry owner (Thomas Wale Henry, Woodlands Oram WilIiam, butcher, registrar of Marston, manager) Warburton Howgate G. Alexandra yilIa births, deaths & marriages for the Samson (Mrs.), farmer Wilmer Frederick Bradford Enderby sub·district & vaccination Smith Samuel, farmer Winks John Charles & school attendance officer Taylor James, butcher Young John, Narborough house Pick Henry & Son, coal merchants I Williams Eliza (Mrs.). Red Lion P.H Young Mrs Pickering Ueorge, market gardener WintertoIl Elizb. Ann (:\Iiss), beer retlr NEW PARKS, formerly an extra-parochial liberty, and trustees of Thomas Stokes esq. The soil is clayey; subsoil, part of Leicester Forest, but now a parish, comprised in the mostly clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and.. barley. ::'outhern dirision of the county, Blaby union, Leicester The area is 776A. 3R. 33P.; rateabJe value, £1,449; and 72 petty sessional division and county court district, is a mile inhabitants in 1881. ~f:~fi:~r~h~~~t. fr?~~e ~:f~~f;:~'lan~~~~;sa~~~at~t: t:::= Letters through Leicester; the nearest money order & tele- of the late Rt. Hon. Sir John Melior kt. just.ice of tbe Queen's graph office is at Anstey Bench, the trustees of the late J. D. Harris esq. and the The children of this place attend the school at Glenfield Evans William, New Parks house !.FreemanWm.farm bailiff to the trustees /' SmithGeo.farm bailiff toJ.H.Cooperesq Mason Alfred, farmer of Roberts & Roberts, of Leicester WilliamsAnll Mrs. ),frmr.Blrds~ est frm NEWBOLD-DE-VEFDUN (corrupted into NEW-' The church o{St.Jamgs is an edifice of brickalldstone, partly BOLD VERDON) is a large village, 3 miles east-by-north in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, na.ve, from Market Bosworth, 8 north-north-east from Hinckley, north aisle, south porch and a western tower containing 2 3 we"t from Desford station on the Leicester and Burton bells, dated respectively 1663 and 175-+: there is a brass to branch of tbe Midland railway and 10 west from Leicester, the Montagu family: tbe e1mrdl pla<e be",rs the arms of in tbe Western division of the county, Sparkenhoe hundred, Nathaniel Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham 1674-172Z: the Market Hosworth petty sessional division, union and county church was repaired and enlarged in 1832 and has 320 slttings, court district, rural deanery of Sparkenhoe first portion, I180 being free. The register dates from the year 1542. The archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. living is a rectory, gross yearly value £550. including 320 .