DffiECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. NORTHLEACH. 255 and 84 from London, in the Eastern division of the and the Rev. Shepley Watson-Watson S.C.L. rector of county, Bradley hundred, rural deanery of Northleach, Bootle, Oumberland. The soil is stone brash; subsoil, archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and and Bristol. The town is lighted with gas by a Company roots. The area of the entire parish, including Easting­ from works in the town. The church of SS. Peter and ton tithing, is 3,460 acres; rateable value, Northleach, Paul, erected about the middle of the 15th century, is a £1,512 ; Eastington, £2,425; total, £3,937; the popula­ noble edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consist­ tion in 1891 was, entire parish, 1,106; Northleach, 787. ing of chancel, nave of five bays with lofty clerestory, EASTINGTON is a tithing and hamlet I mile south­ aisles with north and south chapels, south porch, and a east, and consists of a few farms and some cottages and western tower with panelled and embattled parapet, con­ the workhouse for the Northleach union. Here is a. Mis­ taining a clock and 8 bells: the porch of two bays is en­ sion Room, erected on the site of an ancient church, long riched throughout with tracery, and has a groined roof; since destroyed; it was opened for service in 1890, Mr. and the exterior of the church is relieved by canopied Frederick Godwin A.K.O. head master of the Grammar niches and crocketed pinnacles: the east window is School, has been licensed by the Bishop as Lay-Reader. stained and the chancel retains sedilia: the stone stair­ The population in 1891 was 319. including 45 officers and case to the rood loft in the north aisle, and a double inmates of the workhouse; rateable value, £2,425- hagioscope in the south or Bicknell chapel were dis­ Sexton, Mark Evans. covered during the restoration in 1884: the font con­ Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity &; Insurance sists of an octagonal basin, on a panelled and buttressed Office (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have shaft: in the nave is a large brass to a wool merchant R.S.O. Gloucester added).-S. Barry Burge, postmas­ and his wife, c. 1400; and others to Thomas Fortey, ter. Letters arrive from Cheltenham at 6.30 a.m.; woolman, ob. 1447, with defaced effigy; William Scors, dispatched at 5.50 p.m. A mail bag from Cirencester tailor, ob. 1420, and Agnes, successive~y wife ~f each, arrives at 3.30 p.m. &; mail cart 5.20 p.m. with letters with mutilated effigies, including some children, and from London, Cheltenham, Burford, Witney, Oxford inscription; John Fortey, woolman, who added the clere· kc.; dispatched at 7.10 a.m. Box closes 20 minutes story of the church, ob. 1458, with effigy under canopy before each dispatch. Letters are delivered at 7.30 and marginal inscription; a woolman and his wife, c. a.m. & 6 p.m.; sunday dispatch, 4.50 p.m 1485, with four children, a merchant's mark, and margi. Wall Letter Box.-Eastington, cleared at 4.50 p.m.; nal inscription: John Taylour, woolman, and his wife, sundays, 7.45 a.m c. 1490, with marginal inscription and figures of fifteen children; Robert Serche, ob. 1501, and Anne, his wife, OOtJINTY MAGISTRATES FOR NORTHLEAOH with four children; Thomas Bushe, woolman and mer­ PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. chant of the staple of Calais, ob. 1525, and his wife, Joan, Waller Edmund esq. M.A., D.L. Farmington lodge, ob. 1626, under a canopy with figures of children and in­ Northleach R.S.O. chairman scription: William Launder, priest, c. 1530; there are Eldon Earl D.L. Stowell park, Northleach R.S.O Sherborne Lord, Sherborne park, Northleach R.S.O also inscribed brasses to William Bicknellt ob. 1500, and Margaret his wife, ob. 1483, founders of the church in Barkley Henry Chas. esq. 6 Oricklade st. Cirencester 1489; and to Maude Parker, ob. 1584, with an acrostic Dutton Rev. The Hon. F. G. M.A. Bibury, Fairford S.O of 20 English verses: a memorial window has been placed Godwin Frederick esq. A.K.C. The College, :North- in the church by the parishioners to the Rev. Joseph leach R.S.O .William Sharpe B.A. vicar, 1875-90; the organ was pre­ Lawrence Christian William esq. Sandywell park, sented in 1883 by Mrs. Stephenson: the communion plate Andoversford R.S.O includes a chalice and paten cover of Elizabethan date, a Madan-Pratt Rev. Henry M.A. Rectory, Great Rissing- tall gilt chalice of 1620, and a gilt flagon and alms ton, Bourton-on-the-Water R.S.O • plate of the date 1707-8: the churCh was restored in Stanton Rev. Canon Wm. Henry M.A. Rectory, Hasleton, 1884, under the superintendence of Mr. James Brooks, Cheltenham. architect, of London, at a cost of £3,575, and affords sit­ Wil1gfield Edward Rhys esq. D.L. Barrington park, Bur­ tings for about 550 persons. The register dates from ford R.S.O the year 1556. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Clerk to the Magistrates, Samuel Ward; office, £135, including 187 acres of glebe, with residence, in Northleach the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, and held since 1894 Petty sessions are held at the Prison every alternate wed­ by the Rev. Clement Hutchinson M.A. of Corpus Christi nesday at 12 noon. The following places are included College, Cambridge, and chaplain to Northleach union. in the Petty Sessional division :-Aldsworth, Aston A Cemetery of i of an acre was formed in 1888, at a cost Blank, Little Barrington, Chedworth, Compton Abdale, of £270; it is under the control of a Joint Burial Com­ Ooln St. Dennis, CoIn Rogers, Dowdeswell, Easting­ mittee of 7 members appointed annually by the Parish ton, Farmington, Hampnett, Hazleton, Northleach, Sal. Councils of Northleach and Eastington. The Con­ perton, Sevenhamptol1, Sherborne, Shipton, Stowell, gregational chapel is a building of stone in the Turkdean, Whittington, Withington, Windrush, Win­ Early English style, opened 13th June, 1860, 80n, Yanworth and has 150 sittings. The former Wesleyan chapel DISTRICT HIGHWAY BOARD. is now used as Salvation Army barracks. The Institute Meets at the Workhouse monthly. and Reading Room in the High street was presented by Mrs. Stephenson of Pemberton gardens, London, and Clerk, Samuel Ward opened September, 1886, and has a library and a billiard Treasurer, Joseph Rawlings, Capital & Counties Bank, table given by the late vicar. The Institute was entirely Cirencester rebuilt and enlarged about 1894, and now contains a large Surveyor, John Cook hall, known as the" Cotswold Hall," besides a spacious NORTHLEAOH RURAL DISTRIar COUNCIL. reading room, vicar's room and two rooms for the care­ Meets at the Workhouse, monthly, at 2.30 p.m. takers. The market is held on Wednesday. Two statute Clerk, Samuel Ward fairs for hiring servants are held, one on the Wednesday Treasurer, Joseph Rawlins, Capital & Counties Bank, before and the other the Wednesday after the nth of Cirencester October. Here is a station of the Gloucestershire county Medical Officer of Health, E. J. Ryan MacMahon, Chel­ police. The neighbourhood is celebrated for its fine tenham breed of Cotswold sheep; annual sales are held at tht'J Sanitary Inspector, John Chas. Wane, Farmington principal farms in the neighbourhood, at which the sheep realize high prices. There are almshouses for 6 aged TOWN OF NORTHLEAOH TRUSTEES. men, endowed by Mrs. AlIen and others to the amount John Bowl John Osborne Tayler of £63, including £9 given yearly in coals and bread; William Harding Frederick Godwin J.P and other almshouses for 6 women, endowed by the Dut­ Samuel Ward William Henry Cole ton family with £30. A charity, left in Charles n.'s Thomas Bowl Porter John Bowl, jun reign by George Townsend, provides a shilling's worth Thomas William Tayler Samuel Throssell of bread weekly, which is distributed to 6 poor persons Dr. John Ryan Rev. Clement Hutchinson every Sunday; there are also 50 acres of grass land on which every householder in the parish has a common PUBLIO ESTABLISHMENTS. right to pasture one "milch cow." A sum of £400 was County Court, His HanoI' Arthur Beecher Ellicott RA. bequeathed by Dr. Bedwell, formerly a physician of judge; Robert Alexander Anderson & Benjamin Ward, Northleach, and the interest is expended every Christmas registrars; Charles Wright, high bailiff. The county in supplying the poor with coals, and providing a dinner court office is open for business daily from 10 to 4, for the inmates of the Almshouses. A court leet is held saturdays 10 to I. Courts are held every second annually, at which a bailiff is elected, who dispenses the month at the prison. The following places are within local charities. Mr. Thomas Stephens is lord of the the county court jurisdiction :-Ablington, Aldsworth, manor. The principal landowners are Lord Sherborne Arlington, Aston Blank, Bibury, Chedworlh, CoIn St.