[LEICESTER.] SWEPSTONE. 120 POST OFFIC:t

SWBPSTONE is a township, parish, and small village, The gentlemen's seats are GorsALL, the Earl of Howe, distant 5 miles from Bagworth station, 5 south from and 1\'IEASHAM HALL, W. W. Abney, Esq. The popula­ Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 10 north of Atherstone, 5~ north- lion, in 1851, was 585. The parish contain., 2,286 acres. north-west from Market Bosworth, and 120 from , in Miss A. 1\1:. Leslie is lady of the manor. There are West Goscote Hundred, Ash by·de-la-Zouch Union, Peter- several charities, of £7 5 and upwards annual value. The borough bishopric, North , situate on a small township only contains 245 inh~tbitants. brook called the Mease. The living is a rectory, with is a hamlet in the parish of attached to it, value £600, with 100 acres of Swepstone, I mile south-east of Swepstone, with a popu­ glebe ]and; the Rev. John Hall ward, M.A., rector, is the latioa of 244, and 786 acres. The Independents and incumbent; the Rev. Spencer Percival Powys, .B.J.., is the Primitive Methodists have chapels. Earl Howe is lord curate; in the gift of Miss Alicia Maria Leslie. The church of the manor. of St. Peter is an old building, in good repair, and has a NEWTON NETHERCOTE is a hamlet to Swepstom•, I handsome tower containing 4 bells, Gothic style. An mile south-east of Swepstone, and containing 125 in­ organ has been erected by the present rector, and there is babitants, and 288 acres. Miss A, M. Leslie is lady of the some painted glass in the east window. The Dissenting manor. chapels are two, viz., Independent and Primitive Metho- UPPER FIELD and Flit land are 1 mile north-east; dist; and there is a National school for boys and girls. Catter's Lodge, and Clock .M:ill are other places. Swepstone. Kirby James,collectoroftaxes Cook Henry, farmer GENTRY. I Kirkman William, farmer, Catter's Jdg- Cuthbert George, blacksmith & paris b Hall ward Rev. John, M.A. [rector], I Poxon John, miller& grazier,Clock mill clerk Rectory house Taylor Thomas, boot & ihoe maker Harrison Richard, wheelwright Kerr lUr. Thomas West Ann (Mrs), schoolmistress Hunt John, farmer & maltster TRADERS. Newton Burgoland. Jehbett John, grocer & farmer Booton John, postmaster & grocer GENTRY. Meeking Thomas, farmer Bown William, 'Elephant' Macdonald Rev. John [Independent North Edwd.'Shepherd~Shepherdess' Bull Williom, carrier minister] Siddons George, farmer Chilwell Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Singleton \Villiam, esq Newton Nethercote. Crisp William, farmer Tebbett Mrs TRADERS. Croshaw Thomas Bidden, farmer, Field Timms Mrs. Ann Crosher Thomas, farmer Deacon Thomas, farmer TRADERS. Cuthbert Andrew, carpenter Gibson Richard, farmer, Tempe Bott Gervase, farmer Ison George, farmer Hanson John, carpenter Chandler Jo~eph, carrier }feakin William, shoemaker&farmer Ison Henry, tailor Compton John, draper, grocer & baker Saddington John, butcher PosT OFFICE.-John Booton, postmaster. Letters are received through the Ashby-de-la-Zouch office; arrive i past 9 a.m.; dispatched ~past 4 p.m. The nearest money order offices are at Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch & Market llosworth CARRIER-William Bull, leaves Swepstone every tuesday [for Atherstone; thursrlay, for Burt; & saturday, for Ash by-de-Ja-Zoucb. SWl:N!"OR.D is a parish and pleasant village, near to Stanford Hall, who is also lady of the manor, is a dis­ which :flows the river Avon, 2 miles north-east of Lil- charged vicarage, value £216, in the archdeaconry of bourne station, 87 from London, 4 south·by-east from Leicester and diocese of Peterborough; the Rev. John Lutterworth, ;5~ north-east of Rugby station, and 18 from Lindsay, lii.A., is the iucumbent. The Independents have Leicester, in Gnthlaxton Hundred, Lutterworth Union, a small chapel here, and there is also a National school • South Leicestershire. The church of All Saints is a very The number of acres is about I ,600, und the population, old building, with a square embattled tower. Tl1e font is in 1851, was 420. This was a Roman settlem~nt. old. The living, in the patronage of Baroness Braye, of Addison Thomas, grazier Hipwell John, farmer & grazier Spencer John, butcher & grazier Bates Edward, wheelwright Hipwell William, farmer&. grazier Sturman Josepb, parish clerk Bott Thomas, schoolmaster Ish am William, tailor Tailby William, baker Cattell Edward, farmer & r;trazier Lewis James, grazier & tailor Thomas Daniel, carrier Cattell John, farmer & grazier Lewis James,jun. tailor Towers William, shoemaker Chamberlain John, •cave's Arms,' & Morton Charles, butcher & grazier Turland John, coal dealer carpenter l\Iorton John, farmer Turner Joseph, shopkeeper Clarke John, farmer & grazier Morton Joseph, blacksmith & grazier Turville William, carrier Cooke Thomas, grazier Palmer Josepb, bricklayer Wardery John, farmer & grazier Floyd Thomas, farmer Porter Timothy, maltster W ehster Samuel, grazier Fox Nathaniel, tailor Porter William, • Chequers' Webster William, farmer & grazier FrPnch Richard, wheelwright Prowett Charles, farmer & grazier Wiuter Charles, blacksmith Gilbert Thomas, farmer&. grazier Simons John, farmer & grazier "Vood John, farmer & grazier PosT OPFICE.-James Lewis, receiver. Letters are re- CARRIERS:- ceived from Lutterworth at ~ past 9 a.m.; dispatched at Turville, to Lutterworth, tlmrsday, 11 morning; to ! past 4 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Lutter- Rugby, saturday, 11 morning worth Daniel 'lhomas, to Leicester, saturday • Free School, Thomas Bott, master SW'J:TB:LA'R:D is a township, small parish, and willage,- St. Leonard is an ancimt eilr1y English structure, having situated on a small stream, 6 miles south of Lough- a nave, chancel, a private chapel on the south belonging borough, 3 south-west of Mountsorrel, 8 north-west of to the Earl of Lanesborough, and a square tower with an Leicester, and 4~ south-west of the Sileby station of the embattled parapet ornamented with pinnacles, containing Midland railway, in Barrow-upon-Soar Union, Lough- 6 bells. The living is a rectory, in the gift of tl1e Lord borough division, West Goscote Hundred, Peterborough Chancellor, valued at £300, chiefly derived from 190 bishopric, N ortb Leicestershire. Swithland is noted for acres of glebe land; the incumbent is tbe Rev. Edward its valuable quarries of blue slate, which are extensively James Paget, M.A. There are about 1,600 acres of land, worked and sunk to a great depth. .Almost all the build- of a clay, sand, and gravelly soil, and the population, in ings in the neighbourhood are covered with this material, 1851, was 285. Here is a Free school, erected and sup­ and it is much used for tombstones, land draining, wall ported by the Earl of J,anesborough, and who, as lord of building, and is also converted into many articles of the manor, appoints the four boys the parishioners are utility. Swithland Hall, the bea11tiful seat of the Earl entitled to send to the endowed Free school at Mount­ of Lanesborough, who is the lord flf the manor, stands sorrel. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1828. within Swithlaod park in this parish. The church of 1 GENTRY. TRADERS. Baum John, timber dealer Lanesborougb Earl of, Switbland hall Bates Daniel, farmer Clark Stepbeu, shoemaker Paget Rev.Edward J ames, M:.A..Rectory Bates Thomas, farmer Cuffiing William, farmer