632 SEATON. RUTLAND. [KELLY~~ & new organ was provided in 1897: the church was 8 a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; no sunday deliveTy. The- nearest thoroughly restored in 1874-5, at a cost of £2,523, and money order office is at Harringworth, &; telegraph oflic8" affords 180 sittings. The register dates from the year at Uppingham, 3 miles distant 1538. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £477, with THORPE-BY-WATER is a small hamlet and townshIp residence, and including 50 acres of glebe, in the gift of on the north bank of the river WelIand, about 2 miles' and held since 1894 by the Rev. Charles William Cart­ south. Edward Phi lip Monckton esq. and l\I('Ssrs. John wright. There are charities of about £11 10s. yearly value, Marsh Northen and John Thomas \Vard are· the principal left by Mrs. Tryon. Edward Philip Monckton esq. of landowners. The area is 684 acres of land and 5 of water; Laundimer House, Oundle, N orthants, who is lord of the assessable value, £772; the population in 1901 was 61. By manor, and the Earl of Ancaster p.c. are the principal Local Government Board Order a detached part of Thorpe­ landowners. The soil is good, chiefly of a mixed nature; by-Water was, in 1885, added to Gretton and Liddington. subsoil, mixed, with kaley stone. The chief crops are wheat barley, turnips and pasture in most parts. The area of the Parish Clerk, John King. township is 1,446 acres; assessable value, £3,126; the Letters for Thorpe arrive via Uppingham. 'Wall Letter­ population in 1901 was 240, ann in the ecclesiastical parish Box cleared at 8 a.m. &; 6 p.m. week days only 307. Public Elementary School (mixed), en-cted in 185D, for 100 The Barrows is a hill, 1 mile south-west. children; average attendance, 33; George Thomas. Post Office.-John Kirby, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive \Yilson, master via Uppingham at 7 a.m. &; 6.50 p.m.; dispatched at Hailway Station, Arthur Chapman, station master Cartwright Rev. Charles Wm. Rectory Ellis &; Everard Limited, coal, coke, Richardson Charles Edwin Lupton,miller' COMMERCIAL. lime, cake, guano &; oil merchants'i (wind &; water) &; grazier &; see- Baines &; Richardson, millers (wind &; Station; &; at Uppingham Baines &; Richardson water) &; graziers Kirby John, grocer &; baker, Post office .Springthorpe Arthur, g('neral dealer Baines Amos,farmer &; grazier,Manor frm Langley John, farmer, Thorpe I Stanger George, bricklayer Bryan Thos.farmer &; grazier,The Grange Manton John Tirrel, wheelwright IThompson John, boot I;;, shoe maker Crowden Robert, farmer &; grazier Northen John Marsh, farmer &; grazier'lvvard John Thomas, farmer &; grazier-,. Crowden William, farmer, &; butcher Thorpe Manor house, Thorpe Drury Ada (Miss), dress maker North('n Thomas, grazier & surveyor to \Yard 'William, be('r &; wine retailer Dudley Rebecca Hannah (Miss), farmer Uppingham Rural District Council, \\Vatkins William, Three Horse Shoes F.lD & grazier Thorpe STOKE DRY' is a parish and small village, on a height 1£720; during the restoration some interesting paintings from which the view extends over Beaumont Chase and were discovered on the north and south walls of the nave:: the vale of the river Eye, which separates the parish the church affords 70 sittings. The register dates from, from Leicestershire, 3 miles north from Rockingham the year 1562. The living is a rectory, net yearly value­ Castle station on the London and North Western and £280, with residence, and including 36 acres of glebe, irr Great Northern railways and 2 south-by-west from Up- the gift of the Marquess of Exeter, and held since 1903- pingham, partly in the hundred of Wrangdike and partly by the Rev. George Thurston IILA. of Keble College, Oxford .. in that of Gartree, in Leicestershire, union and county Here was born, in 1581, Sir Everard Digby kt. onc of the· court district of Uppingham, rural deanery of Rutland conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, who was beheaded (third portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of 30 Jan. 1606, at the west end of St. Paul's churchyard .. Peterborough. The church of St. Andrew is a building of at the age of 24: his son, Sir Kenelm Digby kt. of Gothurst stone, originally Norman, but altered in the Early English or Gayhurst, Bucks, was a favourite and one of the most period, and almost entirely reuuilt early in the 14th faithful adherents of Charles I.; he was also the author' century; it consists of chancel, nave, aisles, a small chapel of several learned works, and a great bendactor to the· on the south side, north and south porches, and an embattled Bodleian library, at Oxford, where there is a fine portrait! western tower, containing one bell: the north porch has of him by Vandyke; he died 11 June, 1665. The Marquess. over it a parvise chamber with mullioned window: of Exeter is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The- in the church are numerous monuments, chiefly of the soil is rich loam; subsoil, chiefly blue lias clay, part grave~ Digby family, including one with recumbent figures to The parish comprises 992 acres, nearly all pasture, of which. Sir Kenelm Digby kt. M.P. ob. 1590, and Anne (Cope) 85 are free of tithe; assessable value, £787; the populatioIll his wife: there is also a fine incised alabaster slab to in 1901 was 55 in the C'ivil and 59 in the ecclesiastical parishr Jaqueta (Ellys), wife of Sir Everard Digby kt. ~I.P. ob. I which extends into Leicestershire. By a Local Government 1496, a monument to Richard and Anne Digby, and a Order, March 25th, 1885, the liberty of Holy Oakes, con­ large sculptured monument of freestone, with the recum- taining an area of 540 acres and a population in 1891 of 6,. bent effigy of a knight in armour, the inscription being was amalgamated with Stockerston, in Leicestershire. now entirely obliterated: on the walls of the chantry Letter Box cleared at 7.20 a.m. & 6 p.m chapel, south of the chancel, are remains of rude paint-I Letters through Uppingham, which is the nearest monej ings: in 1898 the church was restored, the roofs generally order & telegraph office, arrive at. 7.30 a.m repaired and other works carried out, at a cost of over The children of this parish attend the school at Liddington Greatorex Philip, The Cottage IThurston Rev. George M.A. [rector], IN orris Thomas, farmer &; grazier Taylor George, The Grange Rectory Starbuck William, farmer &; grazier Blood Mary Ann (Mrs.), grazier STRETTON is a village and parish, a quarter of a The register dates from the year 1631. The living is w mile east from the Great North road, 6t miles east-by- rectory, net yearly value £174, including 3 aC'res of gh-be;. north from Ashwell station on the Syston and Peter- with residence, in tl e gift of Charles Hesketh Fleetwood­ borough and Nottingham and Kettering branches of the Hesketh, and held since 1907 by the Rev. Hugh Raincock Midland railway, 5! west from Little Bytham on the Fleming, of Jesus College, Cambridge. On the north side' Great Northern railway and 2t from South Witham of the parish, about 2 miles from Stretton, is StoC'ken Hall,. station on the Saxby and Bourne section of the Midland near the boundary of Lincolnshire, and clo~ely surrounded and Great Northern joint railway, 8 miles north-west-by- by woods and plantations; it is now occupipd by Charles· north from Stamford, and 8 north-east from Oakham, Hesketh Fleetwood-Hesketh esq. the principal landowner. in Alstoe hundred, Oak ham union and county court The soil and subsoil are various. The chief crops are wht-at,.. district, rural deanery of Rutland (first portion), arch- barley, oats, beans, roots and hay. The area is 1,97(). deaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. The acres; assessable value, £1,166; the population in 190I: church of St. Nicholas is a building of stone, erected in was 171. the 11th century, and consisting of chancel, nave, north Parish Clerk, Reuben Panter aisle, transepts, south porch and a small double beH- cote of Early English date, containing 2 bells, dated re- Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & A. &; 1. Office.-l\Irs. Hannah Maria spectively 1710 and 1663: the earliest portions of the Elson, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive by mail cart church are Norman, dating from about 1080, and com- from Oakham at 7.25 a.m. &; 3 p.m.; dispatched at 11' prise the south doorway and the west and south walls: a.m. &; 5.50 p.m.; no delivery on sunday. Greetham. the arcade between the nave and aisle is Early English, 2 miles distant, is the nearest telegraph office and dates from about 1160: the south transept is Public Elementary School (mixed), built by Lord Aveland in Jacobean: the church was thoroughly restored in 1881, 1872, for 60 children; average attendance, 37; Miss. at a cost of £1,600, under the superintendence of James Mabel Bowley, mistress Fowler esq. F.R.I.B.A. of Louth, and affords 180 sittings. Carricr.-Young, to Stamford, fri Fleetwood-Hesketh Charles Hesketh'j CO)IMERCY..... L. 1 Carter John, farmer, Hooby 10d~1i! Stocken Hall Campbell John Allan, head gardener to Elder William, farm baiWI t~ l:harles, Fleming Rev. Hugh Raincock [rector], Charles Hesketh Fleetwood-Hesketh Hesketh Fleetwood-Hesketh t'l>'q . Rectory:,j esq l Hart Wm. White HOlse P.R. & ia'l'mer .