88 BILTON. I.. EICESTERSIIIRE. [KI!:LLY'S BELTON. Farmer Herbert & Robert, blacksmiths Sutton Joseph. farmer Blakeney Rev. William Newcome B A Field John Michael, George P.R Toone Eliza Jane (Miss), beer retailer (vicar), Vicarage . '/Gibson Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, & Upton Thomas, wheelwright llentley Charles, Forest View villa post office Wilson J oseph, beer retailer Gilbert James, baker lit shopkeeper Woulidge Benjamin, farmer, Manor farm COMMERCIAL. Gough Edward, butcher Barker Henry, farmer Husbands ·Wm. frmr. Low. Merrill grnge Barnett Thomas, frmr. Top Merrill grnge Husbands William, jun. farmer GRACE DIEU. Botham Edwin, farmer, Middle Merrill Hyde .John, Queen's Head P.R Booth Rt. Hon. Charles' P.C., F.R.S. grange IKnight Eobert, farmer Grace Dieu Manor house; & 24 Brooks James & Joseph, farmers Parker Joseph, grazier Great Cumberland place, London w Burton Frederick, farmer Room Godfrey, grocer Green Joseph (Mrs.) & Son, farmers Chester George, corn miller (water) Room William, shoe maker Hoult John, farmer, Warren farm Cuffin Jolm, grocer, draper, rate col- Rose John, farmer Pares WiIliam & Herbert, farmers 'lector & assistant overseer ,Shaw Samuel, shoe maker Vesty Richard Handley, farmer BEL VOIR (formerly an extra-parochial liberty) is now Petty Sessions are held at the Peacock hotel, every alter- a parish, and head of an Out-Relief Union, 2 miles south nate monday, at 12 noon. The places in the petty ses- from station on the Great Northern and London sional division are :-Belvoir, Barkstone, . Bottesford, and North Western joint railways, 7 west-south-west from Branston, Croxton-Kerrial, Eastwell, Eaton, Harby, , 12 north-east from , 125 from Harston, , Muston, , Redmile, Saltby & London via MeltQn and 116 via Grantllam, and is the head . of a petty sessional diviilion, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Framland, union and county court BELVOIR RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. district of Grantham. , the magnificent seat Constituted by an Order of the Leicestershirf;l County of the Duke of Rutland, stands on a lofty eminence on the Council, dated 7th of August, 1894, for the following south side of the vale of Belvoir and on the site of an ancient parishes :-Belvoir, Barkston, Bottesford, Croxton-Ker­ fortress, said to have heen built soon after thE' Norman rial, Harston, Knipton, Muston, Plungar & Redmile, accession: the extensive pleasure gardens are adorned The area is 17,348 acres; rateable value at Lady Day, with statues, lawns and shrubberies: the castle is open to 1908, £30,397; the population in 1901 was 3,459 visitors daily, Slmdays excftpted, upon personal application. The Council meet monthly, on monday, at the Peacock The chaplaincy of the Castle is £350 yearly with residence, hotel, Belvoir, at 2.30 p.m and has been held since 1892 by the Rev. Frederick William Chairman, Duke of Rutland Kn(}X M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. On Blackberry Hill is an elegant mausoleum erected in 1828 in the Norman Officials. style: the remains of the Duchess of Rutland,. d. 1825, and Clerk to the Council Aubrey Henry Malim West gate, those of several members of the Manners farmly have been Grantham' , removed from the vault at Botte~f~rd church to this mauso- I Clerk to the Highway Committee, Albert E. Pea,rson, St. leum. Here was onc~ a Benedlctme monast~ry, founded I Peter's hill, Grantham 107? by R. de Todem, as a cell. to St: AI!:>an s abbey and Medical Officer of Health, James Hastings Glover M.H., de~lCated 1lo St. Mary; at the ,DIssolutIOn Its revenues were c.M.Edin. Bottesford . estimated. at £198. The area ~s 715 acres; rat~able ~alu~, Highway Surveyor, Richard John Kettleborrow, Normanton, £2,000; III 1901 the pOl?ulatlOn wa~ 9~. ThIS pansh IS . zeputed to be extra-parochIal for eccleSIastical purposes. Sanitary Inspector & Surveyor, James Barnacle, Gladstone Letters through Grantham arrive at 8 a.m. The nearest terrace, Grantham money order & telegraph office is at Woolsthorpe, about 1 mile distant BELVOIR OUT-RELIEF UNION. Letter Box: cleared at 5.30 p.m. j sunday, 4.30 p.m Under an Order of the Local Government Board, dated November 26th, 1894, Belvoir was constituted an Out­ COUNTY MAGISTRATES, BELVOIR PETTY SES­ Relief Union for the purposes of out-relief, to include the SIONAL DIVISION. following parishes :-Belvoir, Bottesford, Croxton-Ker­ rial, Harston, Knipton, Muston & Redmi:e. The area is Rutland His Grace the Duke of (Lord Lieut.), Belvoir castle, 14,334 acres; rateable value at Lady Day, 1908, £25,996 j Grantham, chairman the population in 1901 was 2,995 . Scott Hon. Henry Robert Hepburne, The Lodge, Knipton, The Board meet monthly, on monday, at the Peacock hotel, Grantham I Belvoir, at 2.30 p.m :Beasley Charles esq. Harston, Grantham Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Duke of Rutland Hare Thomas esq. Harston, Grantham Clerk to the Guardians, Aubrey Henry l\lalim, West gate, Timson Capt. Henry Thomas, Harston, Grantham Grantham Vincent-Jackson Rev. Canon William M.A. Bottesford Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Belvoir district, ltectory, Nottingham I John Alexander Macdonald M.B., C.M. "\Yoolsthorpe, near Wright Frank esq. Plungar, Bottesford, Nottingham I Grantham j Bottesford district, John Hastings Glover The Chairman for the time being of the Belvoir Rural lLB., C.M. Bottesford District Council is an ex-officio magistrate i Clerk to the Magistrates, Arthur Henry Marsh, Bank cham- The children of this place attend the school. at Wools- bers, Melton Mowbray I thorpe Rutland His Grace the Duke of (Lord I COMMERCIAL. Mearing Frank, architect to the Duke Lieut.), Belvoir castle; & 16 ArIington Capell Ben, huntsman to the Duke of Rutland street & Carlton club s w & Turf Divers William H. head gardener, Pogson Ernest Francis, Peacock hotel club w, London Belvoir castle & posting house Bcott Hon. Henry Robert ;T.P. (agent Doubleday Henry, blacksmith Territorial Battalion LeicestE!rshire Regi- to the Duke), Belvoir castle Fletcher Frederick William, sub-agent to ment (K Co. Capt. T. C. P. Beasley) the Duke, Belvoir castle BESCABY (formerly extra-parochial) is now a parish, Duke of Rutland is lord of the manor and the principal lying between Waltham and Saltby, about It miles north­ landowner; it contains 1,227 acres, about 300 of which are east from the former, and It miles west from the latter, 7 included within the walls of Croxton Park; rateable value, miles north-east from Melton Mowbrav station and 8 south­ £1,138; the population in 1901 was 20. This parish is west from Grantham, in the Eastern division of the county, reputed to be extra-parochial for ecclesiastical purposes. Melton Mowbray petty sessional division, union and county Letters through Melton Mowbray. The nearest money court district, Framland hundred. The lordship consists order & telegraph office is at Waltham, about It miles only of a farmhouse and 3 cottages, but there are many distant moats and foundations of buildings yet visible; in this manor is Holwell Spring, the source of the river Eye. The The children of this place attend the school at Stonesby 'Yard David, farmer BILL;ESDON is a small union town and parish, in a Uppingham, in the Eastern division of the county, Gartree fertile and pleasant valley, on the road from Leicester to hundred, East Norton petty sessional division, Billesdon Uppingham, 4! miles south-west from Tilton station on union, Leicester county court district, rural deanery of the Great Northern and London and North Western joint Gartree (third portion), arch deaconry of Leicester and railway, 3 south-east from Ingarsby on the Great Northern diocese of Peterborough. There are three springs which railway, 9 east from Leicester and 10 west-by-north from have their sources in this parish, known as the Billesdon