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.. , 24 BADBY. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. LKELLY & chapel is a neat building of red brick, erected in 1873 at acres; rateable value, [2,737; the population in 190E a cost of [65o, entirely defrayed by the late Mr. Briggs, was 408. of Daventry, and has 300 sittings. O:>le's charity of £3 Sexton, Frank Fennell. 18s. yearly, left in 1733 by Thomas Cole, is for bread, to Post Office.-Miss Ellen Sarah Ann Bhmden, sub-post- be distributed in threepenny loaves to six of the poorest mistress. Letters from Daventry arrive at 7 a.m. &> inhabitants of the parish after divine service at the 12 p.m.; dispatched at 7 p.m.; box closes 5 minutes. church. The interest on £191 17s. left by the Rev. Sir earlier, & parcels 7 n.m. week days only. Postal orders- John Knightley bart. in 1813, and now amounting to issued, but not cashed. The nearest money order &i £5 15s. yearly, is for the support of the Sunday school. telegraph office is at Daventry, 3 miles distant Arbury Hill, situated in this parish, is 804 feet above the SCHOOLS. level of the sea; the top is flat and has probably been a Roman encampment; from the summit beautiful and ex- Church of England (mixed), built in 1870, & enlarged in tensive views are obtained. Badby House, the property 1889, for 80 children; average attendance, 54; the of C. F. Watkins esq. is a pleasant residence in this parish school is in part supported by Hanson's charity of about one mile from Daventry, and is occupied by William £5 8s. yearly, left by deed in 1852: ~![rs-. EIlen Louisa Murland esq. J.P. Sir Charles Yalentine-Knightley bart. Douglas, mistress of Fawsley, who is lord of the manor, the Vicar, the Dean :\lary, Lady Knightley's School for Infants, built, with and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, and the trustees residence for mistress, about 1800, originally fm IT of the late T. F. Phillips are the chief landowners. girls; there are now 19 boys & 17 girls in average at-- The soil is red land and clay; subsoil, blue clay. The tendance; Miss Mary Emma Gurney, mistress chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 1,763 Carrier to Daventry.-Sutton, daily Carvill Miss Barnes Dird Joseph, boot & shoe maker Frost WaIter, White Lion inn P.R (~1rs.), Frost Mrs BirdvVilliamGoodlIlan,farmr.&lndownr Hare E. A. grazier • Loates Mrs Borton _.\lice (Mrs.), blackrnlith 'Higham Samuel, farmer & grazier Murland William J.P. Badby house; & Carvill Jane llarnes (J\Ess), farmer & I,-ens Thomas, cattle dealer 3 Upper Grosvenor st. London WC landowner J ohnson John Ayres, farmer, Park ho- Neeley Miss Cooper J ames, carpenter Keene Thomas, MaJtsters' Arms P.R. Scratton Rev Willialll M.A. Vicarage Cox Eli, vermin destroyer & carpenter Cox Ephraim, shopkeeper Painter John, farmer, Beeches COM:llERCIAL. Daniell William, blacksmith Stowe Alfred, farmer Adams J esse, farmer Daventry Co-operative Industrial Turner Alfred, hurdle maker Amos John, shoe maker Society Lim. (branch) (Miss NelIie Turner Youman Geo. frml'. & lndownrr Badby Cricket Club (William Bull, Francis Kinch) Warner George, grazier hon. sec) Dunkley Alfred, farmer Warner Thomas, Windmill inn P.R Bird Charles, thatcher Fennell ~Irs. Sarah Ann, farmer BAINTON is a parish, near the Lincolnshire border of by WiIliam Earle Welby esq. l.P. is the property of Lord. the county, I mile from Barnack station on the Great Kesteven, lord of the manor. The principal landowner~ Northern railway, 5~ east-by-north from Wansford, and are Lord Kesteven, the Marquess of Exeter and George 5 east from Stamford. in the Northern division of the Charles Wentworth-Fit'T.william esq. l.P. of Milton House. county, Peterborough liberty and petty sessional division, The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, rock and gravel. The Stamford union and county court district, rural deanery chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area, in of Peterborough (second portion), archdeaconry of Oak- eluding Ashton, is 1,739 acres; rateable value, £5,389 ham and diocese of Peterborough. The church of St. 7s . 6d. ; the population in 1901 was 214-' Mary is an ancient building of stone, in the Norman and Ashton, formerly a parish, was by a Local Governmenlo Early English styles, consistinQ' of chancel, nave, north Board Order, dated March 25,1887, added to this parish; aisle, south porch and a western tower with spire con- it is about half a mile south from the church. At th~' taining a clock and 4 bells: the church was restored in same date and by the same Order Bainton Heath was 1879, at a cost of 'lbont £1,200, chiefly defrayed by transferred from Bainton to Ufford. William Earle Welby esq. J.P. of Bainton House: there Parish Clerk, Thomas Tomblin·. are sittings for 200 p'lrsons. The register dates from the year 1713. The living is a chapelry annexed to the Post Office. John Watson, sub-postmaster. Letters- rectory of Ufford, joint net yearly value [270, with 40 through Stamford arrive at 8.20 a.m.; dispatched 5. 15 acres of glebe, in the gift of St. John's College, 'Cam- p.m. week days only. Postal orders are issued here,. bridge, and held since 1881 by the Rev. William SpiceI' but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph- office is at Barnack, 2 miles distant Wood M.A. and formerly fellow of that college, who resides at Ufford. The poor's estate produces £54 yearly, de- Wall Letter Box at Ashton, cleared 5 p.m. week days only- rived from houses and land in the parish, of which £20 Xational School (mixed), built in 1877 & enlarged in 1895,. is assigned to educational purposes and the remainder at a cost of £200, for 87 children; average attendance,. to the general uses of the poor. In the village is an 33; there is a house for the mistress-; Mrs. Fanny Maria. ancient cross, 14 feet in height. Bainton House, occupied I Glover, mistress B.AlN'l'O~. Gray George, farmer & machinist ASHTON. Pearson Charles Lake Jonathan, farmer Johnson Mrs Welby William Earle l.P. Bainton ho Mann John, Blue Boar P.lI. & farmer COM~IERCIAL. Mann ,sarah Jane (Mrs.), farmer COMMERCIAL• . Adams Bertie VineI', baker Pearson George, farmer, Lolham mill Cook .Tohn, farmer & overseer Bingham George, farmer (Letters via Maxey,Market Deeping) Grossmith John, farmer Brackley Joseph, farmer Sharpe Dorman, butcher Morris Jesse, gamekeeper to Lord; Brown Thomas, farmer Shelton Georg-e, stonemason Kesteven Gobley William, farmer Stevenson John, farmer Nidd Geqrge William, farmer Gale Henry, 'shoe repairer Ward John 8coit, baker & shopkeeper Ward John, farmer BARBY is a parish, on the borders of Warwickshire 1767; and to the Rev. Knightley Holled, father or I! miles from Kilsby station on the Northampton and the above, d. Dec. 2nd, 1756, and his wife and severaIl Rugby section of the London and North Western railway, of their children; in the south aisle are tablets to the 6 miles north-west from Daventry, 4 south-east from Rev. Earle Gillbee D.D, 18 years rector here, d. Oct. 3rd,. Rugby, and-16 north-west from Northampton, in the Mid 1813; Ann, his wife, d. Sept. 28th, 1819, and two of their division of the county, hundred of Fawsley, petty ses- I children; and to Jeffery Colledge, d. 1748: the church sional division of Daventry, union and county court dis- was refloored and repewed in 18Il, and in 1900 was re trict of Rugby, rural deanery of Daventry, archdeaconry . stored at a cost of over £4,000. The register dates froID' of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. The Ox- the year 1535. The living is a rectory, net yearly value ford and Birmingham canal and the Great Central rail- I £647, including 497 acres of .glebe, with residence, in the way both run through the parish. The church of St. , gift of and held since 1880 lJy the Rev. Richard Stovin Mary is a plain building of stone in various styles, I Mitchison M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford. The Con the earliest portion dating from the 12th century, and gregational chapel is a plain building of red brick, erected consisting of chancel with south chapel, nave of four I in 1855, and has 150 sittings. A charity of the annuaf bays, aisles, porches and a western tower containing a value of £80, called the" Town Land Charity," and con clock, erected in 1847, and 4 bells: on the walls are sisting of houses and about 34 acres of land, has beeJr tablets to the Rev. Charles WiIliams M.A. 36 years rector appropriated by the Inclosure Commissioners for the here, d. aug. 26th, 1850, and Mary Jane, his wife, general benefit of the parish, and is vested in trustees d. Nov. 5th, 1854; the Rev. Knightley Rolled D.D. and applied for the support of a National school and the d. Dec. 22nd, 1794; and Mary, his wife, d. Nov. 1st, repairs of the causeways of the parish: the Poor's Land'.