DIRECTORY.] 471 ROTHLEY. [LEICESTER.] Letters received through Nottingham, by foot post, from ICARRIERS:- Bottesford. The nearest money order office is at Bottesford Richard CopIey, to N ewark, wed.; to N ottin!]:ham, sat National Sc/Wol, GeorgeMilner, master Edward Roberts, to Grantham, sat.; to Bingham, thurs PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Crofts Robert, plumber & ~lazier Parr George, painter Bissill Miss Crofts William, plumber & glazier Parr Richard, farmer, Rectory farm Lovitt Mrs Douhleday George, blacksmith Parr William, farmer Miller John Hammond John, drill sergeant of the Patchett Edmund, baker Outram Rev. George Sandford, B.A. Belvolr rifles Patchett WilIiam, grazier [rector] Harrison William, Old Windmill Preston James, grazier Stevenson Thomas, sen King Philip, grocer Roberts Edward, carrier COMMERCIAL. Lovitt Thomas, farmer Roberts WiIJiam, wheelwright Birch Richard, farmer Mackley Robert, farmer Silverwood Robert, tailor & grocer & Bissill Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Mackley William, wheelwright assistant overseer Carr John, shoe maker M unks Thomas, shoe maker Stevenson Thomas, jun. farmer Clower John, Peacock, & coal dealer Musson Richard Birch, miller, Red- Stockwell William. farmer Copley Richard, shopkeeper & catTier mile mill Wilders Stephen, fanner ROLLESTON is a chapelry and township in Billesdon \ esq., and held by the Rev. William Greville Hazlel'igg, B.A., parish,9 miles south-east from Leicester, and 2 south-by- of Pembroke College, Oxford. The Hall is a handsome stone east from Billesdon, in the Southern division of the county, mansion, with beautiful and picturesque pleasure grounds Gartree hundred, union of' Billesdon, county court district and plantations, with large fishpond, and is the residence of of Leicester, rural deanery of Gartree, archdeaconry of John Clerk, esq. George Heap, esq., who is lord of the Leicester, and diocese of Peterborough. The church, a small manor, and the Rev. - Buckby, are chief landown~rs. The stone buiIdimr, stands close to Rolleston Hall (nearly hidden soil is a strong, stiff clay; subsoil, clay. The crops are from view by the large spreading yew trees and shrubs which wheat, barley, oa ts, &c., but principally pasture. The surround it), and consists of a nave and a square embattled acreage is 920; rateable value, £1,966; the popUlation in tower: on the south side stands a very ancient cross, in a 11871 was 40. good state of preservation. The register dates from theyear Parish Clerk, Joseph Woorlford. ]579. The living is a chapelry, consolidated with BiIlesdon -- vicarage, in the gift of the trustees of the late Henry Greene, Letters through Billesdon, the nearest money order office Clerk John, The Hall I Hart William, farmer & grazier Hart John, farmer & grazier Timms George, farmer & grazier ROTHERBY is a village and parish, on the navigable College, Cambridge. A school-room was built and endowed~ Wreake, and Syston and Peterborough railway, in the and conveyed to the parish, by the late C. Pierce Seaman, Northern division of the county, East Goscote hundred, esq. There are charities of about £15 annual value. The Melton Mowbray union and connty court district, rural principallandowners are Thomas J ohnson, esq., of Leicester,. deanery of Goscote, arch deaconry of Leicester, and diocese who is lord of the manor, Mrs. Pierce Seaman, and W. of Peterborough, half a mile east of the Brooksby station, Wright, esq., of Shoby. The soil is various; subsoil~ 108 miles from London, and 6 south-west from Melton clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. Mowbray. The church of All Saints is a stone structure in The acreage is 759; rateable value, £1,686; in 1871 the the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, and aisles, population was 132. tower; spire, and 3 bells. The register dates from the year Parish Clerk, John Frisby. [ J. The living is a rectory, consolidated with Hoby, joint yearly value .£800. and 242 acres of glebe, 35 acres of which are in this parish, in the gift of and held by the Rev. Letters through Leicester. The nearest money order office Gilbert Beresford, B.D., Hon. Canon of .Peterborough, late is at Rearsby rural dean of East G08cote, and formerly fellow of St. John's School, Miss Huddlestone, mistress Cooper John Harris, Manor hou3e IGreenleaves Henry, farrier IWatts John, grazier Meadows Robert Hames Joseph, farmer & grazier Wood John, farmer & grazier ROTHLEY is a town and parish, situated on the banks Barkby, Barkby Thorpe, Barrow-upon-Soar Beaumont of a stream which empties itself into the river Soar,3 miles Leys, Beeby, Belgrave, Birstall, Bradgate, Crossington, west from Syston station, 1l0~ from London, a mile and Cropstone, Croxton South, Gilroes, Leicester Abbey, Lei­ a half south from Mountsorrel, 5~ miles south from Lough­ cester Frith, l'vlapplewell Longdale, Mountsorrel North~ borough, u~ north from Leicester, and 2 south-west from Mountsorrel South, Newtown Linford, Queniborougb~ the. ~ileby station on the Midland railway, in the Northern Quorndon, Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake, Rearsby, Rothley~ diVISIon of the county, Loughborough division, West Gos­ Rothley Temple, Seagrave, 8ileby, Swithland, Syston,. cote hundred, Barrow-upon-Soar union, Leicester eounty ThruBsington, Thurcaston, Thurmaston North, Thurmaston court district, rural deanery of Akeley, arcbdeaconry of South, Ulverscroft, W alton-sllper-WoIds, Wanlip, and W ood­ Leicester, and diocese of Peterhoroug-h. The church of St. house. Many of the inhabitants of the parish are em­ John the ~aptist is an ancient building: it has chancel, ployed in frame work knitting and at the Mountsorrel nave and aIsles, and a tower at the western extremity with Granite Works. On the green is an ancient conrt-house~ an embattled parapet; there are 5 bells and clock: there where the proceedings of the manorial court are always are many old monuments of the Babbington family. The opened, but afterwards adjourned to the Red Lion public register dates from the year 1570. The living is a vicar­ house. John Henry Parker, esq., who is lord of the age, yearly value £500, derived from glebe lands in Gad­ manor, Mrs. Perry Herrick, John Tlbbutt, esq., and Messrs. des by, Keybam, Wartnaby, Grimstone, Chadwell-cum­ R. and F. Foulkes~ are the principal landowners. The soil is Wykebam, and Rothley, being the six parishes which consti­ stiff loam; subsoil, clay. The chief.crops are wheat, barley~ tute the soke of Rothley, in the gift of and held by the Rev. oats, beans and roots. The acreage IS 2,170; rateable value.. Richard Burton, M.A., of Lincoln College, Cambridg-e, and £5,421; in 1871 the population of the township was 1,040. J .P. Here is a National mixed scliool, rehuilt in 1871 by the ROTHLEY TEMPLE, formerly extra-parochial, is now a present vicar, at a cost of £500; there is an endowment of parish; it adjoins Rothley on the west, in the West Goscote three acres ofland, and a house and garden, yielding £2.:> hundred, Barrow-upon-Soar uuion, and Leicester county yearly, to educate 15 poor children. Here are cbapels for court district. Here was once a commandery of Knights General Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists. Templars. The population in 1871 was 85. There are charities of the annual value of £2, given in Parish Clerk, Josepb Nurse. bread on St. Thomas's Day. There is a Reading Room and Library, of whiCh Mr. WiIkinson is the secretary. On a POST OFFICE.-Henry Brewin, postmaster. Letters re­ risin!r ground. at a short distance from the west side of the ceived from Loughborough at 8.45 a.m.; dispatched ~eicester a~d Mountsorrel turnpike road, and within the pre­ thereto at 5 p.m. The nearest money order office is at CIncts of thIS parish stands the Workhouse of the Barrow­ Mountsorrel upon-Soar union, ~ commodious and substantial erection, Bnrro'll'-upon-Soar Union;- with a front in the Elizabethan style: there is a good board­ Clerk to the Union, Wm.WhiteGoode; office at Lougbboro~ room for the guardians. The Barrow-upon-Soar Union Relieving Officer for Barrow District, George Bryan compnses the following parishes :-A.nsty, Ansty Pastures, Relier:ing Officer for Syston District, Thomas Miles .