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FROLESWORTH (or Frowlesworlh) is a pleasant from designs by William Bassett Smitb esq. of London, village and parish, 2 miles north from Gllesthorpe station and in 1895 the tower was restored and battlementa and 3 south-west from Broughton Astley station, botb added: the church affords 160 sittings. The register on the Midland railway, 4 west from Ashby Magna dates from the year 1538 and is almost complete. The station, on the main line of the Great Central railway, living is a rectory, net yearly value £290, with residence 4) south-east from Hinckley, 5 north-west from and 57 acres of glebe, in the gift of truste es of the Lutterworth and 92 from London, in the Southern late Rev. Alfred Francis Boucher M.A. and held since division of the county, Guthlaxton hundred, petty 1886 by the Rev. Charles Estcourt Boncher M.A. of sessional division, union and county court district, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, rural dean of Guthlaxton second, of Lutterworth, rural deanery of Guthlaxton (second and master of Smith's ~ almshouses (income £30). Here are portion), archdeaconry of and diocese of Peter· twenty-four almshouses for widows of the communion of borough. The church of St. Nicholas is a building of the Church of ,founded in 1726 under the will of Chief stone, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, with Baron Smith, mentioned abo,·e; the income is now £630 some Early English remains, and consists of chancel, yearly, and each inmate receives £20 yearly: attached to nave, aisles, north porch and a western tower of the the almshouses is a little chapel, in which divine service Decorated period with crocketed pinnacles and contain- is conducted once a week by the rector, who is master of the ing 3 bells, two of which are dated 1638 and 1'749 re- foundation. Edward Gerald Pemberton esq. is lord of the spectively: the chancel retains a piscina and sedilia, and manor. The principal landowners are Mrs. Platt, Mr. Henry within the communion rails are two fine altar tombs of J. Collins and H. T. Hincks esq. of Wigston, Leicester. alabaster, with recumbent effigies to Francis Staresmore The soil is loam; subsoil, sand. The chief crops are wheat, esq. ob. 1626, and one of his \lives, ob. 1657: there is barley, oats and roots. The area is 1,515 acres; rateable also a memorial to John Smith esq. a distinguished value, £2,380; in 1911 the population was 243. judge, sometime a justice of the Common Pleas in Ire· Sexton, George Johnson. land (1700), a baron of the English Exchequer (1702) and lord chief baron of the Exchequer in Scotland, who Post Office.-John Jeffs, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive was born in this parish in 1656, being the son of Roger from Lutterworth at 8.50 a.m. & 12.45 p.m.; box closes Smith esq. of Frowlesworth, and died 24 June, 1726; the at 11.40 a.m. & 5.10 p.m.; no sunday delivery. Clay- stained east and west windows are memorials to a son of brook, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & the present Rector, who died in 1898; some fragments telegraph office of very old glass remain in two of the chancel windows: a Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1870 & new organ was erected in 1897, at a cost of £190: the . enlarged in 1907, for 72 children; average attendance, church was completely restored in 1887, at a cost of £1,750, 35; Mrs. Kate Stanage, mistress

Boucher Rev. Charles Estcourt M.A.! Bradshaw Joseph, farmer Harrison William, blacksmith [rector & rural dean], Rectory 'Compton Thomas, grazier HoggitlS Charles, farmer Granger .Arthur W. The Hollies IGranger Arthur W. farmer, The Hollies Holyoak Chamberlain, farmer Pemberton Edward Gerald, Claybrook I Hall James, Plough &; Harrow P.R. Nevett Albert, boarding ho.The White ha grange I &; butcher Record Thomas, farmer, The Lodge Smith Albert Hall Thomas, grazier, Frowlesworth hill Stanage John, joiner COMMEIlCIAL. Harrison Saml. Carter, teacher of music Taylor George, grazier, Forest view Ball Arthur, farmer . IHarrison Tom Waring, grazier Upton Charles WiIliam, Royal Oak 1'.11 GADDESBY is a small village and parish, 3 miles lege, Dublin, who resides at Baraby. There is a south-ea¥ from Rearsby and 2l south from Brooksby Wesleyan chapel here. Cooke's charity, formerly de­ stations, on the Syston and Peterborough branch of the rived from 11 acres of land sold in 1881 for £800, is Midland railway 3~ south·west from Great Dalby now derived from Consols, in which this sum "as then station on the ilieat Northern and London and North invested, and the interest is distributed annually; Cham­ Western joint railway, 6~ south"west from Melton berlin's gift of £4 19s. 4d. yearly is applied to the ap­ Mowbray and 10 north-east from Leicester, in the Eastern prenticing of poor boys; Williamson's of £1 8s. yearly division of the county, hundred of East Goscote, Melton is for bread. Gaddesby Hall, the property of E. D. Hilliard Mowbray petty sessional division, union and county court esq. is a fine brick mansicn surrounded by park-like district, rural deanery of Goscote (first portion), arch­ grounds and occupied by Baron De Forest M.p. The deaeonry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough: principal landowner is E. D. Hilliard esq. The land is QueniborolIgh forms the western and the southern chiefly in pasture, Stilton cheese being made by most of boundary of the parish. The church of St. Luke is a the occupiers. The soil is stiff clay; subsoil, sand. The temarkably large and fine structure in the Gothic style area is 1,718 acres of land and 7 of water; rateable value, of the 14th century, consisting of chancel, clerestoried £3,256; the population in 1901 was 301 in the civil and 286 nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and an elegant in the ecclesiastical parish. western tower "ith lofty spire containing 3 bells, dated Sexton, John H. Underwood. 1701: the west front of the church exhibits beautiful Post, M. O. & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.­ canepied work of the Decorated period: there is a brass Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, sub-postmistress. Letters re­ tit Jolm Baker Brittad, d. 1841, and two monuments ceived through Leicester at 6.50 a.m. &; 2.40 p.m. ; di.­ to the Derhy and Seagrave families, dated respectively patched at 12.30 &; 7.40 p.m.; slmdays arrive at 6.50 1496 and 1494: the chancel retains a piscina and there a.m. (callers only); dispatched at 5.55 p.m. T.O open are others in the aisles: the font is Decorated: tl>.ere are sundays from 8 to 10 a.m 350 sittings, 100 being free. The register date.~ from Public Element3ry Sccool (mixed), to hold 70 children; the year 1698. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value average attendance, 38; Miss Mabel Shelton, mistress £130, in the gift of E. D. Hilliard esq. and held since Carrier.--George Baker, to Leicester, wed. & sat.; to 1890 by the Rev. Richard Quarry M.A. of Trinity Col- Melton, tues

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Baker Thomas, wheelwright Knapp Lucy (Mrs.), cowkeeper Bradbury John K. Rose farm Brown Hercules, grazier Mason Grace (Mrs.), farmer De Forest Baron M.p. Gaddesby ball; Bull Francis C. head gardener to Sir May Philip, gardener to Baron De & 27 St. James' place & National F. F. ~. Fowke bart. Forest M.p Liberal & Marlborough clubs Lon- Clark Elizabeth (Mrs.), grazIer Miles William, baker don sw' Cragg Thomas, grazier Mulgrove Samuel, grazier FowkeSir Frederick Ferrers Conant bart Davies John Harris, farmer Needham John Slater, gardener to D. Hooper Alfred, The Pines Gambl-; Frederick, grocer E. Johnstone esq Johnstone David Edward Park house GoodWIn Alfd. Chas. Cheney Arms p.R Richardson Charles, blacksmith Larking Lieut. Dennis A. H. The Cottage Gr~gory William, ~zier Smith Ann (Mrs.), grazier & landowner Hames John H. graZier Smith John, grazier Hardy Thomas, farmer Smith Richard, grazier COIl:MERCIAL. Hubbard James, head gardener to J. K. Smith Waiter, grazier Baker David, grazier Bradbury esq Storey William Kendall, farmer Baker George, grazier Hunt William, grazier Thompson Frederick, grazier Baker In. Christopher,grazier,Nether ho Johnson David, grazier Whait Sydney, grazier GALBY (or Gaulby) is a small and pretty village and stations on the Peterborough and Leicester branch of parish and township, and is seated on a height about the Great Northern railway, and 8 miles soutb-east 7 miles west from East Norton station on the Newark from Leicester, in the Southern division of the county, and Market Harborough branch of the Great Northern Gartree hundred, petty sessional division of East Norton, and London and North Western joint railway and about BilIesdon union, Leicester county court district. rural 6 south-west from Loseby and 4i south from Ingersby deanery of Gartree (second portionJ, archdeaconry of LEICS. & HUT. o·