Uppmg~~~ Rent-Charge £106, Joint Net Yearly Value £235, with Kendall WI~Ham Henry Esq
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DIRECTORY.] LEICESTERSHIRE. NORTON-JUXTA-TWYCROSS. 305 Parish Clerk, John Preston. I only; dispatched at 6.15 p.m. Postal orders are issued Fast Office.-Harry Mansfield, sub-postmaster. Letters here, but not paid through Ashby-de-la-Zouch, which is the nearest money National School (mixed), erected in 1845, for 40 chil order & telegraph office, arrive at 7 a.m. week days dr~n; average attendance, 28 j Miss Fanny Lickiss,mist Green Rev. John Henry Bakewel1 M.A. Burdett Alfred, blacksmith Lems Richard, farmer Rectory Dakin William, farmer Mansfieldl Harry,whoolwright, Post off Edge Benjamin, farmer Singlehurst William, farmer COMMERCIAL. Freckelton Forester Stenson, farmer Street Henry J oseph, farmer Braddock Thomas, grazier Kendrick George, farmer Stretton Arthur, farmer EAST NORTON is a parochial chapelry and village Parish Clerk, William Jarman, jun. .on the Rutland border, in a. valley watered by the Eye The children of this place attend school at Tugby brook, between Tugby and Allexton, on the road from Post Office.-John Neal, sub-postmaster. Letters from Leicester to Uppingham, with a station on the Great Leicester, via Tugby, arrive at 9 a.m. j box closes for Northern and London and North 'Western joint railway, dispatch at 6 p.m.; sundays at 5.30 p.m. The nearest ahout half a mile from the village, I3! miles east from money order offices are at Tugby & Hallaton; the tele- Leicester, 5~ west from Uppingham and 93 from London j graph office is at the railway station it. i~ ~he head of a petty sessional division, in the ~astern County Magistrates for East N orton Petty Sessional dIV:IslOn of t.he county, hundred of E.ast. Goscote, BIllesdon Division. umon, Uppmgham county court dIstrict, rural deanery . <of Gartree (third portion), archdeaconry of Leicester and Pa~er Col. Fredk. I?~. WIthcote han,Oakha~,chaIrman rliocese of Peterborough. The church of All Saints is a BaIllle Col. James WIlliam, Illston grange, LeIcester small building 'of stone in the Early English style, con- Burton T~omas esq. Medbo~rne grange :sisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south transept, south Cunard SII' Bache bart. NevIlI-Holt, Market Harborough porch and a small embattled western tower with a short Fau~kner ~obert Andrews esq. Ashlands, Illston-on-the. ()ctacronal spire: the chancel was completely restored HIll, LeIcester -about 1850, at the sole expense of T. Chamberlayne esq. Fern~e Charles Witherington Bruce esq. Keythorpe hall, Lord Berners adding at the same time a new transept LeIces~er . .and stained windows: there are 120 sittings. The re- Fowk~ SIr Fredk. Thos. bart. D.L. Lowesby hall,LelCester gister dates from about the year 1690. The living is a Fenw~~ke George Gerard Charles esq. Stockerston hall, chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Tugby, average tithe Uppmg~~~ rent-charge £106, joint net yearly value £235, with Kendall WI~ham Henry esq. Goadby residence, and including 130 acres of glebe, in the gift of Palmer Major Edward Geoffrey Broadley B.A. Burrough, the Hon. Sir Robert Raymond Tyrwhitt-Wilson bart. and ~elton Mowbray . held since 1883 by the Rev. Hugh Parry, of Durham TaIlby Wm. Ward .esq.M.A.,D.L.S~effington hall,LeICester University and St. Bees, who is &lso rector of Allexton, Watson Geo. LewIs e~q.D.L.Rockmgham castle,Uppnghm and resides at Tugby. Here is a small Wesleyan Metho- Clerk to the MagIstrates, James Heger Douglass, -dist chapel. In the parish are 13 acres of land on which Market Ha.rborough . .. nine cottagers have a right to graze their cattle. The Petty Se~slOns a~e held m the, .Jl?-stlCe room attached to interest of £10 provides bread for the poor. The Manor the Pohce StatIOn, the first fnm each month at II a.ID House, the property of John Hippisley Heycock esq. but The following are the places within the East Norton at present occupied by Henry Kidd esq. is a mansion of Petty Sessional division :-Allexton, Billesdon, Blaston. 10cal stone, in the Tudor ·style, with fine mullioned win- Bringhurst, Cold Newton, Cranoe, Dray ton, East dows and an entrance porch, and is surrounded by Magna, East Norton, Frisby, Gaulby, Glooston, pleasure grounds. Tankerville Chamberlayne esq. LL.B., Goadby, Halstead, Hallaton, Holyoaks, Holt & Bradley, J.P., D.L. of Cranbury Park, near Winchester, is lord Horninghold, Illston-on-the-Hill, Launde, Loddington, <Of the manor. The principal landowners are the Hon. Lowesby, Mal'6field, Noseley, Norton-by-Galby, Rolles- Sir R. R. Tyrwhitt~Wilwn bart,. Johu Hippisley Hey- ton, Stockerston, Skeffington, Tilton, Tugby, What- cock esq. and William Ball esq. The soil is a good borough & Withcote fertile clay ; subsoil, chiefly marly clay, with good brick County Police Station, Geo.Smith,inspector,& 4 constables earth in some parts. The land is almost entirely pas- Railway Station, George Medcraft, station master ture. The area is 1,390 acres; rateable value, £2,176; Carrier.-Mrs. Smith, to Loddington, mono & fri. & the popUlation in 1891 was 139. Leicester, mono wed. & sat Gray Miss, Brookfie'ld & surveyor of highways for the Padmore Archibald, grazier Gray Mrs. BrQokfield Billesdon & Hallaton rural district Payne George, grazier Kidd Henry, Manor house councils Smith George, inspector of county 'Chamberlin Thos.WhiteBullP.H.&grzr Jarman Joseph, wheelwright & grazier police, Station house Dixon Joseph, farmer & grazier Medcraft George, station master Ward M. J. & Son, COM mers.Sta,tn wf Gray John, coal & coke merchant &c. NeaI John, post office West Sarah (Miss), grocer &c NORTON-by-GAL:BY (or King's Norton), so called in the gift of the trustees of the late Henry Greene esq. from its having been held for some time after his accession of Rolleston, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Caleb Eacott by William I. is a township, parish and village, pleasantly B.A.Lond. & Lic.Th. of University College, Durham, who situated, 4 miles north-east from Glen station on the is also rector of and resides at Gaulby. The charities in main line of the Midland railway, and 5 miles south-west clude a rent-charge of £5 on the estate o(the late Geol'ge from Ingersby station on the Peterborough and Leicester Crump Heap esq. left by William Whalley in li18, for the branch of the Great Northern railway, and about 7 south- clothing of two boys and two girls at Easter every year, east from Leicester, in the Eastern division of the county, and the interest of £50, left by Thomas Beaumont in Gartree hundred, petty sessional division and county court 1791, which is given away at Christmas in beef and bread. district of Leicester, union of Billesdon, rural deanery of The Countess of Stamford and Warrington is lady of the Gartree (secondl portion), archdeaconry of Leicester and manor. The principal landowners are Edward T. Heap -diocese of Peterborolligh.. The church of St. Jolm t.he esq. and the trustees of the Wyggeston Hospital,Leicester. Baptist, erected at the expence of William Fortrey esq. The soil is chiefly fertile clay; subsoil, clay and gravel. who died in 1783, is an edifice of stone in the Gothic style, The crops are wheat, barley and oats, but the iand is consisting of nave with quasi-chancel, and a western tower, principally pasture. The area of Norton is. 1,010 acres; with pinnacles, containing a clock with chimes flnd Cl bells: rateable value, £1,329 j the population of the parish in the west end was struck by lightning 3 Feb. I843, and re- 1891 was 131, and of the township 59. paired about 1848: tIre nave is fitted with oak pews, and Letter Box cleared at 5.30, week days only. Letters has 200 sittings. The registers date from 1589. The through Billesdon, which is also the nearest money living is a vicarage, with the chapelry -of Stretton P::;rva order & telegraph office, arrive at 8.30 a.m -annexed, average tithe rent-charge £71, joint net yearly The children of this place attend the school at Gaulby value £90, including 43 acres of glebe in Stretton Parva, Carriers.-CouIson & Stafford, pass through wed. & sa.t Forster ~O?t. Makep.eace,farmr.&grazrl No~!ish Henry, grazier . IWebster George, grazier Freer ,"YIlham, graZIer Pmlmg Thomas, farmer & graZIer Webster Walter, grazier Hardy Samuel, farmer & grazier Simpkins Joseph, farmer & grazier NORTON-juxta-TWYCROSS is a parish, township Ifro ID Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch, and 6 west from ),farket Bos and small village, It miles south from Snareston !>tation worth, in the Western division of the county, Sparkenhoe on the Ashby and Nuneaton branch of the London and hundred, Market Bosworth petty sessional division, union North Western railway, 7 north from Atherstone, 8 south and county court district, Tural deanery of Sparkenhol) LEICS. & RUT. 20 .