SWEPSTONE. 120 POST OFFIC:T

[LEICESTER.] SWEPSTONE. 120 POST OFFIC:t SWBPSTONB is a township, parish, and small village, The gentlemen's seats are GOPSALL, the Earl of Howe, distant [) miles from Bagworth station, 5 south from and MEA SHAM HALL, W. W. Abney, Esq. The popula Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch, 10 north of Atherstone, 5~ north tion, in 1851, was 585. The parish contain", 2,286 acres. north-west from Market Bosworth, and 120 fromLondon,in Miss A. 1\1:. Leslie is lady of the manor. There are West Goscote Hundred, Ash by.de-Ia-Zouch Union, Peter several charities, of £75 and upwards annual value. The borongh bishopric, North Leicestershire, situate on a small township only contains 245 inhltbitants. brook called the Mease. The Jiving is a rectory, with NEWTON BURGOLAND is a hamlet in the parish of Snarestone attached to it, value £600, with 100 acres of Swepstone, I mile south-east of Swepstone, with a popu glebe land; the Rev. John Hallward, M.A., rector, is the latioR of 244, and 786 acres. The Independents and incumbent; the Rev. Spencer Percival Powys, B.A., is the Primitive Methodists bave chapels. Earl Howe is lord curate; in the gift of Miss Alicia Maria Leslie. The ch llrch of the manor. of St. Peter is an old building, in good repair, and has a NEWTON NETHERCOTE is a hamlet to Swepstom',l handsome tower containing 4 bells, Gothic style. An mile south-east of Swepstone, and containing 125 in organ has been erected by the present rector, and there is habitants, and 288 acres. Miss A. M. LesIie is lady of th e some painted glass in the east window. The Dissenting manor. chapels are two, viz., Independent and Primitive Metho UPPER FIELD and FIitland are 1 mile north-east; dist; and there is a National school for boys and girls. Catter's Lodge, and Clock Mill are other places. SwepstoDe. Kirby James, collector of taxes Cook Henry,farmer GENTRY. I Kirkman William, farmer, CaUer's Id~ Cuthbert George, blacksmith & paris b Hallward Rev. John, X.A. [rector], I Poxon John,miller&grazier,Clock mill clerk Rectory bouse Taylor Thomas, boot & ihoe maker Harrison Ricbard, wheelwright Kerr 1Ur. Thomas West Ann (Mrs), schoolmistress Hunt John, farmer & maltster TRADERS. Newton Burgoland. Jehbett John, grocer & farmer Booton John, postmaster & grocer GENTRY. Meeking Thomas. farmer Bown WiIliam, 'Elephant' Macdonald Rev. John [Independent North Edwd.'Shepherd~Shepherde$$' Bnll WiIliom, carrier minister] Siddons George, farmer Chilwell Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Singleton \Villiam, esq Newton Nethercote. Crisp WiIliam, farmer Tebbett Mrs TRADERS. Croshaw Thomas Bidden, farmer, Field Thnms Mrs. Ann Crosher Thomas, farmer Deacon Thomas, farmer TRADERS. Cuthbert Andrew, carpenter Gibson Ricbard, farmer, Tempe Bott Gervase, farmer Ison George, farmer Hanson John, carpenter Chandler Jo~eph, carrier }Ieakin William, shoemaker&:farmer Ison Henry, tailor Compton John, draper, grocer &: baker Saddington John, butcher POST OFFICE.-John Booton, postmaster. Letters are received through the Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch office; arrive i past 9 a.m.; dispatched I past 4 p.m. The nearest money order offices are at Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch & Market llosworth CARRJER-WilIiam Bull, leaves Swepstone every tuesday [for Atherstone; thursoay, for Burt; &: saturday, for Ash by-de-Ia-Zoucb. SWl:NFOKD is a parish and pleasant village, near to Stanford H all, who is also lady of the manor, is a dis which :flows the river Avon, 2 miles north-east of Lil- charged -vicarage, -value £216, in the archdeaconry of bourne station, 87 from London, 4 south.by-east from Leicester and diocesc of Peterborough; the Rev. John Lutterworth, 61 north-east of Rugby station, and 18 from Lindsay, M.A., is the iIlcumbent. The Independents have Leicester, in Guthlaxton Hundred, Lutterworth Union, a small chapel here, and there is also a National school. South Leicestershire. The church of All Saints is a very The number of acres is about 1,600, Imd the population, old building, with a square embattled tower. TIle font is in 1851, was 420. This was a Roman settIem~nt. old. The living, in the patronage of Baroness Braye, of Addison Tbomas, grazier HipweII John, farmer & grazier Spencer John, butcher & grazier Bates Edward, wheelwright Hipwell William, farmer &. grazier Sturman Josepb, parish clerk Bott Thomas, schoolmaster Isham WilIiam, tailor Tailby William, baker Cattell Edward, farmer &. ,,:trazier Lewis James, grazier & tailor Thomas Daniel, carrier Cattell John, farmer & grazier Lewis James,jlln. tailor Towers WilIiam, shoemaker Chamberlain John, 'Cave's Arms,' & Morton Charles, butcher & grazier Turland John, coal dealer carpenter 1\10rton John, farmer Turner Joseph, shopkeeper Clarke John, farmer &: grazier Morton Joseph, b1acksmith &: grazier Turville William, carrier Cooke Thomas, grazier Palmer Josepb, bricklayer Wardery John, farmer & grazier Floyd Thomas, farmer Porter Timothy, maltster Wehster Samuel, grazier Fox Nathaniel, tailor Porter WilJiam, 'Chequers' Webster WilIiam, farmer & grazier Frpnch Richard, wheelwright Prowett Charles, farmer & grazier Winter Charles, blacksmith Gilbert Thomas, farmer &. grazier Simons John, farmer & grazier "Vood John, farmer &: grazier POST OPFICE.-James Lewis, receiver. Letters are re- CARRIERS:- ceived from Lutterworth at l past 9 a.m.; dispatched at Turville, to Lutterworth, tIJUrsday, 11 morning; to ! past 4 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Lutter- Rugby, saturday, 11 morning worth Daniel 'lhomas, to Leicester, saturday Free School, Thomas Bott, master SW'J:TB:LAND 15 a township, small parish, and wiIlage, - St. Leonard is an ancifDt eiJrly English structure, having situated on a small stream, 6 miles south of Lough- a nave, chancel, a private chapel on the south belonging borough, 3 south-west of Mountsorrel, 8 north-west of to the Earl of Lanesborough, and a square tower witb an Leicester, and 4~ south-west of the Sileby station of the embattled parapet oTDamented with pinnacles, containing Midland railway, in Barrow-upon-Soar Union, Lough- 6 bells. The living is a rectory, in the gift of tIle Lord borough division, West Goscote Hundred, Peterborough Cbancellor, valued at £300, chiefly derived from 190 bishopric, North Leicestershire. Swithlalld is noted for acres of glebe land; the incumbent is the Rev. Edward its valuable quarries of blue slate, which are extensively James Paget, M.A. There are about 1,600 acres of land, worked and Bunk to a great depth. .Almost all the build- of a clay, sand, and gravelly soil, and the population, in ings in the neighbourhood are covered with this material, 1851, was 285. Here is a Free school, erected and sup and it is much used for tombstones, land draining, wall ported by the Earl of I,anesborollgh, and who, as lord of building, and is also converted into many articles of the manor, appoints the four boys the parishioners are utility. Swithland Hall, the bealltiful seat of the Earli entitled to send to the endowed Free scbool at Mount of Lanesborough, who is the lord Qf the manor, stands sorrel. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1828. within Swithland park in this parish. The church of I GENTRY. I TRADERS. Baum John, timber dealer Lanesborougb Earl of, Switbland hall Bates Daniel, farmer Clark Stepbeu, shoemaker PagetRev.EdwardJames,M:.A..Rectory Bates Thomas, farmer ICuffiing WiIliam, farmer .

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