DIRECTORY.] . POTTERS MARSTON. 591 PICXWELL is a village· and parish, 4 miles east-by­ Gainsborongh is lord of the manor. The principal land. north from John O'Gaunt station on the ::-Iewark, owners are Lt.-Col. H. M. Grenfell M.V.O. Robert McLean Melton and Nottingham branch of the Great Northern esq. Guy E. Paget esq. H. S. T. Bullock esq. Capt. John and London and North Western joint railway, si south­ W. Burns, of Leesthorpe Hall, , and Miss south-east from Melton Mowbray, and 6 north-east from ann Pacey. The soil is light and clay; subsoil, clay and , forming a detached portion of the hundred of limestone. The land is chiefly nsed for grazing. The Gartree, in the Eastern division of the county, Melton area, including Leesthorpe, is 2,378 acres; rateable Mowbray petty sessional division, union and county ,·alue, £3,202; the population in 1901, including the court district, rural deanery of Goscote (first portion), hamlet of Leesthorpe, was 237. archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. Post, Telegraph &, Telephone Call Office.-John Williaw The church of .All Saints is a building of stone, dating Toon, sub-postmaster. Letters through Oakham ar­ from the 11th century, cDnsisting of chancel, c1ere­ rive at· 7.10 a.m. &, 3.25 p.m.; dispatched ILIO a.ill. storied nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled & 6.20 p.m.; sunday, arrive at 8.50 a.m.; dispatched western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 4 at 5.10 p.m. Somerby, about three-quarters of a mile bells: there are 200 sittings. The register dates from distant, is the nearest money order office the year 1572. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £390, with residence and 60 acres of glebe, in LEESTHORPE is a hamlet, in the parish of Pickwell, the gift of the trustees of the Earl of Gainsborough, I! miles north. Leesthorpe Hall, the seat of Capt. and held since 19II by the Rev. Reginald Charles John W. Burns, is a fine mansion, situated on the Griffith, of Hertford College, Oxford. Lady Campden's Melton road. charity of £6 yearly is for fuel. WHliam Cave D.D. of Letters through Melton Mowbray arrive at 8.30 a.m St. John's College, Cambridge, an eminent writer on Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1835 &; ecclesiastical history, chaplain to Charles 11. and canon enlarged in 1883, to hold 70 chHdren; average at- of Windsor, was born here 30 Dec. 1637, his father tendance, 31; WilIiam J. Palmer, master being then rector; he died 4 Aug. 1713. The Ear! of Carrier.-Wmiam Pears, to Melton, tues PICKWELL. Hallam Mary Ann (Mrs.), White Young George, wheelwright & assist- Grenfell Lt.-Col. Harold Maxwell Horse P.H ant overseer M.V.O. & Lady Muriel, The Grange Hill Edward, grazier Griffith Rev.ReginaldCharles (rector), Hornbuckle John, grazier LEESTHORPE. Rectory Kilbourn Frederick, grazier Burns Capt. John W., J.P. Lees- Longwill John, grazier thorpe hall COMMERCIAL. Looms William, farmer Blackwel! Charles, stud groom to Bailes Frank, farmer McLean Robert, farmer Capt. John W. Burns J.P Brewitt George WilIiam, farmer, Palmer Parker, grazier Duffin Gearge Henry, farmer Leesthorpe grange Palmer WiIliam Josiah, sChoolmaster. Gibson Tom W. farmer Brown Gregory, grazier, Kyte hill & clerk to the Parish Council j Harris George, grazier Chester William, grazier Pears W iIIiam, carrier Smith Herbert. head gardener to Collins Thomas, head gardener to Lt.­ Tonn Beatrics L. (Mrs.), shopkeeper I Capt. John W. Burns J.P Col. H. M. Grenfell M.V.O Wright Arthur T. farmer, Noel Arms PL UNGAR (Barkstone-cum-Plungar) is a village and Room, used as a reading room and for general purposes, parish near the borders of Nottinghamshire and on the was conditionally presented to the parish in 1900 by Grantham and Nott·ingham canal, 2 miles north from Frank Wright esq. J.P. The poor have 300 yards of Stathern and It south from Redmile stations, both on calico yearly from Daniel Smith's charity: the rent of the Newark and Market Harborough branch of the Great two cottages was left by Mrs. Burnaby for school pur­ Northern and London and ::-Iorth Western joint railway, poses: Thomas Wilson left £20 to maintain tbree and 10~ north-by-east from ·)[elton Mowbray, in the children in the infants' school, and in 1845 Mrs. Burnaby Eastern division of the county, hundred of Framland, left a further sum of £20 to the same charity, increasing Belvoir petty sessional division, Bingham union, Melton the number of children to be benefited to six. The Mowbray county court district, rural deanery of Fram- making of Stilton cheese is the principal industry. 'rhe land (first portion), archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese Duke of is lord of the manor. The soil is of Peterborough. In 191I this parish was united eccle- chiefly clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, siastically with Barkstone under the name of Barkstone- barley, beans and peas. The area is 973 acres of land cum-Plungar. The church of St. Helen is a building of and 6 of water; rateable value, £1,253; the popUlation stone, Early English character, consisting of chancel, ill 1901 was 194· nave, sonth aisle, and an embattled western tower with Parish Clerk, John Henrv Welsh. pinnacles, containing a clock and 2 bells: the "hair staJls Post Office.-John Henry Welsh, sub-postmaster. Letters are of carved oak, and the pulpit of Caen stone: "he through Nottingham, via Bottesford,. arrive at 8.30 church was restored and the chancel re-floored in 1856. a.m.; dispatched at 9.10 a.m. & 6.20 p.m. Redmile The register dates from the year 1754. The living is a is the nearest money order & telegraph office vicarage united to that of Barkstone, net yearly valne The children of this parish attend the Free school at £ 175, derived from 120 acres of glebe, with residence, Barkstone in the gift of the Duke of Rutland, and held since 1903 Carriers.-William Barrett, to Nottingham, sat. ; William by -the Rev. John Thomas Bell, who resides at Bark- Watchorn, to Grantham, on man.; to Nottinghan... stone. Here is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. .A Parish wed. &; sat

Elborne Miss, The Glebe house f Kirk Thomas, farmer rWard Frederick. farm bailiff to Frank Wright Frank J.P Kirk Tom Bonsor, farmer & assistant I Wright esq. J.P overseer Watchorn Isaac, shoe ma. & cowkeepr COMMERCIAl, Mackley James, blacksmith Watchorn William, carrier &; grazier Barrett William, carrier &; grazier Miller Annie (Miss), cheese maker Welbourn James, cowkeeper Braithwaite William, painter Miller Robert, shoe maker Welsh John Henry, baker, grocer, &; Derbyshire Martha (Mrs. ) ,.Anchor inn Miller WiIliam, farmer post office Dewey Richard, cowkeeper reil Joseph, butcher &; grazier Wilkinson Ernest, joiner, wheelwright Kirk Ernest, grazier Percival Thomas Frederick, farmer &; carriage builder Kirk James, farmer Worthington Benjamin, grazier

POTTERS MARSTON is a township, I~ miles west a chapelry, united with Stapleton to the rectory of from Croft station on the Leicester and Nuneaton Barwell, joint net yearly value £650, including 168 acres branch of the London and North Western railway (over of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. R. Titley, and held since which the Midland railway has also rnnning powers), 1909 by the Rev. Alfred John Gardner Titley M.A. of and 4' north-east from Hinckley, in the Western division Pembroke College, Cambridge, who resides at Barwel!. of the county, hundred of Sparkenhoe, Market Bosworth Frederick Granville Sinclair esq. of Chingford, Essex, petty se.. ional division. Blaby union, Hinckley county is lord of the manor and' sole landowner. The Hall, cryurt district, rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (second now a farm honse, was the residence of the Boothbv deanery), archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peter- family from the early part of the 17th to the end of the borough. The church of St. Mary is a small and plain 18th century: over the door are the initials of Richard building of stone, consisting of nave only, and was IB'JOthbv, by whom it was built, and who died in 1639. re-floored and a new reading desk added in 1871: there The' soil is loam and clay. The chi.. f crops are wheat, are memorial tablets to several members of the Boothbv b~r1ey and roots. The area is 702 acres; rateable value. family. who are buried here: the church affords 36 [,1,089; the popnlation in 1901 was 21. sittings. The register is kept at Barwell. The living is