538 BlTTESWELL. I .. EICESTERSHIRE.
acres, and situated about one mile from the village, is now POST OFFICE.-Mrs. Elizabeth Wigley, receiver. Letters the property and residence of David BromiJowesq. D.L.,J.P.; received through the Lutterworth office; arrive at 6.25 near it is a favourite meet of the Atherstone foxhounds. a.m. ; dispatched at 6.40 p. m. The nearest money order The Manor House, the property of Robert GilIespie esq. is & telegraph office is at Lutterworth at present (1891) unoccupied. Bitteswell House is the pro The Endowed School (mixed), built & opened in 1871, was perty and residence of Hobert William Gillespie Stainton replaced in 1888 by a new building, with master's house, esq. and Bitteswell Lodge of Richard Twining esq. The Earl erected on a more convenient site at a cost of about of Denbigh is lord of the manor. The principal landowners £1,000, from desi!?ns by Mr. W. F. Lyon, architect, of are D. Bromilowesq. D.L., J.P. R. W. Gillespie Stainton esq. London, & will hold 90 children; average attendance, S6 ; l'attishall Jones esq. R. Twining esq. the Rev. R. P. Wailer Maurice Smith, master lILA. rector, Messrs. Michael J. Grundy and Thomas Dowel\. The soil is gravel; subsoil. clay. The chief crops are wheat, CONVEYANcE.-Omnibuses from Lutterworth to & from barley, oats and roots, and a part of the parish is grazing. Ullesthorpe station, meeting all tl1e principal trains, pass The acreage is 2,630 ; rateable value, £3,545; in 1881 the through the village ponulation was 364. CARRIER.-Tom Masters to Leicester, sat. 6.30 a.m Parish Clerk and Sexton, Thomas Briggs. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Waller Rev. Robert Plume M.A.Vicarage Hllhbard John, Olli Royal Oak P.H. Rromilow Davidn.L., J.p.Bitteswell hall COMMERCIAL. blacksmith & farmer Dowell Mrs Briggs ThJmas Harris, shoe maker Lowe Amns, farmer Hanson Edward Cooke Edward Thomas, farmer Masters Tom, Royal Oak P.H. & grazier Higginson Mrs Garner Thomas, butcher & carrier Hipwell Mrs Goodman Arthur, tailor P:nnock Edmund, carp~nter Jary Major Robert Herbert Heath J.P. Grundv l\Iichael Jackson, landowner & 8cotton Thomas, farmer & grazier Bitteswell hall grazier Sutton ~amuel, grazier Johnson Mrs Guildford James, farmflr, Glebe farm Timms ~TiJliam, baker Sharman Mrs Harris ehas. & Snn,carpenters & joiners Underwoocl David, farmer & grazier, Stainton Robert William Gillespie, H;urison Ann (Ml·S.), shopl(ccper Blakenhall mtteswell house Hill George, farmer & grazier WilIiams Thomas, grazier, The Lodge 'fwining Richard, The Lodge Hubbard Josiah, baker BLABY is a nnion town, township and parish, on the Marston, Thurlaston & Knoll & Bassett House, Whetstone, south bank of the river Soar and Union canal, having a Wigston Magna. The population of the union in 1881 station on the Leicester and Nuneaton line of the North was 21,853 ; rateable value in 1890, £147,271. Western railway, d· miles south-west from Leicester and I~ Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Benjamin miles west from Wigston station and north-west from Arthur Shires, Leicester Countesthorpe station, both on the Rugby and Leicester Treasurer, William Unwin Heygate, Leicester branch of the Midland railway and 99 from London, in the Collectors, Aylestone, Elihu Edlin; Blaby district, Josiah Southern division of the county, Guthlaxton hundred, Ronshor, Blaby; Cosby district, W. B. Hardy, Cosby; Leicester petty sessional division and county court district, Countesthorpe district, Josiah Bonshor, BJaby; Croft dis- Guthlaxton rural deanery first portion, archdeaconry of trict, Thomas Cartwright, Astley; Enderby district, Jas. Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. The church of All Herbert, Enderby; Narborough & Thurlaston districts, Saints is a building of stone in an Early Gothic style, con- W. W. Berridge, Narborough; Whetstone district, Jo~iab sisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a tower Bonshor, Blaby; Wigston district, Thomas Heard, Wig- with lofty spire, ornamented with carved heads and con- ston Magna tainin~ 5 bdls, dated 16II, 1634, 1807 and 1887: there Relieving Officers, Enderhy district, William Kemp (mas- are 400 sittings, 200 being free. The parish register dates ter), Workhouse, Enderby; Wigston district, Robert from the year I560. The living is a rectory, net yearly Barnes, Wigston Magna value £370, derived chiefly from 340 acres of glebe, with Vaccination Officers, Enderby sub-district, William Oram, residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough, and Narborough; Wigston sub-district, Hobert Barnes, Wig- held since 1881 by the Rev. Peter Nettleton Leakey M.A. of ston Magna Corpus Christ.i college, Cambridge. The Baptist Chapel, Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Aylestone district, erected at a cost of £2,000, will seat 500 persons. Many of Edward Hemings Snoad, Highfield huuse, Aylestone; the inhabitants are framework knitters and shoe manufac- Enderby district, John Young, Narborough; Wigston turers. Blaby Hall, the residence of Mrs. AlIen, is a house district, Arthur Nathaniel Barnley L.R.C.p.Edin. Wigstoll in the Elizabethan style, with extensive pleasure grounds. Magna The principal landowners are Mrs. Allen, who is lady of the Superintendent Registrar, Benjamin Arthur SlIires, Leices- manor, Samuel Turner, the Rev. P. N. Leakey, rector, ter; deputy, Fred W. Mee James Greenway and E. T. Blunt esqrs. The soil is sand Registrars of Marriages, Blaby district, James Sharpe, Bell and gravE'!l; subsoil, sand. The chief crops are wheat, oats street, Wigston Magna j Enderby district, William Oram, and turnips. The acreage of the parish is 3,300; rateable Narborough value of lllaby only, £5,055; in 1881 the population was Registrars of Births & Deaths, Enderby sub-district, William 1,303 in the parish, exclusive of Countesthorpe, which will Oram, Narborough j Wigston sub-district, Rohert Barnes, be found under a separate heading. Wigston Magna Parish Clerk, William Brett. Workhouse, Enderby, a building of brick, built to hold 235 POST &; M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. inmates; John Young, N arborough, medical officer j Rev. -WilIiam Glover, receiver. Letters arrive from Leicester Charles Wing, chaplain; William Kemp, master; Mrs. at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 6.25 p.m. & sundays 2 p.m. E. Kemp, matron Narborough is the nearest teleg-raph office RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY. National School (mixed), erected in 1849 & enlarged in 1874 Clerk, Benjamin Arthur Shires, Leicester & again in 1890, at a cost of £400 ; it will now hold 190 Treasurer, William U!1win Heygate. Leicester boys & girls & 120 infants; average attendance, I27 boys :Medical Officer of Health, Turner John Andrew lLB., C.l(. & girls & 120 infants; Frederick Atkins, master i Miss Evington, Leicester Annie Gr