18 LITTLE ADDING TON. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. [KELLY'S thoroughly restored and re-seated in the year 1857. water; rateable value, £1,304; the population in 1901 The register dates from the year 1588. The living is a was 304. vicarage, net yearly value £130, with residence and 288 Sexton, Samuel Ager. acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Benton-Keane, and Post Office.-Mrs. Hannah Farrar, sub-postmistress. held since 1904 by the Rev. Paul Roberts M.A. of Letters through Thrapston arrive about 7.40 a.m. & Queens' College, Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan 1.45 p.m.; dispatched at u.5 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.; no chapel. There is no lord of the manor. The principal delivery or dispatch on sundays. lrthlingborough is landowners are Sidney Leveson Lane esq. B.A., D.L., the nearest money order & telegraph office J.P. of The Manor House, Great Addington, George Herbert Capron esq. B.A., J.P. of Southwick Grange, Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1873 at a Oundle, Mrs. Thomas Waiters, and the vicar. The soil cost of £3oo, for 66 children; average attendance, is partly light and partly strong; subsoil, limestone and 6o; James Rose, master; Miss Parsons, infants' mist ironstone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, Carriers.-George Hawes, Arthur Manning & Lot Week­ peas &c. The area is 1,134 acres of land and 9 of ley, pass through to Wellingborough, weds PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Farrar Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, & Pashler John, farmer Roberts Rev. Paul M.A. (vicar), post office Perkins Edward, pig dealer Vicarage Garton Isabella (Mrs.), Bell inn Rose J ames, schoolmaster & clerk to Waiters Mrs. Thomas Ingyon Robert, beer retailer the Parish Council Layton Thomas, cattle dealer Shaheshaft Charles Robert, carpenter COMMERCIAL. Mitchell Edward (Mrs.), farmer Smith Robert, farmer Day Ezra, farmer Mitchell Sophia (Mrs.), shopkeeper Warren William, mason Dodson William, baker Parsons Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper ADSTONE, formerly a chapelry in the parish of burial ground for this village was at Canons A.shby, Canons Ashby, was made a separate parish in 1865 for but in 1867 the Governors of the Corporation of the all purposes; it is 3 miles west from Blakesley and ~~ Sons of the Clergy gave a piece of land adjoining the east from Moreton Pinkney station on the Stratford-on­ church for a burial ground, and Sir Henry Edward Avon and Midland Junction railway, 7 west-north-west Leigh Dryden bart. of Canons .Ashby (d. 1899), de-· from Towcester, 8 south from Daventry, 12 south-west frayed the expenses of levelling, fencing and conse­ from Northampton and 12 east from Banbury, in the crating the same; the first interment took place early Southern division of the county, hundred of Green's in January, 1868. The principal landowners are the Norton, petty sessional division, union and county Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, who are lords court of Towcester, rural deanery of Brackley (first por­ of the manor, Worcester College, Oxford. Mrs. Fablin, tion), archdeaconry of Northampton and diocese of Major Parker, Mr. William Colledge and Mr. Thomas Peterborough. The church of .All Saints is a building of S. Messinger. Soil, gravel; subsoil, clay. Crops, stone, partly in the Early English style, and consists of wheat, barley, oats, beans &c. The area is 1,430 acres; chancel, clerestoried nave, south aisle, western porch, rateable value, £1,435; and the population in 1901 and a small western turret containing one bell : the was II2. church was new roofed in 1883 and reseated in 1896, and Parish Clerk, Thomas Gibbard. will now seat 130 persons. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1671; burials, 1679; and marriages, Letters received through Towcester at 8.45 a.m. Wall 1704 to 1782; from which date until 1855 marriages Letter Box, cleared at 4·45 p.m. week days only. were solemnized at Canons Ashby. The living is a Blakesley is the nearest money order & telegraph vicarage, net yearly value £74• with residence, in the office, 3 miles distant gift of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, and held since 1899 ·by the Rev. John Robert Blunt, who is Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1846, for 40 also rector of and resides at Maidford. There is a W es­ children; average attendance, 29 ; there is a house leyan chapel, erected in 1849. Up to the year 1868 the for the mistress; Mrs. Mary White, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Coleman William, wheelwright 'C'nderwood George, farmer, overl"eer Bromley John, The Cottage Eales George, farmer, Adstone lodge & rate collector Underwood Stephen .Ashby,Stoneleigh Gas coigne John, blacksmith Underwood Herbert, farmer, Field vw Hedges Thomas, farmer Underwood Samuel William, land­ COMMERCIAL. Messinger Thomas S. farmer &; land­ owner, Clifton house Baseley Frank, Wheatsheaf P.H owner, Adstone house t'nderwood Thomas, farmer, Manor Bazley Edwd. Bull, frmr. High Fields Underwood Fras. farmer, Fulling mill HJuse farm ALDERTON is a village and parish on rising ground Alexander Waiter .Annand M . .A. of Trinity College, Cam­ and bounded on the north by the river Tove, 3~ miles bridge, who resides at Grafton Regis. On the north side south from Roade station on the main line of the London of the village is an inclosure, surrounded by a deep fosse, and North Western railway, 3! east-south-east from on which formerly stood a castle, no vestiges of which are Towcester, 9 south from Northampton and 6 north-west now discernible ; it occupies a space of nearly two acres from Stony Stratford, in the Southern division of the and is entirely covered with trees. The charities consist county, hundred of Cleley, petty sessional division and of a benefaction left by Mrs. Jane Leeson, of Abthorpe, county court district of Towcester, union of Potterspury, of 2os. yearly and £IO 7s. from land and cottages; rural deanery of Preston (second portion), archdeaconry which sum is applied to the repair of the church. The of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. The Duke of Grafton K.G., C.B. is lord of the manor and church of St. Margaret, rebuilt, with the exception ot principal landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, lime­ the tower, in 1848, is an edifice of stone in the Per­ stone. The chief crops are wheat, beans and barley. pendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south The area is 88o acres; rateable value, £768; the popu­ porch and a low embattled western tower containing 5 lation in 1901 was 115. bells : on the north wall of the chancel is a small brass Parish Clerk, Thomas Cross. with inscription in Latin to Thomas Hasilrige, 1655 ; Letters through Towcester at 9 a.m. The nearest money the east window is stained and there is a memorial order & telegraph office is at Paulerspury, 2 miles distant window on the south side to the Rev. Barwick John Wall Letter Box, cleared at 9 a.m. & 5·45 p.m. week Sams M.A. rector 1837-85, presented by his daughter days; sundays, 9 a. m in 1886: there are r6o sittings. The register dates from the year I597· The living is a rectory, annexed The children of this place attend the school at Grafton to that of Grafton Regis, joint net yearly value £15o, in­ Regis cluding 120 acre8 of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Carrier. John William Jelley, to Northampton, wed. & the Lord •Chancellor, and held since 1901 by the Rev. sat. ; to Towcester, tues.; to Stony Stratford, fri Eales Rebecca (Mrs.), shopkeeper [Fountaine Robert Francis, farmer,/ .Jelley John William, farmer & carrier Foster Joel, Plough P.H Man{)l' house W{)od Thomas, farmer &; grazier ALD WINCLE ST. PETER and Aldwincle All Western railway, and 4 north from Thrapston; in the Saints, formerly separate parishes, were amalgamated Northern division of the county, hundred of Huxloe, both for civil and ecclesiastical pur-poses by Local petty sessional division, union and county court district Government Order, March 25, 1885; they are on the of Thrapston, rural deanery of Higham Ferrers (second Nene, abouii I mile west from Thorpe station on the portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peter­ Northampton and Peterborough branch of the North borough. The church of St. Peter is a beautiful build-.