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SHACKERSTONE is a parish (including also the The National School for this parish, , township of ) and township, in the Bosworth and Billstone, was built by the first Earl Howe, division, hundred and rural deanery of Sparkenhoe, between Shackerstone and Congerstone, and ill en· union, and County Court district. tirely supported by the present Earl, with the ex· The village lies at the point where the ception of £16 13s. 4d. a year received from Jennen's crosses the river Sence by an aqueduct, and is 3i charity. The poor have some small benefactions. miles N. W. by N. from Market Bosworth. Most of Near the church is an artificial mound, which has the houses have been rebuilt by the late Earl Howe, been moated. Acreage 12113. Or. 3p.; rateable value presenting a pretty appearance. There is a station £1854 6s. ; population in 1881, 489 (of which 315 here on the Ashby and railway. Earl were in Shackerstone). The feast is on the Sunday Howe is lord of the manor, owner of the soil, and after July 10th. impropriator of the rectory. St. Peter's Ohurch is a. ST. PETER'S CHURCH.-Services, Sunday 10·45 handsome Early Decorated fabric, comprising chancel, and 6·30. Communion first Sunday in month. Rev. c1erestoried nave, aisles, embattled tower, and three Henry Pochin, B.A. (Odstone); Wardens, Messrs. R. bells. It was restored in 1845, when the chancel and Arnold and William Barrs; Clerk, G. E. Cooke. south aisle were rebuilt, at the cost of the late Earl Hymns A. and M. Howe, who also I>resented the organ. Here are buried the remains of the Astley, Danvers, Hall, WESLEYAN CHAPEL.-Service on Sunday at 2, Marmion, Pembroke, and Howe families. The Regis. sometimes in the evening. Keeper, Samuel Wilson. ters date from 1630. The living is a vicarage of the Thomas Wyatt, SUb-postmaster. Letters via Ather­ yearly value of £120, partially derived from 54 acres stone delivered about 8·30 a. m.; 'Wall box cleared at of glebe, in the gift of Earl Howe. Most of the 6 on week.days only. The nearest Money Order and tithes were commuted in 1769, the rest in 1845. Telegraph Office is at Market Bosworth. Arnold William, shopkeeper Mead Henrv, shopkeeper Insley William, grazier and coal Battersby Joseph, sergeant-major Petcher William, baker and grazier merchant Yeomanry Cavalry Richards Miss Elizabeth, dressmkr Kirby Thomas, The Fields Cooke George, station master Wyatt Mrs. Annie, shopkeeper Maskell Mrs. Sarah, & v, Rising Sl£n Cooke Gilbert Edward, parish clerk Wyatt Thomas, sub-postmaster Richards Thomas I Sutton Richard Insley Thomas, blacksmith, cottgr, CARRIER. coach builder, and wheelwright FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. Adams Thomas, from Carlton to Mead Mrs. Elizabeth, dressmaker Arnold Ralph I Gardner Daniel Ashby, S. ' SHANGTON is a parish and small neatly-built The rectory is of the annual value of £360, with village, 3 miles N.E. from Kibworth station, 6 N. good residence, in the gift of Sir Charles E. Isham, from Market Harborough, and 12 S.E. from , Bart., lord of the manor, and he and Sir G. Palmer in the Harborough division, hundred and rural are the principal landowners. There is a small deanery of Gartree No 2, Market Harborough Union parochial school. Area, 1248a. lr. 13p.; rateable and County Court district. St. Nicholas' Church is value, £1671 4s. lId. ; popUlation in 1881, 74. a small plain building of stone, dating from the 13th ST.NICHOLAS' CHURcH.-Services, Sunday 11 and centur~, with chancel, nave, south porch, vestry, 3, at 6 on first Sunday in month. Communion at turret, and two bells. The chancel window is Early mid-day on first Sunday in month, on other Sundays English, but the nave and chancel are in the Perpen· at 8·30 a.m. Rev. H. V. Packe, B.A.; Warden, Mr. dicular style. It was restored in 1845·6 ; the chancel J oseph J. Brown; Hon. Organist, Miss E. C. Packe ; was re-built by the present vicar in 1863, and an Clerk, J oseph Hackney. Hymns A. and M. organ placed in the church in 1867. In 1874 a Letters from Leicester via Kibworth delivered at vestry and organ chamber were added at a cost of 10·30 a.m., box cleared at 4·30 p.m. (week.days £150, raised by subscription. The Registers date­ only). The nearest Money Order and Telegraph baptisms from 1580, marriages 1581, burials, 1582. Office is at Kibworth. Hackney Joseph, parish clerk I FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. IHill Mrs. Mary Ellen, grazier Packe Rev. Henry Vere, B.A, rector Brown Joseph John, The Hall CARRIER. Sparke Miss Elizabeth, schoolmistrs Dilworth Roger, The Lodge Potter Henry, from Tur Langton to Woolman Mrs. Sarah Ann, drssmkr Goodman William, h Tur Langton Market Harboro' Tu. ; Le'ster S. SRARNFORD is a parish and township, in the and an organ chamber built in front of the vestry. Harborough division, hundred and rural deanery of The plan of the church includes chancel, vestry and Sparkenhoe, and union and County Court organ chamber on the north side, nave, ~outh porch, district. It is placed at the north of the angle and embattled towp,r, in which are threl:' bells. In formed by the intersection of the Fosse road and 1878 the east window was filled with stilined glass, , the latter separating the parish and at an expense of £50. The living is a Rectory of the county from . The Soar brook passes nominal yearly value of £350, with residence and through the village, and has one of its sources in the 229 acres of glube (awarded at the Enclosure, 1764), parish. The village is 4 miles E. from Hinckley, 7 in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The Rectory N. W. by N. from Lutterworth, and 12 S. W. by S. house was rebuilt in 1851, at a cost of £1200. The from Leicester. St. Helen's Church is supposed to Registers date from 1671. The Wesleyan Chapel have been erected about 1480. It was repaired in was built in 1827, at a cost of £600. The 1772, when the spire was taken down. The porch National school was erected in 1845, at a charge was added in 1844. It was again repaired and oak of £330, raised by subscriptions and grants, and seats put in in 1846. In 1866 it was more thoroughly enlarged in 1871, at a cost of £200. The Shade is a. restored, at a cost of £560, when the windows were spacious mansion, with adjoining pleasure grounds, renewed, the galleries swept away, the seats re- about a mile from the church. It belongs to Major arranged, new font, pulpit, and reading desk provided, J. E. Harris, and is the seat of Mr. Samuel Craven the tower raised and surmounted by four pinnacles, Pilgrim. It was rebuilt in 1843 by the late T. J. C.