048' THORPE MANDEVILLE. . . [KELLy'e Humfrey Rev. Algernon Guise Pargiter I Shannan William, fann bailiff to Webb Harriett (Mrs.), shopkeeper M.A. (head master), Preparatory schl George Savage esq Weston Henry Alfred, Magpie P.H James George (assistant master), Pre- Thomason George, farmer " Whitman Frank, farmer paratory school ThomasonWm.farmer&grazr.Costow ho Wootton Frederick, bricklayer LQvell William, carpenter is a market, union and railway town, Wilkinson James Rennie esg. , Thrapston head of a petty sessional division and county court district, Clerk to the Magistrates, Gerald Hunnybun inthe Northern division of the county, hundred of Navisford, Petty Sessions are held at the Police station every alternate- rural deanery of (second portion), arch­ tuesdayat 11 a.m \ deaconry of Oakham and diocese of ; it is 75 The places in the division are :-Addington (Great), Aid. miles from , 7~ sonth.west from , 22 north­ winkle St. Peter, Aldwinkle All Saints, Brigstock, Clapton, eastfrom ,21 south-westfrom Peterborough and , Hargrave, Islip, Lowick, Ringstead, , 17 north-west from , on the road from thelatter , , Thrapston, Tichmarsh, & to . The town is situated on the river Woodford Nene, over which is a substantial bridge, connecting the town with the village of !slip. The station of the London INSURANCE AGENT8:-- and North Western railway adjoining the town, is the cen­ British Empire Mutual Life, Rev, W. Skelly, Raunds tral station between Northampton and Peterborough. A Commercial Union, G. Pentelow, Midland road line was opened in February, 1866, by the Midland Railway County Fire, J. & S. M. French Company, from byThrapston to . The Economic Life, J. W. Scott, Stamford, Spalding &; Boston town is lighted with gas by a company, and excellent and Bank • pure water is obtained from wells sunk 12 to 14 feet deep. Imperial Life, W.Elderkin The church of St. James is a building of stone, in the Early London Assurance Corporation, A. Alien English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of Norwich Union Fire, R. Knight, Nene cottage, Oundle chancel, nave, aisles, transe:pts, and an embattled western Provident Life, S. M. French; J. W. Scott, Sta~ford~ tower with spire containing 5 b~lls: most of the piers and Spalding & Boston Bank arches are Early English, the chancel Decorated, anq the Rock Life, W. T. King tower and spire Perpendicular: in the chancel are three Royal Exchange. J. T. Tusting sedilia with crocketed canopies, and a double piscina : in the Sun Fjre~ J. W. Scott, Stamforq Bank i- W""lbb:., north aisle is another piscina of EarlyEnglish date: the nave PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS:-- I and aisles were rebuilt in 1841: the east window, pla~d in Constabulary Station, Edwd. 'farry, inspector & 1 constable 1863, is a memorial to Mr. J. Yorke, a magistrate and Corn Exchange, John Sutcliffe, sec . deputy chairman of the quarter sessions, and was subsc;ribed County Court, His Honor William Henry Gunning 'Bag.. for by his friends: on the south side of the chancel is a mem­ shawe Q.C. jndge; Geoffry Hawkins, registrar; Samuel orial window to George Eland esq. erected by his family in Mosley French, deputy registrar; James Handford Taylor, 1872: in 1888 the old vestry, which blocked up a 14th century I high bailiff. The Court is held 'monthly at the Police window, was removed, and initsplace an organ chamber was' station; the district comprises the following parishes :­ erected, with a vestry at the back, and a new organ intro­ Northamptonshire~Addington(Great), Addington (Lit- duced; the work was carried out undeI" the direction of 1:. . tle)/ Aldwinkle St. Peter, Aldwinkle All Saints, Brigstock, Graham Jackson esq. M.A. architect, of London; in the same Clapton, , Denford, Hargrave, Islip, Lowick, year, a new font of carved stone with octagonal basin was Ringstead, Rannds, Slipton, Sudborough, Stanwick, placed in the church. The register dates from theyoor 1560. Thrapston, Tichmarsh, Twywell &; Woodford.__Bedfol'd. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value from 221 acres of shire-Dean, Shelton & Tilbrook.~­ glebe £337, net £300, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Brington, Bythorn, Catworth (Great), Covington, Key­ Chancellor, and held since 1883 by theRev. SeptimusKings­ ston, Long Stow, Molesworth & Old Weston ford M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and surrogate. Here Certified Bailiffs under the Law of Distr~ Amendment. are Baptistand WI'.sleyan chapels. A sum of money producing Act, H. H. Bletsoe, Thomas Hardwick &; John Guest, 1.,21 10S. yearly was left by Mrs. Montague of this town Thrapston; & Samuel Finding, Raunds about the year 1845, for the education of 12 girls and afterwards transferred as an endowment to the National THRAPSTON UNION. schools by order of the Master of the Rolls: a sum of money Board day tues. fortnightly at the Board Room at 10.30 a.m. producing £1 yearly under the will of Mrs. Mary Ekins is also applied to the support of this school. A County Police Thrapston Union comprises the following places :-North­ Station, with magistrates' room attached, was built in 1860. amptonshire-Aldwinkle All Saints, Aldwinkle St. Peter, The Freemasons have a lodge here, meetings being held at the Brigstock, Chelveston-cum-Caldecott, Clapton, Denford, j White Hart hotel. A Corn Exchange was built in 1848 by Great Addington, Hargrave, Islip, , Mr. Freeman Roe, of the Strand, London, and a cattle mar­ Lowick, Raunds, Ringstead, Slipton, Stanwick, Sud­ ket was established in 1871. A very extensive market for borough, Thrapston, Tichmarsh, Twywell & Woodford.­ grain, cattle, sheep and pigs is held on Tuesday.. Fairs are lIuntingdonshire Brington, Bythorn, Covington, Key­ held on the first Tuesday in May, 5th of August and on the ston, Molesworth & Old Weston. The population of first Tuesday after Old Michaelmas day. The exclusive right the nnion in 1881 was 15,II5 -; rateablp value in l889,. of levying tolls and holding fairs in the town is now vested £76,932 in the Market Company, established byspecial Act of Parlia­ Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment C;ommittee, ,Gerald ment, granted in the year 1870. The trustees of the late tIunnybun Thomas Burton esq. are lords of the manor. The area is Treasurer, R'.bert Fowler Eland, Leicester 1,124 acres; rateable value, £6,605; the population in 1881 Relieving & Vaccination Officer, Raunds & Thrapston dis­ was 1,366, inclnding 97 officers and inmates in the work­ tricts, Frederick Richard Ford, Thrapston Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, A district, Thomas house. William Buckley M.R.c.s.Eng. The Poplars, Thrapston; Sexton, John Bland. B district, Joseph Bird F.F•P.s.Glas. Thrapston ;C district, John Crew L.R.c.p.LOnd. Higham Ferrers; D district, POST, M. O. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.­ Joseph Hughes Hemmiug, Kimbolton; E'~istrict, 4I:t~ur Mrs. Elizabeth Hensman, postmistress. Letters are Samuel Stokes L.R.c.p.Edin. Weldon delivered from London & all parts at 7 a.m.; London 2nd Superintendent Registrar, Geoffry Hawkins, rhrapston;. delivery, thA North, Peterborough & Oundle, 10.30 a.m.; deputy, John French, Thrapston dispatched, London 1st, Northampton & Registrars of Births & Deaths, Raunds sub-district, Robert at 7.20 a.m.; London 2nd 11. 10 a.m.; Northampton & Knight, Raunds; deputy, John T. Knight, .Raunds ; North 6.25 p.m.; 2nd North mail, Leicester & Birming­ Thrapston sub-district, Joseph Baines, Islip; deputy, ham 8 p.m.; Peterborough 2nd & Eastern Counties, 8.30 Richard P. Wakefield, Thrapston . p.m.; London & all parts (night mail) 8.40 p.m Registrars of Marriages, Robert Knight, ltaunds; ~iehard P. Wakefield, Thrapston COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR THRAPSTON PETTY SESSIONAL Workhouse, Denford road, built of stone & will hold 200 in­ DIVISION. mates; Thomas William Buckley M.R.C.S.Eng. medical Stopford-Sackville Sackville George esq. M.A. Drayton house, officer; George Cook, master; Mrs. "Emily, Cook, matron 'rhrapston, chairman " RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY. Lyveden Lord D.L. Farmingwoods house, Thrapston " Powys Hon. John BoA. Lilford hall, Oundle Meets at the Workhonse every4thtuesday at 10.30 a,m. Robinson The Rev. Sir Frederick Laud hart. 1l1.A. Rectory, Clerk, Gerald Hunnybun Cranford, Kettering Treasurer, Robert Fowler Eland, Leicester Bigge Matthew Robert esq. Laundimer house, Oundle Medical Officer of Health, Lewis Berkeley Calcott, Oundle Pratt Spencer esq. Stanwick house, Higham Ferrers Sanitary Inspector, William Hudson Jervis,Lowick