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DIRECTORY.] WARWICKSHIRE. AVON DASSETT. 27 Brown Ebenezer, Grove house Flowers Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Oakey Oliver James, baker Clarke 1\Irs GreenEdithEmily(Miss),drapr.&millinr Oakey William, grocer & carrier Fletcher )!rs Gudgeon Thomas, builder Rollason & Jones, brace & garter web Green Mrs Hackett John, wood turner & rake ma manufacturers Halford William Ernest Handley George, shopkeeper Sharrod Mary Ann (:Mrs.), shopkeeper Hunt Rev. Alfred Ezra M. A. (vicar) Harris Thomas Geo. New inn & butcher Smart John, farmer Johnson Joseph Fielding J.P. Attle- Heath Geo. farmer, White Stone farm Smart Joseph, h~ulier borough hall Hobley Samuel, boot & shoe maker Smith Mary ()lrs. ), Bull inn Lester Mrs Jones Rufus, elastic web manufacturer Smith Thomas, brick makeT & quarry Oakey Thomas William, Ivy house Knight J obn, boot maker owner, Attleborough quarry Paul Ezra Leicester Elastic Web Society (George Stanyon John Thomas, builder Satchell Rev. Waiter (Baptist), Rose cot W ortley, manager) Summers Timothy, wheelwright Slingsby Henry, Attleborough villa Lester Benjamin, shopkeeper TaylorWm.Harcourt,farmr.Quarry frm Townsend :Mrs Lester Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper Thompson Joseph, farmer Watson George Lilley Thomas, baker & grocer 'fhompson J oseph, engraver Winfield William James Lilley Tom John, florist &c. See under Thompson William, coal merchant Wood Robert Nuneaton Veasey Joseph, parish clerk, school COMMEUOIAL. Looms William, woollen scarf manufctr attendance officer, & collector of taxes Ballard John, coal merchant Loughton James, baker Ward George, farmer, The Gorse Daffern John, butcher Mayo Benjamin James, Royal Oak P.H Wells Thomas Edward, coal merchant Fletcher Joseph Henry, beer retailer Miller John, baker ·wheway James, insurance agent Green Alfred, registrar of marriages, 1\Ioore John, butcher White George, tailor collector of poor's rates & assistant Ni:x:on James, shopkeeper White John, tailor overseer N ixon Moses, plumber Winfield Wm.Jas.farmr. Thorn hill farm AUSTREY, in Domesday "Aldvlestrey," is a village eluding n6 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and parish on the borders of Leicestershire, 4 miles north the Lord Chancellor, and held since x885 by the Rev. east from Polesworth station, on the Trent Valley section of Bennet Hesketh Williams M.A, of Trinity College, Oxford. the London and North-Western railway, 7 north-east from There is a Baptist chapel, and in the village near the vicarage Tamworth, and 7 north from Atherstone, in the Northern are the remains of a stone cross of the xsth century, raised division of the county, Tamworth division of the hund::-..d on five steps. The charities include Monk's charity, pro of Hemlingford, Atherstone petty sessional division, union ducing an income of £300, and partly devoted to the and county court district of 'famworth, rural deanery of apprenticeship of boys belonging to the parishes of Austrey, Polesworth, archdeaconry of Birmingham and diocese of Whitwick, Measham and Shenton, and Lakin's charity, Worcester. The church of St. Nicholas, given in 55 amounting to £30 yearly, which sum is divided amongst Henry Ill. (1270-1) to the monks of Burton by Osbert de the poor on the festival of St. Thomas. The principal land Clinton, is a building of stone, in the Gothic styles of the owners are Mr. Joseph Corbett, the trustees of the late Mr. 13th and 14th centuries, consisting of lofty chancel, cleres Ed ward Kendall, William Grundy esq. and there are several toried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a western small freeholders. The soil is various, principally a rich tower with a lofty broach spire, containing a clock and 5 loam; subsoil, red marl. The chief crops are wheat, barley bells ; in the south aisle is a memorial window to the Rev. and beans. The area is 2,097 acres; rateable value, £3,284; Roger Bass, late vicar, placed in 1844: in the following the population in 1891 was 3o6. year, besides extensive repairs, the church was renewed Sexton, Evan Faulkner. at a cost of £2,500, and a new organ furnished at a Post Office.-Evan Faulkner, sub-postmaster. Letters re cost of £200, raised by subscription. Dr. Thomas, in ceived through Atherstone by foot post, arrive at 7.50 his edition of " Dugdale," mentions a monument in p.m. ; dispatched at 5.20 p.m. Postal orders are issued, the church to John, Thomas and Herbert .Monk, sons but not paid. The nearest money order office is at New of John Monk esq. of Shenton, Leicestershire (x692- ton Regis & telegraph office at Appleby Magna 1704), and gives illustrations of many shields of arms National School (mixed), built in 1850 & enlarged in 1888, of the Beauchamps, Clintons and Staffords, as well as of at the cost of £95, by the Rev. W. H. Dyott, for 70 Wulfric Spot, founder of Burton Abbey, and the families of children, average attendance 44; Henry James Keeson, Hastings and de Valence, at that time in the windows; master there are piscinre in the chancel and south aisle, and there Carriers. is a handsome carved oak tabernacled reredos : there are John Orton, to & from Atherstone, on tues. ; to & from 340 sittings, from 90 to xoo being unappropriated. The Burton, on thurs. ; to & from Tamworth, on sat register dates from the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, Mrs. Ann Bates, to & from Atherstone, on tues. ; to & from average tithe rent-charge £73, net yearly value £215, in- Tamworth, on sat Williams Rev. Bennct Hesketh .M.A. Drake William & George, farmers Newborough Henry, Wheatsheaf P.H Vicarage Dwyer Francis, farmer N ewbury William, cow keeper Faulkner Thomas, cowkeeper Nicholls Henry, blacksmith COMMERCIAL. Fletcher John, saddler Orton John, carrier Arnold John, boot & shoe maker Fletcher Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Pearson Joseph, cowkeeper Bates Ann (Mrs. ), carrier Gregory J oseph, farmer Pooley John, Bird-in-Hand P.R Bowman Edward, butcher Grimley Edward, farmer Smith Joseph Erpe, farm"'r & landownr Butler Hugh, farmer & landowner Grimley Samuel, farmer & maltster Upton William, farmer Collins William, cowkeeper Grundy William, farmer & landowner Usher Thomas, farmer Corbett Joseph, farmer & landowner Joyce Joseph, plumber & glazier Webster Edmund, bricklayer Corbett William, butcher & shopkeeper King Ann (Mrs.), cowkeeper White William, farmer Downes J oseph, farmer Lord Hugh, farmer W ilson Alfred, farmer Drake Arthur, farmer Merryman Charles, cowkeeper • AVON DASSETT, or Dassett Parva, is a small parish shafts on either side; the whole is placed within an ogee and village, 2 miles south from Fenny Compton station, on cinquefoiled arch of the 14th century, enriched with the ball the Great Western and East & West Junction railways, 5 flower ornament; possibly the effigy may represent Hugo, east from Kineton and 7 north-west from Banbury, in the rector, who died in May, 1232; there are also tablets to South-Eastern division of the county, Burton Dassett and the Perkins family, the Rev. Humphrey Jeston M.A. 37 Kington petty sessional division, Banbury union and county years rector, and to Robert Green: the church affords 200 court district, Kineton hundred, rural deanery of Dassett sittings. The register dates from the year 1541. The living Magna, archde2conry of Coventry and diocese of Worcester. is a rectory, net yearly value arising from 275 acres of glebe The old church of St. John the Baptist having become £4xo, with residence, in the gift of and held since 1878 by dilapidated, was taken down, and the present church erected the Rev. Vaughan Williams Philpott ~LA. of Christ Church, on the same site in 1868; it is a building of stone, in the Oxford. The Catholic church, dedicated to St. Joseph, Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, which owes its foundation to J oseph Knight esq. formerly of south porch, and a western tower with pinnacles and spire, Chelsea, who purchased an estate in this parish, was erected containing 5 bells: on the north side of the chancel is a in 1854, and is a building of stone in the Gothic style, con-· stone altar tomb of the 13th century, bearing the re- sisting of a nave with high altar and Lady chapel attached, cumbent effigy of a former rector of this parish, who seems and has sixteen stained windows; the founder died 16 days to have died before he received priest's orders; the slab out after the opening of the church: there are about 120 sittings. of which the figure is sculptured is of dark-coloured forest The convent of St. Joseph, founded in 1875, has a middle marble, the effigy being in relief, in t!:J.e full vestments of a class school attached. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. The deacon, and above it rises a turreted canopy, supported by Ven. Charles Willhm Holbech M.A., J.P. vicar of Farn-.