DIRECTORY. 141 HAMBLETON. [.]

Bown Robert, baker & farmer I Garfoot John, jun. boot & shoe maker Senescall William, tailor & shopkeeper Brooks Edward William, 'Black Halliday Thomas Charity, builder & Sharman John, farmer,grazier 6l shpkpr Horse,' & butcher stonemason Sharpe Charles, boot & shoe maker Collin Mary (Mrs.), farmer Hayes Robert, baker, miller & farmer Spriggl! John, boot & shoe maker Corbley William, machine maker Healey WiIliam, cOIl'ltalJle Sprmg Josepll, schoolmaster Dring Jame!1, boot & shoe maker Herruan WHIJam, baker& shopkeeper Spring Sarah ( Miss), • Rarn Jam' Eagletield William, farmer & grazier Hibbett Ann (Mrs.). postmistress Strelton John, gardener Ey re Thomas, carpenter Idle Edward, carpenter Thorp Scotne)', 'Crown ~ Anchor,' & Fountain Richar(l, carpenter Jackson William, carpenter, wheel­ farmer & butcher Fox John, schoolmaster wright & beer retailer Walker 'YilIiam, farmer & grazier, Fryer John, farmer & grazipr Marriott .lohn, blacksmith Stocken farm Garfoot John, parish clerk Munton William, chimney sweeper Weelband John,tailor Godfrey Thos. chief constable, farmer Norris John, carrier Weelband Rllbin, tailor & grazier Rimmington Sophia (Mrs.), farmer Weelband Thomas, tailor Rimmillgton W illiam, farmer POST OFPICE.- Mrs. Ann IJibbptt, receiver. Letters INational Rchool, Jolm Fox, master; Mrs. Louisa Fox, arrive from at ~ past 10 a.m. & are dispatched mistre~s at! past 2 p.m. The neare~t money order offices are at CARRIER-N orris, to Oakham & Stamford, saturday mom- Oakham & Stamford ing at 8 HAMBLETON, a parish, 3 miles north-east from £180 per annum), annexed to that of Braunston; the ]\fanton station, 102 from , 3 east-south-east from Dean and Chapter of Lincoln are the patrons; the incnm­ Oakham, in the Hundred of Martinsley, and Union of bent is the Rev_ Henry Green, M.A., vicar; the Rev. Oakham Soke. It is divided into portions, named Upper, William Willan, M.A., curate. It is in the arch deaconry Nether, and Middle Hambleton. The church and village of Northampton, and diocese of Lincoln. Anciently, a stands on the first mentioned portion, on a commandillg weekly market was held here, and a yearly fair, but they height, the views fl'om which are most pleasing. The have long been obsolete. Here are a few small eharities,and church of St. Peter is an old building, chiefly in the early a National school built by George Finch, Esq., :1.I.P., who English style, with a perpendicular cleristery, and has a is lord of the manor; the 'number of acres is 2,700, and square tower, with 4 bells and spire. It is a vicarage, the population, ifl 1851, was 290. (valued in King's Books at £10 7s.ld.; present Yalue, OLD HALL is a farm. WilIan Rev. William, M.A. [curate], Fryer Franci~, farlUer & ~razier . Healey Robert Lee, farmer, grazif'r & Vicarage Fryer Mary (Mrs.), farmer & grazier chief constable for Martin.;If'Y hun- TRADERS. Fryer Robert, farmer & grazier dred. Lodge Atton William, farmer & grazier Fryer Thomas, farmer Love Thomas, butcher Bryant Ann (Miss), schoolmistress Gregory William, postmaster PlIlmer Wm. farmer & grazier, Old hall Chamberlin WiHiam,' Finch's Arms' Hawley J ames, baker Price W illiam, shopkeeper Cbappell John, shopkeeper Healey Richard, farmer & grazier 8cott William, carri~r Exton Henry, taiIQf Henley Richard,jun. farmer & grazier Thorpe James, grllzier Fryer Ann (Miss), farmer & grazier Henson Rev. Franci~, boarding school Willmott John, carpenter POST OFFICE.-WilUam Gregory, receiver. Letters arrive INational School, Miss Ann Bryant, mistre!ls from Oakham at ! past 8 a.m. & dispatched at I past 3 CARRIER TO OA.KHAM-Scott, saturday, 9 morning p.m. The nearest money order office is at Hambledon BORN, or HORNE, is a township, and very small pariSh,) and Union of Oakham, 51 miles north-west of Stamford. adjoining Exton park. The church, for a long period, The number of acres is 392, and the population, in 1851, has !:{One to decay; it is a sinecure rectory, of small was 27. value, annexed to Exton, and is ill the Hundred of Alstoe, Sharman Charles, farmer &; miller Letters through Oakham. The nearest money order office is at Stam/ord Sharman Matthew, farmer is a township, neat village, parish, and rail- bendal estate. The church of St. Mary is a fine old build­ way ~tation, on the Rugby and railway, on ing, consisting of a nave with aisles, a chancel, north and the north side of the , and on the south transepts, with a tower in the centre containing 6 road, 92! miles from London, 3i west-south-west of bells, and a spire 180 feet high; the western door is of Stamford, and !Ok from Oakham, in the Union of Stam- mixed Norman and cady English architecture. In the ford, Hundred of East; it contains 1,138 inhabitants, and inside of the church are three sedilia; on the north wall about 3,122 acres of land, includin~ the hamlets of is an old distemper painting of St. Christopher, which GEESTON and ALDGATE,OIl the south side of the river, was found during the cleansing of the church in 1844, and that of KELTHORPE, nearly a mile south of the The prebendary of Ketton holds the great tithps, and the village, in the vale of the . A bout a mile patronage of the united vicarages of Ketton and . north of the village are the Kettoll stone quarries, which After the death of' the preseflt prebendary, Dr. Stevens, have long been noted for freestone of superior quality. who has his stal\ in Lincoln cathedral, the prebend will Lord Northwick owns about 2,459 acres of the parish, be appropriated by the Ecclesiastical ('ommis~ioners. and is lord of the manors called Grenehams, \Vhitwells, The vicarage, vallle £107, with Tix(lver annexed, is in and Hutchins. The Hon. Henry Noel occupies Ketton the incumbency of the Rev. Bald\vin Wake, M.A., who Cottage. The Hon. WiIliam Middleton is It!ssee of the has also about £3G from Forster's charity. The pari~h is rectory and prebendal manor of Ketton, comprising in charge of the Rev. J. H. Noyes, who is curate. Tlwre 152a. 3r. 911. Ketton lodge is the seat of Captain are a sman Independent chapel, and a National school Grantham. The parish was enclosed in 1768. Sir G. for boys and girls; the latter is endowed with £1,000 Heathcote is owner and lord of Kelthorpe manor, and three per cents., left by Sophia Elizabeth Edwards. in Miss De Rippe, Thomas Bnckworth, John Stanger, 1791. White Bread Close is let for £30 per year, part of WiIliam Osborn, and Thomas Green, are small land- which is distributed in coals. Eleven poor aged women owners in the parish. The Hall, a plain building, is now of Ketton haye a fifth share ot' Warringtou's charity. held by George Sowerby, E~q.; it belongs to the pre- GENTRY. ' Noel Hon. Henry, Ketton cottage Buckworth Thomas, farml"r & grazier Boyal Miss Elizabeth Thompson Miss Frances Burman Henry, surgeon Burley Lord, hetton hall TRADERS. Burrows Henry, baker Burman Henry, esq Alpin Henry. carpenter & wbeelwright Clayton Heaumont, stone merchant & De Rippf' Miss Amdia Andrews William, butcher fd-rmer Gammidge Rev. Timothy AstiR James, baker Cocks Sarah Ann (~J rs.), grocer & d r Grantham Capt. Charles, Ketton lodge IBelt!! Gt:or!{e Hornbuckle, corn & coal Compton Christopher, beer retai1Ja ~ Hunt SaJuuel, esq merchaut carpenter Noyes Rev,Joltn I!ellry, ~,4. [curate], Bro(kelhurst George, farmer Day Burden, machine maker Ketton vicarage Buckworth Mary (!lrs.)~ baker Edwarcts Jobn~ , Wllite Har('