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28 BARNACK. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. [KELL'''S BARNAOK RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. r887, amalgamat~d with Barnack, and the whole desig :Met>ts at the Stamford Workhouse monthly at 12 noon. nated the hamlet of Barnack. The children attend The district comprises the parishes of; Bainton, Bar Barnack school. nack, Southorpe, Stamford Baron St. Martin With Wall Letter Box cleared "lit 7 & 11.15 a.m. & 6 p.m. out, Thornhaugh, Ufford, Wansford, Wittering & -week days only . Wothorpe, being the Northants parishes in Stamford, Lincolnshire, Union. The area is 15,256 acres; rate SOUTHORPE is a civil parish, 1 mile south from able value, £22,752; the population in 19II was 2,097. Barnack and 5 miles from Stamford. The area is 1,88r Chairman, Marquis of Exeter, Burleigh House, Stamford acres; rateable value, £1,790; the population in 1911 was 183. Officials. • The children attend Barnack school Clerk, Richard English, 40 Broad street, Stamford Treasurer, John Bayldon, Barclay & Company's Bank, Wall Letter .Box cleared at 7.30 a.m. & 5.40 p.m. week Stamford days only ~Iedical Officar of Health, Thomas Porter Greenwood Police Station, Harry King, sergeant in charge L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng. 36 St. Mary's street, Public Elementary School (mixed), for 125 children; Stamford average attendance, 100 ; Charles B. Allerton, mastel!- Surveyor, Alfred Cave, Barnack Carrier. Jesse- Knipe, to Stamford, daily Sanitary Inspector, J. G. Bailey, Sbamford Railway Stations. PILSGATE, a hamlet, nearly 3 miles from Stamford. Great Northern, George Brader, station master "·as by a Local Government Order, dated March 25, Midland, Albert H. Nicklin, station master B.ARNACK. Gray Wm. thrashing machine owner' PILSGATE. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hare Waiter Clement, coal merchant, Fowke 1\-Irs. Pilsgate house Dalton Mrs Railway station Kebble Frederick William, farmer, .Vewhurst William, The Grange I Inkley John Parkins on, coal dealer The Grange farm Leney Rev. La Grange M.A. The Loweth Bt>nj. grocer, & post office No£tingham Thomas & Wait. farmers Rectory Manning Alice (Mrs.), dress maker Smalley Charles H. farmer COMMERCIAL, Sandall Richard, farmer Andrews Alfred, registrar of births & Smith Sidney, baker SOUTHORPE. deaths for Barnack sub-district, 1 Squires J <neph, shoe maker Stamford union _ Stokes Henry William, miller (wind). Dearden James William, Walcot hall C'aucutt Frank, Red Lion P.H Tower mill Bradley Charles, farmer Cemetery (Thomas Moore Whitman, Tipping Matthew, Mill StonE> P.H Bradley Henry, farmer clerk to the Burial Authority) Tomblin W. & Son, carpenters Bullimore William Kenney, farmer, Colso·n William Frederick, blacksmith 'fomblin William, Fox inn Hall farm Cox Matthew, beer ret. & wheelwright Wallace William, baker Cox Thomas,. gardener to J. W. Crowson Mary (Mrs.), grocer Wells Henry, saddler Dearden esq Crowson William, mason Whitman Thomas Moore, rate col- Crow Thomas W. cottage farmer Dewhurst Wm. farmer, The Grange lector & clerk to Parish Council Gray John, farmer Fletch.er Edward, farmer & assessor Woodford John Herbert, baker Hibbins Robert, cottage farme1: of taxes Woolhouse John, farmer Munton John, gamekeeper to Mar Frow Harold, butcher Wright Philip, estate agent & valuer quess of Exeter Garford Albert, farmer, The Lodge & assistant overseer for Southorpe Siddons Philip John, farmer • • BARNWELL ST. ANDREW and ALL according to the best authorities, the castle, of which SAINTS are parishes consolidated ecclesiastically, with some portion still exists, was built about 1264, in the a station on the Northampton and Peterborough section reign of Henry Ill. by Berengarius le Moigne, who of the London and North Western railway near the being afterwards found to have forfeited all right to church, but standing in the parish of Lilford; it i~ the estate was compelled in 1279 to cede the castle and ;z~ miles south-east from Oundle, in the Northern divi manor to William, Abbot of Ramsey, in the county of ~<ion of the county, hundred of Polebrook, Oundle petty Hunts, to which abbey it belonged till the gen·eral tessional division and union, Thrapston and Oundle suppression in the Teign of Henry VIII.: Sir Edward county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (first Montagu, then.Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, portion), arch deaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peter purchased it of that monarch in 1540, and. having borough. The parish is watered by a stream, a feeder repaired and beautified it, made it the residence of ()f the Nene. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient himself and his descendants : the only remains now edifice of stone, in the Early English, Decorated and standing are four bastions, the southern gate and the Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, with north walls, which are 3 feet in thickness: the ruins of the ehapel, clerestGried nave, aisles and a western tower, castle are open to visitors on application to Horace with spire, containing 2 bells : the chancel is Perpendi Czarnikow esq. Roman coins and other antiquities have -cular, the remainder of t-he building mostly Early been found in the neighbourhood. Horace Czarnikow English: an ancient piscina, found under Latham's esq. is lord of the manor and sole land<1wner. The soil monument, has been placed in tilie south wall and now is mixed; subsoil, clay and rock. The chief crops are forms a credence table : there are some stone stalls, one hay, wheat, l1arley and beans. The area of Barnwell ()( two niches, and remains of screen work and stained St. Andrew is r,66o acres of land and 21 of water; glnss: the font is octagonal: the monument of the Rev. rateable value, £2,203 ; the population in 1911 was 238 Nicholas Latham, rector of the church in 16oo, and in the civil parish and in Barnwell ecclesiastical parish founder of the almBhouses and Free schools, has been 334· 'Placed in the chapel: there is also a mural tablet in ·acribed to William Bigley, of Edmonton, a merchant, BARNWELL ALL SAINTS (or King's Barnwell), con and founder ~f the girls' school, who died in 1824. The solidated with Barnwell St. Andrew, which it adjoins, is register dates from the year 1558. The living is a a parish extending to the borders of Hunts, 3 miles rectory, net yeaJ'ly value (including glebe) £18o, in the south-east from Oundle. The church of All Saints, an gift of Horace Czarnikow esq. and held since 1907 by the ed!fice of the Early English and Decorated periods, was Rev. William Worters Baillie B.A. of Jesus College, pulled down about 1825, and the only portion now re ·Cambridge. The rectory house, . which adjoins the maining is the chancel, used as the burying place of the church, was restored and embellished in 1874 by Waiter Montagu family, Earls of Sandwich, and containing a 'Francis, 5th Duke of Buccleuch. Here are almshouses, I very curious marble monument to Henry Montagu esq. founded in the year 1604 by tJhe Rev. N. Latham, of only son of Sir Sidney ·Montagu, who was drowned Brig"tock, Norlthamptonshire, and formerly rector here, j April 28, 1627, as well as tablets to other members of for 12 aged and infirm persons of the parishes of Barn- 1 the Montagu family and an ancient stone font: this well All Saints and St . .Andrew, Old Weston and Kim- chancel, after being left for some time in a ruinous bolton, each of whom receives 71. per week, the men condition, was restored in 1894, chiefly at the expense of also a coat, and women a gown annually; there is a the Duke of Buccleuch. The register dates from the -quarterly allowance for fuel; the almsheuses were re- year 1558, but this earlier portion is intE!J'rupted by built in 1875 at a cost of about £2,ooo, of which £Boo entries beginning in 1695. Horace Czarnikow esq. is lord was defrayed by the charity, and the remainder by of the manor and principal landowner. The area is Waiter Prancis, 5th Duke of Buocleuch K.G. A castle r,78r acres; •·ateable value, {,1,537; the population in 1s supposed to have been erected here by Reginald le 1911 wat g6. 1foigne in the reign of Henry I. (.A.D. II3ll), but I Parish Clerk, .Alfred Kisbee~ .