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DIRECTORY. ] LEICESTERSHIRE. LUBENH.AM. 509 3 bells, dated respectively 1657, 1625 and 1613: traces but the land is chiefly pasturage. The area of the of the original church still exist, with part of the rood township is 1,424 acres; rateable value, £1,747; the loft. and remains of a screen; there are also sedilia, an population of the township in 1901 was 107 and of the imperfect piscina and an ancient stone font: the roof parish 235. is of oak, handsomely carved: in the south aisle is a monument to the Wollaston family, dated 1690; and COLD NEWTON is a township, in the ecclesiastical another at the west end to the Ashbys, with remains parish of Lowesby, I mile south-west. The area is of brasses to the Burdett family: the communion plate 1,556 acres; rateable value, £1,693; the population in was presented by Sir Edward Cecil kt. Viscount 1901 was 128. Wimbled':m, son of Thomas, 1st Earl of Exeter K.G. Letters through Leicester, via Billesdon, arrive at 9 and is dated 1614: the church was thoroughly restored a.m.; dispatched at 5.5 p.m. from Lowesby & 5.25 in 1868, and affords 250 sittings. The register dates p.m. from Cold Newton, week days only. Billesdon from the year 1653. The living is a vicarage, net yearly is the nearest money order office; there is a tele value £70, with residence and including 52 acres of graph office at Lowesby railway station, for the re glebe, in the gift of Sir Frederick F. C. Fowke bart, ception of telegrams, & Thorpe Satchville, 3! miles and held since 1887 by the Rev. John Edward Smithson distant, is the nearest for the delivery of telegrams. B.A. of Hatfield Hall, Durham. Lowesby Hall, the seat The office at the station is closed on sunday of Sir Frederick Ferrers Con ant Fowke bart. who is lord of the manor and the principal landowner, is a large Church of England School, opened in June, 1876, prin and handsome mansion of brick, standing in a well cipally at the expense of the late Sir Frederick T. wooded park of 100 acres, watered by a rivulet and Fowke bart. (d. 1897), for 45 children; average at commanding picturesque views. The soil is chiefly tendance, 18; Miss Emma Bunn, mistress clay; subsoil, mar!. The crops are wheat and oats, Railway Station, John Ings, station master LOWESBY. Leadbetter George, farmer Cookson Elizh. Jane (Mrs.), grazier Fowke Sir Fredelfick Ferre.rs Conant Leadbe'tter Thoma,s, farmor Dalby W. H. farmer barit,. Lowes by haJl Mayfield John, farmer Fritlh John, farmer, Portshill lodge Smithson Rev. John Edward B.A. Thurlby William, farmer & overseer, Greasley Ro beil't, farmer (vioar), Vicarage Cawdell fie,lds Houghton John, farmer & grazier, COMMERCIAL. Manor house COLD ~E"W'ro~. Barnes Susan (Mrs.), grazier Knapp WaIter, grazier Crawford Robe.rt, farmer,Highfield ho Haig Major Neil, Sludge hall Ploug-hman Charle'5- Henry, beer retlr Hollier Harry, farmeT COMMERCIAL. Riley Wal'ter & Arthur, farmers Humphreys William Thomas, grazier Brown Elizabeth (Mrs'.), farmer Westerdale Joseph, farmer L,UBBESTHORPE is a parish, 3 miles south-west The inhabitants attend the church at Enderby. ~Irs. from Leicester and bounded on the east by the Soar, in Drummond, of Fawley, Southants, is lady of the manor the Southern division {)f the county, Blaby union, and owner of all the land. Th~ soil is mostly a light hundred, petty sessional division and county court loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats district of Leicester. By Local Government Board and roots. 'l'he area is 2,678 acres of land and 11 of Order No. 32,954, March 26, 1896, those parts of .Ayle water; rateable value, £4,385; the population in 1901 stone and Knighton civil parishes, not added in Lei was 75. ()ester borough in 1891, were annexed to Lubbesthorpe Letters through Leicester, via Enderby, which is the dvil parish. By an Order in Council, in 1903, this nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at 9.30 parish, for ecclesiastical purposes, was added to a.m Enderby. The ancient chapel of St. Peter has long been in ruins, and a farm-house occupies part of the site. The children of this place attend the school at Enderby Ball Jo.seph, farTIl3r, Hopyard I Enderby Co-cvperative Society Ltd., Prolldman Pel'cy, farmer, Hat farm Cooper's Alderney Dairy Limited, farmelfs, The La,wn Proudman William, farmer, New ho far~erSl, The Abbey Heath Samuel, farmer, The Warren Warren Archibald, farmer, Millfield LUBENHAM is a township and parish, separated of £26 yearly from Alderman Newton's charity is ap from ~orthamptonshire by the river Welland, with a plied to the clothing and education of boys who aTe station on the Rugby and Stamford branch of the members of the church choir. Every third year the London and North Western railway, l~ miles west-by sum of £3 12S. is distributed to the poor on St. south from Market Harborough and 86 from London, in Thomas's day, derived from Shipley's, Smith's and the Southern division of th<:l county, Gartree hundred, Neale's charities; Hartshorn's charity provides for the :\'Iarket Harborough petty sessional division, union and distribution of bread and three bibles a year. There are ~ounty court district, rural deanery of Gartree (first township gardens, divided into 95 portions of about 200 portion), ar~hdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of yards each, for the use of the inhabitants on payment Peterborough. The Grand Union canal runs to the of ten shillings initiation fee and one shilling yearly. north-east of the village. The church of All Saints is a Many of the inhabitants are employed in the carriage large and ancient building of stone, in the Early Eng and railway lace factory here, belonging to Messrs. lish style, consisting of chancel with north aisle, nave, Joshua Perkins and Sons Limited. Papillon Hall, the aisles, south porch and a western tower containing 5 property and residence of Frank Ashton BellviIle esq. bells, four of which were recast in 1724; the fifth is is an ancient octagonal building, standing on rising dated 1624: the north chancel aisle, used from 1815 as ground, about a mile from the village, and was built the National school, was, in 1859, thrown open to the by David Papillon about the year 1640, and rebuilt by church, when a fine Norman arch was uncovered, and its present owner in 1903-4. T. Guy Frederick Paget in 1872 an organ was placed in it: the chancel retains esq. of Woodend, Chichester, who is lord of the manor sedilia and a piscina; and in the north wall is an and lay impropriator, F. A. Bellville esq. the trustees Easter shrine, or possibly founder's tomb, consisting of of the late Rev. Hanmer Morgan Stratford M.A. a Decorated arch, under which there was forme.rly a Thomas Wright Watson esq. of 60 Great Cumberland large stone: there are memorials to the Rev. John place, London S W, Marston Clarke Buszard esq. K.C., Bullivant M.A. formerly vicar of this parish and rector J.P. of Lutterworth, and Mr. Joseph S. Perkins, are the of Marston Trussell, d. 5 Oct. 1803; the Rev. Henry principal landowners. The soil is good loam; subsoil, BlllIivant LL.B. 33 years vicar of this parish and rector clay, and most of the parish is grazing land. The area of Marston Trussell, and the founder in 1815 of the is 2,721 acres of land and 8 of water; rateable value, National school, d. 6 July, 1842: in 1812 the church £6,426; the population in 1901 was 618. was repewed and in 1898 improved: in 1900 the east Parish Clerk, Job Pickering. wall was restored and a memorial 'Window placed to Post, :M. O. & T. 0., S. B. & A. & 1. Office.-Mrs. :Mr. and :Mrs. Joshua S. Perkins: there are about 268 J emima Miller, sub-postmistress. Letters received sittings. The register dates from the year 1559, and is through Market Harborough at 7 a.m. & 4.10 p.m.; in very good condition. The living is a vicarage, net dispatched at 11.35 a.m. & 2.30, 6.25 & 9.5 p.m.; ~'I'arly value £170. including 31! acres of glebe, in the sunday. 11.50 a.m gift of T. Guy Frederick Paget esq. and held since Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), erected, 1908 by the Rev. Albert Ray Miles M.A. of Queen's with house for the master, in 1858, for 205 children; College, Oxford. Here is a Congregational chapel, built average attendance, 100; Chas. James Perry, master; in 1838, with 120 sittings. There is also in the parish Mrs. Perry, mistress an Oddfellows' lodge and a Women's club. The sum Railway Station, George Shadwell, station master .