Leicestershire. Swepstone
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IlIRECTOJ.lY.] LEICESTERSHIRE. SWEPSTONE. 577 ",ater; ratMble value, £2,099; the population in 1901 at 5.45 'B.m. &i 7·45 p.m. Market BOl!worth, 3 miles ",al ::l0S. dis&;ant, is the nearest money order &; telegraph office Parillb Clerk, John Coleman. Post Office.-Mrs. Elizabeth Marriott, sub-postmistress. Public Elementary School (mixed), for 80 !Children; Letters arrive from Nuneaton at 7 a.m.; dispatched average attendance, 32; Mrs. M. S. Cartwright, mist .Abell George, Lawn house Dunkley James ArchibaJd &i Frank. Palmer William, baker, see Highton Bell MM. Ivy dene g-eneral dealers &i Palmer .. Crabbe Rev. William, Vicarage Herbert William James, Greyhound Porter Henry, farmer, Ambyon hill • P.H. &; wheelwrig'ht RobiIJjson Jabez, boot maker COMllERCUL. Highton &: Palmer, bakers Summers Edwm, farmer Abell George & WaIter, farmers HightoD William, baker, see Highton Summers Wm. farmer, Sutton fields Baxter Samuel, Hercule,s inn &; Palmer Taylor Elizh. (Mrs.). frmr. Fields frm Bradley RoM. farmer, Green Hill frm Miller Ann (Mrs.), cowkeeper Thompson John, farmer, The Hall Coleman John, parish clerk Wardell George, blacksmith \ ~. SUTTON-IN-THE-EL:MS, see Broughton Astln. SWANNINGTON (or Whitwick St. George) is one in this parish, was erected about 1884, at a cost of about of the three townships of the original parish of Whit- £800, for six patients. Rich beds of coal underlie the wick, and was formed into a separate parish in 1875, soil, the working of which gives employment to a great with a station on the Leicester and Burton-on-Trent number of the inhabitants. The larger part of the branch of th:J Midland railway, 16~ miles north-west land, as well as the manor, belongs to Wyggeston's from Leicester, 4 east from Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 1I91 Hospital, Leicester. Swannington House is the residence from London; it is in the Western division of the of Lady Beaumont. The township has an area of 1,530 county, hundred of West Hoscote, petty sessional divi- acres; rateable value, £6,861; the population in 1901 sion, union and county court district of Ashby-de-la- was 1,737 in the civil and 1,798 in the ecclesiastical Zouch, rural deanery of West Akeley, archdeaconry of parish. Leicester and diocese of Peterborough and partly in the New Swannington is a place in the parish. civil parish of Coalville. The village lies in a valley, By Local Government Board Order No. 31,758, Sept. l'll'compassed by gently rising hills, and is well watered 29. 1894, part of Swannington was taken to form the by several fine springs, one of which is carried 150 civil parish of Coalville. yards through pipes to a large stone basin in the main street. St. George's church, situated on what was once Parish Clerk, Frederick J ohnson. Swannington Common, is a very plain edifice of brick. Sexton, Thomas Richards. consisting of nave, with a turret containing one small P t & MOO SB ... A & I D'd J h ·· d . h os ...,.. "". omce.- aVl 0 n- belI : th e east wind ow IS stame : m 1904 the c urch son, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Leicester at underwent extensive alterations and additions, includ- 7.40 a.m.; dispatched at 5.55 p.m. on week days &; ing the I.'rection of a chancel, under the direction of 5.40 p.m. on sundays. The nearest telegraph office Mr. G. H. FelIowes Prynne F.R.I.B.A. architect, of is at Whitwick, 2 miles distant London, at a cost of ~1'700: there are 266 sittings. Wall Letter Boxes.-St. George's Hill, cleared at 5.45 The register of baptisms and burials dates from 1827; p.m.; sundays, 11.15 a.m.; Railway Station, cleared marriages,_. £'d1853. The living is a vicarage, net )'early at 6·5 p.m. ; Thornb oroughId, c earl.' at 5.45 p.m.; New v...ue 150, with rE'SI ence and including 12 acres of Swannington, cleared at 8.15 &; 10.45 a.m. ,& 6.15 p.m glebe, in the gift of the vicar of Whitwick, and held since 1895 by the Rev. John Hooley Ella Bailey M.A. Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1862, for of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The great tithes 176 children; average attendance, 147; Ernest Firth, of Swannington belong to the lay rector, Capt. Sir master George Howland WiIliam Beaumont bart. R.H.A. but Public Elementary School (infants), erected in 1894, for were devoted under Lord Beaumont's will to maintain J20; average attendance, 72 ; Miss Chester, mistress the Coleorton School and Hospital. Divine service is Public Elementary School, New Swannington (mixed & held on Sundavs in the infants' school. There are infants), opened in 1907, for 100 children; average Wesleyan and p'rimitive Methodist chapels. The Ashby- attendance, 89; Samuel Leivers, master de-Ia-Zouch Rural District Infectious Diseases Hospital, Railway Station, Malachi William Bailey, station master (Marked tJhus T receive their lett.ers Billings William, shopkeeper Kendrick John Thoma.s, shopkeppel', through ASlhby-de-la-Zouch.) Blythe Ste,phen W. Robin Hood P.H New Swannington PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brewin J oseph, joiner Lovett Levi, miners' agent tBailey Rev. John Hooley Ella M.A. Brooks George Jaomes, Station inn McCarthy Michael, beer retailer & (vicar), Vicarage Carter Thomas, cowkeeper estate agent, New Swannington Beaumont Lady, Swannington house OheS'ter George (exors. of), farmers tMee Jsph. blacksmith,St.George's hI Chester Mrs. Springfield house Chester WaIter H. Railway inn Nicholls John, shopkeeper FrankJs WiJ.liam, The Knoll Coalville Working Men's Co-operative Reeves Wm. beer retIr.Thornborough HewelJl Ebenezer, Redholm Society Limited (branch) (Arthur Richards Ann (Mrs.), grocer tJohnson Ml's. St. George's lodge Lockwood, sec) Richards Ja'TIles, farmer Moss Mrs. The Grove tCrane Fras. bricklyr. St.George's hi Richard!!> John, farmer, Manor farm Palmer Mrs FaWkes' John, farmer Robinson Francis, beer retailer Plowright Mrs. Station road Firth Ernest-, Ischoolm,aster & organist Rouse George Underwood, grazier Richards Thomas<, Brook house Gough Arthur Jas. farmer, Red Hill Rowell Henry, grazier, Common Wheatley Mrs. Sunnyba.nk Gough Wm. .lesson, farmer, Talbot Rowse Mary Ann (Mrs.), bla.ckismith White Mrs. L. St. George's Hill house (postal addres<s, Whitwick, Shaw Jas. beer retlr. Coleorton Moor Ashby-de-la-Zouch Rural District In- Leicester) Spencer Charles, butcher & grazier, factious Dis€Jl.ses Hospital (Roderic tGregory Thos. cowkpr. Pegg's Green Stretton house, Thornborough Robert WaIter Logan M.R.C.S. Harr1s Thomas, a,ssistant overseer, Turner William, S'hopkeeper Eng. m.edical ufficer; Mrs. Ann New Swannington Walker Frederick Jame-s, grazier PIatit, matron) Hart Wm.Queen'sHeadP.H.Thornbro' Walker Geo. grocr. & butchr.Vine cot Atkins Thomas, grocer & wine, spirit Hough John George, Bull's Head Walker Geo. Jas. butcher & grazier &i beer merchant P.H. &; butcher Wardle Thom't~, butcher, Hoo Ash tAyre Arth. cow'kpr. Coleorton Moor Johnson David, boot ma. & postmastl' terrace (leHers, Coalville) Bath Alfred HeIliI'y, grazier, New Johnson Fred, hair drssr. & boot ma Watson SamL brake propr. Rose cot Swannington Johnson John. farmer tWinters John, cowkpr. ~It. Pleasant SWEPSTONE is a parish and small village. on a church of St. Peter is an ancient building of stone in small brook called the Mease and 'On the borders of the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, clere Warwickshire, 2 mili!s east from Snarestone station and storied nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and an 2 west from Heather station, both on ,the Midland and embattled western tower with four pinnacles, containing London and North Western joint railway, 5 south from 4 bells and a clock, given ,by parishioners in J897 at a Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 10 north from Atherstone and S~ cost of nearly £100: the east window is stained: in north-north-west from Market Bosworth, in the Western 1869 the chancel was rebuilt, <and in 187°-4 the nave division of the county, West Goscote hundred, Ashby and aisles were restored and a porch added at a cost de-la-Zouch petty sessional division, union and county of £J,100: in 1887 a new carved oak pulpit and choir court district, rural deanery of West Akeley, archdea stalls were given by the parishioners, and in 1893 a conry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. The stained window was erected by Mrs. Rodgson, in memory LEICS. & RUT. 37.