Northam:Ptonshire

20 ALTHORP. NORTHAM:PTONSHIRE. [KELLY'S Northampton; it consists chiefly of a park 572 acres in 745 acns; rateable value, £2'7II; the population in f1~tent, in which stands the noble mansion of Earl 1901 was 88. Spencer K.G., P.C. lord lieutenant of the county, the Letters through Northampton. Great Brington is the fouth front of which consists of a centre with trans- nearest money order & telegraph office, about I mile v~rse wings, but the west front presents an unbroken distant. There is a private wire which connects the fac;ade; the mansion, approached by a fine avenue, underwent extensive alterations in 1877: the park is ~ansion w~th the post office . well stocked with deer. Earl Spencer K.G., P.C. is lord Railway StatIOn, Henry George Ludgate, statIOn master of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is a rich dark- " Carriers w Northampton from Brington pass through wed. colaureL! loam; subsoil, gravel and clay. The area is & sat Spencer The Right Hon. Earl K.G., COMMERCIAL. IShears WaIter, stud groom to the Earl P.C., LL.D., D.C.L. (lord-lieut. of Cole Silas, head gardener, .A1thorp pk 1st Volunteer Battalion Northampton Xorthamptonshire), Althorp park; Callis Arthur Hy. clerk to the Earl shire Regiment (A CD. Capt. & Hon. t:. Spencer ho. 27 St..James' pI. & Meacham George, house steward to Major the Right Hon. C. R. Spencer) Reform & Brooks's clubs, Lndn sw the Earl I APETHORPE, formerly a chapelry to Nassington, is Henry VI. to modern times, and contains two fireplaces now a parish, 2 miles east from King's Cliffe station on which may be of much earlier work: in the year 1603 it the Peterborough and Market Harborough section of was visited by King James I. then on his journey w the London and North Western railway and 6 north from London to assume the crown of England, and it was Oundle, in the Northern division of the county, Willy- here he first met George Villiers, afterwards Duke brook hundred, Oundle petty sessional division, union of Buckingham; t·he mansion contains several family and county court district, rural deanery of Oundle and other portraits of great excellence; the park (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese ext·ends over ISO acres: there are also well laid of Peterborough. A tributary of the Nene forms the out pleasure grounds, containing one of the finest eastern boundary of the parish. The church of St. specimens of Wellingtonia gigantea in the country: Leonard is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, some tessellated pavement, discovered in the park, is consi:>ting of chancel with mortuary chapel on the south supposed to indicate the site here of a Roman villa, side, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and an em- and a small hut has been built over it in order to its battled western tower with a short pyramidal spire, preservation. A famous private drive, known as "The and containing 4 bells: in the church is a splendid Gravel," extends from this village through the wood marble monument to Sir Anthony Mildmay kt. ob. Sept. to Wansford, a distance of five miles. The Earl of Il, 1617, and Grace (Sherington) his wife, ob. 1621: the Westmorland is lord of the manor and sole landowner. east window and one other are stained: there are sittings The soil is clay; subsoil, stone. The chief crops are for 250 persons. The register dates from the year 1670. wheat, barley, oats, beans &C. The area is 1,778 acres The living is a vicarage annexed to that of Wood of land and 6 of water; rateable value, £I,406; the Kewton, joint net yearly value £250, including 45 acres population in 1901 was 170. of glebe, in the g-ift of the Bishop of Peterborough, Parish Clerk, Henry Harlock. and held since 1875 by the Rev. Henry Salmon Bagshaw Post Office.-Miss J ane Lucas, sub-postmistress. Letters I,L.D. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who resides at arrive through Wansford R.S.O. at 5.45 a.m. & 12 Wood Newton. The stocks still stand at the end of noon &, are dispatched at I & 6,45 p.m. Postal orders one of the cottages in the centre of the village. Lady are issued, but not paid. King's Cliffe is the nearest G. Mildmay"s charity of £9 yearly, left in 1618, is for ap- money order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant prenticing and a further benefaction by the same donor pro- School, a building of stone, erected, in 1846, by John vides £10 for sermon. Apethol'lpe Hall, the splendid seat of I Ith Earl of Westmorland, for 70 children; average the Earl of Westmorland J.P. a little south of the village attendance, 36; & supported in part by the Earl of is a mansion of various dates, ranging from the period of Westmorland; Fred. W. Blakeley, master Westmorland Right Hon. E~rl of J.P. Jolly Alexander, estate agent to the Setchell John, farmer, Halefield lodge Apethorpe hall Earl of ''Vestmorland, Apethorpe ldg Sharman William, general dealer COMMERCIAL. Lucas Ezra, dairy farmer, Manor farm Webb Thomas, Westmorland Arms Ashton Preston, famner Lucas J ane (Miss), post office P.R. & farmer Ireland Thomas, farmer, Blue field Paine William Spalding, mason Woods George, shopkeeper Johnson Robert, clerk of works Quincey Jas. Edwd.wheelwrt.&' smith ARTHINGWORTH is a parish and village, on the and J.P. Northants. Langham's rent-charge of £2 12S. is river lse, I mile north-by-east from Kelmarsh station, for bread. Bricks are made in the parish. The rector, and I mile from Clipston and Oxenden station on the who is also lord of the manor, the Misses Cust, of Castle Northampton, Market Harborough and Nottingham Rock, "Test Cowes, Isle of Wight, are the principal land section of the North Western railway, IQ north-west owners. The soil is clayey; the land is chiefly pasture. from Kettering, 14 north from Northampton and 5 The area is 1,755 acres; rateable value, £2,584; the south from Market Harborough, \U the Mid division of population in Ig01 was ISO. the county, hundred of Rothwell, petty sessional division Parish Clerk, Benjamin Cooke. of Little Bowden, union and county court district of Post Office.-A1fred Lewin, sub-postmaster. Letter- Market Harborough, rural deanery of Rothwell (second through Northampton, delivered about 8 a.m.; cleared portion), archdeaconry of Northampton and diocese of at 4.35 p.m. week days & on sundays at lLIO a.m. Peterborough. The church of St. Andrew is an edifice Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three nearest money order &, telegraph office is at Kelmarsh, bays, south aisle, chapel, south porch and a fine em- 2 miles distant battled western tower containing a clock and 5 bells: tlie church was thoroughly restored in 1872. The re- Church School, built for 50 children, was erected in gister dates from the year 1650' The living is a 189~; average attendance, 26; & endowed with rents rectory, net yearly value £300, including 218 acres of I a:lsmg fro:n 24a. 2r. 27p· of land left by.William :Mar- glebe, in the gift of and held since 1870 by the Rev. rlOtt esq. m the year 1733; Mrs. Holt, IDlstress Henry Ralph Hokeby B.A.. of Trinity College, Cambridge Kelm1rsh Railway Station, Samuel Hayres, station mastr Grenfell :\Irs. The Hall 'Cheney Mrs Collier James, blacksmith Rokeby Rev. Henry Ralph B.A.., J.P. Dean & Son, farmers (rector), Arthingworth manor I COMMERCIA.L. KeetIey John, farmer,Arthingworth 10 Rol\cby Capt,. Henry Langham J.I'. Alton Fred, farmer, Bleak house Lawrence John, Kelmarsh Arms P.H. Arthingworth manor I Bell William, carpenter Smalley Mrs. Bull's Head P.R .ASHBY ST. LEDGERS is a village and parish, 2 chapel, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and an miles west from Welton station on the main line of the embattled western tower containing 4 cells: a very rich London and North Western railway, and 16 from North- rood screen of light and beautiful execution, spreading ampton, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of out into curves of delicate fan tracery and snrmounted Fawsley, petty sessional division, union and county court by an elaborately carved cresting, separates the chancel district of Daventry. rural deanery of Daventry, arch- from the nave, and there are three piscinre, and an deaconry of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough: aumbry: within the chancel is a monument to Sir the Union carml and the Grand Junction canal are about William and Lady Johanna Catesby, and within the corn 2 miles distant. The church of St. Leodegarius is a munion rails is a very fine canopied brass with effigies fine edifice of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, in heraldic costume, figures of children and shields of with some earlier portions, and consists of chancel with arms, commemorating William Qltesby esq. the favourite 7.

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