NEWBOLD-DE- DIRECTORY. ] 461 { VERDUN. [LEICESTER.] NARBOROUGH is a townsllip, parish, large village, are also distributed in money. The principal landowners and station on the South branch of the Lon­ are William Everard, esq., and the trustees of the late don and North 'Vestern railway, pleasantly situated on the Thomas Pares, esq. The soil is various. The chief crops side of the river Soar, 6 miles south-west from Leicester, 9 are wheat and oats. The area of the parish, including H un­ north from Lutterworth, and 100 from London, in the cote, is 2,659 acres; rateable value of Narborough, £4,638; Sout hern division of the county, Sparkenhoe hundred, Blaby in 1871 the population was 753, including a portion of the union, Leicester county court district and archdeaconry, hamlet of Littlethorpe, which is partly in this, but mostly rural deanery of , and diocese of Peterborough. in Cosby parish. The church of All Saints is a Gothic building, with mas­ Parish Clerk, George Heighton. sive tower containing 5 bells, and has a good organ, two stone stalls, piscina, and Norman doorway. The register dates from the 16th century. The living is a rectory, yearly POST & MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & value £590, with 80 acres of glebe and residence, in the Savings Bank & Government Insurance & Annuity gift of the Rev. William Langley. M.A., curate of St. Mat- Office.-Arthllr Dawkins, receiver. Letters arrive from thew's, Leicester, and held by the Rev. Edward Butter- Leicester at 7.5 a.m.; box closes at 6.15 p.m worth Shaw, M.A., of Caius College, Cambridge. There INSURANCE AGENT.-Royal, R. Hill are National and Sunday schools, re-erected in 1872, to CARRIER TO LEICESTER.-Jas. Southam, mono wed. & sat hold about 140 children; also a chapel for Independents. National School, Richard Meats, master; Mrs. A. Meats, Mrs. Bingley's charity of £30, and Buckingham's charity sewing mistress of £5, for poor persons, members of the Church of England, Railway Station, William Batcheldor, station master Beresford James William Wills George, Croft house Jarvis Mary Ann (Mrs.), baker, Little- Bevan John Young Mrs thorpe Everard William, Narboro' wood COMMERCIAL. Knight Henry, farmer Gibsone Capt. John [adjutant of the Atkins Benjamin, coach builder, wheel- Knight William, grocer Yeomanry] wright &c Lord Edward & Son, bricklayers Hardy ~lrs Barnett Robert, baker Mercer Henry, draper, grocer &c James Rev. Artbur Oswall, M.A. Batcheldor William, station master Moore Lemuel, tailor [curate] Beresford James WiIliam, surgeon Neal Thomas, carpenter Knight Capt. Gregory [Leicestershire Breward Hy. beer retailer, Littlethorpe Neale Thomas, farmer, The Flash farm militia], South view Brcward John, shoe maker Nowell & Robson, quarry owners Knight Miss Breward Thomas, hair dresser (Timothy Toone, man.) ; & at London Orton WiIliam Brice Christopher William, saddler Oram William, butcher, assistant over- Payne ~1iss Briers Michael, baker seer, registrar of births, deaths & Robjohns Rev. James Nelson [lnde- Bryan John, butcher marriages for the Enderby district pendent] Dawkins Arthur, draper, grocer, & & vaccination officer Sarson Thomas, South view post office Ortou William, surgeon Shaw Rev. Edward Butterworth, M.A. Dexter Thomas, farmer, The Hardwick Pickering George, market gardener [rector] Ellis Joseph & Sons (Edward Upton, Pratt Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Simpkin Joseph agent), coal&c. mers.Railway station Sansom Dinah Everard Bilson (Miss}, Skinner - Everard William, farmer & landowner, Narborough inn Tavlor William Narborough wood Southam James, carrier Terry Miss, South view Exton William, farmer Swain Thomas, farmer Wale Henrv. Woodlands IGeary Joseph, blacksmith & beerretailr Warner & Harrison, nurserymen, seeds- Wellster John Howard James, young gentlemen's men & florists. See advertisement Wills Albau William boarding & day school, Auburn house Woodcock Benjamin, grazier

NEW PARKS. formerly an extra-parochial liberty, anel Thomas Stokes, esq. The soil is clayey; subsoil, mostly part of Leicester Forest, but now a parish, comprised in the clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, and barley. The Southern division of the county, Blaby union, Leicester area is 776A. 3R. 33p.; rateable value, £1,912; and county court district, is a mile west-north-west from Lei­ 69 inhabitants in 1871.--Letters through Leicester, the cester. The principal landowners are Sir J. Melior, Rev. nearest money order office. T. S. Carlyon, M.A., J. D. Harris, esq., and the trustees of Rust Mrs. New Parks house I W'll' N I ~ J ohnson George, farmer AbellJhn.frm.bailiff'to Wm.Hy.Salt,esq Berry 1 lam ea, larmer ISmith Ezra, farmer

NEWBOLD-DE-VERDUN (corrupted into NEW­ Montagu; it still bears some traces of its former grandeur. BOLD VERDON), is a large village, 3 miles east-by-north Sir John C. Hartopp, bart., who is lord of the manor, the from , 8 north-north-east from Hinck­ rector, and Mrs. Thos. Arnold are the chieflandowners. The ley, '3 west from station,115 from London, and soil is for the most part light; subsoil, gravel; but the land 10 west from Leicester, in the Southern division of the is heavier in the northern part of the parish. The chief crops county, Sparkenhoe hundred. Market Bosworth union are wheat, barley, oats, roots, and there is some land in and county court district, rural deanery of Sparkenhoe, pasture. The area of the parish, which comprises the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Peterborough. hamlet of Brascote, about a mile south of the village, The church of St. James consists of chancel, nave, with 70 people, is 1,750 acres; rateable value, £3,432 10s.; and aisle, with a square tower and 2 bells: it was re­ the population in 1871 was 716. paired and enlarged in 1832 by the late rector, the Rev. Parish Clerk, John Brown. William Whitmore Greenway. The register dates from the year 1542. The living is a rectory, with 316 acres of glebe, of the yearly value of about £550, in the gift of Letters through Leicester. The nearest money order office Trinity College, Oxford, and held by the Rev. William is at Desford Gordon Cole, M.A., late fellow of that colle~e. There is CARRIERS TO & FROM :- a Free school, endowed with £20, bequeathed by Lord -Thomas Billings, every monday Crewe, Bishop of Durham, in 1720: a new school-house is LEICESTER-Robert Cave, to the' Golden Lion,' High now (1876) being built. The General Baptists and Primitive Cross street, wednesday & saturday; Thomas Billings, to Methodists have each a small chapel here. Coal has been the' KinO' & Crown,' wednesday & saturday; James discovered near the village. The ancient Hall or Manor Ross, to the' Crown & Thistle,' Loseby lane, every wed­ House was formerly tbe residence of the above-mentioned nesday; William Wood, to the • Red Lion,' wednesday & prelate, and was last occupied by Lady Mary Wortley saturday PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bacon Joseph, cowkeeper Brown James, farmer Cole Rev. William Gordon, M.A. Bailey Samuel. draper Brown John, shoe maker [rector] Ball WilIiam, butcher I Cave Robert, carrier Gimson Mrs Barrs John, miller Cope John, shoe maker Nutting James Beck J ames, farmer, Glebe farm Freeman Robert, farmer COMMERCIAL. Beck J ohu, bricklayer Geary Elijah, carpenter Archer Artbur, farmer Beck Robert, shopkeeper Gilbert William, farmer Areher Frederick. wheelwricrht Billings Thomas, carrier Gilliver Francis, carpenter Arnold Thomas, farmer, Br;scote Boswol'th J olm, farmer, Heath farm Gilliver John, wheelwright