DIRECTORY. ] . RATCLIFFE-ON-THE-WREAKE. 607 from station, on the north side of the old There is a School Council of 7 members; Freder'ick V. and Bwannington railway. Millington, Leicester, correspondent; F. Hanger, at­ Wall Letter Box, cleared at 6,40 p.m tendance officer ~EWTOWN UNTHANK is a hamlet on the north side Public Elementary School, Ratby (mixed k infants), of. the Leicester and Swannington railway; about 6; erected in 1873 &; enlarged in 1906, for 285 mixed &; miles west from Leicester and a quarter of a mile 194 infants; John H. Butler, master; Miss M. E. north-east from Desford .station, in the petty sessional Ramsay, infants' mistress • division and county court district of Market Bosworth. Graby Hamlet will be found under a separate heading. Public Elementary School, Botcheston (mixed & infants), By. Local Government Board Order No. 46,276, Oct. erected in I906,. for 80 children; Mrs. H. Dymock,mist ut, 1904, part of Kirby Muxloe was added to Ratby for Desford Industrial School, locally in Botcheston, under civil purposes. the control of the Leicester Borough Council, for 200 Post, M. 0., T. At Telephonic Express .Delivery Office. boys; Charles Oxley, superintendent -Miss Annie Astill, sub-postmistress. Letters. arrive from Leicester by mail cart at 5.55 a.m. &; 3.30 p.m. ; Carriers to k from Leicester.-Richardson Bros. John di.spatched at 10.15 a.m. &i 7.30 p.m.; no sunday Henry Wood, Laurenc~ Wood & Charles Geary, eveq delivery. Wall Box at Ratby station cleared at 7.15 p.m wed. & sat RATBY. "Grewcocli: lValter, grocer Smith George !saac, insurance agent CufHin William IGrudgings Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Stevenson John Thomas, boot maker Gilbanks Rev. George Ernest M .!. IHallam Ernest, frmr. The Old Hayes Todn Chas. beer retl!'. The Yew trees (vicar), Vicarage . . Han-is John, farmer, Bondman Hays TyIer Wm. Sons &. Co. hosiery manu~ Ramsay John, Ratby villa Hauison Henry, draper facture~s (T. Bentley, manager) I Ing-ram Richard, hair dresser WaIlsgrove EdwardH.BulI's Head P.H .COMMERCIAL. I Jordan John, fishmonger W esley John, grazier ,Ubright William, farmer, WoodlanCtlll Kent Tom, blacksmith Wood John Henry, carrier }Jailey Arth. shopkpr. &. as!!t. overseer, Lee William. grocer Wood Laurence, carrier Ball Frederick, Plough P.H . Lemmon Joseph, beer retailer Worth Albert E. news agent Ball WiIliam, fa.rmer, The Nook I Marriott William Hemsley, saddler Batten & Son, corn merchants I Marvin George, Railway inn BOTCHESTON. Copson Herbert, baker Moore John, painter Oragg George, cartel', Shellbrook I Moore William, grazier Pick8ll'd Albert, Bufton lodge Cragg William, grazier I Preston George Waiter, draper COMMERCIA.L. Curtiss Frank, farmer, Boxtree fam1 i Preston Mary Jane (Mrs.), fruiterer Brierley Rowland Hill, farn:er Dixon William, cycle agent I Preston Stephen, joiner Brown Ernest, farmer Ellis Joseph & Sons Limited, coalj Pres,t-on ThoID3.S, framework knitter De'siord Industrial School (Charles merchants &c. Depot. Station I Ratby Co-operative Society Limited Oxley, supt) Frank Tho·s. farmer, HolyweU farm I . (George Statham Hunt,sec) Duffin John, farmer Freeman John Henry, butcher !Ratby Heel Co. Ltd. boot heel mnfrs Green Arthur F. Greyhound P.H Freeman Maud (Mrs.), shopkeeper I Richard!! &; Geary, farmers Hodgkin Charles H. farmer Freeman 'l'om, greengrocer I Richards Joseph, grazier Furborough Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper: Richardson Bros. h()siery manufac- NEWTOWN UNTHANK. Garfit Charles Corringham M.B.,: hIrers &, carriers Oh.B. surgeon, Kirby Muxloe; I Richardson Jas.Hy.grocer & beer retlr Carring,ton Ml's calls ,here mono wed. &; fri I Scamp ton .Mary (Miss) &; In. farmrs Kirby Mrs. Newtown croft G:eary AlbeI'D Henry Ja.mes, boot ma i Shipley Henry, sthopkpr. &. beer retlr Lacey John Henry, Brookleigh Geary Charles, baker ; Shiplry Samuel, shopkeeper Lofthouse John Wade, Franklyn 10 Geary Joseph, grazier, Kirby grang\ll Shipman Benjamin &; Sons, builders Watters Henry, NewMwn grange RATCLIFFE CULEY is a township, chapelry and free seats. The register dates from the year IS8S. The ~mal1 village, near the confluence of the rivers Sence living is a chapelry, annexed with Sheepy Parva to the and Anker and on the borders of Warwickshire, about rectory of Sheepy Magna, joint net yearly value £700, 2 miles north-east from Atherstone station on the Trent including 550 acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. M. E: Valley section of the London and North Western rail- de Beauvoir Southwell, and held since I0888 by the Rev. way and o! miles south-west from Market Bosworth, William George Southwell M.A. of 9ueen'.s College, in the Western division of the county, Sheepy Magna Oxford, who resides at Sheepy Magna. Stanes Brocket parish, hundred of Sparkenhoe, Market Bosworth petty Henry Chamberlayne esq. is lord of the manor and sessional division, .A therstone union and county court principal landowner. The soil is loam; subsoil, marl. district, rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (first portion), The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and roots. The archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. area is 1,23'8 acres; rateable value, [,1,761; population The church of All Saints is an ancient building of in 19II, 205. . stone in the Early English style, consisti~g of .chancel, Parish Clerk, Henry Bolstridge. . na:v~ and an embattled western tower, .wlth spIre, co~- Wall .Letter Box cleared at 7.45 a.m. &; 6.55 p.m. Let- tamIng 2 bells: the church was partially restored III t th h Ath t . t 5 Sh 1898, and an oak lectern provided, at a cost of about I el'S ~oug el'S one arrIve a 7.1 a.m. eepy [,200: the stained east window was the gift of Mrs. Magna IS the nearest money order .t telegraph office Harvey, in memory of her aunt, Mrs. Corbett, who was The children of this place attend the Sheepy Magna lady of the manor: there are I40 allotted seats and 70 Public Elementary School Beck Charles, farmer. FOSlter John, fa.rmer Mottram Harrv W. J. Gate inn Brown Edward, farmer Hug-hes Walt.er, farmer Orton Joseph Ok Nathaniel, farmers . Goles Thomas. shopkeeper Jones Thomas, farmer Wathes Alfred, farmer Davies John, farmer Levi John, frmr. Ratcli:ffe House frm Wathes Cornelius, fa.rmer Edwards Henry, farmer :)le11ows John, farmer, Eightlands Wykes William, farmer RATCLIFFE-Oli-THE-WREAKE is a village for Leicester~hire, by his widow, who also presented and parish, 2 miles north from Syston station on the a superb set of communion furniture, worked by her­ main line of the :Midland railway, 7 north-north-east self; the reredos is the gift of his only daughter, from Leicester and 7 south-east from Loughborough, in Emma, wife of Sir W. H. Salt bart. who died in I892: the Eastern division of the county, East Goscote hun­ the stained glass window at the western end was the dred,. Barrow-an-Soar union, Leicester petty sessional gift of John Dove Harris esq. of Ratcliffe Hall, who also division and county court district. rural deanery of tharoughly restored the interior of the church, with the Gos'.!ote (second portion), archdeaconry of Leicester and exception of the chancel, in 1871, at a cost of £850: diocese of Peterborough. The village is near the Fosse­ in the 'chancel is a. full-length recumbent stone effigy, way, on the navigable river Wreake, over which there said to be that of t.he founder of the church: the is a bridge of four arches. The church of St. Botolph, church plate is modern and was present.ed by the late .. rected in 13'10, is a building of stone in the Early Earl Ferrers: there are 130 sittings. The register dates Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch from the yea~ 1:698 and is in good preservation. The and an embattled western tower, with' spire, containing living is a rectory and vicarage, net yearly value £220, a clock and 5 bells, recast in 1812 at the cost of Robed, derived from 83 acres of glebe and grant from the 7th Earl Ferrers F.S.A. on the rebuilding of the tower Ecclesiastical Commissioners, with residence, in the llnd spire: the Rtained east window was erected in gift of and held since 18q7 by the Rev. Charles Ellison 1878 as a memorial to John Dove Harris esq. late M.P. Young RA., RC.L. of Durham University. There arQ