DIRl!:CTvRY .J NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. GREAT OAKLEY. 235 Post Office. Thomas Charles Foster, sub-postmaster. Wall Box, by Church, cleared at 9·35 a.m. & 7.10 p.m Letters t-hrough Market Deeping S.O. Lincs. at 6.30 a. m. &i n~.3o p.m.; dispatched at 9.30 9.m. &i 7·5 Public Elementary School (mixed'), built, with house p.m. No sunday collection or de'livery. The nearest for the mistress, in 1875, for 100 children; aTerage money order & telegraph office is at Glinton, xl miles attendance, 36; Mrs. Mary Ann Palmer, mistress distant Short Rev. Saml. Geo. M.A. Rectory Green Ge<Jrge, market gardener I Perkins George Samuel, thatcher Green William Henry, poulterer COMMEUCUL. i Philpotts Martin, Pack Horse P.H Hibbett Edward, surveyor Robinson James Henry, farmer Allen George Thomas, farmer Jellis John, higgler Sharpe John, farmer Bains John, farmer J enkinson Francis, farmer Short Alexander Gordon, farmer Bellars Robert, builder King Everett, farmer, Castle farm Vergette Percival, farmer Bruce Arth. Wm. grocr.& rate collctr Lake Edward, farmer Wykes Emma (Mrs.), ~ocer NORTON (called Norton-by-Daventry) is a village Henry Churchill Baxter M.A. of Jesus College, Cam­ and parish, 2 miles north-east from Daventry station on bridge. The We.sleyan chapel is a neat building of stone. the Weedon and Leamington branch of the London with about 8o sittings. The charities left in 18:17 con­ snd North Western line, and 12 from Northampton, . sist of 8 houses and 26 acres of land; the income, now ~tnd in the Southern division of the county, hundred of ·amounting to [4:1 yearly, is for the repairs of the church Fawsley, Daventry petty sessional division, union and and bridge and for the poor. Norton Hall, the property county court district, rural deanery of Daventry, arch- of Mrs. Seymour is a large and handsome mansion of deaconry of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough, stone near the church in a deer park of xoo ·acres, but The Watling Street, North Western railway and Grand is at present (1906) unoccupied. Mrs. Seymour, ot Junction canal pass through the parish. The church Knoyle House, Salisbury, who is lady of the manor, the of All Saints is a building of stone, erected in the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, the owners 15th century, and t:onsisting of chancel, clerestoried of Thrupp grounds, Thomas WiHiam Thornton esq. of nave of six bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled Brockhall, and Earl Spencer K.G., P.C. are the chief western tower containing a clock and 5 bells, repan·ea landowners. The land is chiefly pasture. The chief and rehung since 1901, at a cost of £ 72: all of the win- crops are wheat, beans, oats and bar'ley. The area is dows are stained, and display the arms of the Knightley, 3,o86 acres of excellent land and 24 of water; rateable Breton, Botfield and other families, and on the southern value, [5,478; the population in 1901 was 406. walls is a splendid alabaster monument to Elizabeth Post Office.-William Tibbs, sub-postmaster. Letters Seymour, fourth daughter of Edward, Duke of Somerset through Daventry arrive at 7 .30 a.m. Box cleared at K.G. (better known as the Protector Somerset) and 5.20 p.m. week days only. Daventry, 2 miles distant,. second wife of Sir Richard Knightley bart. of Norton, is the nearest money order I& telegraph office ob, 3 June, x6o2: in the chancel·is a handsome marble monument with mourning figure, to the mother of the Public Element·ary School (mixed), built in 1844. wlteill late Beriah Botfield esq. the eminent bibliographer, and it was vested in trustees under the Charity Deed of sometime ·M.P. for Ludlow; she qied 26 October, 1825 : 1827, and since enlarged for 6o children; average at- here also is another monument with marble . busts to tendance, 55 ; William Davies, master Nicholas Breton and his wife, and a fourth to Nicholas Muscot is a small hamlet belonging to Norton, from Breton, ob. 22 June, 1624; on the north wall of the chan- which place it is r! miles south-east on the river Nene,. eel are memorials to Ann (Verney), wife of John Breton and consists of a farm and a few cottages. esq. ob. 1635, and to Dudley, 3rd son of Sir Richard Letters through Weedon, which is the nearest money Knightley, of Norton, ob. II April, x6o2: there is also a order office, arrive at 8 a.m. & 5. 30 p.m. The nearest monument in t.he north wall, with kneeling effi~y, to telegraph office is at Buckby wharf Elizabe·th Verney, ob. 1633: in 1894 the church was re~eated, the chancel floor relaid and a new reading Thrupp is also a hamlet to Norton, consisting of three- desk has been presented by Mrs. T. Rose: the church- farmhouses and one cottage .. yard has been twice enlarged by gift from the late lord Letters through Daventry, which is the nearest money of the manor. The register of baptisms and burials order & telegraph office, arrive at 7-30 a.m dates from the year 1678: marriages, 1695 . The living Parish Clerk, Samuel Major is a vicarage, net yearly value £177, in the gift of Carriers to :-Daventry, William Page, daily; North- Mrs. Seymour, and held since rgo6 by the Rev. John ampton, William Major, wed. & sat NORTON. Manning George, bl11cksmith Yates John, estate bailiff to Mrs. B ax t er R ev. J n. H y. C . , M . A .V 1ca,mge. Masonp Richard, farmer p H Seymour, & farmer Humphrey :Miss age John, White Horse . Page William, carrier MUSCOT. COllMEUCL\L. Hi Rowe Robert, farmei· (letters through ggs Th omas, f a ....rn~ler Collier George, carpenter & whlwght Weedon) · Litchfield Willi:am Allin, grazier Co-operative Stores (branch of Dnven- Tibbs William, farmer, Post office try) (Henry Page, storekeeper) Townley Thomas, jun. thatcher 'llilRUPP. Emery James, farmer Tredgold Albert, boot & shoe maker Grand Junction Canal Co.'s wharf, Turner William, butcher &i farmer Lord Robert, farmer, Thrupp lodge Norton wharf Turner Yeomans George, farmer Billson Reginald, farm bailiff to Mr~ Hall Owen. farmer Webber William, head gardener to J. 0. Adams, ThrRpp grounds Major William, carrier &i shopkeeper Mrs. Seymour _ eREAT OAKLEY is a parish and village, half a J.P. is a mansion enlarged in r894· Sir A. R. de Capell­ mile frmn Geddington station on the Kettering, Man- Brooke, who is lord of the m!lnor, and the Duke of' ton and Nottingham section of the Midland railway and Buccleuch K.G., K.T. are the chief landowners. The- 5 north from Kettering, in the Northern division of soil is stiff; subsoil, clay. T'he chief crops are wheatp the county, hundred of Corby, petty sessional divi- barley, oats &c. The area is ·3,207 acres; Tateable ilit>n, union and county court district of Kettering. A value, [3.7911 ; the population in 1901 was .:ooo, including stream called "Harper's brook" flows through the part of Pipewell hamlet. parish. The church of St. Michael is an ancient build- Parish Clerk, James Tebbutt. ing of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle ot six bays, south porch and an embattled western tower Post Office.-Lewis Dennis Woolston, sub-postmaster. containing a clock and 4 bells : in the church are several Letters arrive through Kettering at 6.55 a.m.; box monuments· to various members of the Brooke or Ilroke cleared at 6. Io p.m. week days only. The nearest family, including an inscribed brass to Sir Thomas money order office is at Oorby & tclegraph office at. Broke kt. dated ·•I557• and a monument to Arthur Geddington station •Brooke esq. d. Nov. 26th, r62o, son. of Sir Richard de Wall Letter Box at Arthur Leverington's collected at Capell-Brooke bart. In. the chancel there is a vault 4·45 p.m. ; no sunday collection belonging to the Supple family, ·1782-97· The register Assistant. Overseer, John Northen dates from the year ·1718. The living is a donative, net yearly value £so, in the gift of Sir Arthur Richard de School, built in 1867. at the expense of the late Sir Capell•Brooke hart. and held since 1905 by the Rev. William de Capell-Brooke hart. for 35 children; aver· Benjamin Turton :Il.A. of Trinity ·College, Dublin, who age atendance, 26; & parily supported by· Sir A. is also vicar of and resides at Ged'dington. In the vil­ R. de Oapell-Brooke bart; Mrs. Mary Ann Grt~en, lage is a well called "Monk's well." Oakley Hall, the mistress reiidellce of Sir Arthur Richard de Capell-Brooke hart. Railway Station, Waiter Cawston, station maste:r .