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PECKLETON ' ST. ANDREW's CHURCH. Services, Sunday, at _Hickley. Hymns Ancient and Modern. 11, and at 3 in winter, 6-3() in summer. Sacrament Letters arnve from Lutterworth at 9 a.m., and are first Sunday in month. Rev. W. G. Berry, M.A. ; dispatched at 4-40 on week-days only. The nearest Chmchwardens, Messrs .. Harding and Webster; Money Order Office is at Gilmorton; Telegraph Organist, Mias A. Hickley; Ptzrish Clerk, William , Office, Lutterworth. Berry Rev. William Gilbert, M.A, Swanborough Miss Mary Elizabeth, Measures Thomas Rectory mistress national school FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. Bingley John, v, .Dog and Gun Ward Mrs. Elizabeth Adcock Thomas Edmonds William, shopkeeper Webster Mr. Samuel, Peatling hall Baker William, grazier Hickley J oseph, carpenter COTTAGERS. Clarke Henry 11 Harding Thomas Hickley Miss Mary, dressmaker Archer Thomas, and bootmaker Shelton Needham Hickley William, parish cl er"!\ Binley J ames 11 Cook John CARRIER. Lee Stephen, butcher Hickley James & Sons (Arthur and Hunt Joseph, to Lutterworth Th, L6nghurst Mrs. Sarah Jane ·wm), & joiners & wheelwrights Saturday PECKLETON is a parish in Market Bosworth register is dated from 1568. The living is a rectory, Union and County Court district, hundred and rural valued at £5oo a year, partly derived from 34 acres deanery of Sparkenhoe. It includes. Tooley Park, of glebe, and a yearly rent charge of £400, awarded which contains two farms, and is one mile S.E. from in 1847 in lieu of tithes. The Rev. Thos. E. Chatta- the village, and Alder, which is 2 miles E. Peckleton way, M.A., is patron and rector. There is a good village is on a sputhern declivity, near the sources and residence. The school board was formed in 1875, confluence of two small rivulets, and is 6 miles N. E. and a school built for about 50 ·children. There are by N. from Hinckley, and 8 W.S. W. from Leicester. several charities (Wightman's, Wood's, and others), The Earl of Lovelace is Lord of the Manor, and he producing £235 a year, which is distributed in bread, with Mrs. Worthington, Major Lynes, Rev. \V. H. clothes, money, and fuel. Acreage 1583, rateable Cooper, and Mr. T. W. Jee are the principal land- value£3637 5s. Id. The feast is on the Sunday after -owners. The Manor was he!d at the Conquest by September 21. Hugh de Grantemaisnel, and afterwards by the ST. MARY MAGDALENE's CHURCH.-Services on Harrington, Croft, and Fisher families. St. Mary Sunday at I 1 and at 3 in winter, 6-3o in summer. Magdelene's Church consists of long chancel, nave, Sacrament first Sunday in month. Rev. Thomas E. aisles, porches, tower, spire, and peal of six bells. Chattaway, M.A.; Churckwardens, Messrs. Jee and In 1869 it underwent a thorough restoration, when the Sharp; Harmonium, Miss Whitby. Ch. Knowledge chancel was rebuilt, and the roofs raised to the original Society Church Hymns. pitch. There are two ancient tombs,_ with recumbent figures in the chancel, the one on the south side being ScHOOL BOARD.-Rev. T. E. Chattaway (chair­ -supposed to be one of the founders, and the other of man), Mr. Jee (vice-chairman), Messrs. Cooper, -a knight and his lady. There is an ancient piscina, Sharp, and Lake. also a curiously carved ancient font. The celebrated Letters arrive from Hinckley at 8-30 a.m. ; box Dr. Choeser was born in the parish, and was buried cleared at 5-30 p.m., on week-days only. The in the churchyard, near a fine yew tree. In the nearest Money Order and Telegraph Offices are at chancel is a fine monument to his memory. The and . ·Barrs Michael, cart owner Rowley Thomas, bootmaker Jee Thomas Wightman, and land· · Burdett Elijah, blacksmith Seal Mrs. Elizabeth, dressmaker owner, Peckleton hall Chattaway Rev. Thos. Eagle, M.A, Timson Miss Emily, dressmaker Kibble William, and assistant over- The Rectory Timson Joseph, wheelwright and seer, The Retreat · ·Cooper Miss Mary Elzh, National bhs, Brown Horse Lake James, Folly farm - schoolmistress Ward le J oseph, bootmaker Price J ames, and brick maker ·Dormer Thos, butcher and grazier Whitby Alf. (Capt.}, Peckleton hse Richardson Thomas, Alder hall Fulshaw Miss Sarah Jane FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. Sharp John, Shericles farm Jordan Ths, butcher & v, Bull's Hd Burchnall Daniel, Tooley Sharp William, The Elms · Linney Abm, baker and shopkeeper Cooper Richard, Tooley park CARRIER. Poole Mrs. Strange Gutteridge Thos, Broom hills Linney Abm, to Leicester, W & S PICKWELL is a village and parish, formerly a tianity." The rector was shut out from the pulpit in · detached portion of the hundred of Gartree, in the the reign of Cromwell. The Manor house, a fine northern division of the county, rural deanery of building on the Somerby road, is now the residence -Goscote, Melton Union and County . Court district. of Captain Ashton .. The Lord of the Manor is the The village is si'tuated on an eminence near the source Earl of Gainsborough, and the principal landowners of a rivulet, and is 51 miles S.S.E. from Melton, are the Rev. T. E. Smith, Messrs. E. Frewen, W. 6 N. E. from Oakham. All Saints' Church is a Pacey, 0. L. Stephen, and J. M. Wingfield. ihe Gothic building, comprising chancel, nave, aisles, area of the parish, including Leesthorpe, is 2326 acres; 'porch, crocketted tower, and 3 bells. In 1861 it was . rateable value, £3594 IJs.; the population in 1871, . thoroughly restored at a cost of £7oo, new roofs being 195. The feast is on the first Sunday in June. placed over the ~ave and north aisles, the south aisle Leesthorpe hamlet is about a mile and a half and pore~ reb.mlt, the t~wer. arch opene~ .and. the N. from Pickwell and contains about 20 inhabitants. floor rela1d w1th encaustic tiles. The hvmg 1s a ' Rectory of the yearly value of £512 (partly derived ALL SAINTs' CHURCH.-Services on Sunday at from 6Ia, 2r. 27p.), in the gift of the Earl of Gains- 11 and 3· Sacrament four times a year. Rev. R. borough. The Parochial school was erected in I8J5· Lovett. B.A. ; Churchwardens, Messrs. Fryer and Hick's Charity, producing ,£6 a year, is distributed Chamberlain; Harmonium, Mrs. Campbell; Parz'sh in coal. Dr. William Cave, the eminent Church his- Clerk, William Miller. Kemble's Hymns. torian and chaplain to Charles II., was born here in Letters received from Oakham at 10-15 am.; 1637, his father being rector of Pickwell. He was dispatched at 4-45 on week days only. The nearest the author of " Lives of the Apostles," "Lives of the Money Order Office is at Somerby ; the nearest Primitive Fathers," and " History of Primitive Chris- Telegraph Offices at Melt on and Oakham. 454