KETTON. [RUTLAND.] Charities

DIRECTORY. ] 513 KETTON. [RUTLAND.] charities. The poor of this parish share with those of from Oakham at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. The nearest Earrow, Cottet'more, and Market Overton, in the bequests money order office is at Cottesmore of E~rche, Green, and Lady Harrington. There is a good I~SURANCE AGEXT.-Church of England, Thomas C. benefit society in the village. George H. Finch, esq., M.P., is Halliday lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is shallow SCHOOLS :- on a limestone rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, National, William Aldred, master; j\Irs. Elizabeth Dring~ oats, roots, and hay. The area is 2,909A. 1 R. 9p.; rateable mistress 'Value, £3,706 19s. 9d.; the population in 1871 was 704. Infant, Miss Louisa Cartwright, mistress Parish Clerk, John Garioot. CARRIERs.-Norris, to Stamford, friday at 9 a.m.; Exton, at 10 a.m.; Young, tuesday &, friday; N orris~ to Oakham~ POST OFFICE.-J ohn Garfoot, receiver. Letters arrive saturday at 10 a.Ul.; Young, at 10 a.m DethierJoseph Paul, Greetham house Halliday Edwin, corn merchant Norris John, carrier & shopkeep~r Holmes Rey. Charles Allison, B.A. Halliday John Thomas. builder SenescaU William, draper, tailor & [vicar], Vicarage Halliday Thomas Charity, farmer, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. builder, stone mason & proprietor of Shelton William, farmer, Wool fox lodge Eosworth J ohu Green, farm~r & grazier Clipsham stone quarries 8helton William Edward, Crown ~ Bryan George, farmer & grazier, Oak ho Harr George, farmer; & at Stamford Anchor, farmer & grazier' Bryan John, baker & farmer Hayes Edward, baker Spring Sarah (Miss), Ram Jam Christain John &, George, carpenters Healey William,gamekeeper for George Stapleford Edward, boot & shoe maker Coverly Richard, carpenter H. Finch. esq. M.P Stevens Frederick, shopkeeper Cunnington Wm. BlackHoTse,&b utchr Hermon Williarn Henry, baker, beer Thorpe Samuel, beer retailer, butcher, Dethier J oseph Paul, tarmer & grazier, retailer & shop kef>per farmer &, grazier Greetham house Hudson Joseph, blacksmith Walker Lewis, baker DringJas. boot & shoe maker & grazier Idle Edward, carpenter & grazier Walker William, farmer &. grazier, Exton Luke, carrier &:shopkeeper Jackson William, grazier, carpenter & Stocken farm Fountain Francis, carpenter&hurdle ma wheelwright Weelband John, tailor Fryer Rebecca (Mrs.), farmer & grazier Messam Thomas, grazier Wilson George, larmer &. grazier; & at Garfoot John, boot &. ehoe maker Munton John, shopkeeper Stretton Godfrey Robt. &. Thos. farmers &. grazrs M unton William, chimney sweeper Young William, carrier &. beer retailer HAMBLETON is a parish, 3 miles north-east from There are a few small charities. Anciently a weekly market Manton station, 102 from London, 3 east-south-east from and a yearly fair were held here, but they have long !Jeen Oakham, in the hundred of Martinsley, union and county obsolete. George Henry Finch, esq., M.P., .T.P., who is courL dbtrid of Oak ham, rural deanery of Rutland, arch lord of the manor, Lord A veland, and Ed ward N. Con ant, deaconry of Oakham, and diocese of Peterborough: it is esq., are the chief landowners. The soil varies; subsoil, divided into three portions, named Upper, Nether, and ironstone, kale or cale, and clay undernea.th. The ch ief Middle Hambleton. The church and Yillage stand in the crops are wheat, barley, oats, llay, and roots. The area is first mentioned portion, on a commanding heIght, the views 2,769A. 3R. 9p.; rateable value, £4,322 lIs. Id. ; the popu from which are most pleasing. The church of St. Peter is lation in 1871 was 305. an old building', chiefly in the Early English style, with Parish Clerk, Richard Robinson. Perpendicular clerestory, and bas a chancel, nave, aisles, and a square tower, with 4 bells and spire. The register dates from the year 1716. The hving is a vicarage, with the POST OFFICE.-WiIliam Price, receiver. Letters arrive chapelry of Braunston annexed, joint yearly value £180, from Oakham at 8.30 a.m. ; dbpatched at 5.45 p.m. The with residence, in the gift of the Dtan and Chapter of Lin- nearest money order & telegrapll office is at Oakham coIn, and held by the Rev. Henry Daniel James, M.A., of National School, Miss Fanny Fancourt, mi~tress Hertford CQllege, Oxford. Here is a Parochial school, built CARRIER.-Nicholas Needham, to Oakham, saturday by subscription, on land giYen by the late George Finch, esq. morning; to Stamford. friday PRIVATE RESIDENTS. ChappeU John, grazier I Healey Rd.Peter,frmr. & grazier,Lodge James Rev. Henry Dan!. M.A. [vicar] Fisher Thomas, wood carver & joiner Healey 8arah (:\,lrs.), farmer &. grazier J ackson Rev. William, B.A. [curate] Fryer Elizabeth ( Mrs.) & Charles, Palmer John, farmer & grazier Jackson John fanners & graziers Palmer Susan (l\Irs.), farmer & grazier, COMMERCIAL. Fryer Mary (Mrs.) & WiIliam, farmers Old Hall Atton "Mansfield, farmer & grazier, & graziers Price William, shopkeeper &. grazier Manor house Fryer Joseph, farmer & grazier Scott Albert, grazier Bailey John, farmer & grazier Frser WiIliam, farmer & grazier Smith Charles, shoe maker Chamberlin William, Finch's Arms, Gregory .!\Jary (Mrs.), !!razier Wade Robert, stone mason & sllOpkeepr & farmer Hawley }Iaria (Mrs.), baker \Vatkin William, carpenter HORN (or HORNE) is a very small township ill the parish nexed to Exton. It was here that the battle of Stamford of Exton, adjoining Exton park, in the hundred of Alstoe, was fought in 1470, when the Lancastrians were defeated by union alld county court district of Oakham, rural deanery of Edward IV. and 10,000 killed. The Earl of Gainsborough Rutland, archdeaconry of Oakham, and diocese of Peter- is owner of the land. The number of acres is 392; rateable borough, 5! miles north-west from Stamford, and 6 east value, £960; the population in 1871 was 21.--Letters from Oakham. The church has for a long- period been in through Oakham. The nearest money order & telegraph ruins. The living is a sinecure rectory, of small value, an- office is at Empingham. Dainty John, farmer & grazier I Speed Charles, farmer & miller KETTON is a village, parish, and station, on the Mid- restored in 1863: the east window is filled with fine painted land railway, on the river Chater, on the Uppingham and g-lass, the work of the former curate, the Rev. I. H. Sutton: Stamfurd road, and on the borders of Northamptonshire, there are three sed ilia : on the north wall ot' the church is an 92! miles from London, 3,} west-south-west fl'om Stamford, old distemper painting of ~t. Christopher, which was dis and 10! from Oakham, in the union and county court covered during the cleansing of the church in 1844. The district of Stamford, hundred of East. The parish was register dates from the year 15G8. The prebendary of enclosed in 1768. The church of St. Mary is a fine old Ketton holds the great tithes and the patronage of the building, consisting of a chancel, nave with aisles, north and united vicarages of Ketton and Tixover. The parish is in south transepts, with a tower in the centre containing 6 bells, the peculiar jurisdiction of the prebendary of Ketton. The and a spire 180 feet :high: the western door is of mixed vicarage, yearly value £300, with the chapelry of Tixover Norman and Early English architecture: the nave, aisle." annexed, in the gifc of the Bishop of Peterborou~h, is held and transepts ofthis church were restored during the year by the Rev. John Henry N oyes, M.A., of Trinity College, 1861, at the cost of £2,150, under the direction of Sir G. Cambridge. There is a National school for boys and girls, G. Scott: the wall of the north aisle was rebuilt, also which is endowed with £1,000 £:3 per CI'Flt. Consols, ieft by the old circular staircase leading to the belfry. a portion Sophia Eliza!Jeth Edwards in 1791. There are places of of which was found built into the wall of the south aisle: all worshh. lor Independents, \Vesleyan Methodists, and United the windows, except a Perpendicular one on the south side, ~lethodist Frpe Church. White Bread Close is let for £16 were filled with new tracery of the Early Decorated style; a year, part of which is distributed in coals. Eleven poor all remains of the original tracery had di~appeared: tile aged women of Ketton have £31 yearly, a fifth share of church was re-opened Lady-day, 1862: the chancel was Warrington's Charity. About a mile north of the village .

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