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Briggs WaIter, farm8ll', The Mythe Jennaway Rarry, butoher Skelton George, as.sistall't overseer &, Bromley John Charles Edwd. carter Jinks George, farmer, The Lodge frm clerk to ParishCQuncil Carr Thomas, farmer Jinks John, farmer, Rill farm Skelton John Wm. Black Horse inn Davies Danl. Thos. frmr. Pinwall hall Jones Benjamin M. farmer Skelton William ('exors. of), wheel­ Emery Jas. fa,rmer,Rectory Home frm Joyce Thomas Edward, plumber wrights & blacksmiths Evans Rannah (Miss), farmer Kimbel'lin Edward, farmer Veasey Herbert, baker Farmer Charles &, Robert, farmers Knight Harry Ernest, insurance agnt Walker William, farin bailiff to C. Harris J oihn, farmer MarshaU Wm. farmer,Pinwall grange ..!.. Brown esq Renton \Valter, farmer Perry Frederick, blacksmith Whitehurst Edward, Red LionP.H Willis J oseph, farmer PARVA is a township and small village lord of the manor, and the rector. The soil is mostly on the river Sence, 4 miles north-east from strong; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, station and 5 west-by-south from , in barley and roots. The area is 602 acres of land and 11 the Western division of the county, Sparkenhoe hundred, of water; rateable value, £975; the popUlation in 19II Market Bosworth petty sessional division, Atherstone was 77,- union and county court district. There is no church: Letters through Atherstone arrive at 7 a.m. The the living is anfl.exed to Sheepy Magna. Here are nearest post, telegraph & money order office is at extensive steam and water flour mills, carried on by Sheepy Magna C. B. Lowe Limited. The principal landowners are The children of this township attend the school at Sir Thomas Wilm.ot Peregrine Blomefield bart. who is Sheepy Magna Kerby William A . Evans Thomas, farmer Lowe C. B. Limited, millers (steam COMMEHCIA.L. IGriffin Albert Ernest, farmer &, water) Badger Herbert, farm bailiff to Housden Christopher, farDter Wheatley Harry, blacksmith Richard Hanmer esq. J.P Leake George, farmer I SHEN"TON is a village, township and chapelry, in thel who resides at Market Bosworth; the Rev. Alexander­ parish of Market Bosworth, near the Ashby-de-la-Zouch George Hope Lendrum,. who resides at Market canal, with a station on the Ashby and branch Bosworth, has been curate in charge since 1914. of the Midland and London and North Western railway, There is a small annual charity, left by the late 2! miles south-west from Market Bosworth, 7 north- Mr. Monke. Hall, an ancient mansion in the· by-west from Nuneaton and 101~ from London, in the Elizabethan style, situated in a pleasant park with a Western division of the county, hundred of S,parkenhoe, , fine sheet of water in front, and near the centre. of the Market Bosworth petty sessional division, union and I village, is the seat of Frederick Eustace Arbuthnott county court district, rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (first 'Wollaston esq. J.P., D.L. late 2nd Dragoon Guards portion), archdeaconry of and diocese of Peter- (Queen's Bays), who is lord of the manor and principal borough. The church, erected in 1862, chiefly at the landowner. The soil is red cla.y; subsoil, clay. The· cost of the Wolla:>ton family, but not dedicated, is an chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is elegant cruciform building of stone in the Gothic style, 1,536 acres of land and 11 of water; rateable value. consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and £2,450; the population in 191I was 181. an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: there Parish Clerk, Henry Oramphorn. are ~everal monumental.brasse~, chi~fly to the Wollaston Post Office.-William Lea, sub-postmaster. Letters f~~Ily, and the e~st wmdow IS stamed: there are 25 0 through Nuneaton arrive at 7.5 a.m.; dispatched at s~t~lIlgS: The regIster dates from the year 1625. The 7 p.m. Market Bosworth, 2! miles distant, is the hvmg IS a .c~apelry annexed to the rector! of ~Iarket nearest money order & telearaph office Bosworth, Jomt net yearly value £470, mcludmg 80 . ':'. acres of glebe, in the gift of the trustees of James PublIc Eleme~tary School (mIXed), e!ected III . 1858 ~y Bowers esq. and held since 1886 by the Rev. Canon the l~te Major Wolla~ton, for 39 chIldren; MISS Ehza. Percy Harris Bowers M.A. of St. John's College, Cam- Sophta Southgate, mIstress bridge, and rural dean of Sparkenhoe (first portion), Railway Station, Thomas Ellis Wand, station master Wollaston Frederick Eustace Arbuth- Dawkins Heber; fa.rmer Lean StanleY', farmer nott D.L., J.P. Shenton hall Duguid William Hugh, land steward Sherwin Henry, farmer & blacksmith: to F. E. A. Wollaston esq. D.L.,J.PSherwin Jrus. Saml. carpenter & frmr COMMERCIAL. Fearn Margaret (Mrs.), farmer Stua1't David, farmer, Stud farm Bostock Thomas, farmer J Hogg Joseph, farmer SHEPSiHED (formerly Sheepshead) is a township was placed to the late Rev. Charles Lisle March and large parish, with a station on the Loughborough Phillipps, formerly vicar of this parish: two other and Nuneaton branch of the London and North Western stained windows have since been placed, one to the. railway, about 5 miles west from Loughborough and 119 late Mr. H. W. Bosworth and the other to Mr. S. from London, in the Mid division of the county, West Harriman and 'his daughter Annie: the organ was, Goscote hundred, Loughborough petty sessional divi­ erected in 1892, at a cost of £400: the church plate sion, union and county court district, rural deanery of includes a chalice, presented by Mary, wife of Sir South Akeley, a.rchdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of _-\mbrose Phillipps kt. in 1687; a double-handled flagon, Peterborough. The parish was governed by a Local presented by the Rev .. Thomas Heath M.A. vicar, 1765; Board from 1887 until, under the provisions of the and a paten, presented by the Rev. Charles Lisle March "Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), Phillipps M.A. vicar, 1868: in 1912 the interior of the an Urban District Council of 12 members was formed church was restored, and the same year a mural brass in April, 1,895. The streets are lighted with ~as from was placed in memory of the late Rev. J. Merriman works erected here by a cqmpany in 1858, and taken D.D.: in 1916 the tower and spire were restored: there over by the Urban District Council in 1903. The water are 800 sittings. The register dates from the year 1538, is supplied from the Blackbrook reservoir, which is in and is in good preservation. The living is a vicarage~ this parish, under the supervision of the Loughborough net yearly value £400, derived from uS acres of glebe, Corporation. By an Order of the Leicestershire County endowment and rectorial tithes, with good residence, Council, confirmed by Local Government Board Order, in the gift of and held since 1910 by tMRev. Henry which came into operation March 25, 1892, a detached Douglas Gee Clark M.A.. of St. John's College, Oxford. part of Garendon was amalgamated with Shepshed. The Catholic chapel, erected in 1842 and dedicated tt} By Local Government Board Order No. 35,248, which St. Winefride, affords 180 sittings. The Wesleyan came into ope,ration October 1st, 18g6, the civil parish chapel, in Field !'treet, was erected in 1878, and seats of Shepshed Parva was added to the civil parish and 500. The Baptist chapel, in Charnwood road, was Urban District of Shepshed. The church of St. Botolph·, founded in 1695; the present building, erected in 1833, originally erected in the uth century, is a-building of has 550 sittings. The Baptist chapel, in Belton, was forest stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of erected in 1822, and will seat 250. The Calvinistic chancel, nave, north porch and a western tower, with Baptist chapel, in Loughborough road, erected in 1823, spire, containing- 8 bells, six of which were recast in will seat 200. The Primitive Methodist chapel, Charn­ 1805 and two others added in 1894: in the chancel is wood road, erected in 1877, seats 250 persons, and the a brass, discovered in 1844, with an inscription to United Methodist chapel, Rail Croft, affords 200 sittings. Thomas Duport, ob. 1592: there are also several very The Salvation Army hall, Britannia street, erected in handson1e and elaborately carved monuments in the 1889, will hold 300. A cemetery of 4! acres, with two . chancel to the Phillipps family, of Garendon, including mortuary chapels, situated in Charnwood road, formed one to Sir Ambrose PhiIlipps kt. ob. 1691, and another in 1875 and enlarged in 1890, is under the control of to Ambrose Phillipps esq. M.P. for the county of the Urban District Council. There is a Technical School Leicester, d. 6 Nov. 1737: in 1893 a stained window and Handicraft Centre in Garendon road. Lambert's