42 BRINGTON. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. [ KELLY'S LITTLE BRINGTON is a hamlet about three-quarters postmistress. Letters arrive from Northampton at '1 of a mile south-west from the village of Great Brington. a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. week days only. The chapel of ease, erected in 1856, at the sole expense Little Brington.-Wall Letter Box cleared at 5 p.m. week of the late Earl Spencer X.G. is a building of stone in the days only Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south Nobottle.-Wa11 Letter Box cleared at 4.30 p.m. "Week porch and a tower with spire at the north-east angle, days only containing one bell, and has 150 sittings. The :Baptist School. chapel here, an ed1fice of red brick, erected in 1835, seats 280 persons; adjoining is a large room, built in National, Little :Brington (mixed & infants), enlarged in 1887 by subscription, and used as a Sunday school, and 18g2-3 at the cost of Earl Spencer &; now holding ISO for concerts and meetings. The land is about two-thirds children; average attendance, boys & girls 104, infants pasture, the remainder arable. The soil is a mixture of 36 ; & supported in part by Earl Spencer x.G.; John loam, clay and gravel. H. Dickenson, master; Mrs. Dickenson, mistress; &:. Nobottle, from which the hundred is named, -is a small Miss Atkins, infants' mistress hamlet, included in the parish of Brington. Carriers to Northampton.-William Threadgold & George Post, ~L O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. Worley, Litle Brington, wed. & sat. & George Stowe &:. & 1. O. Great Brington.-Miss ~-\.gnes Worley, sub· Son, Great Brington, wed. & sat GRE..1T BRINGTON. I Smith Richard (Mrs.), grocer & drapr Redley James, butcher Humphery Sir Wi11iam Henry bart. Threadgold Thomas, farmer ROOley William, grazier X.C.B., V.D. The Cottage Stowe George & Son, carriers Spokes Thomas, fa~mer .& ~razier . Martin Rev. William B.A. Rectory Stowe John, farmer Threadgold Wm.Bl'ltanma mn&rarner Morley .Alexander Lucy Yea 'Voolman William, boot maker Tyrre11 Arthur, Ye Olde Saracen's Worley Richard, shopkeeper Head inn COMMERCIAL. Worley George, carrier Althorp Estate Office (Alexander L. Y. LITTLE BRINGTON. Worley William, grazier Morley, agent) Wykes John Wykes John Webb, estate agent, sur- Beard Frederick, tailor Wykes John Webb veyor, valuer & farmer Dickson WiIliam, farmer Wykes Theophilus, assistant overseer Goude Charles, blacksmith COMMERCIAL. & rate collector, Woodbine cottage Kimball Eaton, farmer, The Grange Earl Edward, cattle dealer Morley Alexander Lucy Yea, agent to Little Brington Industrial & Provident NOBOTTLE. Earl Spencer X.G Society Limited (Wm. OliveI' Bates, Palmer Hpnry, Fox & Hounds P.R manager), grocers, bakers & beer .A.shby Charles, grazier Reading Room & Library (Edward J. retailers Cave Geo. farmer, Nobottle grange Anderson, sec) Lowick Richard Manning, farmer Darker George, gamekeeper to Earl Reynolds Thomas, farmer Manning Sophia (Mrs.), baker & gcr Spencer K.G Sanders Henry, farmer Middleton George, farmer Heygate Frederick H. farmer :BRIXWORTH is a parish and head of a union, on the Mrs. Chappe11. Lady Wantage, of Lockinge Park, Berks. road from Northampton to Market Harborough, with a Vere Wayte Wood esq. and Sir Charles Edmund Isham station one mile west from the village on the Northamp­ bart. M.A., D.L. of Lamport Hall, are owners of the ton and Market Harborough branch of the London and manor, which is divided into three portions. Lady North Western railway, 6! miles north from Northamp­ Wantage, .Alfred Andrew Andrew esq. of StoneleigIi House, ton, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Orling­ Sawbridgeworth, Herts, Vere Wayte Wood esq. and Richd. bury, petty sessional division and county court district of Timms esq. of Northampton, are the chief landowners. Northampton, rural deanery of Rothwell (third portion), The soil is mainly Northamptonshire sandstone with iron­ archdeaconry of Northampton and diocese of Peter­ stone and a little clay: subsoil, stone. The parish pro­ borough. In the winter months the village is lighted by duces large quantities of iron ore; skulls, Roman and oil lamps. the cost being defrayed by voluntary contribu­ Saxon pottery, and other ancient relics have been found tions. The church of All Saints, supposed to have been in the course of excavations. The chief crops are wheat, originally erected about the year 6go, is an edifice of stone barley and grass. The area is 3,143 acres; rateabl~ and Roman bricks, presumed to be of Saxon construc­ value, £8,681; the population in 1901 was 1,123, includ­ tion, with additions in later styles, and consists of chancel, ing 71 officers and inmates in the workhouse. clerestoried nave, south chapel of Decorated character Parish Clerk, John Warwick. and a western tower with pinnacles and spire containing Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. 5 bells and a cklck, placed in 1897, at a cost of £80, in & 1. O.-Thomas Holt, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her late from Northampton at 6.2 a.m.; dispatched at 6.33 Majesty Queen Victoria: during the restoration in 1866 p.m. Money crder office open from 9 to 6 & telegraph the bases of circular columns were met with in the office from 8 to 8; sundays 8 to 10 a.m area of the tower, and are believed to have formed part Police Station, Sergeant J oseph iCottingham, in charge of the Roman building which once stood here, the BRIXWORTH RURAL DISTRICI' COUNCIL. materials of which appear to have been largely used in the construction of the existing church: a small reliquary Meets at the Brixworth Guardians' Board room, Work­ of stone, enclosing a wooden box, containing human re­ house, every alternate thursday, immediately after the mains, was discovered about 180g in the wall of the poor law business is closed. south aisle: in 1884 some medireval masonry, including Clerk, Wm. Chas. Woodford, 18 Market sq. Northampton the base of a stone cross, was found in the south-east Treasurer, Alflred Page part of the churchyard: the church is now (lg03) being Medical Officer of Health, Edward M. Knott M.R.C.S.EDg.• restored at an estimated cost of £800: there are 470 L.R.e.p.Lond. Brixworth sittings. The register of burials dates from the year Sanitary Inspector, .A.rthur Lewis, Brixwortb 154'6; baptisms, 1562; marriages, 1565. The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value £lg2, including :BRrXWORTH UNION. 170 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the The Board meet every alternate thursday at the Board :Bishop of Peterborough, and held since 18g6 by the Rev. room at the Workhouse. The Union comprises the Alfred Katenbeck l'avey ~f.A. of Hertford College, Oxford following places :-.Althorpe, Boughtotl, Brington, Era­ and chaplain of Brixworth Union. The Wesleyan Metho­ worth, Chapel Brampton, Church Brampton, Cold dist chapel here was erected in 18Il, and enlarged in Ashby, Coton, Cottesbrooke, Draughton. East Haddon. 1860. The poor's land now (lg03) yields about £40 Faxton, Great Creaton, Guilsborough, Hanging Hough­ yearly, which sum is for distribution. The church land ton, Hannington, Ha,rlestone, Haselbeech, Holcot, producss £21 yearly; Thomas Roe's charity of £71 a Holdenby, HoIIoweII, Lamport, Maidwell, Mawsley. year provides £40 for educational purposes and £29 for Moulton, ~Ioulton Park, N aseby, Old or Wold, Over­ the same purpose in the parish of Scaldwell; Wood's stone, Pitsford, Ravensthorpe, Scaldwell, Spratton, Charity of £12 lOS. founded by deed in 1860, is also for Teeton, Thornby & Walgrave. The population of the education. A fair used to be held annually on the Mon­ union in 1901 was II,82g; area, 63, 647 acres; rateable day next after Ascension day, but is now discontinued. value in Ig03 £1°7,223 The kennels of the Pytchley hunt are here; Monday, Wed­ Clerk to Guardians & Assessment Committee, Williarn nesday, Friday and Saturday are the hunting days: Charles Woodford, 18 Market square, Northampton Northampton, Market Harborough and Rugby are con­ Treasurer, Alfred Page venient places for hunting visitors. Brixworth Hall, the Relieving Officer for the Western district, WilIiam property of Vere Wayte Wood esq. is an ancient quad­ Brown, HoIIowe11; for the Eastern district, John rangular mansion of stone, and at present occupied by G-oodrum, Brixworth.