• 218 PJ.UOdS HARDWICK. . eoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat and beans; small (Northants), arrive at 8.20 a.m.; dispatched at 5.10 quantities of oats and barley are also grown; about two- p.m.; no sunday delivery. is the thirds of the land is pasture. The area is 1,523 acres nearest money order office of land and 12 of water; rateable value, £2,1o2; the Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 186o, for population in 1901 was 225. 6o children; average attendance, 44; ~rs. Emily Parish Clerk, Waiter Haynes. Sharp, mistress Post. T. & Telephone Oall Office. Mrs. Lizzie E. Mold, Carrier to .-Richard Coleman, thurs.; to Lea- sub-postmistress. Letters received from Byfield mington, tues. & fri Bone Rev. John Hy. (vicar),Vicarage Coleman Frederick, farmer Lnckcuck Kate (Miss), farmer Thursby Mrs. Maud, Hardwick hill Coleman Richard, carrier Mold Edmund, farmer Fessey Henry, farmer Nichols Robert, farmer COMMERCIAL. Gee Wm. Geo. Butchers' .Arms P.H Parkes James, farmer Branston Henry, farmer Hart Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper Sharpe William, carpenter Burden Thomas, grazier Haycock Edward, farmer PRIORS MARSTON is a very pleasant village and residence, in the gift of Earl Spencer, and held since parish on the Northamptonshire border, 6 miles south- 1909 by the Rev. Waiter Reginald Wright M.A. of east from and 5 north-east from Fenny Comp- Wadham College, Oxford. Here are Wesleyan Methodist, ton station on the Great Western and East and West Primitive Methodist and Moravian chapels. The lord· Junction railways; 4 miles from Charwelton station on ship of this place was in the Confessor's days held by the Great Central railway, and 4 from Flecknoe station the monks of , but it subsequently eame, by on tlhe and North Western railway, in the the same succession as Hardwick, to the Spencers. Earl South-Eastern division of the county, Burton Dassett Spencer P.C. is lord of the manor and principal land­ division of the hundred of , Southam petty owner. The soil is clay and sand; subsoil, clay and sessional division, union and county court district, rock. The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley, oats rural deanery of Southam, archdeaconry of Coventry and grass. 'l'he $rea is 3·575 acres of land and 11 of and diocese of Worcester. ·The passes water; rateable value, £4,801; the population in 1911 1! miles west of the village. The church of was 495· St. Leonard, formerly belonging, as a member of Deputy Parish Clerk, George Hodgkins. Hardwick, to the monks of Coventry, and rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in I863, at a cost Post, M. 0. & •r. Office. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth West,_ of £1,Ioo, is an edifice of stone in the Pointed style, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Byfield (North­ consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, ants), at 7·I5 a.m. & 2.5 p.m.; dispatched ·at 2.10 & and a low western tower containing a .clock and 6 bells : 5·45 p.m. ; no delivery on sundays there is a memorial window to the daughter of one Wall Letter Box, cleared 5.40 p.m. week days of the former vicars erected in 1866: the east window, Public Elementary School (mixed), erected 1847 & en~ with one on each side of the chancel, was inserted larged in I879, for II9 children; average attendance, in 1875, in memory of Admiral Sir H. Prescott G.C.B. 88 ; Miss Clara Stream, mistress and Lady Prescott, by their children : a memorial window was erected in 1892 to Mr. Thomas Johnston: Carriers to there are 300 sittings. The register of baptisms dates Banbury-George Cockerill & David Shaw, thurs.; each from I689, burials 1695, muriages 1754. The living. returning same day formerly annexed to , but separated Daventry-George Cockerill, wed. & sat from it under an Order in Council in 186I, was declared Leamington-Robert Linnell, tues. & sat a vicarage June 26, 1866, net yearly value £2-oo, and Rugby-Jesse Adkins, sat. & Albert Goode, thurs Crofton Geoffrey • Gardner Thomas, boot & shoe maker Johnson Richard, farmer Hardiker William .Atkinson Gardner William, grocer & draper Lea George, farmer Hardy Charles E Goode Albert, carrier Lea Thomas, farmer Masters Edward, The Manor Goode William, farmer Linnell George, farmer Pinn Charles Gregory Thomas, threshing machine Linnell Ro bert, carrier Wright Rev. Waiter Reginald ::\-LA. owner Mills George, butcher (vicar), Vicarage Griflin Job, grazier & butcher Moore Christopher, miller (steam) COMMERCIAL. Hall Robin Henry, farmer Olerenshaw Henry, tailor & assistani Ackrill Robert, farmer Hardiker William Atkinson L.R.C.P. overseer .Adkins J esse, carrier & L.R.C.S.Edin., L.F.P. & S.Glas. Rm~~;ell Thomas, farmer Boote Henry William, Falcon inn surgeon, & medical & public vac· Russell William, farmer, Stirch farm Bull William Edward, coal merchant. cination officer, Priors Mars ton Sha w David, carrier Dales wharf district Shepherd Levi, coal merchant Campion Robert, farmer Hart Stephen, farmer Smith Fountain Albert, grazier Cockerlll William, farmer Haynes Waiter William, farmer Stockings William, blacksmith Cockrill Georgc, shopkeeper & carrier Hodgkins George, builder Waddup Arthur, farmer Coling William, baker Ivens George, carpenter Watson Mary .A.nn (Mrs.), beer retlr Gardner Robert, grazier Jester Jn. Geo. saddler & harness ma Whitehead .A.mos, farmer

RADBOURN, UPPER and LOWER, by Dugdale value, £4o8; and the population in 1901 was 9; the writtPn "Radbourne," and formerly extra-parochial, form area of Lower Rad'bourn is 526 acres; rateable value, a parish on the Northamptonshire border, 3! miles south- £351; and the population in 1901 "l'fas 11. The follow­ east from Southam and 2! south-east fro111. the Southam ing ·small places, formerly extra-parochial, aTe now Road and station on the Oxford and Learning- townships in Southam Union:- ton section of the Great Western railway, in the South· Eastern divi~ion of the county, Southam division of the HODNELL (or Hodnelle), x mile west, is the hundred of Knightlow, Southam petty sessional division. propertv of Lord H. Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, union and county court district, rural deanery of 1 once a· place of some consequence; area, 521 acres; Southam, archdeaconry of Coventry and diocese of rateable value, £358; the population in I9o1 was xo. WorcestPr. Tht> Oxford and War"l'fick canal runs through the parish. There are only four farm-houses. The , 3 miles south-west, near the road church, given by 'William de Arden to the nuns from Southam to Banbury, and the river Itchen, is the of Henwood, in Henry II.'s time, and the remains of 1 property of Lord Leigh; area, 553 acres; rateable value, which arP. to be traced in the old Hall, became a ruin £428 ; the population in I90I was IS. before the 26th Henry VIII. : the inhabitants attend Ladbroke church. The living is a discharged rectory, 1 WILLS PASTURE (or Lower Hodnell), I mile south· net income £27, in the gift of Miss Tolley, of Napton, west of the river Itchen, is the property of William and others, and ht>ld since r899 by the Rev. James James Crofts esq. with the exception of the glebe land Samuel William Durham D. D. of Trinity College, Dub- : belonging to the living of Wormleighton; the area is lin, who is also rector of and resides at Ladbroke. The 149 acres; rateable value, £114; the population in 1901 principal landowners are Lord Henry Francis Hope Pel- was 6. ham-Clinton-Hope, of Castleblaney, eo. Monaghan, and Letters through Lea~mgton arrive at 8 a.m. Priori Miss Tolley, of Napton, who is lady of the manor. . The soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are Marston IS the nearest money or~er oi;lice & SoutbaiD wheat, oat.,, beans and grass. The area of Upper Rad- the nearest telegraph office, 3 miles d1stant bourn is 644 acres of land and 3 Qf water; rateable : There is no school; the children attend that at Ladbroke