'OIRECTOI;lY.] LEICESTERSHIRE. ORTON-ON·THE-HILL, 587

Waterfield Joseph, Sunnyside · Elliott Waiter, boot maker Oadby Working Men's "Club (John Welch Henry Robert, Highcroft Ellis Ernest, boot maker Elliott, sec) Weston Herbert, Sunnymead, Meadow Ellson Cave J. baker Oliver John, butcher Court road Farmer & Hull, painters Parker Annie (Mrs.), draper Weston Mrs. Sarah, l'"rankton house, Forryan Kate (Mrs.), butcher Patrick Charles, White Horse P.H Knighton rise Gardiner Henry, grazier Pea body John William, carpenter *Winterton William Henry, Glebe rd Garner Waiter, hardware dealer Pepper Harry, farmer Wood Ernest, Lismoy, :Meadow Court Gilbert William, builder Perkins Hubert, insurance agent ~oad Goddard Harriet (Miss), grocer Plant Arthur Edwin, hair dresser Wormleighton Harry, Caer Tevon, Hales Chas. joiner, see Cope & Hales Public Baths (Frank Blackham, sec) Knighton Grange road Hames Arthur, shoplNottingham Stnrgess Clara (:M:rs. ), shopkeeper Bromley Louis, insurance agent Lord Thomas, beer retailer Tail by Charles W. New inn Burdett Edward, insurance agent Ludlam Frank, Black Dog P.H Usher Samuel, boot maker Burnham Saml. Arthur, hosiery mfr J,udlamSamson &Co.boot & shoe mfrs Walker John B. landscape gardener Cemetery (Frank Blaekham, clerk to Matthew Brothers, hosiery manufrs Ward John Edward, carrier the Burial Authority) Mawby George H. grocer Ward J oseph, beer & wine retailer Clarke Edwin, shopkpr. & beer retlr Merrikin W illiam, farmer Ward John, stationer, Post office Clarke William J. G. boot manufactr Mnggleton Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Ward John, grazier Coltman Tom, beer retailer Newberry William, insurance agent Waterfield Joseph. grazier Conservative Club (Geo. Hames, sec) Nichols Harry James, farmer Watts William, grocer & beer retailr "Coopers Alderney Dairy Limited, Oadby Industrial & Provident Society Weston Edith (Miss), dress maker Knighton grange Ltd. (Thomas Findley, manager) Whitroyd Ernest A. dairyman Cope & Hales, joiners &:. builders Oadby United Club & Institute (John Ya tes John, general stores Denman G. & T. boot & shoe manfrs Elliott, sec) OAKS-IN-CHARNWOOD is an ecclesiastical parish, with residence, and held since 19rr by the Rev. Alfred B,_\, formed from the parishes of Charley, Shepshed and Holt of the Roval• Universitv,• Ireland. The Whitwick, 29 June, r852, ri miles south from Shepshed owners of the manor and the principal landowners are station on the Loughborough and Nuneaton branch of Everard March-Pbillipps-De Lisle esq. of Garendon the London and North Western railway, 4 north-east Park, Loughborough, Mrs. Perry-Herrick, of Beaumanor from Coalville st11tion on the Leicester and Burton Park, and Mrs. Grey, of Sutton Hall, Easingwold, Yorks. branch of the Midland railway, and 6 west from Lough­ The soil is light loam; subsoil, rocky. The chief crops borOUJ?h, in the Mid division of the county, West Gas­ are oats, barley and roots. The population in 19or cote hundred, Loughborough petty sessional division, was 576· union and county court distriCt, rural deanery of Akeley Sexton, Charles Bradbury, Shepshed. (southern division), archdeaconry of Leicester and dio­ cese of Peterborough. The church of St. J ames, erected Letters from Shepsbed, Loughborough, arrive at 9 a.m in 1815, is a building of forest stone, in the Early Shepshed is the nearest money order & telegraph Engli..sh style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch office, 2! miles distant and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells : Wall Letter Box, Church road, cleared at 5.10 p.m. the church was completely rebuilt in 1883 (when it week days only was first dedicated), at a cost of £4,230, solely de­ frayed by Mrs. Perry-Herrick, of Beaumanor, and has Wall Letter Box, Ashby road, cleared at 9.15 a.m. &: 198 sittings : there is a lych gate at the entrance to the 6.5 p.m. week days only churchyard. The register dates from the year 1853. Public Elementary .School (mixed), erected in r851, for The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the six lords of 38 children; average attendance, 33; Miss Clara the manor of Charn"ood Forest, net yearly value £2oo, Grimley, mistress Holt- Rev. Arthur B.A. (vicar), Oaks Crofts Jas. market gardnr. Ashby rd Tebbett Stephen, market gardener, vicarage (postal address, Lough- Ellis Fred, farmer Fenney spring borough) Kerry Arthur Hy. Jolly Farmers' P.H Thompson George Harry, grazier, Morris Herbert, Lnbcloud Knight Robt.market gardnr.Ashby rd Charnwood heath COMMERCIAL. Lawn•nee Wm. grazier, Iveshead rd Thompson Joseph, farmer, Oaks farm Brown George, grazier, Iveshead rd jl,{ee Henry,market gardnr.lveshead rd Warner Georg-e, grazier, Blackbrook Crofts George, market gardener, Taylor Samuel, horse slaughterer, Wilson Samuel, grazier Fenney spring Ashby road OAKTHORPE, see Donisthorpe. • ORTON -ON-THE-HILL is a parish and scattered north aisle: in the south aisle is a stone coffin lid of ~illage, on the borders of Warwicks.hire, 7 miles west a priest, with carving of a cross and a chalice : there from Market Bosworth station on the Ashby and Nun- is also a stone coffin, supposed to be that of the founder eat.on section of the Midland railway. 6 north from of the church: the chancel retains a piscina and several Atherstone, 7 north-west from Tamworth, and 9 south- tablets to the Perkins family, and there i• a hagioscope west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the Western division in one of the piers of the south aisle: there are 250 of the county, hundred of Sparkenhoe, and in the petty ses- sitting;;, 85 being free. The register dates from the sional division, union and county court district of :Market year •594· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Bosworth, rural deanOO"y of Sparkenboe (first portion), 1 £150, with residence, including 156 acres of glebe, in archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. i the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough, and held since By a Local Government Ordell' of March 25, 1885, three , 1905 by the Rev_ Harry Robingon Brigg M.A. of Clare detached portione of Merivale, in Atherstone union, were ! College, Cambridge. The charities include £100 left by amalgamated with this parish. The church of St. f John Steele in 1728 and £2o left by Theodosia (Steele), Edith, formerly the church of Twycross and Gopsall in j wife of Sir Charles Ilromfield hart. in 1733. The prin• Leicestershire and Baxterley in WaTwickshire, is a large I cipal landowners are t.he Misses Steele-Perkins, of building of stone dating from the 12th century, but now I LPamington, who are also owners of the manor, and Earl chlelly in the Early Decorated style, the chancel being Howe G.C.V.O. The soil is red mar! on a bed of sand­ of later date: it consists of chancei, nave, south aisle, I stone. The crops are wheat and beans and some pasture <~outh porch and an embBttled western tower containing 1 land. The area is 2,033 acres; rateable ·value, £2,241 ; 4 bells, dated •595 a.nd 1701, and there was formerly a the population in 1901 was 215.