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trustees, and held since 189~ by the Rev. Charles Noble worth; delivered at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 5.25 p.m. ; Tanner M.A. of Merton College, Oxford. Here is a small , no delivery on sunday. Gilmorton, 2t miles distant, is Baptist chapel The principal landowners, are William the nearest money order & telegraph office • Curzon esq. J.P. the Rev. Edmund Jackson M.A. 'Edward Public Element.ary School (mixed), suppMted by voluntary Dalby esq. and the rector. The soil is clay and gravel; contributions, erected about 1870, for 45 children; Mrs. subsoil, the same. The chief crops are wheat, barley, Mary Fox, mistress oats and roots. The area is 1,266 acres; assessable value, £1,222; population in 1911, 227. Carriers to:- Sexton, William Hickley. Leicester.-Percy Riggs, mono wed. & sat.; Thomas Hun', Post & Telephone Call Office.-Miss Caroline Elizabeth wed. & sat Pegg, sub-postmist.ress. Letters arrive from Lutter- Lutterworth.-Thomas Hunt, thurs. at 10 a.m Haynes Frank... Hickley William, carpenter Moss Bertram Wilmore M.B.wnd., McArthur Charles Frederic Higgs Percy, carrier .lLR.C.S.Eng., L.R.c.p.LOnd. physician Tanner Rev. Charles Noble M.A. Rectory Riggs Eliz'abeth (Mrs.), farmer & surgeon & certifying factory surgn COMMERCIAL. Riggs Ernest Thomas, butcher Payne James, grazier Barlow Arthur, Plough inn Higgs Harry, farmer Peel Frederick Bradley, grazier Chaoman Arthur, carpenter Higgs Thomas, farmer Rowe Alfred Edwd. Joiner's Arms P.H Cheney Louisa (Mrs.), "farmer Hunt Thomas, carrier Sturgess Arthur, veterinary surgeon Fox Clement Samuel, grazier Ki.lworth Waiter, blacksmith Vernon Mary Briscoe (Mrs.), farmer, The Heard John Thomas, farmer l\lackley Robert Frederick, baker Grange

Herring Charles Edwin, farmer w Morris Joseph, farmer York John, shopkeeper B UCKMINSTER with SEWSTERN. is a township, pleasant village and parish, of the Earl of Dysart, stands on rising ground to the north among the Wold Hills, on the borders o~ , 4 of the village; the mansion'is a large and handsome edifice miles north-east from Edmonthorpe station on the Melton in the Italian style, erected in 1798 by Sir William l\Ianners and Bourne branch and 5-t north-east from Saxby station Talmash bart. (d. 10 March, 1833): it stands in a park of on the Nottingham and Kettering branch of the Midland 230 acres. The Earl of Dysart is lord of the manor and railway, ,ID south-west from , 9i east-north- principal landowner. The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, east from , and is in the Eastern division partly red stone and clay. The Gl'0ps are wheat and roots, of the county, Framland hundred, Melton Mowbray petty but most of the land is in pasfure. The area is 1,964 sessional division, union and county court district, rural acres; rateable value, £2,492; the population in 1911 deanery of Framland (second portion), archdeaconry of was 246 in the civil and 435 in the eccl{lsiastical parish, Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. The. ' church of which includes Sewstern. • St. John the Baptist, an edifice of stone, is a very fine Sexton; Charles Baxter, Sewstern. example of the Early English period, consisting of chancel, Post, M. O. & T. Office.-Miss Emily Porter, sub-post- nave, aisles, south porch, a chantry chapel on the south mistress. Letters through Grantham arrive at 7.50 side, the remains of another on the north and a massive a.m.; dispatched at 5.10 p.m. Letters are delivered to tower on the south side, with lofty spire, containing a callers on sunday from 9.30 to 10 a.m. & dispatched at clock and 6 bells, the dates of which are 1657, 1649, 1691, 1778 and two 1873, these last having been added in 1874 10.20 p.m when the old bells were re-hung at a total cost of £200 Council School (mixed), with master's residence, enlarged and the tower repaired at a cost of £360; the spire, struck in 1873 & rebuilt in 1898, at a cost of about £1,600 by by lightning in 1841, was repaired in 1843 and restored the Earl of Dysart, for 120 children; Alfred Bradley,mastr in 1894, at a cost of £100; the church was thoroughly Carriers.-William Miller, to Grantham wed. & sat. & John restored and a new organ added in 1883 by the Earl of ' Welbourne, of Sewstern, to Melton Mowbray, tues Dysart, at a cost of £3,500; adjoining the churchyard .. . . is the family mausoleum of the Dysart family, built by I' SEWSTERN IS a. tOwnship,. :rI~age and chap.elry, a ~le the tru!'\tees of Lionel William John,7th Earl of Dysart· south .from Buckmmster, adJOlmng North. \yltham, ~m­ {who died 22 September, '1878), at a cost of about £3,000, co1?S?ire. 'rhe chaJ.>el o.I ~ase here, erected III 1842, 18 a and here his remains and those of others of the family I bmlding o~ ~t~me, conslstmg of chanc~l an? .a western are deposited: there are 220 sittings. The register dates Iturr~t, con.3mmg one bell: th~re are 1.30 SI~tlngS. The from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, with the serViCes are ~nducted by the vicar of Buckmlnster. The chapelry of Sewstern annexed, joint net yearly value £100, I c~urch feast 18 on the S~day after October 10th. T~e with 14 acres of glebe here and residence, in the gift of I Wesleyan chapel, erected III ~904, at a ~ost of £600, wIll the Earl of Dysart, and held since 1916 by the Rev. Thomas. seat ~4.0 people. Here are Iron. o~e PIts. The Earl of oCaleb Hughes, of St. Aidan's, who resides at Coston. Here L'i IDyeart .IS ~ord of the manor and pnnclpa1 o,wner ~f th~ land. a Wesleyan chapel. A sum of £25, left in 1703, is received Tl:~e 8011 IS mostly a strong clay; ~ubsOIl, varIOUS. The yearly by the poor of this parish from Mr. William Chester's I ~hief crops are corn and some land m pasture: T.he area. charity, and the interest of £20 from Mary Elston's charity; I' IS 1,117 acres; rateable value, £1,241; populat.IOn m 1911, Thomas Bury's charity, amounting to £6, is divided among 188. " five poor widows in Sewstern on St. Thomas' day, except j Post Office.-Thomas Laxton, sub-postmaster. Letters 15s. to the vicar for preaching a sermon on that day, and 5s. through Grantham arrive at 8.15 a.m.; dispatched at to the parish clerk. The church feast is held on the Sunday 4.5 p.m. week days only. The nearest money order &; previous to June the 24th. Buckminster Park, the seat 1 telegraph office is at, BUl'kminster, 2 miles distant, BUCKMINSTER. !Charlesworth Mary (Mrs.), grocer SEWSTERN. Dysart Earl of Buckminster park' &/ Dysart (The) Arms Hotel (Mrs. Clara Armstrong Alfred, grazier Ham house Petersham Surrey' Wells) I Baines Harold, farmer Adcock Miss ' , Hawley George, farmer & contractor, & Clarke John Edwin, builder Cooper Miss I chairman of P~~ Council,Grange fIn Cole Joshua, Red Lion P.H Foljambe Major Gerald Overleigh Hendy In. farm baIliff to Earl of Dysart Cooper James, farmer Matthews Mrs ' , Knight Richard William, farmer Dawson George, grazier Praeger Wilfred Maddocks Oswald, head gardener to the Grice Clara (Miss), dress maker Button Mrs Annie Earl of Dysart Hawley George, farmer . Porter Emily & Annie (Misses), shopkpr Laxton Thos. wheelwright, P6st office ~O.MMERClAL. Porter Frank, land steward to the Earl Miller William, carrier Atkinson Hugh Norman Crowley of Dysart, clerk to Buckminster Royce Emma (Miss), grazier M.R.C.S.EUg., L.R.c.p.LOnd. physician Parish Council, Ivy house Royce Frank, farmer & surgeon (attends mono & thurs. Sharp Thomas, farmer ISharpe Miss Georgina, shopkeeptJ from Wymondham) Skins Thompson, blacksmith Tinkler Frederick, grazier , Brown Frederick, tailor Weston William, farmer ITrafford Sarah (Mrs.), grflozipr Buckmimlter & District Institute (Frank Wright Albert, grazier Welbourne John, carrier' Portel', sec) ,Wright John, harness maker Wilson Thomas Art?ur, Blue Dog P.H , BURBAGE is a pleasant village and parish, ,11 miles' (second portIOn), archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of south-east from Hinckley station on the 1,ondon and North Peterborough. The village is lighted wit.h gas, supplied: Western and Midland railways, 6 east-north-east from from works at Hinckley. The church of St. Catharine Nuneaton and 9! north-west from Lutterworth, in the is a building of stone, dating from the 14th century, but Western division of the county, Sparkenhoe hundred, of the original fabric little remains except the tower: the Market Bosworth petty sessional division, Hinckley union church was partly rebuilt in 1842, in the Early English and. county court district, 'rural deanery of Sparkenhoe style, and consists of chancel with aisle, clerestoried nav~