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DIRECT0,JlY.] LE[CESTERSHIRE. BARROW-oN-SO.A.R. 33

Cave John~ shopkeeper Kukman Wm. C. I.P. farmer,Manor ha Starbuck Waiter, Old Red Lion P.B" Dean William Spencerf farmer Neale Frederick, tailor, & post office IStoneley Samuel, carpenter Gibson John, fishmonger Nutting Arthur James, boot & shoe ma Webster William, butcher Heap Charles, shopkeeper Pegg Richard, faJ'fiel Weston Frederick, carrier Hextall Samuel, farmer, Garland's lane Petcher Thomas, farmer Weston Joseph, boot maker' Jackson William, Three Tuns P.R Shepherd Edith M. (Mrs.), shopkeeper Weston Richard, grazier Kinton Albert, shopkeeper Smith Edward, blacksmith Whitehead James, Old Jolly Toper P.R Kirk Joseph, shopkeeper IStarbuck Albert Percy, cycle dealer I BARROW-ON-SOAR is . a towllship, parish and: Post, M. O. & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.­ union town on the river S0ar, which b navig.1ble, anl Mrs. A:mie Myatt, sub-po3tmistress. Letters arrive frOill' affords water communication with all parts of the king- i at 6.45 a.m. & 1.20 p.m.; dispatched at dom, with a station on the Midland railway, 3 miles' 1 & 6.30 p.m south~ast from Loughborough, 10 north from " Wall Boxes. road, cleared 12.35 & 5 p.m.; Railway 19t south-east from Derby, 17! south from i Station, cleared 12.35 & 5 p.m.j Industry square, 12.40 & and 112! miles from , in the Mid division of the i 5· p.m.; Main street, ).2.45 & 5 p.m.; Pawdy, 8.45 a.m. county, hundred of· , petty sessional divi- I & 5.5 p.m . sion and county court district of Loughborough, rural '- :l~anery of East Akeley, arch~eaco~ry. of Leic~ter and I BARROW-ON-SOAR RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL diocese of Peterborough. The VIllage lS lighted With gas by - - • the Quorn and Gas Company and supplied Comprising the parishes in Barrow.on-Soar union, except with water by the Corporation of Leicester from works in Quorndon & . The area is 46,469 acres; the parish of . In 1884, by Local Government the population in 1911 was 23,758 Board Order, Mquntsorrel North End was amalgamated Council meets at the Board Room, The Poor Law Institution, with this parish. The church of the Holy Trinity is a , on alternate tuesdays at 12.30 p.m. • building of granite and partly in the Early De- Chairman, W. H. Wright, Sileby corated style, but chiefly Perpendicular, and consisting 0'. chancel, nave, south porch, aisl~s. and transepts and I . Officials. u. embattled western tower contalmng a clock and·5 i Clerk Thomas Forward 368 Humberstone road Leicester :Jells, dated 1642 (two), 16~0, 1t:?92 and 1832. ll:nd rehung ! rl'reas~er, Waiter Webb: Parr's Bank, Loughbo;o~h m 1870: there are memonal ~ndows to Wtlliam Went-! Medical Officer of Health, John Edward O'Connor M.B., worth ~eude M.D. Surgeon-Major ~.M. Madras. Army, I B.ch., D.P.H. White lodge, Kirby Muxloe, Leicester e~ected m 1872, and to the. Rev. Rlcha~d Gwatkin B.D. I Highway Surveyor, George H. Lee, VIcar 1832 to 1.853, erected.m 1911 by.his son, the Rey. I Sanitary Surveyors & Inspectors of Nuisances & Canal Thomas Gwatkin: the stamed east wmdow, erected m Boats George T Dean Rothley & CH Wriaht SY8ton 1889 by Lieut.-Gen. Edward Chippindall C.B. is a ' ., .. 0' " memorial to Theophilu8 Cave, benefactor of the living (ob. 1656), Humphrey Babington, founder of the hospital BARROW-ON-SOAR UNION. (ob. 16(9), and William Beveridge, bishop of St. Asaph, The Barrow-on-Soar union comprises the following who was born in this parish (ob. 1708): the armorial I bearings of the above, together with those of St..John's parishes :-Anstey, Anstey Pastures, , , Barrow-on-Soar, Beaumont Leys, , Bir- College, Cambridge, form part of the design: there are stall, Cossington, , Croxton South, Gilroes, monuments in the chancel to Henry Cave, of Barrow, . dated 1600, who married Phillipa, daughter of Robert Leicester Frith, Mountsorrel, Newtown Lmford, Queni- borough, Quorndon, Ratcliffe, , Rothley, Sea- Braham, of Barrow; also one to Theophilus Cave, gent. grave, Sileby, Swithland, Syston, , Thur- dated 1584: new oaken gates for the south porch I were presented in 1898 by Lieut.-Gen. ChippindaU: castor:, Thurmaston, , Walton-o.n-t~e:Wolds, the chancel was ~ntirely rebuilt in 1862 by the Wanli.p &Woodhouse. The area of the umon IS 5?,451 trustees of Barrow Hospital, who are the lay .impro- acres, !ate~ble value, Lady "Day, 1915, £186,866, the priators ; and the church ",as completely restored in populatwn ill 1911 was 27,945 . 18'70, and re-opened 1 Nov. in that year: in 1907 the church . Board day, tuesday for~mghtly, at 11 ~.m. . was ain restored and a new o£g n organ chamber ,Chauman of the Board of Guardians, W. H. Wnght, S11eby . ag a , ,! Loughborough . vestries &c. added at a cost of £1,700; there are 500 . •. sittings. The register dates from the year 1563. The I Clerk to the GuardIans & Assessment. CommIttee, Thomas living is a vicarage, net yearly value £340, derived' Forward, 3~8 Humberstone, road, LelCesteJ' chiefly from 19;) acres of glebe, value £230, with residence, Treasurer, Wa ~er .Webb, Parr ~ B~nk, Loughborough . in the gift of St. John's College, Cambridge, and held since Coll~ctors, Rehevmg & VaccmatlOn Officers! B.arrow dis- 1904 by the Rev. Thomas Stone M.A. of that-.college. The trIct, C. F. Scott, Mountsorrel; Syston dJ!)tnct, ~oseph Catholic chapel, erected in 1839, is dedicated to St; Alban ; No.rth,. Syston . . there is also a Baptist chapel, built in 1820 and seating 300; VaccmatlOIl; Officers, C. F. Scott, Mountsorrel, Israel and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The L,?vett, SIleby; J. Nort?-. SystO? ; E. Bradley, Rothley cemetery, formed in 1893, covers half an acre of land: it Me~lCa~ Officers & Publ~c Vaccmators, .Barrow-on-Soar has a mortuary chapel, and is under the control of the Parish dIstrIct, Alex~der. SkIpto? ~.R.c.p.Edm., .L.R.C.S.Irel. . Council. There are charities of £900 annual value, including Barr~w-on-Soar, B.Irstall dls~nc~, Alfred Wilson EffiI!lS hospitals or almshouses for eleven aged men, each of whom M.D. urh..Belgrave, Quor?- dIStrIct, J ames. :Ar~hur Umtt receives 7 eek nd for eight aaed women each receiving L.R.c.p.Edm., M.R.C.S.Eng., Mountsorrel distrIct, James 68. a weet a. ;he b~rning of lime~ obtained from the lower Simpson Strachan M,R.C ..S.E~., L.R.c.p.LOnd.. Moun~- lias formation which underlies a large portion of the parish, sorrel; Quorn Anstey dlstrlCt, Veorge James ~a~rlS is extensively carried on here and many interesting fossils L.~.c.p.LOnd., M.R.C.S.Eug. Anstey; Rothley. distfl~t, have been found. This parish was the birthplace in 1637 or O~ver Thomas Sl,atter M.R.C.S.Eng. Rothley; Sileby dIS- UT'lli B'dg f St J h ' C 11 C tnct, J ames Snuth Gray M.B., Ch.B.Aberd. Dunnolta, 1638 of .. 1 am everI e D.D. 0 . 0 n s 0 ege, am- C 'to d S'l b Std' t 't H P k bridge, prebendary of St. Paul's and Canterbury, and bishop ossmg n roa, le. y; ys on lS rlC, arry ar er of St. Asaph, 1704-8; his grandfather, father and brother Dalley L.R.C.P. & ~.E<:!m. Syston . ' . were successively vicars here, and he himself was for some The P?or Law. Instltut~on, Rothley, lS a structure.of brlCk, time vicar of Ealing and rector of St. Peter's, Cornhill; hold~ng 300 Illmat~s '. Ernest W; Carter, master, Rev. I. he died in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, 5 March, LeWlS M.A. chaplam, ~ames SIIllpson Strachan M.R.C.S. 1108, and was buried in St. Paul's. Here are the kennels Eng., L.R.c.p.LOnd. medIcal officer; Mrs. E. W. Carter, and stables of the celebrated Quom Hunt, of which Capt. matron F. Forester is master; the pack hunts four times a week. BARROW-ON-SOAR REGISTRATION DISTRiCT. Melton Mowbray and Leicester are convenient places for hunting visitors. Edward Handley Warner esq. J.P. who is Superintendent Registrar, C. F. F. Scott, Mountsorrel; lord of the manor; George w. Peach esq. I.P. and the deputy, Albert O. Fottlds, Mountsorrel trustees of the Barrow Hospital are the principal landowners. Registrar of Marriages, James Camm, Quom The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are Registrars of Births & DeatlIS, Barrow-on-Soar sub-dis- wheat, barley and beans. The area of the township is trict, Ja.mes Camm, Quorn; deputy, John Thornton, 2,462 acres of land and 35 of water; rateable value, £16,854 ; Quorn; Quorndon sub-district, J ames Cuffiing, Quom;- the population in 1911 was, in the tQwnship, 2,481, and in the deputy, Mrs. Elizabeth Cuffling, Quorn; RotWey sub- l' . 1 . h 9. 521 district, Mrs. S. J. Seott, Mountsorrel; deputy, Miss ecc eslastlca parlS ,