686 OSGATHORPE [C. N. WRIGHT'S

Cope Thos, Esq, J. P, Osbaston hall Wardle W m, and shopr and carrier Poyzer William Freeman Mrs. Marian Thompson William, h Newbold hall Liddington Bnjn, cowkpr & v, Gate FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. Thorpe John, h Nailstone Lines Edward, hawker and gnl dlr Alcock John, The Lodge Wardle Wm, cottgr, carrier & shopr Beck James, farm CARRIER. COTTAGERS. Cart Tom Stafford I Drackley N thnl Archer Thomas I Pegg John Freeman J osepb, grazier and brick- Wardle William (and cottager and Tomlinson J ames maker, h Ra'Venstone Mills shopr), to Hinckley M. ; Le'ster S.

OSGATHORPE is a parish and village in a vale, the other receiving £17 a year, left by Mr. John 5 miles E.N.E. from Ashby, and 3 N.E. from Allsopp in 1683. Mrs. Margaret Meade's charity is Swannington station, in the division, thns distributed: £16 to parishes of Osgathorpe, that of Whit wick for the County Council, bundred of Belton and -£5 in bread to the poor of West Goscote, rural deanery of West Akeley, Ashby the parish, and £1 to the clergyman of Osgathorpe; union and County Court district. St. Mary's Church and £10 in apprentice fees to the three parishes is a comely building, chiefly of the Decorated style, alternately. The principal landowners are the consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, north porch, trustees of the late Mr. C. Peach and Mr. C. Thorn- turret and spirelet. About 1860 it was restored, and son. Area, 8843,. Or. 35p. ; rateable value, £1970 ; the chancel added. During 1889-90 there has been population, about 300. The feast is on the Sunday considerable internal repairs carried out. The living nearest September 19th. is a rectory of the yearly value of £230 (gross), with ST. MARY'S CHURcH.-Services, Sunday 10-30 residence, derived from. 130 acres of glebe, in the and 6-30; Wednesday 6-30 p. m. Communion first gift of Lord Donington. The Grammar School was Sunday in month. Rev. W. A. Williams, M.A.; founded by Thomas Harley in 1670, to be free for 50 Wardens, Edw. E. Serres and G. Roadley; Organist, scholars. There is a spacious school-house, with Miss Knight; Clk, Wm. Davenport. Hymns A. & M. residence and garden for the master, and an endow- WESLEYAN CHAPEL.-Services, 2-30 and 6. Stew- ment of £140 a year. The National School was built ard, William Goodman. in 1836 on a site given by J. B. Story, Esq., and is Letters through Loughborough deliverecl at 8-30 conducted by a certificated mistress. There is a a.m. ; box cleared at 5-15 p.m. (week-days only). Wesleyan Chapel. There are also residences for seven The nearest Money Order offices are at Shepshed and widows of clergymen (four of whom reside in the . Telegrams despatched from Worthington village), six receive £70 a year, left by Thos. Harley, station (2 miles). Billings J oseph, blacksmith Serres John J ames, surgeon J ohnson Mrs. Mary Branson Mr. Charles Siddons Miss Catherine King George I King J oseph Branson Miss Eliza Statham John, bootmaker Marsball Edward, grazier Davenport Wm, coal dlr&parish clk Yibert Mrs. Fl'ances Jane Matchett Edward Davis John, v, Royal Oak Wale Miss Eliza I Wasse Mrs. Ann Mee J ames, Hall farm, h Shepshed Farmer Mrs. Hannah, Manor house Williams Rev. WaIter Augustus, Powdrill Mrs. Fanny Gilbert Mr. William M.A, The Rectory Ward Isaac, Church view Goodman Wm, bootmaker, baker COTTAGERS AND COWKEEPERS. and shopkeeper GRAZIERS. King George, bootmaker and grazier Gilbert James Ball Austin I Brooks James Knight Miss Ann, mstrss N atnl schl Gilbert Thomas, and cattle dealer King George, and bootmaker Miller Mrs. Harriet J ulia King Thomas I King William Lakin Jas, and bootmkr and carrier Pepper William, v, Story Arms King William (2) Nicklinson Joseph I Siddons John Platts Thomas, shopkeeper FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. Roadley Mr. George Clarke George I Cross William CARRIER. Serres Edward Edmund, master of Gadsby Charles, and v, Gate Lakin James (and bootmaker), to Free Grammar school Gascoyne -, Brookside farm Ashby S, Longhborough Th.

OVERSEAL is a manor and village in Seal parish, to the Rectory of Netherseal. In the north-west 4! miles W. by S. from Ashby. Overseal and the corner of the burial ground is a descendant of the district adjoining Ashby Wolds forms a township celebrated Boscobel Oak, in tbe branches of which jointly with N etherseal, and is in the Moira division Charles n. hid himself after the battle of Worcester. for the County Council. There is a station here on The school was erected by the lord of the manor in the Ashby and Nuneaton line. Between the two 1875, at a cost of £1400. The General Baptist and villages is a hill called Cadborough, supposed to have Primitive Methodist Chapels were built in 1840 and been an ancient British station. In the 16th century 1860 respectively. Acreage, 1127. (See Netherseal). Sir William Gresley, of Drakelowe, bought this manor, Population in 1891, 821. and in the next century it passed to the Morewoods, ST. MATTHEW'S CHAPEL.-Services, Sunday 11 of Netherseal. The manorial rights of Overseal now and 6. Communion first Sunday in month at mid­ belong to Major Mowbray, but part of the soil belongs day, and third Sunday at 8 a. m. Rev. C. R. Chope, to Mr. N. C. Curzon and some small owners. In 1840 curate-in-charge; Wardens, Major Mowbray and Mr. a new chapel was erected by subscription in the Early W. F. Cooper; Organist, Mr. White; Olerk, Arthur English style. It comprises chancel, nave, tower, Perry. Hymns A. and M. clock and bell. There are organ, carved stone Com­ BAPTIST CHAPEL.-Services, Sunday 2-30 and 6. munion table, Caen stone font, eagle lectern, and Deacons, Messrs. Samuel and James Moore. PRIMI­ stained glass window. There is a monument to tha TIVE METHODIST: 2 and 6. Steward, John Tebbett. late Elizabeth Pycroft, who gave the site for the POST, MONEY ORDER AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE, church and burying ground, and was a liberal con­ at Mr. Henry Wilkins. Letters received from Ashby tributor to the building, of which she laid the corner at 7-30 a.m. ; box cleared at 5-50 p.w., week-days stone, August 27th, 1840. The chapelry is annexed only.