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Horton, joint net ~early value £2oo, including 4 acres HACKLETON is a hamlet half a mile north·east. of glebe and residence,, in the gift of G. H. Winter­ There is a Baptist chapel here, built in 18og. bottom esq. of Horton House, and held since 1903 This hamlet has charities of £22 yearly for distribu­ by the Rev. Herbert Fletcher Mann M.A. of Hatfield tion. A building, erected by the late Bev. Sir H. J. Hall, Durham, who resides at Hackleton. Here is a Gunning bart. M.A. in 1866 as an infants' school, Wesleyan Methodist chapel. The Willoughby charity was refitted in 1879• and opened as a club and reading­ consists of /,20 yearly for apprenticing, and includes room for the parishioners. A cottage still standing Back:leton: there are other charities .of £12/early for in this parish was once the home of the Rev. William distribution; £6 ros. ..of this aum is derive from an Carey D.D. the distinguished Indian missionary of the allotment, granted by the Commissioners of Enclosure, Baptist M1ssionary Society, who was born at Paulers­ in lieu of the right to cut furze, and is distributed in pury, in this eounty, 17th August, r761. The area equal sums of money, fio all widows and to labouring is · 1,086 acres; rateable value, £1,477; population in men over fifty years of age: there is also a sum of £15 1gn, 346. yearly, left by Sir Robert Gunning, which is distributed Parish Clerk, George Elliott. to the most necessitous and deserving aged labourers of Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Frederick Russell, sub·post­ the parish. Lady Wantage is lady of the manor and master. Letters arrive from at 6.45 principal landowner. The Crown has also conaiderable a.m. & 2.20 p.m.; dispatched at 12.20 & 5.30 p.m. property here. 'fhe soi) is marl and clay ; subsoil, week days only rc.ck. The chief crops are wheat, barley and pasture Wall Box at Hackleton cleared at 12.25 & 5.20 p.m land. The area. is 1',693 acres; rateable value, £1,559; Public Elementary School, Hackleton (mixed), built in the population in 1911 was 377· 1876, with master's house attached, for 275 children; That part of Salcey Forest in Piddington Edward John Lyne, master is reputed to be extra-parochial for ecclesiastical pur­ Police Station, Hackleton, Chas. John Reeson, constable poses. Carriers to N orthampton--George Longman & Thomas James Hakes, mon. wed. fri. & sat PIDDINGTON. Russell Clarence Henry, assistant COMMEBCI.AL. & COMMERCIAL, overseer deputy registrar of Adams Albert, farmer marriages Hardingstone uni()n Bird Frances E. (Mrs.), New inn Ba.seley Higgins, farmer ,Piddington lo Sansome Arthur, butcher Bird William, motor engineer Brown Arthur. baker Smith Herbert Henry, farm bailifi' to Courtman William, blacksmith Brown Thomas, boot maker H. Martin esq. <>f Northampwn Elliott William B.G. White Hart P.H Courtman William, blacksmitb W estley Charles, beer retailer · Hackleton Progressionists Industrial Frost William Edward, farmer Society Limit-ed Hakes Thomas J ames, carrier Lucas Charles Arthur, farmer Howes Geo. Daniel, Spread Eagle P.H HACKT.ETON. Sansome Arthur, butcher Loake Vin~ent, farmer ' Sansome John M.B.C.V.S. farmer, Longman George, carrier ' Mann Rev. Herbt.FletcherM.A.(vicar) Hacldeton house Old Dorset Thomas, baker & shopkpr Sansome Jn. M.R.C.V.S.Hackleton ho TyS()m Helens (Mrs.), shopkeeper PILTON is a parish on the west bank of the Nene, 3 1515, originally consisting of land and houses, but miles south-south-west from , si miles east from this property was purchased in 1900 by Lord Lil· Barnwell and 2i south from Thorpe-AchuTch stations on ford for £6oo, and invested in Consols; a charity of the a~d Northampton section of the Lon­ [,r Bs. yearly, left by will in 1815 by John Basely Selby. don and North Western raHway, in the Northern division of Pilton; £2, the rent of Horseholm Warlock, awarded of the county, hundred of Navisford, Oundle petty ses­ at the Enclosure, and Ragsdale's charity of Ios. yearly sional division and union, and Oundle county are distributed in fuel. The above charities are under court district, rural deanery of Oundle (first portion), the control of the Charitv Commissioners, and now archdeaconry of Oakham, and diocese of Peterborough. (1914) produce {,22 4s. The Rectory House, standing The church of All Saints is an ancient building of on an eminence close to the church, overlooking the stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, beautiful vale of the Nene, and now occupied by the clerestoried nave of eight bays, aisles, south porch and rector, was formerly the property of the Treshams, a western tower with spire containing 4 bells : the and the last descendant of that ancient familv• lived south doorway is a curiOus example of mixed styles of and died here. Lord Lilford is lord of the manor and early date : a beautiful ·stained east window and three principal landowner. The chief crops are hay, barley, on the south side of the chancel were added in 1862: beans, oats and wheat. The soil is clayey; subsoil, the church was thoroughly restored in 1875, at a cost clay and rock. The area is 1,402 acres of land and 4 of about £I,soo; of which the patron, Lord Lilford, of water; assessable ¥alue, £I,I05; the population in contributed about £1,400; the tower and spire were 19II was 198. restored in 1896 at a cost of £280: there are sittings Parish Clerk, Reuben Rowledge. for I80 persons. The register dates from the year rs6g. • The living is a discharged rectory, net yearly value £go, Letter Box cleared at 9.25 a. m. & 5.50 p.m. daily; & including 3 acres of glebe, v.ith residence, in the gift of sundays at 10.30 a.m. Letters through Oundle, de· Lord Lilford, and held since 1894 by the Rev. John livered 7.50 a.m. & I p.m. Wadenhoe is the nearest Edward Newby, whCJ is also rector of Wadenhoe. The money order & telegraph office, about 1 mile distant charities include a bequest by Thomas Thurlby in The children of this place attend Lilford school

. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL• Raven Tom, farmer, Home farm Copley John, Pilton Grange Green Jordan, farmer & grazier, Pil· Whitney Samuel Simpson, farmer &i Newby Rev. John Edward (rector), ton lodge grazier, The Elms Rectory house Langley Joseph, grazier Wilson Wilby, grazier PIPEWELL is a hamlet or liberty of about 25 houses, stood the abbey of Pipewell or De Divisis (two demesnes), in the several parishes of Rushton, Desborough, Great founded in 1142, temp. Edward I. by W. de Boutevilleyn, Oakley and Wilbarston 2 miles north from Rushton and one of the largest abbeys of the Cistercian order station on the Kettering, Market Harborough, and Lei­ in this country: it was dedicated to St. Mary, and cester section of the Midland railway, and 6l miles north· colonised from the abbey of New Minster, near Mor­ north-west from Kettering, in the Northern division of peth ; at the time of its dissolution there were 13 monks, the county, hundred of Rothwell, Kettering petty ses­ and revenues estimated at £286: a great council was sional division, union and county court district and within held here in Sept. u8g. The soil is a mixture of red the precincts of the old forest of Rockingham. The soil, clay and limestone ; subsoil, ironstone. The land is chapel of St. Mary, erected in I881-2, at a cost of £6oo, pasture, arable and woodland. The area is about 2,o7o is a building of stone in the Norman style and stands acres. very near the site of the abbey: it consists of chancel Post O:ffice.-Mrs. Frances Elizabeth Marshall, sub-post­ and nave and an open bell-cote containing one bell: ser­ mistress. Letters arrive through Kettering at 8.30 vices are occasionally held here by the Rev. Robert Cope­ a.m. ; dispa.tched at 4·55 p.m.; sunday delivery, 9 man B.A. rector of Stoke Albany. Pipewell Hall, the a.m. & dispatched 10.30 a.m. The nearest money property of the trustees of the late Oscar William Hol­ order office is at Rushton & telegraph office at Des­ den.Hambrough esq. D.L., J.P. (d. Igoo), who are lords borough, 3 miles distant of the manor and sole landowners, is a. large stone man­ sion in a. well-wooded park of 30 acres, and surrounded Free School, built in 1880 by 0. W. Holden-Hambrough by pleasant grounds, and is now occupied by Sir Henry esq. ; it is now used as a. W esleyan chapel Bayly Meredyth bart. In a :field near the present hall The children attend the school at Rushton