DIRECTORY. J NORTHAMPTONSHIRE .. PATTISHALL. 249 held by scholars chosen out of Peterborough school. DOGSTHORPE, anciently called Dodsthorpe, was for­ The church estate, value about £2o a year, is for the merly a hamlet of St. John the Baptist, Peterborough, repairs of Paston church. The principal landowners are 2 miles north-east therefrom; a small portion of the the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough and the Eccle­ hamlet is incorporated in the borough. There is a Mis­ siastical Commissioners. The soil is various; subsoil, sion Hall at Garton end, erected in 1893, and now used clay, silt and stone. The chief crops are wheat, beans, as a Sunday school. Here are Primitive Methodist and peas, oats and barley. The area is 892 acres; rateable Wesleyan chapels. The school room is used as a Church value, £2,078; the population in 1901 was-Paston, 88 ; Mission Hall. The land is chiefly arable. Gunthorpe, 57; Walton, 556. The population of the Police Station, David Ramps, constable ecclesiastical parish in 1901 was 999· GUSTHORPE is also a hamlet in this parish. The W.A-LTON, a hamlet I mile west from Paston, with a area is 212 acres; rateable value, £448 ; the population station on the Midland railway, was, in 1887, transferred m• 1901 was 57· to this parish from W errington by an Order in Council. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel erected in I 895. Parish Clerk, George Freeman. The area is 940 acres; rateable value, £7,195; the Post Office, Dogsthorpe.-Mrs. Mary Ann Moy, sub-post­ population in 1901 was 556. mistress. Letters received through Peterborough, at Post Office, Walton.-Mrs. Henrietta Belton, sub-post­ 7 & 9 a.m. & 2.5 & 6.15 p.m.; sunday, 6.45 a.m.; mistress. Letters through Peterborough arrive at 7.30 dispatched at 9 a. m. & 2.5 & 6.15 p.m. The nearest a,m. & 12.30 & (callers only) 3.50 p.m.; sunday, 7·35 money order office is at New England, Peterborough, a. m. ; dispatched at Io.s a. m. & 2.25, 6.15 .& 9· 10 & the nearest telegraph office is at Peterborough p.m. The :nearest money order office is at New Letter Box, Paston, cleared at 1.20 & 7-IS p.m. weelr England, Peterborough & the nearest telegraph office days only is at W errington Letter Box, Gunthorpe, cleared I.Io & 7.25 p.m. week days only Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1908, for 160 children; average attendance, Ioo; W. S. Maxey, Public Elementary School (mixed), Dogsthorpe, built in master 1876, & enlarged in 18g6, for 140 children; average Public Elementary School (infants'), built in 1900, for attendance, 123; Miss Ellen Young, mistress 120 children; average attendance, 67; Miss Lilian Railway Station (Midland), Walton, Leonard Dexter, "'right, mistress station master P.ASTON. ' Brown Thomas, Blue Bell inn COMMERCIAl•. Ihlee Frederick Charles, Paston hall Bruce Robert, beer retlr. Garton end Archer John & Mary (Miss), bakers Robinson Rev. Francis Watson M.A. Bruce :ij.obert, market gardener Baxter Thomas, Paul Pry P.H Rectory Cartwright Thomas, cattle dealer Belton Henrietta (Mrs.), shopkeeper, COMMERCIAL. C(lok .J ames, dairyman Post offic-a Austin Thomas, farmer GGodley J. & Son, nurserymen, Bradley George, pig dealer Betts Charles, farmer Garton end Brotherhood Peter Ltd. engineers Bratley John (Mrs.), farmer Grainger Harry, blacksmith Brown Thomas (Mrs.), fa.rmer, The Crowson Frederick, dairyman Hopkin Jn. Edwin,hawker,Garton end Manor house Crow!>on John, dairyman Letch Leonard, dealer Burbidge William, shpkpr. Paston la Hadman George, dairy Morton George, poultry farmer Chattell Rose Helen (Mrs.), tobaccnst Wilson Edward, cowkeeper M ucklin John, sweep Church Herbert, fishmonger Wilson James, dairyman Sharp Bros. dairymen, Garton end Church J a ne E. (Mrs.), greengrccer • Simmons Arthur, china & earthenware D wison Albert Alwyne, genl. dPaler DOGSTHORPE. dealer, Garton end Gregory Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeepr PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Sissmore Melanie (Mrs.), dre!'s ma Hammond Laurence Jn. pork butcher Alton William, 1 Shildon villas Star Pressed Brick Co. (J. W. Rowe), Heading William, farmer Booth Joshua Henry, Manor house brick makPrs Howard Robert, Royal Oak P.H Burlingham Joseph, 2 Shildon villas Thompson Edward, firewood dealer Hunt Adam, farmer, The Hall Clapperton Mrs. Lawn house W arrington & Bird, carmen .T ohn~on Hy. (Mrs.), refrPshment rms Craig Mrs. Dogsthorpe grange Langsley George, fried fish shop Fisher Henry Edward, Airedale GU'NTHORPE. Le tall Ben· am in, builder & contractor Higgins Mrs. The Cedars Brown Fred, farmer Lofts Frederick, hair dresser Point<>n John Edward, Airedale Hadman Clara (Mrs.), farmer Morton Florence (Mrs.), refreshment Stapling Mrs LWatling Street, 3 miles north-by-west from yearly value £250, with residence, in the gift of Towcester station on the Stratford-on-Avon and Midland trustees, and held since 1897 by the Rev. George Junction railway and 4 west from Blisworth station on Gibson M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford. There is a the main line of the London and North Western railway, Baptist chapel, erected in 1838, with ~ittings, for in the Southern division of the county, petty sessional r5o persons. The charities include a sum of about division, hundred, union and county court district of £300 yearl~-. left by Lady Katherine Leveson, in r67o, Towcester, rural deanery of Brackley (second portion), and derived from -land at l<'oxley, £2o of which is set archdeaconry of Northampton and diocese of Peter- apart for apprenticing two boys and £4o for the support borough. The hamlets are Astcote, Dalscote, Eastcote of not less than two and not more than four aged widows; and part of Foster's Booth; the last-named is given the rest is distributed to the poor at Christmas ; the under a separate heading. The church of the Holy Cross Bidford charity amounting to £46 a year, left by Alice, is a building of stone, in mixed styles, varying from Duchess of Dudley, and the Markes charity of about £6 ~orman to Late Perpendicular, with a fine Norman chan- yearly, are also distributed to the poor at Christmas. eel arch, and some remains of presumed Saxon work, William Pinckard left in 1854 £I,ooo to be invested in and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, vestry Com:cls, the inte.rest to be given to two aged widowers. and a western tower containing a clock and 6 bells : there Pattishall House, the property and residence of Frank are piscinre in the chancel and south aisle, and in t·he chan- Hawthorn Burn esq. is a buildin~ of brick standing in eel is a stained window, inserted in 1876, by Marianne well-planted grounds, about a mile from the village, on Richards, of Pattishall House: the church plate was given the road to Northampton. The principal landowners are in 1663 by Alice, Duchess of Dudley: the church was Sir Thomas George Fermor-H~sketh bart. of EastDn partial:y restored in 1872, under the direction of the late Neston, who is lord of the manor, the Duke of Grafton Mr. Law, of Northampton, at a cost of £1,000: there are K.G., C.B. and there are several small owners. The 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1556. chief crops are wheat, barley, cereals and some land is The living is a vicarage, originally belonging to God- in pasture. The soil is various; subsoil, ironstone and stow nunnery, Oxon and Dunstable Priory, Beds, and clay. The area is 2,689 acres of good strong land; rate­ formerly in two medieties, called the Upper and Lower, able value, £4,723; the population in 1901 was 86o.