188 LJLBOURNE. . [KELLY'S left £300 for a similar purpose, and two closes in the Parish Clerk, William Egan. village, for garden allotments for the agricultural la­ bourers. In a field at the east end of the church, and Post Office.-Mrs. l\'Iary Alice Marler, sub-postmistress. separated from it by a road, are three tumuli, upon each Letters received from Rugby at 8.25 a.m. ; dispatched of which was once a fort or tower and between them a at 6.30 p.m. ; sundays at 8.30 a.m. The nea.rest, stronghold or castle, with part of the materials of which money order office is at Olifton, 2 miles, & telegraph the present church was built. The principal landed pro­ office at Catthorpe, r mile distant prietors are Lord Braye J.P. who is lord of the manor, Jinks Howkins esq. Mr. J. W. Crofts, of Cubbington, Public Elementary School (mixed), for 6o children; Leamington, Mr. S. J. Dicksee, of Rugby, and ·the Clip­ average attendance, 38 ; & supported partly by the ston Charity. The land is principally used for grazing. charity above mentioned, amounting to about £2o The soil is part clay and part light soil. The area of yearly ; , mistress the parish is I,710 acres ; rateable value, £2,822 ; the population in 1901 was 184. Lilbourne Station, Albert Price, station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Barnett Alice (Mrs.), laundress Loman Percy, milk purveyor Harper J nhn George, Lilbourne lodge Budd Eliza (Mrs.), cowkeeper ~Iarler Abraham, shopkeeper Howkins Frank Harper Jn. Geo. grazier, Lilbourne lo Mawby Amy (Mrs.), laundress Howkins Jinks, Lilbourne furze Howkins & Sons, auctioneers, Lil- Payne George, grazier Price Rev. Thos.Ralph M.A. Vicarage bourne furze R:mse Arthur John, Chequers P.H Tuckey Mrs Howkins Frank, grazier Sha w J osrph, farmer Howldns Jinks, farmer & grazier Towers Elizabeth (Miss), dress maker COMJIIERCIAL. Howkins William, farmer Vaughan James, Bell P.H Archer James, farmer Loman George Richard, dairy . LILFORD-cum- is a parish, on the mansion in the Elizabethan style, erected, it is said~ east bank of the Nene, one mile west from Barnwell, and from the designs of Inigo Jones, and pleasantly situated about two from Thorpe station, on the Northampton and in a park of about roo acres on t·he banks of the river Peterborough section of the London and North Western Nene; it was purchased of the Elmes family by Sir railway, and 3 south-bJ-west from , in the Northern Thomas Powys (an ancestor of the present Lord Lilford) rlivision of the county, hundred of Huxloe, though locally in I7II ; the earliest date on the building is 1635, but in that of Polebrooke, Oundle petty sessional division some portions are much older and various additions and union, Thrapston and Oundle county court district, were made in 1858, and others in 1909 and 1910; rural deanery of Oundle (first portion), archdeaconry attached to the mansion are €xtensive aviaries, contain­ of Oak·ham, and diocese of Peterborough. The c'hurch ing a valuable collection of cranes and other birds. of St. Peter was pulled down towards the end of the Lord Lilford J.P. is lord of the manor and sole land- 18th century, when the vicarage of Lilford-cum-Wigs- owner. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay and rock. The thorpe was annexed t() the rectory of Thorpe- chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is and the monument of Sir Thomas Powys, Justice of 1,831 acres of land and 13 of water; rateable value, the King's Bench, who died 4th April, 1719, was taken £1,8o6; the population in 1901 was 16r, including from Lilford church and re-erected in the church at Wigsthorpe, through which the London and North Thorpe-Achurch: there are monuments in this church Western railway passes. to the Hons. Cha_rles Powys R.N. d. r3th August, 1804, A. letter bag is made up at the Hall daily at 5 p.m. and Henry Powys, Capt. 83rd regt. who died in April, Wall Letter Box, near school at Lilford, cleared a~ 1!!12, of wounds received in the attack on Badajoz: three 1o.ro a.m. & 5.25 p.m. week days only. ·Letters arches from Lilford church were buiH up in the woods through Oundle arrive· at 8 a.m. & r p.m. ; sundays~ below A.church, looking- towards the . The sundays, 8 a.m. The nearest money order & tale- register dates from the year 1560. The living is a graph office is at , about 2 miles distant vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Thorpe-Achurch, Public Elementary School (mixed), erected about 1845 joint net yearly value £290, in the gift of Lord Lilford, & enlarged in 1866 by Lord Lilford, for 90 children; and held since 1902 by the Rev. Herbert Cecil Holmes averag-e attendance, 64 ; children attend here from B..A.. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, who resides at Achurch. the adjoinin~ parishes of Pilton, Tborpe-Achurch & Ragdale's charity of £2 yearly is for distri-bution. This Wigsthorpe; AlfrPd Warner, master place g-ives the title of baron to the Powys family. Lil- Infants' School, erected in 1901. for 28 ohildren; aver- ford Hall, the seat of Lord Lilford J.P. is a handsome age attendance, 20; Mrs . .A. G. Warner, mistress Lilford Lord J.P. Lilford hall; Bank Burton William, electrical engineer to Rodger Jn. Blair, farmer, Wigsthorpe- hall, Preston, Lancashire; & Car!- Lord Lilford Wilson Edward, head gardener to ton & Travellers' clubs S W & Carter Ernest,chaffeur to LordLilford Lord Lilford Oriental club W, London Cosgrave Rd. falconel' to Lord Lilford Woodin William, farm bailiff to Lord Deakin Albert Whitney, farmer, Wigs- Lilford, Dairy farm COMMERCIAL. thorpe hall Woods Arthur, cowkeeper,Wigsthorpe BrowningJn.house stewrd.Lilford hall MacKayDnld.gamekpr. to Lord Lilford

LITCHBOROUGH is a village and parish, 3~ miles 1904 about a ! of an acre of land was given by Edward north from Blake.sley station on the Stratford-on-Avon Grant esq. for the enlargement of the churchyard: in 1907 and Midland Junction line and 5 south-west from Edward Grant esq. erected an angel in memory of his W eedon station, on the main line of the London and mother, and in 1909 he presented a brass eagle lectern. North Western railway, s! north-west from Towcester, Tbe register of burials dates from the year 1727 ; bap­ 9 south-west from Northampton and 8 south-east from tisms, 1732; marriages, 1748. The living is a rectory. Daventry. The parish is in the Southern division of net yearly value £327, with 21 acres of glebe, and resi­ the county, hundred of Fawsley, petty sessional division, dence, in the gift of the trustees of the late Rev. William union and countv• court district of Towcester, rural Thomas Browning, and held since xgo8 by the Rev . deanery of Weedon, archdeaconry of Northampton, and William Chamberlin O'Ferrall. Here is a Baptist chapel, diocese of Peterborough. The church of St. Martin is erected in r862. Lady Katherine Leveson's charity, left a building of stone in the Gothic -style, consisting of in 1670, amounts to £6o a year, of which £2o· is set chancel, clerestoried nave, south aisle, south porch and apart for apprenticing and £4o for the support of three an embattled western tower containing 5 bells, 2 new of the oldest widows : the Bidford (Warwickshire) ones being added in 1909 by Edward Grant esq. who at charity, left by .Alicia, Countess of Dudley, provides the same time had the old bells retuned: at the north­ about £-t5 yearly, for distribution in fuel: the town east end of the nave is an altar tomb of stone bearing lands of 26 acres yield £20 yearly, which is expended the alabaster effigy of a Imig'ht in armour; his plumed in the repairs of the church. Litchborough House, the helmet supporting his hea~l', at his left side a sword, seat of Edward Grant esq. D.L., J.P. was formerly the and in his right hand a staff; on the wall above the residence of the Leake family, who had an estate here tomb is a tablet with eight rhyming couplets in English in the r5th century. Arthur Maurice Blake esq. C.B. and an inscription to Sir John Nedham kt. of Lit-eh­ of Warmwell House, Dorcheliter, who is lord of the borough, ob. 1616, and Elizabeth (Watson), his wife, who manor, Edward Grant esq. D.L., J.P. the Corporation erected the tomb in r633; and on the south side of the of the .Sons of the Clergy and Herbert John Manning tomb is another inscription describing him as "gentleman Watts esq. of Kislingbury, are the chief landowners. pensioner to Queen Elizabeth:" the church was restored The soil is clay and sand; subsoil, ironstone. The chief in 1883 at a cost of £6oo, and the stained east window crops are wheat, beans &c. The area is 1,752 acres ; was placed in 188g, in memory of the Rev. W. T. Brown­ rateable value, f.2.IQ5 ; the population in 1901 was 293- ing ~LA. a former rector: there are 250 sittings : in Parish Clerk, William Billingham.