DIRIlCTORY.] . MAGNA. 811 panyand Christ's Hospital, London, and held since 1889 by land is rich and highly cultivated. The chief crops are the Rev. Henry James lVIason B.A. of Cambridge University, wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area is 3,000 acres; and chaplain at the Glen Parl"a barracks. The Congrega­ rateable value, £25,720 j in 188r the population was 4,299 ; tional chapel was erected in 1841, on the site of an older one, is now about 8,500. at a cost of £1,070. There are also Wesleyan, Primitive POST, M. O. & T. G., S. B. & Annuity & Insurauce Office.­ Methodist and Calvinistic chapels, and at , Samuel Shipp, receiver. Letters arrive by mail cart from All Saints mission hall, a Christian meeting house, Congre­ , at 6.50 a.m. & 2.40 p.m. by mail train; dis­ gational mission hall, a Wesleyan chapel in Blaby road and patched at ro.45 a.m. & 6.20 & 8.10 p.m .. 'Yesleyan mission hall in Canal street. The cemetery, ex­ POST, M. O. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity Office, South Wigston . tending over four acres, with a mortuary chapel, is under -Mrs. J ane Adams, receiver. Letters arrive by mail the care of a burial board of nine members; A. H. Burgess, train from Leicester at 6.37 a.m. & 12.58 p.m.; dispatched of Leicester, is clerk to the board. Wigston Conservative at IO.50 a.m. & 6,30 & 8,30 p.m club, in Long street, is a fine building of red brick, contain­ SCHOOLS:- ing a library, reading-room and large lecture hall. The A School Board of 7 members was formed in 1872 for the Working Men's Club and Institute, a large building, is also in united district of Wigston Magna & Glen Parva; James Long street. The South Wigston Working Men's Club and Sharp, clerk to the board; John Kirby, attendance officer Institute is an edifice of red brick with stone dressings, and Board School, Long street, erected in 1881, for 400 children; eontains reading and club rooms, a library and a gymnasium. average attendance, 150 boys & 150 girls; Edwin Arthur There are almshouses for I I poor persons, endowed with Preston, master £I74 yearly, erected in 1781 by lVII's. Elizabeth Clarke, and Board Schools, Bell street, erected in r872, for 280 infants; in 1781 Mrs. Catherine Palmer devised 33 acres of land and a\"erage attendance, 190; Mrs. Isabel Preston, mistress Qne messuage in Leicester for prayers to be said by the resi­ Board Schools, Danton street, South Wigston, erected in dent minister every Wednesday and Friday and on saints' 1886, for 300 boys & girls & 200 infants; average attend­ days. Several charities, producing £90 yearly, are distri­ ance, 350 boys & girls & 230 infants; Henry Barwick, buted in fuel, clothing and bread. The Midland Railway master; Miss Adelaide Caroline Lewin, infants' mistress

Wigston Magna. Chamberlain Vi'm. Tra,eUers' Rest P.ll I Johnson William Alfred, grocer Chambers Mrs. grazier IKeIsey Alfred, beer retailer & shopkpr PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Cheney John, builder Kirby Arthur, shopkeeper Barnley Arthur Nathnl. The Manor 110 I Clark Henry, cowkeepe!' Ladkin Arthur, butcher Beckett Mrs. Brighton house Clark Isaac, shopkeeper Laundon Redfern, saddle & harness ma Brooks John Albert, Tyndale villa Clover Thomas, boot & shoe maker Laundon Samuel, saddle & harness ma Bullman John Cook Cocher William, draper Lee & Glen, hosiery manufacturers Cowcher Edward Coltman Annie (Mrs.), dress maker Loveday William, agent to Midland