62() 8WANNI~UTON. LEICESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S Bath Alfred Henry, grazier, New I Hart wm.QUeen'SHeadP.H.Thornbro'IRobinson Frances (Mrs.), beer retailr. Swanning ton (postal address, Whit-1Heath Joseph Ernest, schoolmaster & 'l'he Fountain inn wICk, Leicester) organist & choir master Robinson John Alfred, builder & con- Billings William, draper Holloway Geo. Henry, assistant over- tr,/-ctor
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SWEPSTONE is a parish and "mall village, on a ltichard Archibald Dyott esq. of Freeford Hall, Lichfield. small brook called the Mease and on the borders of and Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney K.C.B. of Measham Warwickshire, 2 miles east from Snarestone station and Hall. The soil is good; subsoil, clay, gravel and loam. 2 west from Heather station, both on ·the Midland and The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. London and North Western joint r.j]way, 5 south from The area is 2,317 acres; rateable value, £3,746; the Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch, 10 north from Atherstone and 5~ population in 19II was 570. north-north-west from Market Bosworth, in the Western Sexton, Robert Clarke BodCt" division of the county, West Goacote hundred, AShby de-Ia-Zouch petty sessional diVIsion, union and county Post Office, Swepstone.-Miss Clara Maria Taylor, sub court district, rural deanery of West Akeley, archdea postmistress. Letters are received through Ashby-de conry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. The la-Zouch office &; arrive at 7.25 a.m. & for callers only church of St. Peter is an .ancient building of stone in at 5.45 p.m.; dispatched at 5-40 p.m. on week days the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, c1ere· only. ~ewton Bnrgoland, I! miles distant, is the .toried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and an nearest money order & telegraph office embattled western tower with four pinnacles, containing Carrier.-George Bonser, to Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch, sat 4 bells and a clock, given by parishioners in 1897 at a cost of nearly £100: the east window is stained: in NEWTON BTJRGOLAND is a hamlet in the parish of 1869 the chancel was rebuilt, and in 1870-4 the nave Swepstone, 1 mile south-east. Here is a Congrega and aisles were restored and a porch added at a cost tional chapel, erected in 1807, with ISO sittings, and of £,,100: in 1887 a new carved oak pulpit and choir also Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. Earl stalls were given by the parishioners, and in 1893 a Howe G.C.V.O. is lord of the manor, and Lord Belper • tained window was erected by Mrs. Hodgson, in memory P.C. is the principal landowner . of her husband, a former rector: in the sonth aisle are Post, M. O. & T. Office, Newton Burgoland.-John Hy. two altar tombs with .recumbent effigies, one of which Ison, sub-postmaster. Letters received through Ahsby represents a member of the Humphreys family, of de-Ia-Zouch !lI'dve at 8.5 a.m. & for callers only at Swepstone Hall. and has the date 159': there are 500 4.45 p.m.; no sunday delivery; box cleared ...-eek days- sittings. The register dates from the year 1515. 'l'he 5.25 p.m . living is a rectory, with thechapelry of Snarestone Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1873, for attached, net yearly value £420, including 107 acres of 100 children; average attendance, 66; Miss Lily Free glebe, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. Conran, of man, mistress Denbigh, and held since 190' by the Rev. Henry Charles Wise Townend B.A. of Durham University, who resides st Snarestone. There are several charities, the principal NEWTON NETHERCOTE is a hamlet to Swepstone. of which arises from land left in 1692 by Miss Clare, who 1 mile south-east, containing 288 acres. Earl HowEt directed