. LETf"ESTFlt FOREST l 5-16 { EA.ST AND WEST. j LEICE "TERSHIHE. [KELLY'S
LEICESTER FOREST EAST and WEST, £281; the population in 19II. was 100 ·in Leicester formerly extra-parochial, are now parishes extending Forest East and 41 in Leicester Forest West. 'these from 3! to 6! miles south-west of Leicester, in the two parishes are reputed to be eJtra-parochi:ll for Southern division of the county, Sparkenhoe hundred, ecclesiastical purposes. • Blaby union and Leicester petty sessional division and Letters for Leicester Forest East a-rrive from Lpicester, county court district. Leicester Forest East is I mile via Kirby Muxloe, which is I mile distant & is the from Kirby Muxloe station, and Leicester Forest West nearest money order & telegraph office, at 8 a.ID • • 2~ miles from Desford station, both on the Midland Letters for Leicester Forest West arrive froID railway. In 1885, by Local GOTermp.ent Boa.rd Order, Leicester, via Desford, which is 2~ miles distant & is a detached part of Leicester Forest East was trans- the nearest money order & telegraph office, at 8 a.ID • ferred to Kirby Muxloe. The inhabitants attend the Wall Letter Boxes.-Leicester Forest East, cleared daily churches at Kirby l\1..uxloe, Braunstone and Desford. at 11.30 a.m. & 6.2$ p.m. except sundays; & Blue 001. Thomas and James H. Lilley esq. are the chief Pots, Leicester Forest West, cleared daily at 1I.30 landowners. The Boil is clay; subsoil, mar!' The land 'a.m. &; 6.30 p.m. except sundays is principally in pa.sture. The area of Leicester Forest The children attend the schools at Kirby Muxloe. East is 620 acres; rateable value, £940; the area of Thllrlaston &> Braunstone Leicester Forest West is 309 acres; rateable "alue, Four carriers pass through daily for Leicester LEICESTER, FOREST EAST. COMMERCIAL. I LEICESTER FOREST WE'::;'!'. Clamp George, farm. bailiff to R. (Postal address, Desford, Leicester.) (Postal address, Kirby Muxloe, Leicester.) Wathes & Son Ee.azley Maurice, Yew Tree cottage ICox John Thomas, farmer &> a,ssistant COMMERCIAL PRIVATE RESIDENTS. oveirsoor, Kingstand faTm I Archer Arthur, farmer, Ash!::y shrubs
Cook Archibald, Greendale Fisher Harold, Red Cow P.H I' Bakei' John, grazier Dawson Thomas Calvert, 'rhe Grange Hamhl!l1on William Henry, farmer Johnson WaIt.er, farmer Harrison Hsrbert, Hinckley road Harrison Samuel & Soris,wheelwrightsl Lord William, farmer Kidger GeOl'ge Fredcrick jHill William, farmer, Grange farm I Lynes Jumps, Bull's Head P.H Ragg Henry James IPlant Thomas, farmer, Forest farm I Meore "\Villiam, farmer Shaw John R{)bert. Roseneath Tyler Thomas, farmer I Smith Hannah (Mrs.), farmer, Muunt . Shepn WaIter, Hinckley road Wathes Richard & Son, farmers, Pool I Pleasant Winfrey Frank Cooper J.P. The Links House farm Walker Edmund, farmer LEICEiSTER FRITH (or Sherman's Grounds), ILeicester, and is the property of the trustees of the formerly extra-parochial, is now a civil parish, in the late Thomas Swift Taylor esq. D.L., J.P. The area is Mid division of the county, hundred of West Goscote, 246 acres; rateable value, £696; populution in 19II, 50. union of Barrow, 2 miles west-north-west from LEIRE is a small parish and village, 4 miles north- residence and 138 acres of glebe, in the gift of Lord "West from Lutterworth, 2t north by road from Dlles Lucas, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Alfred Man thorpe station and 2~ miles south by l'oad and I~ b: waring. There 1s a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1863. the fields from Broughton Astley station, both on th, Sums amounting to about £30 are paid annually to the Leicester and Rugby section of the MIdland railway. poor for calico and nannel, from charities left by Messrs. and about 2 miles south-east from Ashby Magna sta· Cart. Walker and others. The trustees of the 7th and tion on the Great Central railway, in the Southerr last Earl Cowper K.G. (d. 1905) 'are lords of the manor. 'division of the county, hundred .of Guthlaxton, Lutter The principal landowners are the Misses Phillipps, Mrs. worth petty· sessional division, union and county court Chandler, Mrs. Martin, Hugh Goodacre and Ernest district, rural deanery of Guthlaxton (second portion) Collins esqrs. and the rector. The soil is sand and archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough g-ravel; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, The church of St. Peter is a building of stone in thf barley, oats .and roots. The acreage is 1,lOn assessable Early English and Decorated styles, consisting- of chan value, £1.630; the population in 19II was 279 in the eel, nave of thre~ bays, north aisle, south porch anc civil and 288 in the ecclesiastical parish. an embattled western tower with octagonal spire, COIl Parish Clerk, William Pawley. taining a clock and 3 bells, dated 1654, 1675 and 1755 In 1897, by Local Government .Board Order, a de- the font was presented by the Countess Beauchamp 'ached portion of this parish was annexed to !.shby the stained east window is a memorial to the firs' Parva and a detached portion of Kimcote annexed to wife of the Rev. H. K. Richardson M.A.: there is als(' this pari5h. . a small stained window in the chancel to the Hon Post Office.~Mrs. Sarah A. Robinson, sub-postmistress. Anne (Otway-Cave), 3rd daughter of the late Barones!' Letters arrive from Lutterworth at 7.40 a.m. & 11.55 Braye and second wife of the Rev. Henry Kemr p.m. ; dispat\