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LEICESTER FOREST EAST and WEST, £281; the population in 19II. was 100 ·in formerly extra-parochial, are now parishes extending Forest East and 41 in 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. • union and Leicester petty sessional division and Letters for a-rrive from Lpicester, county court district. Leicester Forest East is I mile via , which is I mile distant & is the from Kirby Muxloe station, and nearest money order & telegraph office, at 8 a.ID • • 2~ miles from 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, 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 , 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\ses, 'fhe Glebe Fenemore John, carrier cultural building'!! &; estatoe WOiJ.'k a Evatt Wa1t&r, Holmlcigh Freeston Frederick, wheelwright spBci.ality; estiJ1"ates g-iv<'n Hancock Edward Gnlden George Percy, caUle dealer Rogers WaIter G'Xlfg-6 M,B., B.S. Hancock John Golden Wm. Mason, poultry faJ'l'Ylel" Lond. physician & !'urgeon Ja.rvis Thomas, Mienan Grazier Frederick, White Horse P.H Stevens Tom, but.cher Laundon John H. R. The Cottage Hodfm William, grazier Thurman Sidnpy John, fanrer Manwaring Rev. Alfd. (rector),Rectry Jarvis Henry Creswick, farmm & Towers William Walte'", baker Martin GeOTge, The Barn thra~liing machine owner (steam), Wormh·ight.on Eli7 abeth(l\frs ),shpkpr Airedale Wormleighton Joshua, builder COMMERCIAL. Johnson SI. Artlh. frmr. The Poplar!; Wyant Arthur Murrjs, farmer Bartram Albert Edward, poultry Monk William, Queen's Arms P.ll. & fa.rmer, The Orchard farmer LITTLETHORPE, see Cosby. LOCXINGTQN is a township and parish, r! miles I bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western south-east from Castle D,'nington station on the Derby tower with pinnacles, containing 6 bells, the sixth and Trent branch of the Midland railway and 2! north- having been added and the five. former rehung and west from Kegworth station on the main line of the restored at the expense of the late Nathaniel C. CurzoD ti3IDe railway and 7! north-west from Loughborough, t'sq. of Lockington Hall; four of the five earlier bells in the Mid division of the county, West Goscote date from 1692 to 1832; the tt'nor, an ancient undated hundred. Shardlow union, Loughborough petty ses- hell, has the inscription :-" Vox Divi Ihu Xpi Vox sional division and county court district, rural deanery Exultacionis;" the curfew is still rung during the of East Akeley, archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese winter months at 8 p.m.: there is a chapel at the east of feterb'lrongh. The church of St. Nicholas is ,an end of the !outh aisle: the clerestory windows and roof. ancient edifice of stone in the Early English and the latter of oak, panelled and bossed, the carved oak Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four chancel screen and the screen of the chapel in the