DIRECTORY.] 489 THURMASTON. [LEICESTER.] PosT OFPICE,-Ed!;ar Potter, receiver. Letters arrive CARRIERS:- from Leicester at 8.5 a. m.; dispatched at 6.10 p.m. week Samuel Eyrl, to Leicester, wednesday & saturday ; to days only. The nearest money order office is at Rearsby Melton Mowbray, tuesday; to Loughborough, thursday Free School, W. W. Grundy, master; Miss Grundy, William Boulter, to Leicester, wednesday & saturday; to mistress I..oughborough, tbursday PRIVATE RESIDE~TS. Bexton Joseph, Blue Lion Potter Edgar, tailor, draper, baker, Arnell Mrs Boulter William, carrier provision dealer, & post office Barsby Mrs Cart Mary (Mrs.), butcher Proudman John, farmer Beeson Henry Cliff Barton, shopkeeper Proud man Thomas, Blue Boar Hollingworth John Eyrl Samuel, Star, & carrier Richards William, farmer :Marriott Rev. William Henry, M.A. Greaves George, miller Shephardson John, farmer & grazier [vicar] Hitherley Thomas, wheelwright Stenson John, coal merchant; & at Noble F-S-M- Houghton Natbaniel, butcher Rearsby coMMERCIAL. Lee John, blacksmith Stock Henry, farmer Arnell Thomas, farmer Meadows William, grazier Ton~ Morris, farmer, Grange farm Baxter Francis, veterinary surgeon Needham John, carpenter Underwood William, boot maker .Beeson William, maltster & grazier Nicholson Alfred, farmer White Thomas Henry, farmer Bexton Joseph, brieklayer Pilkington Thomail, brick maker Woolerton Royal, carpenter THURCASTON is a township, parish, and pleasant Fuller, B. D., formerly fellow and tutor of that college. A village, 4~ miles north-by-west from Leicester, and 107 Free school was established here in 1715 by the Rev. Richard from London, in the Northern division of the county, West Hill i school buildings are now in course of erection. The Goscote hundred, union of Barrow-upon-Soar, county Earl of Lanes borough is lord of the manor. The principal court district of Leicester, rural deanery of Akeley, arch­ landowners al'e Sir Archdale Palmer, bart., and the Rev. deaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Peterborough. The J. Fuller. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay. The chit:c church of All Saints, in the Early English style, consists of crops are wheat, barley, oats, &e. The area is 1,116 acres; chancel, nave, and has a tower and :3 bells ; it contains a rateable value, £2,075; the population in 1871 was 1,421 in mural tablet with in!lcription, erected in 1843, to Hugh the parish, and 249 in the township. Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, Protestant martyr 1555, Parish Clerk, Thomas Lee. who was born in this parish in 1470. The register dates -- from the 16th century. The living is a rectory, with that Letters by foot post from Loughborough through Rothley, -of Anstey annexed, joint yearly value £800, in the gift of arrive at 9.30 a.m. & leave at 4 p.m. The nearest money Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and held by the Rev. John order office is at Mountsorrel PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Astill John, farmer Lygo John, blacksmith Fuller Rev. John, B.n. [rector] Dexter William, beer retailer Reynolds John, farmer Kirkman Mrs Graves Ann (Mrs.), William IV Reynolds William, butcher COMMERCIAL. Graves Henry, carpenter Smith George, joiner Astill Edwin, farmer Hopkinson Leonard, miller & farmer Weston William, farmer THURLASTON is a township, parish, and pleasant Bruxner, 1\f.A., J.P., is lord of the manor of Thurlastun, village, n miles south-west from Leicester, 3 north-west and Major W orswick, of that of N ormanton Turville. The from N arborough station, and 101 from London, in the principal landowners are the Rev. George Edward Bruxner, Southern division of the county, Sparkenhoe hundred, union M .A., Major W orswick, and Capt. Whitby. The soil is clay of Blaby, county court district of Leicester, rural deanery and marl; subsoil, strong clay. The chief crop!! are wheat, of Guthlaxton, archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of barley, but a large portion is pasture land. The acreage Peterborough. The church of All Saints is an old building, is 2,980; rateable value, £5,006; in 1871 the population with a square tower anu 3 bells, and contains some monu­ was 536. ments belonging to the Turville and Grundy families : in NoRMANTON TuRVILLE is a township, 6 miles north­ 1850 it was thoroughly restored : there is a handsome east from Hinckley, with 29 inhabitants in 1871. stained chancel window. The earliest date of register is Parish Clerk, John Payne. 1588. The living is a rectory, yearly value £400, with 2-28 acres of glebe, and handsome residence, in the gift of and held by the Rev. George Edward Bruxner, M.A., J.P., PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. Rebecca Ladkin, receiver. Letters of Christ Church, Oxford. Here is a National school, are recehed through the Hinckley office, arrive at 8.30 built under a Parliamentary grant, for lOO children, also an a.m.; dispatched at 5.5 p.m. The nearest money order Infant school. There is a chapel for General Baptists. & telegraph office is at Earl Shilton Smart's charity, amounting to £8 15s., yearly, is distributed ScHOOLs :- in fuel. The inhabitants are principally employed in frame- National, Mrs. Rhoda Warren, mistress work knitting. Normanton Hall is a fine mansion, the Infant, Mrs. Ann Turner, mistress seat of Major Richard vYorsley Worswick, J.l'., beauti- CARRIERS TO LEICESTER.-Jonathan Spence & Thomas fully situated in a fine park. The Rev. George Edward Corbett, wednesday & saturday PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Mudford Joseph, farmer Bruxner Rev. George Ed ward, M.A ., Armstrong J ames, farmer N eale William, farmer, New Hall park .J .P. Rectory Clay Henry, wheelwright Payne John, mason Colley Mr En derby Co-operative Society Lim. Richardson Wm. saddler & harness m a Fox The Misses (branch of) (William Riley, manager) Riley John, blacksmith & beer retailer Marshall Rev. James, B.A. [curate] FarmerJoseph, shopkeeper Spence Jonathan, Elephant~ Castle Murlford Joseph Fox Mary & Dorothy (Misses), farmers inn, & carrier Withers Thomas Knight J ames, frame-work knitter Taylor Elizabeth & Sons,builders&frmrs Worswick Major Richard Worsley, ;r .P. Ladkin Jonathan, farmer Taylor Michael,Dog~Guninn,&butchr Normanton Hall Ladkin Rebecca (Mrs.), shopkeeper Terry Obadiah, tailor & shopkeeper "THURMASTON is a large village and ecclesiastical body or which was rebuilt in 1848. The register dates from parish, formed in 1841, and comprises the townships of the year 1719. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, NoRTH THURMASTON in Barkby parish, and SouTH with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough, THURMASTON in Belgrave parish, 3 miles north-north-east and held by the Rev. Isaac George Packer, M.A., of War­ from Leicester, and a mile south-west from Syston station, ceeter College, Oxford. The National school was built in in the Northern division of the county, East Goscote bun- 1844, on land given by Thomas Alien, esq., who subscribes dred, Barrow-upon-Soar union, Leicester county court £10 annually towards its support. The village is well district, rural deanerv of Goscote, archdeaconry of Leices- lighted with gas, supplied from Syston. The Wesleyans ter, and diocese of VPeterborough, on the east bank of and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel in the village. the navigable river Soar, also called the Leicester canal, Most of the inhabitants are frame-work knitters. William and on the road from Leicester to Melton Mowbray. The Ann Pocbin, and Thomas Alien, esqrs., who are joint lords church of St. Michael in the Early English style, consists of the manor, Francis Page) esq., Rev. ~ymonds, Wil· of chancel, nave, and aisles, with a tower and 5 bells, the Ham Day, esq., J onathan Hodgson, esq., and Co.oper 1\Ioore, 32 .