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*Harvey John, farmer, Top farm, Vickers &; Son, farmers Allsop Annie (Mrs.), Packe Arms P.H Bm·ton Wolds Voce William, grazier &; postmaster Bennett Henry &; James, graziers Hawes WaIter, head gamekeeper to Wye Eliza (Mrs.), grocer &; china &; Clarke Arthur Edward, farmer Lord Ernest St. Maur glass dealer Darling Thos. Geo. market gardener James John, farmer (resides Wymes­ COTES. Eggleston Wm. farmer,Holly Tree fm wold) Abell Brothers, blacksmiths Hall John, farmer, Gorse farm Jameson George, head gardener to Brickwood William, farmeT Hall Thomas, farmer Lord Ernest St. Maur HaIlam William, market gardener Jackson Thomas, farmer, hills Marsh William Henry, farmer, Bur- Lacey George, farmer Morgan Henry James, surveyor & in- ton Bandalls ~ills John Edward, farmer spector to Rural Mills Mary (Mrs.), grazier,Cliff house District Council Musson Samuel, farmer HOTON. Pepper J ames, market gardener Redmile Frederick, farmer Adcock William James Sim John &; Son, farmers, Hoton hills Schofield Handel, assistant overseer Brotherton Arthur Tyler, Rose cot Thornton Herbert, grazier & clerk to Parish Council Robinson Francis, Fairholme Tomlinson Samuel, boot maker Seale Robert, farmer WetenhaIl Rev. Cecil Stanley B.A. Walker Edward Haines. grazier &, Stenson Samuel, Greyhound P.H (vicar), Vicarage assistant overseer, & sub-postmastr 'l'omlinson Robert, shopl,eeper W oatton Albert, Falcon house Watkin William & Edward, millers Towle Samuel, farmer, Manor farm COMMERCIAL. (wind) &; farmers Tuckwood Thomas, farmer Abell Bros.blacksmiths &;wheelwrghts PRIMETHORPE, see Broughton Astley. is a township, pleasant village in 1873, left £50, the interest to purchase coal at and parish, 7 miles north-north-east from , 2 Christmas for poor widows; William Adcock, in 1879. east-by-north from station. on the main line of beqneathed £5°0, the interest of which is yearly dis­ the Midland railway, in the Eastern division of the tributed to the poor in coal. Queniborough Hall, a county. hundred of Ea.st Goscote, Barrow-upon-Soar mansion of brick a.t the s·outh-east end of the village, i8 union, Leicester petty sessional division and county occupied by Herbert Wade Reynolds esq. The principal court district, rura.l deanery of Goscote (second portion), landowners are Col. Blake, William Newton esq. Henry archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. Harrison Parr esq. of Harewood, Ross, Herefordshire, and '.rhe church of St. Mary is a building of stone in the John Holyoake and Frank Winterl!on esqrs. The soil is Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south partly sand and partly clay; subsQil, gravel and clay. porch and a west8lI'n tower with lofty spire containing Much land has been laid down for grazing and a good 4 bells, dated 1619. 1697 and 1&58: there is a brass to quantity of Stilton cheese is annually produced. The Margaret Bury, ob. 1633: the church wa·s restored and chief crops are oats, barley and turnips. The area ii reseated by voluntary contributions in 1858; the spirtl 2,170 acres of land and 12 of water; rateable value, and tower were restored in 1883, and the interior re- £5.183; the population in 1901 was 532. novated in 1885; and a nl"W clock, with two dia.ls, was Parish Clerk, Alfred William Walton. provided in 1893: the church was again restored in Post Office.-Fred Mansfield, sub-postmaster. Letters 19°3-4, at a cost of about £150, Rind affords 400 sittings. throngh Leicester arrive at 8 a.m. &; 5.40 p.m.; dis- The re~ister dates from the year 15 61. The living is a patched at 9-45 a.m. & 6'45 p.m.; no delivery on discharged vicarage, net yearly value £ 165, with ':J sunday. Syston, 2 miles distant, is the nearest m(}ney acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Peache trustees, and held .since 1882 by the Rev. Thomas Henry order &, telegraph office Austin, of St. Bees. There is a Baptist chapel, founded Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1847, for 106 in 1821, with 100 sittings and a Primitive Methodist children; average attendance, 70; Miss ISusan Green, chapel. Benjamin Adcock, in 1872, left £100, the in- mistres,s terest for the bene.fit of the church school; AlIen Bent, Carrier to Leicester.-J. H. BaHard, wed. &, sat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bednall Joseph Pailthorpe, farmer N eale Amos, farmer Austin Rev. Thomas Henry, Vicarage Biggs Charles 'Vm. farmer & grazier Newton Wm. farmer, Coppice farm Bailey Mrs. The Oaks Bishop Samuel, farmer Norman Mary (Mrs.),frmr.Croxton I'd Barron Alfred Edmund, MeIton road Black Stephen, farmer Pedley William, j obbing ~ardener Cawdell Thomas, The Old hall Black William, farmer Powell EIlen (Mrs. ),frmr.Barrow Cliff Grieve Michael, Belgrave house Bursnell Thomas, farmer Reading Room (S. Willcox esq. pres)

Harding Henry Rowland, The Firs Crawford Geo. farmr.The Manor frIll Sarson Davd.blacksmith & cycle• mnfr' Holmes Mrs. The Laurels, Melton I'd Crawford Thos.frmr.The Cottage frm Sarson Robert James, farmer Mason William, Fernleigh Daffin J ames, farmer Tailby John, Britannia P.H Mogridge Henry John, The Grange Fox Herbert William, tailor &, draper Tyers Louisa (Miss), gro. &, beer ret • Newton William, The Coppice Fox John, laundry Tyers Thomas, farmer Ogden Percy Ernest Greenwood Ann (.Mrs.), shopkeeper Wadsworth William, florist Reynolds Hrbt.Wade, Queniboro' hall Gregory Robt. hosiery manufacturer, Walton David, farmer Tyler Albert, Queniborough lodge New Queniborough Whittle George, carpenter Warren Mrs. The Beeches Hyman William, grazier ""Villiams Chas. Horse &; Groom P.H Willcox Samuel, Holly lodge Mansfield Fred, carpenter &, shopkpr. Winterton Frank, farmer, Queniboro" COMMERCIAL. Post office Lodge farm Ballard Joseph Hy. farmer &; carrier Mansfield Stafford, butcher '. QUORN (formerly called Quorndon) is a township and tower containing a clock and 8 bells, five cast in 1773, civil parish formed out of Barrow-an-Soar in 1868, on one in 1777 and two in 1886: the chan{)el wind·ows are the west side of the navigable river Soar, and on the stained, the ea&t window being a memorial to Charlotte road from Leicester to Loughborough, with a station on Elizabeth, O'Illy daughter of Edward Warner esq. of the Great Central railway, and I mile south-west from Quorn Hall, and another, erected by subscription, is a Barrow-an-Soar station on the main line of the Midland memorial to the Rev. Robert Stammers M.A. 56 Jears railway, 2~ miles south-east from Loughborough, 8~ rector of the parish (1832-88); there are also stained north from Leicester and 106~ from London, in the Mid windows in the aisles, and the south doorway retains a division of the oounty, West Goscote hundred, Lough­ good K orman arch: in the Farnham chapel, founded by borough petty sessional division and county court dis­ John Falrnham in 1392, is a beautifully-scnlptured monu­ trict, Barrow-on-Soar union, rural deanery of East ment, erected by Sarah (Farnham). late Countess of Akeley, archdeaconry of Leioester and diocese of Peter­ Denbigh, 1817; one to Thomas Farnham, of Over Hall, borough. d.ated 1501, and Margaret (Kingston) his wife, and

The township was governed by a Loca.l Board from several to other members of the Farnham family:• there 1804, but an Urban District Counoil of nine members has are al'So two large marble-framed brasses with arms been established under the provisions of the "Local and inscriptions as well as a memorial window to Go,rernment Act, 1894" (56 and ~7 Vict. c. 73). The Edward Farnham esq. of Quorndon. d. 1835, and village is lighted with gas by the Quorndon and Mount­ Hal'lriett (Rhuddl') his wife, to their son Edward Basil sorrel Gas, Coke and Coal Company from works in this Farnham esq. of Quorndon, M.P. d. 1879, and their parish, which also supply Barrow-an-Soar. Water is daughter Sarah Ann: in the church is a fine altar­ supplied by the Corporation of Leicester from the Swith­ tomb of alabaster, with recumbent effigies. to John land reservoir. The church of St. Bartholomew is an Farnham, gentleman pensi(}ner to Queen Elizabeth, d. ancient building of granite, chiefly in the Early English 1587, and Dorothy his wife: in 1887 W. E. B. Farn­ style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south or Farn­ ham esq. presented an organ, at a cost of upwards of

• ham chapel, south porch and an embattled western £600, in commemoration of the Jubilee of Her late