662 KETTON. . [KELLY'S KETTON RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. Sanitary Inspector, Herbert Hilliam, St. Leonard's street, "The district comprises the Rutland parishes in Stamford Stamford union, viz. :~asterton (Great), Ca..terton (Little), Clips­ ham, , Ketton, Pickworth, Ryhall, TinweIl & Public Elementary School (mixed), enlarged in 1902, for Tixover. The area is 17,735 acres; rateable value 134 boys & girls & 74 infants; average attendance, (1911), £26,354; the population in 1911 was 2,940. 115 boys & girls & 45 infants; the school is endowed The Council meets at the Workhouse, Stamford, every with £1,000 £2t per Cent. Consols, left by Sophia lo.lizabeth alternate mono at 12 noon. Edwards in 1791; Thomas Wellsted, master; Mrs. T. Chalrman, Charles Tyler, Ketton, Stamford Wellsted, infants' mistress Railway Station, Fred. H. Stanley, station master k goods agt Officials. Police Station, Charles Watson, constable Clerk, Richard l\1ills English, 40 Broad st.reet, Stamiord CaITiers who pass through:­ Treasurer, .Meaburn Staniland Young, Barclay & Company Bates, from Barrowden to Stamford, mono & iri Limited, Stamford Chambers, from Liddington to Stamford, mono & fri Medical Oflicer of Health, Thomas Porter Greenwood Gilbert, from Uppingham to Stamford, mono & fri L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng. 36 St. Mary's street, Stamford Thorpe, from North Luffenham to Stamford, fri PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Barwell Charles, beer retailer Molesworth 'l'homas Casswell (exors. of), Best Capt. Thos. Geo. J.P. The Grange Bedford Alfred, farm baililI to Thomas farme~s Betts 1\lr8 Casswell Molesworth esq N aylor Charles, farmer, Cuckoo farm Buck;orth )liss Berridge Edward, ~a!

LANGHAM is a large parish and village, on the Oak- being defrayed by public sub.cript.ion; the reading room ham and Melton Mowbray road and the Leicestershire is provided with the leading daily and weekly papers and border, 2 rniles north-west from Oakham station on the there is a small library chiefly given by the Earl of Gains­ Midland railway and 8 south-west from Melton Mmybray, horough. The charities include a house and 16 acres of in the Oakham Soke hundred, Oakham union and county land at Baynton, Northamptonshire, j1urchased in 1682 court district, rural deanery of HutIand (first portion), with £111 58. left by various donors, and the rent of which, archdeaconry of Oakham and dioce,e of Peterborough. about £30 yearly, after deducting a small sum for repairs, 'l'he church of SS. Peter and Paul, erected about 1235, is distributed among the poor; Thoma.s Sewell and Mary is an editicn of stone in the Norman, Early English and Harris left £30, which was used to inclose the land men­ Early IJecorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south tioned above; Elizabeth Chamberlain, in 1685, left £50 lOs. transept, aisles, south porch and a western tower with appropriated to the purchase of 6 acres of land at Billesdon; elegant spire, containing a clock and 6 bells: both nave and Frands Clark left £10 yearly, payable by the Tallow And aislps are embattled: t.he chancel retains a semi- Chandlers' Company in , the proceeds to be given to circular headed piscina, and on the north side an aumbry : Ithe poor. Simon de Langham, cardinal and archbishop of the oak reredos and organ were presented in 1895 by Canterbury 1366-8, is said to have been born here in 1310, the late Lieut.-Col. Sir H. C. Jervoise bart. and the altar and was sometime abbot of Westminster, and from 1362 to table was given in the same year by Mr. and Mrs. Hamlyn, 1366 bishop of Ely; his elevation to the Cardinalate, however, of Clovelly, and the stained ea.st window in 1907 by Mrs. was highly displeasing to Edward Ill. who thereupon seized Hamlyn: in the transept is a memorial window to Henry the temporalities of the see, and the archbishop, retiring John Rudkin, d. 16 March, 1866, erected by Augusta, his to the papal court at Avignon, died abroad 22 July, 1376, widow: the church was thoroughly restored in 1876 at a but his remains were conveyed to and interred cost of £3,198, and reopened 2nd May, 1878, when a new in Westminster Abbey, to which he had been a munifi­ clock was given by the vicar: in 1892 a warming apparatus cent benefactor. The kennels of the Cottesmore Foxhounds wa.s fixed at the cost of Lieut.-Col. Sir H. C. Jervoise 4th are in this parish: Major-Gen. J. F. Brocklehurst C.B., bart. (d. 19(8), at whose expense the flooring was relaid c.v.o. is master. Here is a brewery, erected in 1858 and in 1897 and the churchyard renovated in 1898-99: the belonging to Mr. George Ruddle. The Earl of Gainsborough, north trallSept was removed in the last century: there are who is lord of the manor, and Major-Gen. John :Fielden 480 sittings. The register dates from the year 1559. The Brocklehurst C.B., c.v.o. of Ranksborough, are the chief living is a chapelry, annexed, together with those of Brooke landowners. The soil is red light land, but varies in different and Egleton, to the vicarage of Oakham, in the gift of Alan parts of the parish. The chief crops are barley, oats, beans, G. Finch esq. and held since 1904 by the Rev. James Hamil- pea.s and roots, and some land in pasture. The area is ton Charles M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, rural dean 2,920 acres; rateable value, £7,926; the population in 1901 of Rutland (first portion) and surrogate, who resides at was 634. ()akham; the Rev. Thoma.s Henry Wood ){'A. ha.s been resident curate in charge since 1910. There is a Baptist Sexton, Harry ShillakeI·. chapel, erected in 1854, with 200 sittings, and an attached Ranksborough Hill, It miles north-west, was the site cemetery, and there is also a Primitive Methodist chapel. of a Ruman station, and is nOW celebrated as a good fox The Langham Institute wa.s established in 1884, and in cover. 1890 a new and larger reading room was added, the <;;.ost