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:Billson John, Chitterman hills brig~ (postal address, Woodhouse Forryan John, farmer, Poultney farm I.illingston Capt. William George, Ul- Eaves, ) Hunt Joseph Henry, farmer verscroft house :Billston George, farm bailiff to S.Gee Matts John Shipley, farmer, Priory fm Lillingston-Johnson Mrs. ho esq. Hammercliff Walton Richard, farmer, Grange farm Berrington Samuel, farmer, Broom- Crooks Joseph, farmer Whikroft Joseph, farmer UPTON is a small village and township in the parish of of Appleby school, Miss Augusta Radford and M. T. Sibson, 2 miles south-west from Shenton station on the Nixon esq. The soil is very various; subsoil, mixed. The Midland andt Londiln and North We.stem railways, 4 I chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is south-west from Market Bosworth and 5 north-east from • 1,326 acres; rateable value, £I,68o; the population in Ather&tone., in the Western division of the county, Spark- 1891 was 105. enhoe hundred, petty sessional division, union and county Wall Letter Box cleared 11.t 4·35 p.m. Letters through court district of Market Bosworth. The inhabitants at- Nuneaton arrive at 9 a.m. The nearest money order tend Sibson church. The principal landowners are \'lffices are at Market :Bosworth & Nuneat-on & telegraph FTederick Eustace Arbuthnott Wollaston esq. J.P., D.L. office at Market Bosworth, 4 miles distant of Shenton Hall, who is lord of the manor, the governors The children of this place attend the school at Sibson Nixon Michael Thomas, Upton park Hollier Jas. Hanson, farmer, Vygne ho Taylor John, farmer Clarke Charles Henry, farmer Nixon Michael Thos.frmr. & landownr Upton Arthur, farmer, Manor house Cookson Edwin, farmer WALTHAM·ON·THE-WOLDS is a. town and yearly value [330, derived from 422 acres of glebe, parish on the road from to , with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Rut- 4 miles north from Saxby station on the and land K.G., G.C.B. and held since 1893 by the Rev. Peterborough and Nottingham and Kettering branch of Jeremiah Pledger S~abrook B.A., LL.B., LL.M. of St. the Midland railway and the same distance east from John's College, Cambridge, and also vicar of . station on the Newark and Market Harborough The Wes•leyan chapel here was built in 1843. In 1771 branch of the Great Northern and London and North Mr. George Noble gave upwards of five acres of land in Western j~Jint railways, 5 miles north-eas·t from Melton Wym\lndham, now producing £5 ros. a year, for in­ !M:owbray and u8 from London by rail, in the Eastern structing poor children of this parish. There are other division of the county, Framland hundred, Melton Mow- I charities, amounting to £8I6, invested in the £2! per bray petty ·Sessional division, union and county court Cent. Consols, the interest of which is applied as fol­ district, rural deanery of Framland (second portian ), lows : -£II gs. I d. for the support of the Day schools ; archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. [1 2s. 6d. to the Sunday school; [2 2s. for choir fund; The Great Northern branch, from Scalford to this place, £5 138'. 6d. in a distribution of bread; clothing club, is used for goods traffic only, excepting fair days (the £3 15s.; and Igs. 2d. distributed! to the poor on Christ­ I8th and 19th Sept.) and during the Oroxton Park race mas day. A sum of £I5, the rental of grilund, called meetings, when there is a frequer• service of passenger ":Bell Close," is for the ringing of a bell, morning and trains. The church of St. Mary Magdalene is a cruciform evening, and also for keeping the church clock and building of stone, mostly in the Decorated style, with church fences in repair. A large fair is held here on the portions of earlier date, and: consists of chancel, cleres- 18th and rgth Sept. for cattle and horses, which is well toried nave of five 'bayi, aisles, transepts, south porch attended : but the market has long been discontinued•. and a central tower with pinnacles and a lafty spire, The Duke of Rutland K.G., G.C.B., P.C. is lord of the and containing a clock and 6- beUs, one dated 1726, three manor and the principal landowner. The soil is partly 1744 and one I879, .the·latter being the gift of Canon clay and partly red marl; subsoil, iranstone. The land is Henry Twells M. A. rector 1871-90: the chancel retains a j chiefly used for grazing, the crops are wheat, barley, piscina and triple sedilia, and there is another piscina in oats and roots. The area is 2,796 acres; rateable value, the south transept: the organ was presented by the Rev. [3,347; the population in 1891 was 547· Gabriel Edward Gillett, rector from 183I, and members I Parish Clerk William Clark. . of hi& family : the fine reredos, representing " The Last 1 ' • ) Supper," was erected to his memory: the east wind.)W is Post, M. 0. & T. 0., ~- M. 0., Express Delivery, I a~el stained and there are memorial windows to the families Post, S. B. & Annmty & Insurance East Goscote, Barrow-upon-Soar union, Loughborough wife; and to Mrs. Payne Edmunds, of Peterborough, petty sessional division and! county court districb, rural mather of the late rector's wife : the church was restored deanery of East Akeley, archdeaconry of Leicester and in 1877 and again in 1888 at a cost of £1,050, and affords diocese of Peterborough. Walton brook, a feeder of 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1566. the river Soar, rises in this parish. The church of St. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £380, Mary is an edifice of brick with stone dressings in the derived from 289 acres of glebe, with residence, in the Gothic style of the 13th century, consisting of chancel, gift of George Bertie Bird esq. and held since 1894 by Dave and a western tower containing 5 bells, dated 1656, the Rev. Montague Bertie Bird H.A. of Queen's College, x8o7, 1853 and 18g6, and a clock, presentt'd by Miss :M:ary Oxford: the late Yice-Admiral Hon. Augustus Oharles