DIRECTORY. ] . RAGDALE. 777 churchyard. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value' Parish Clerk, Thomas Herbert. £,I06! includin~ 61 acres of glebe, with resi~ence, ill I POST, M. O. & T. 0., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office.­ the gIft of the BIshop of Peterboro.ugh, and hel~ .sI.n~e 1888 I Thomas North, postmaster. Letters are received through by the Rev. ~obert Colquhoun Fal!hfull.III . .A.. of ITIill.tY.o.ol- at 1.30 a.m. & 7 a.m.; dispatched thereto lege, CambrIdge. Here are BaptIst, Wesleyan, PrnllltIve at II.30a• m . & 6.30 p.m. ; dispatched sun. at 1.25 p.m Methodist and Free Methodist chapels. Charities-Hyde's, of . about £28 yearly, is for clothing; the TOWll Lands, or Un- 'VALL LETTER BOxEs.-LeIcester road, cleared at 1I.2 5 known DOllors', produces about £150, and Thomas Rawlins's a.m. & 6.25 p.m. ; sunday, I.20 p.m. Freehold street, about £70; Prior's, of about £6 12S. a year, is given ill bread cleared at 11.15 a.m. & 6.15 p.m.; sunday, LO p.m. on New Year's Day; Kay's. of 3os. yearly, is distributed Lou~hborough road, cleared at 1I.35 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. ; amonl5'lt 30 poor persons attending church on that day; sunday, 1.30 p.m Miss Farnham's, of £15. and Ansted's, of £5 13S. are dis­ tributed in groceries. The inhabitants are chiefiyemployed LOCAL BOARD. ill the manufacture of elastic web. Here are the kennels Offices, ·the Village hall. Board day, 1st tuesday in month. and stables of the celebrated Quorn Hunt, of which Capt. Clerk, George White W'illiam P. ~rarner, Quorn Hall, is master; , Treasurer, E. 'Varner, Pares' Bank, Loughborough Leicester and Loughborough are convenient places for Medical Offic:er of Health, lIerbcrt Skip worth. hunting visitors. Quorn House, the seat of William Ed ward Surveyor & Inspector of Nuisances, Herbert Herrod, Barrow John Basil Farnham esq. M.A., J.P., D.L. is situated to the Collector, James Camm south of the village. Quorn Hall, the seat of Ed ward National School (mixed & infants'), for about 350 children Warner esq. I.P. is on the north-east. The Earl of Lanes­ borough is lord of the manor. The principal landowners average attendance, 75 boys, 75 girls & 200 infants; are William Edward John Basil Farnham esq.; Mrs. Perry­ Charles Adams, master; Isabella Corlett, infants' mist Herrick, of Beaumanor Park, and Edward Warner esq. The CARRIERS TO :- soil is light and sandy; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops LOUGHBOROUGH-Charles Lovitt, daily; William Heaps, are wheat, barley, beans and roots. The area is 1,99° thurs. & sat acres; rateable value, £9,083; the population in 1881 was LEICESTER-Crooks & Son, daily,& York, tues. & fri. re­ 1,816. turninJ' same days

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Cam m James, registrar of marriages, Jacques Emma ~:\Iiss), ladies' school Brown Oliver Stallley, Wood view Barrow-on-Soar union & registrar of Johnson John, beer retailer CadellllIiss births & deaths, Barrow sub-district, Kinch Thomas, Kin~ ~rilliam IV. P.H Cradock John Davys, Qnorn court collector to local board, manager Lucas Thos. watch & clock ma. & jewllr Faithfull Rev. Robert Colquhoun III.A. Quorndon & lHountsorrel Gas Co. & Martin Israel, bricklayer & draper Vicarage msurancc agent Moss John, farmer, Quorn fields Farnham ,\Villiam Edward John Basil Camm In. miller (water), Quorn mill Moyses Rowland, farmer M.A., J.P., D L. Quorn house Chapman Georg:e, farmer North Thomas, grocer, Post office Harris Samuel Chapman Thomas, beer retailer Paget William, shopl{eeper H:lwker Miss Conservative Club (Geo. White, sec) Parker John, bukher & beer retailer Hayward John Alfred Le Mesurier, Cook John, beer retailer & shopkeeper Pepper Thomas, coal dealer Quorn Place Cooke Geor:re, steward to ,V. E. H. Priestley George, lamp & oil dealer Hind Rev. John Henry l\1 • .A. Farnham esq Quorndon & Mountsorrel Gas, Coke & Hole Henry Edward, Quorn lodge Co-operative Stores (John Buxton Wise- Coal Co. (James Camm, manager) Inglesent WiJliam hall, manager Richardson William, butcher Meakin Wilfrid J ohnson Cragg Thomas, saddler Rumsby James, 'White Hart P.H Painter Joseph Cross Charles, farmer Sanders John, saw mills Smith Edwin Cuffling Jas. coal merchant, The Wharf Sault Alfred, 'Vhite Horse commercial Spencer J oseph Dalby Joseph, joiner & shopkeeper inn & posting house Super Miss Darker John, farmer Sharp John. boot maker Tacey J oseph, Verandah cottage Darker Solomon, registrar of births & Simpson William, butcher Thompson Richard deaths, Quorn sub-district Swain William Yalding, medireval & Unitt James Artbur Davis Kate & Son, glaziers general decorator, painter, gilder, Warner Edward J.P. Quorn hall Dexter George, cattle dealer grainer & sign writer; monumental Warner Capt. William P. Quam hall Disney Jame-s, nail maker engraving in the highest style of art Woolerton Spreckley Disney John, shoe maker Sw infield John Wm. boot & shoe maker Wright James Facer Frank, coffee house Thornton William, tailor & drappr Wright Mrs 1<'acer Henry, news agent Unitt James Arthur L.R.C.p.Edin. sur- Wright Philip Fewkes Benjamin, bricklayer geon, see Hards & Unitt GOMMERCIAL. Hack David Smith, boot & shoe maker Village Hall Co. (George White, sec) Backhouse Henry, plumber Hack Hannah Mary (Miss), milliner & Voss George, confectioner Barnett Hannah (Mrs. ),farmr.&beer ret dress maker Waddington Emma (Mrs.), baker Bates George Newport, boot & shoe mu Harris & Unitt., surgeons Ward John, farmer & hay & straw (Ur Bates Thomas, wheelwright Harris Samuel, surgn.see Harris& Unitt Webster Charlotte (Mrs.), baker Bolesworth Jas. farmer, Cheveney ho Heaps William, Three Crowns P.H "",'ebster 'YiIliam, grocer Bradnock Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Holmes George. BuU's Head P.H White George, clerk to local board CalJis Jabez Joseph, grocer & beer retlr Holmes John Thomas, blacksmith Wilkinson Stephen, shopkeeper Camm Joseph, superintendent regis- Horspool Joseph, builder &c Wright & Sons, elastic web manufac­ trar, Barrow union Huskinson Frederick, beer retailer turers, Bridge mill RAGDALE (or WREAKDALE) is a village and parish, bridge, who is also vicar of Frisby-on-the-'Vreake, where he on the banks of a feeder of the Wreake, J2 miles north-east resides. The Duchess Sforza-Cesarini gives £5 annually from Leicester, 6 west from Melton Mowbray, 2 north from to be distributed to the poor of the parish. The old man­ Brooksby station on the and Peterborough branch of sion here, formerly a seat of the Earls Ferrers, is now occu­ the :Midland railway, in the Eastern division of the county, pied by Messrs. W. B. Henton and J. M. Field: in the large East Goscote hundred, Melton Mowbray petty sessional dining-room and over the front door are the arms of the division, union and county court district, rural deanery of family. Ragdale Hall is the residence of the Hon. Alan Goscote second portion, archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese Joseph Pennington. The Duchess Sforza-Cesarini, of Gen­ of Peterborough. The church of All Saints is a building of zano, near Rome, is lady of the manor and sole landowner. stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south The soil is clay; subsnil, clay. The chief crops are pasture, aisle, south porch and a low western tower containing 2 wheat and roots. The area is 1,980 acres; rateable value, bells: in the south aisle is a stained window with the £1,265 ; in 1881 the population was 102. emblazoned shields of several of the Earls Ferrers, who Parish Clerk, George Harnson. formerly had a residence in this parish: the church was LETTER Box cleared at 5-45 a.m restored in 1874, at the cost of the Duchess Sforza-Cesarini, daughter of Robert, Viscount Tamworth: there are 100 Letters through Leicester, via Hoby, arrive at 9 a.m. The sittings. In the churchyard is a fine and well-preserved nearest money order office is at & the nearest stone cross. The register dates from the year 1640. The telegraph office at Brooksby railway station living is a donative, yearly value £40, in the gift of the Free School (mixed', bnilt & maintained at the sole expense Duchess Sforza-Cesarini, and held since 1880 by the Rev. of the Duchess Sforz t-Cesarini, for 40 children; average Hugh Beaumont Jones B.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Carn- attendance, 20; :\Iiss ~Iary Skinner, mistress D. L. N. & R. 50