28 BEN.bFIEIID. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. (KELLY'S screen with rood loft separates the chancel from the Hall, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The nave: the pulpit and font are of stone and there are soil is clayey ; subsoil, rock and sand. The chief crops several stained windows: the Bible, which cost 8o are hay, barley and wheat, which have largely given guineas, was presented by the patron on the rebuilding plaee to stock raising. The area is 5,664 acre.s; l'ate­ of the church r the organ has been enlarged at a cost of able value, £4,883; the population in 1901 was 392 in £2·3o: the chancel, Oundle, were, under the "Local Government Act, being colored and gilt : return .stalls of Benefield from Oundle. of Our Lord, executed in high relief and alsUpper Benefield. James Pywell, sub-post­ field, is for the repairs of the church: Broade's charity master. Letters arrive from Oundle at 8. IS a. m. ; also provides £8 ss. for educational purposes, The dispatched at 9·35 a.m. & 5 p.m. ; sundays, 10.40 wake is kept on the Sunday after the Assumption of the a.m. Bene.field, 'I mile distant, is the nearest tele­ Blessed Virgin (Aug. 15). The "Wheat Sheaf" inn. graph & money order office now in the LOWER BENEFIELD. Meadows Henry, sub-agent for A. E. Carter M. .A. (Mrs.), farmer & Watts-Russell esq grazier, Benefield grange Carley Mrs Plowright Edgar, brewers' agent Currall Charles, shopkeeper & hawker Griffiths Miss, Berkeley house Plowright Sarah Ann (Mrs.), shpkpr Davis .Alfre-d, farmer Meadows Misses Selby Harry, farmer & grazier, Rec- Dixon Elizabeth (Mrs.) & William. Moore Rev. Canon Edward Marsham torv farm farmers, Langley Hill farm M.A. (rector & rural dean), Rectry Singlehurst SI. B. farmer, Brook frm Hunt William, farmer, Middle farm Spilling Col. John Kinder,Biggin hall Julyan John, farmer Chambers Rowland, farmer & grazier, Knapp Richard, slater & tiler Churchfi.eld farm UPPER BENEFIELD. Os bond Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Chapman Samuel, butcher, grazier & Barratt Emma (Mrs.), baker Parker Charles, wheelwright, coacb rate collector Bosworth Samuel (Mrs.), grazier builder & undertaker Cheney Wm. farmer, Manor farm Bosworth Thomas (Mrs.), grazier Plowright Alfred, grazier D~wson James, farmer, _Lyveden farm Carley Henry A. Wheat Sheaf P.H. & , Pywell Charles, grazier G1lby Samuel, blacksmith grazier I Smith Edward, farmer Maddocks E. A. farmer,Blackthorne lo J Streather John Thos. farmer & mason GREAT BILLING is a parish, a little to the soutlJ d. 1812; and there are various other memorials to of the road from Northampton to Wellingborough, 1 members of this family, dating from rBso to 1868: at mile north lfrom Billing station on the Peterborough the west end is a.n inscribed tablet to the Rev. George branch of tlie London and North Western railway and 4 Buckley Bower M.A. a former rector, d. 26 Dec. 1800: miles north-east from Northampton, in the Mid division the interior of the church was restored, the nave and of the county, hundred of Spelhoe, petty sessional chancel re-seated with open sittings and an organ sup­ division, union and county court district of Northampton, plied in IB67, at a total cost of about £r,ooo, defrayed rural deanery of Haddon (second portion), archdeaconry principally by the lord of the manor and the rector,. of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. A feeder aided by subscriptions: there are 200 sittings. The of the river Nene ·bounds the parish. The· church of register of baptisms and burials dates from the yea:r St. ~ndrew is a building of st-one, in the Early English 1662; marriages, 1664. The living is a recwry, yearly and Decorated style, with some remains of Norman value from 223 acres of glebe £460, with residence, in Wse about 1873, are adorned with incongruous parapets and other orna- by V. D. H. Cary-Elwes esq. ; the Very Rev. Provost mental work, transferred here from the mansion of the Blackman is priest in charge. There is also a small Earls of Thomond at Billing, when that structure was We.sleyan chapel. An almshouse was founded here oy taken down by Lord John Cavendish in 1776: the font John Freeman esq. in the reign of James I. for four is Late Perpendicular: the chancel is separated from the women, each