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DIRECTORY.] NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. CASTOR. ~1 CASTLE ASHBY (noticed in Domesday Book as the late marquess, to Eliza (Elliot), his wife, d. 4 "AsEBI ") is a parish and pleasant village seated on an Dec. 1877· The register dates from the year 1564. The eminence, 8 miles east-by-south from Northampton and living is a rectory, net yearly value £230, including 128 about 7 south from Wellmgborough, in the 1\fid division acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Marquess of the county, hundred of Wymersley, union of Harding- of Northampton, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Innes stone, Northampton petty sessional division and county Bourguine Wane M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge. court district, rural deanery of Preston (first portion), Burgess's charity consists of £IOo in Consols; the in archdeaconry of Northampton and diocese of Peter- terest is for distribution amongst the poor widows in borough. 'l'he Castle Ashby and Earls Barton station the parish. The Castle, the seat of the Marquess of on the Northampton and Peterborough branch of the Northampton, is charmingly seated on a broad gravel London and North Western railway is 1! miles north of terrace overlooldng the valley of the Nene; it was the village and locally in Earls Barton. The church of begun between 1583 and 1589 and completed in 1624; St. Mary Magdalene, to the south of the castle, is an but the screen on the south front was added by Inigo edifice of stone, chiefly in the Decorated and Perpen- Jones about 6o years later; the whole building forms dicular styles, consisting of chancel, with north chapel, a quadrangle with two lofty octangular towers at the clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, north and south north-east and south-west angles respectively; the porches and an embattled western tower containing south front, looking down the noble avenue which leads a clock and 5 bells: the north porch is Late Norman to the deer park, includes a series of extremely rich or Transitional work, with dog-tooth ornament, and has gates in the Italian style; the castle grounds are laid a parvise in which, according to a current tradition, out in a series of terraces, with sunk. gardens at various an old woman lived so late as 1624: the pulpit of oak levels, connected hy flights of steps : attached to the is an elaborate work of the Jacobean period: the chancel mansion are three undulating parks of much natural retains a double piscina with a stone shelf above it, beauty, with a total area of 645 acres; their pleasant and there is a remarkably fine brass to William slopes and irregular undulations, the fine trees and the Ermyn, rector, ob. 14oi, in a cope, the orphreys of beautiful ornamental water form an extremely attractive which are enriched with the figures of numerous saints and diversified scene ; the house is approached by four under canopies: the inscription and four shields, entrances, one of which is reached from the Yardley formerly at each corner of the slab, are lost: the east Hastings side through a grand avenue of trees, nearly window of the north chapel is filled with glass painted 4 miles long, commencing at Yardley Chase and inter by Lady Marian Alford, d. 1888 : on the floor of the secting the deer park: the house contains numerous chapel is a recumbent effigy of Purbeck marble, of a early and other valuable paintings, and the library corn knight in chain armour, cross-legged and wearing a prises several literary treasures. The Marquess of long surcoat, said to represent Sir David de Esseby, Northampton is lord of the manor and owns all the probably slain at the battle of Evesham, 4 Aug. 1265: land with the exception of the glebe. The soil is ·of a there are also several mural tablets to members of the fertile mixed character; subsoil, clay. The chief crops Compton family and others : in the north wall is a I are cereals. The area is about 1,944 acres of land and recumbent figure of Lady. Margaret (Compton), wife of 34 of water; rateable value, £3,084; the population in the Hon. Edward FrederiCk Leveson-Gower M.P. d. 26 rgor was 256. May, 1858, and on the west is a marble figure to Spencer . Joshua Alwyne, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, d. 17 Chadstone 1s. a hamlet three-quarters of a m1le south- Jan. I85r, erected by his son Charles, 3rd Marquess, west, w~ere 1S the rectory; there are also a few who died March 3, 1877• and to whom two memorial labourers cottages. windows were placed in 188o and 188g: the church was Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Frances Fergusson, sub- restored in 1870 under the direction of the late Mr. postmistress. Letters through Northampton arrive at G. E. Street R.A. at a cost of £4,710, chiefly defrayed 6. 30 a.m. & 1.55 p.m.; sundays, 6.30 a.m.; dispatched br Charles, 3rd Marquess of Northampton and the late II.3o a.m. & 5-45 p.m.; sundays, 5·45 p.m Rt. Rev. Lord Alwyne Compton D.D. Bishop of Ely, and Wall Letter Box, Chadstone, cleared at 12.20 & 5-55 rector here 1852-79, by whom the organ was also pre- p.m. week days & . p.m. sundays sented : there are 200 sittings. In the churchyard is 5 55 a cross 20 feet high, in the Gothic style, erected in r883 Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1868, for 50 as a memorial to Charles, 3rd Marquess of Northampton, children ; average attendance, 26 ; & there is a house and also a marble figure of an angel, erected in 1885 by for the mistress ; Mrs. Margaretta Pullin, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Lucas Richard Goodman, farmer & Northampton Marquess of K.G., J.P. .Alig Martin, house steward to the grazier, Castle Ashby lo. Chadstone Castle Ash by castle; & 51 Lennox Marquess of Northampton Pike John Hen son, farmer & grazier gardens & National Liberal club, Arrighi James, clerk of works Roberts Edwd. farmer, Chadstone lo London S W ; & Compton Win Fergusson Frances (Mrs.), draper, & Savile Frank H. M. land agent to the yates, Warwick post office Marquess of Northampton Aveston W illiam Houghton George, farmer Scriven Richard Geo. J.P. land agent Wane Rev. Innes Bourguine M.A. Laurance Elizabeth (Mrs.), Falcon Searle Arthur, head gardener to the Rectory temperance hotel Marquess of Northampton CASTOR :is a village and parish, bounded on the south St. Kyneburgha and her sister Kyneswitha, whose re by the Nene and Huntingdonshire, one mile from Castor mains, originally deposited here, were afterwards re station on the Peterborough and Northampton section of moved to Peterborough Cathedral: in the north aisle is the London and North Western railway, 4 west from a double aumbry and on the wall of this aisle are some Peterborough by the high road to Wansford and 5~ by highly interesting fresco paintings which are somewhat rail, in the Northern division of the county, Nassaburgh obliterated; these represent scenes in the history of St. or Peterborough liberty, petty sessional division, union Gatherine; the whole series dates from the early 14th and county court district of Peterborough, rural deanery century: the central tower rests on Norman pillars with of Peterborough (first portion), archdeaconry of Oakham peculiarly carved capitals, that on the north side of the and diocese of Peterborough. The church of St. Kyne- chancel arch representing Samson killing the Lion, and burgha is a very fine building, chiefly Norman, with ad- a boar hunt; and one in the north transept displays the ditions in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, con- figure of a woodman cutting trees, an animal browsing sisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transepts, on a tree, and other figures of animals ; another capital south-west porch and a finely enriched and embattled exhibits a man gathering grapes, and on the western central tower of two stages, with a short spire, and con- capital in the south transept are two warriors fighting taining a clock and 6 bells: the south door, apparently with maces: the chancel retains a very fine double coeval with the aisle, is of massive oak, cross- piscina and double sedilia: the spire was struck by framed and retaining the original lock and key, which lightning June 4th, 1795: the church has been restored are very curious from their great size and strength, and the nave fitted with low open benches, and now the key being nearly 15 inches in length; the door affords 6oo sittings. The registers, with Milton and has been elaborately carved and the exterior margin Ailsworth, date from the year 1538, and also incorporate bears the following legend in raised letters: "Ricardvs- that of Sutton up to 1758. The living is a rectory, net Be by Reetor-Ecclesie-de Castre-fecit :" there are sepnl- yearly value £400, with residence and 8 acres of glebe chral reee!lsPs on the outside of the church and in the in Newborough, in the gift of the Bishop of Peter south wall of the aisle: in the transept is a stone effigy borough, and held since 1897 by the Rev. Leonard of a priest and on the outside is a stone coffin of Leader Cooper M . .A.. of Trinity College, Dublin. Here the 13th century; in the walls of the churchyard may are Con!!regational and United Methodist chapels. ThP be seen numerous remains of coped coffin lids, many of reading room has a library of 250 volumes. Wright's them bearing floriated crosses: in the north aisle are charity of £2 12s.