LEICESTERSHIRE. ASHBY Parva
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DIRECTORY. ] LEICESTERSHIRE. ASHBY paRVA. 29 register dates from the year 1653. The living is a vicarage, almost all the occupiers. The area of the parish is 1,788 net yearly value £160, including 108 acres of glebe, with acres of land and 8 of water; ratf>able value, £2,733; the residence, in the gift of, and held since 1869 by the Rev. population in 1901 was 111 in the civil a:11313 in the eccle John Godson M.A. of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, siastical parish. and rural dean of Goscote (first division). The Manor I Parish Clerk, Charles Pykett. House, 8:n ancient mansion of stone, rebuilt and ~estored Letters through Melton Mowbray arrive at 9 a.m. 'Vall' ~893--4, IS the property of Herb~rt Hanbury. Srruth-Car- Letter Box, near the church, cleared at 4.20 p.m. wE'ek lIl~ton esq. D.L. an~ now; occup~ed by Captam ~erbert days only. The nearest money order & telegraph office- "llson. Lord Carrmgton s charIty produces an mcome I is at Gaddesby about H miles distant of £100 yearly, and there are three Bede houses. H. H_. ' -. Smith-Carington esq. D.L. is lord of the manor and the princi- Public ~lementary School (rrux:ed), erected m ~849, to hold pal landowner_ A parish meeting is held here in lieu of a 50 .childre.n; average atteniance, 47; MISS Margaret comlcil. The soil is clay; subsoil, gravel. The pari"h is Wnght, mIStress almost entirely grass land. Stilton cheE'se being made by Carrier.-George Baker passes through to Melton, tues Godson Rev. John M.A. (vicar &; rural Grea,es haac, gr.lzier Smith William Stevenson, grazier dean), Vicarage Hamson Charles, cowkeeper Walker John Alfred, Carington Arms P.H' 'Yilson Captain Herbert, :\Ianor house Preston Ann (~Irs.), grazier I Warrington J ames, grazier CQ:lDIERCUL. Pykett Charles, parish clerk watts Anthony, farm bailiff to H. H. Alien Arthur, grazier Riley Edward, grazier S:nith-Carington esq Grea,-es Eliza ('Irs.), grazier Smith John William, grazier lWilson Edward James, farmer ASHBY MAGNA (or Great Ashby) is a parish and induding 49 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of village, a short distance off the Leicester and Lutter Mrs. E. A. Cott, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Arthur worth road, with a station on the Great Central railway McKenzie Cott M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge and 2 miles south-east from the Broughton Astley station There is a charity of £50 Ipft by a Mrs. Crowder, the on the Leicester and Rugby branch of the Midland rail interest of which is distributed every two years in bread. way, 4! north-east from Lutterworth, 9t south-west Mrs. E. A. Cott is lady of the manor and sole landowner. from Leicester and 96 from London, in the Southern The soil is l51'avel ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, division of the county, Guthlaxton hundred, Lutterworth barley, oats and roots. The area is 1,937 acres; rateable union, petty sessional division and county court district, value, £3,212; the population in 1901 was 292. By the rural deanery of Guthlaxton (third portion), archdeaconry Divided Parishes Act a detached part of this parish was of Leicester and diocese of Peterboro~h. The church of added to Little Ashby in 1877. St. Mary is a building of stone in the Transition style Parish Clerk, Herbert Bird of the early part of the 13th century, consisting of chancel, Post & P. O. Office.-Mrs. Sarah Hoden, sub-postmistress. nave, north aisle and an embattled tower at the west Letters arrive through Lutterworth at 7.40 a.m.; Letter end containing 3 bells, dated 1613, 1655 and 1817: the Box cleared at 6.5 p.m. ; no delivery on sunday. The money chancel retains an aumbry and a piscina, and the east order & telegraph office is at Gilmorton, 2 miles distant window is stained: the church was restored in 1861, at a cost of nearly £500: the chancel has been since restored, Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1868, for 63 an organ erected and a new roof placed on the nave in children; average attendance, 57; Miss Elizabeth Ann 1880, and in 1907 the whole of the e'ast end of the church was Harrison, mistress rebuilt at a cost of about £160: there are 215 sittings. Carriers to Leicester.-Jonathan Monk sat.; JObeph The register dates from the year 1586 and is in excellent Bevin, wed. & sat condition. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £165, Railway Station, John R. d'Ombrain, station ma.~ter Cott Rev. Arthur :'\icKenzie If.A.. fDale John, farmer & grazier Monk Herbert, grazier (vicar), Vicarage I Falkner Job, farmer & grazier Monk Jonathan, carrier & grazier Hackett William, farmer & grazier Moore Thos. blacksmith & wheelwright COMMERCIAL. (postal address, Cosby hill, Leicester) Reynolds Thomas Edwin, hosiery manfr Adcock Bros. farmers & graziers I Haslam George, farmer & grazier Sanders Harry, grazier Attfield Albert, farmer & grazier I (postal address, Cosby hill, Leicester) , Scotton Wm. Chequers P.H. & grazier Attfield Frank, farmer & grazier Heard John Thomas, farmer Sims Harry R. farmer & grazier Bevin James, farmer, carrier & shopkpr Hoden Alfred, tailor, Post office ISmith Edwin, farmer & grazier Chandler 'Villiam, farmer Howkins Arthur, baker Stevenson George Henry, farmer & grazr Coltman George, carpenter Jones Edward, farmer ASHBY PARVA (or Little A::.hby) is a small parish the inmates, left by Mrs. Lucy Goodacre in 1832; but now and village, 3 miles north-by-west from Lutterworth and (1908) five only of these are inh'lbited by alms people, 1~ east-north-east from the Ullesthorpe station on the who receive 6s. a week each, and the remaining three alms Leicester and Rugby branch of the Midland railway, in houses are let; other small charities are distributed to the Southern division of the county, Guthlaxton hundred, the poor. The poor's land produces about £20 yearly. Lutterworth union, petty sessional division and county Hugh Goodacre esq. is lord of the manor and principal court district, rural deanery of Guthlaxton (second por landowner. The soil is gravel and clay; subsoil, clay. tion), archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peter The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots, and borough. The church of St. Peter is a small building partly grazing. The area is 1,369 acres; rateable value, of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, £2,109; the population in 1901 was III in the civil and 90 nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western in the ecclesia-;tical parish. By Local Government Board tower in the 'Decorated style, containing 3 bells, dated Order detached parts of Ashby Magna, Kimcote and Leire 1591, 1605 and 1591: there is a monument to the Rev. were added to the parish in 1877_ J. Sturges Lievre, a former rector, and a marble reredos Sexton, WiIliam Chesterton erected as a memorial to J. Bouchier Wrey, the child of a former rector: the church was restored and the chancel Post Office.-Alfred WiIliam Wal ien, sub-postmaster. rebuilt in 1868, at a cost of £963, and the tower was LettPrs arrive from Lutterworth at 7 a.m.; dispatched rebuilt in 1889 at a cost of £95: the stained east window at 12.35 & 6.20 p.m.; n) delivery on sunday. is a memorial to John 'Winifred Ley, who died August, Ullesthorpe, 2 lniles distant, is th'" nearest money order 1883, and there is another at the west end: the church & telegraph office affords 100 sittings. The register dates for baptisIIlS Public Elementary School, for children from 6 years to 12 from 1585; marriages, 1695; burials, 1695. The living years of age, was erected & endowed in 1832 with £17 is a rectory, net yearly value £165, with 2 acres of glebe yearly, derived from land in the parish, by Sarah Bowyer, and residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and from a bequest left to her for charitable purposes bY' held since 1892 by the Rev. John Benson Sidgwick M.A. Lucy Goodacre; this school, closed in 1882, was re of Trinity College, Cambridge. The Congregational chapel opened in 1895 for 45 children; average attendance, 12 ; he.re was built in 1868. There are eight alms houses, Miss E. Hamblin, mistress originally with an allowance or £4 a quarter to each of Carrier.-Joseph Wright, jun. to Leicester, sat Moore :Miss, Fircott Cleaver William, farmer & grazier Smith John, Shoulder of Mutton P.R Sidgwick Rev. John Benson ~I.A.. Rectory IClowes William, farmer &0 grazier Tomlinson Francis, farmer & grazier COlOrERCIAL. Crane William, farmer \Vesson \Villiam, grazier Bennett Jonathan, grazier Harrison Arthur, grazier Wright Joseph, farmer & grazier Berrisford John, farmer &: carpenter IMaddock Thomas, grazier Wright Joseph, jun. carrier Bevm William, farmer Palmer Thomas, farmer & grazier York William, grazier .