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boys who have passed a certain standard are eligible monium, Miss A. Gilbert; Olerk, William Marriott. to become free scholars. Area, 1628a. 1r. 8p. ; rate Hymns A. and M. able value, £2184 12s. 6d.; population, 239. The WESLEYAN CHAPEL.-Services, Sunday afternoon feast is on the Sunday after August 6th; but the at 2-30 and 6. Keeper, Miss Sarah Fantom. principal feast is that of the clubs, on Whit Tuesday. POST OFFICE at W. Marriott's. Letters from PARISH CHURCH.-Services on Sunday at 11 and Hinckley delivered at 7 a. m.; box cleared at 7-30 3 in winter; in summer at 11 and 7. Communion p. m. on week-days, and at 1 p. m. on Sundays. The first Sunday in month. Rev. John J. Browne, M.A.; nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office is at Wardens, Messrs. G. Abell and J. Thompson; Har- Market Bosworth (2~ miles). Abell Mrs. Ann, the Cottage Faux John, and butcher FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. Beeby John, coal dealer, the Wharf Highton Charles I Kendall William Abell George Browne Rev. John James, M.A, The Leonard Mrs. Mary I Marriott Alfd. Highton (Wm.) & Pa]mer (Wm.), Vicarage Miller Joseph I Parsons George bakers and graziers Dunkley William, shopkeeper Pegg Richard I Smith Thomas Morris Mrs. Ann, Sutton fields farm Gilbert Miss Anna M, mstrs N at! schl Smith William Morris Mrs. Sarah, the Lawn Hextall J oseph, boot repairer Stoneley Geo, and builder, wheel- Porter Henry, Ambion hill Marriott William, SUb-postmaster wright, and v, Greyhound Summers Mrs. Sarah, and brick and and parish clerk Tomlinson John cheese maker, Brick hill farm May Mr. John Wardle George, and blacksmith Summers William, Sutton fields Raven Mrs. Ann, v, Hercules Wheatley George Thompson John, Hall farm Upton Thomas, bootmaker Wall William, Green hill farm COTTAGERS AND COWKEEPERS. DRESSMAKERS. CARRIERS TO LEICESTER S. Aucott Richard I Benn George Bannister Mrs. Ann BusbV, through from Dadlington Black John I Bradbury William Miller Mrs. Ann Henton, Sibson
SWANNINGTON is one of the three townships School and Hospital. The National School, a neat in the original parish of Whitwick, but was in 1875 Elizabethan building, was erected in 1862, at a cost constituted the separate ecclesiastical district parish of £830. Here are rich coalfields giving employment of St. George. Here is a station 011 the Leicester to a considerable number of the inhabitants. The and Burton branch of the Midland railway. It is in Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Baptists have the Bosworth parliamentary division, that of Huggles each a chapel. Wyggeston's Hospital, Leicester, and cote for the County Council, West Goscote hundred, Capt. Begie are the largest landowners. Area, 1450a. rural deanery of West Akeley, Ashby union and 31'. 7p.; rateable value, £565 10s. 6d. ; population, County Court district. The railway station is 119 about 1400. miles from London, 16~ N. W. from Leicester, 3! E. ST. GEORGE'S CHURcH.-Services, Sunday 10-30 from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and 2 from Whitwick. The and 6-30. Communion first Sunday morning in the village is contained in a valley, anll on the slopes of month. Rev. F. T. Pearson, M.A.; Wardens, Messrs. Reveral hills. It is watered by several springs, one of W. H. Johnson and T. Atkins; Organist, Mr. S. P. which carries its water 150 yards through pipes to a May; Clerk, William Elverson. Hymns A. and M. large stone basin in the main street. St. George's Ohurch is a plain brick building on the Common. It CHAPELS.-Wes!eyan : Services, Sunday 2 (or at comprises nave, supported by buttresses, and gable 10-30) and 6. ; Steward, Mr. G. U. Rowse. PRIMI belfry with one bell. In 1882 the interior was TIVE: 2-30 and 6; Steward, Mr. Samuel Stanley. thoroughly renovated and beautified at a cost of £250. BAPTIST, the Moor: 2 and 6. The living is a vicarage of the yearly value of £140, POST OFFICE.-Stephen Willis, SUb-postmaster. with residence in the adjoining township of Thring Letters from Leicester delivered at 7-30 on week-days stone, in the gift of the Vicar of Whitwick. The (on Sunday to callers only at 10-30); box cleared at Registers date-baptisms and births from 1827, 5-20 p.m. 011 week-days, and 5-15 on Sundays. marriages from 1853. The great tithes belonged to Boxes, on the Common, near St. George's Church, the lay rector, but were devoted by the will of Lord cleared at 5·20 week-days, 11-10 on Sunday; at the Beaumont, to"ards the maintenance of C01eorton Railway station at 5-20 week-days, 5-15 on Sunday. }i'or other names see Coalville, Walker Fdk, J ames, cttgr & haulier Cox Stephen, and baker part of which township is in Swan Wheatley Mrs. Cathn, Sunny bank t Kendrick Thomas I Richards John nington parisIl. Whittle James, hawker SharpeMrs. My. Hnh, drugdlr &grzr FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. PUBLICANS. t Are at New Swannington. Bail John, grzr, Swannington comn Bakewell Isaac, bhs, Jolly Colliers, Beaumont Lady tBath Alfred Hy. I Chester George Chester Mr. J oseph Thorn boroug h Choyce George I Fewkes J ames Irons Thomas, v, BuZZ's head Johnson Mr. Wm. Hy, St. George's Gough Geo, Talbot frm, h Thrngstn lodge (Post town, Ashby) J ohnson John I Richards John Lovett Levi, v, Station Inn Lakin Miss Annie, haberdasher Rowse George Underwood, grazier Lovett Mrs. Sarah, v, Robin Hood May Sml. Phillips, mstr of Ntnl schl and assistant overseer Robinson Wm, bldr & v, Railway Inn Rowse Thomas, cottager & blksmth SharpeMrs. My. Hnh, grzr& drugdlr Rowell Richard, bhs, Fountain Smith William, cottager tStinson Mrs. Sarah, grazier Spencer Charles, v, Queen's Head, Stanley Samuel, station master GROCERS AND SHOPKEEPERS. Thorn borough tStone Hy, M.R.C.Y.S, vtrnry surgn ~