46 GREAT BOW DEN. ..LEICESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S Neal William, baker Sedgley John Henry, grazier Webb William, farmer Palmer Frederick Charles, cheese makerl'Stokes John Henry, dealer in hunters Wheatley Edward, boot & shoe maker Patrick Robert B. baker & grazier, Nether hou,," Wilford Arthur & Frank G. blacksmiths Peberdy Waiter, Shoulder of Mutton p.R'Strange Alfred WiJliam, Red Lion P.R Woodford Edward, laundry Robinson Eliza Mynard (Mrs.), Royal Symington & Thwaites, grocers Woodford Reuben, shopkeeper Ol\k P.R IViIIage Hall (W. Bames & J. Janes, Wright J effrey, grazier joint secs) LITTLE BOWDEN is a parish and village on the river By Local Government Board Order No. 34,695, dated WeIland, adjacent to , 11 miles north- October 1, 1896, the rural part of Little Bowden west from Kettering, 16 north-west from , in was added to . the union and countv court district of i.\1arkPt Harborough, Sexton, Charles Wadsworth. petty sessional division of Mark~t Harborough, rural Letters through Market Harborough, which is the nearest deanery of Rothwell (second portIou), archdeaconry of I money order & telegraph office Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. Under the Wall Letter Box at the School cleared at 9 & 10.45 a.m.. provisions of the "Local Government Act, 1888," the 12 noon & 4.50, 6.40, 7.45, 9:15 & 11.45 p.m.; sundays; whole of this parish has been transferred from N orthamp- 7.30 p.m tonshire to this county, except for Parliamentary pur- poses, and is within the district controlled by the Market NORTHAMPTON COUNTY :MAGISTRATES FOR Harborough Urban Dist.rict Conncil. The church of St. LITTLE BOWDEN PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. Nicholas is an edifice of stone, in t.he Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, The parish of Little Bowden having been transferred to the north aisle, south porch and a bell gable (or two bells. county of Leicester is not now included within this petty The church has been completely restored under the direc- sessional division, but the magistrates for this division tion of Mr. G. F. Bodley R.A. at a cost of £3,3()1), and five of the county of Northampton still meet here as formerly stained memorial windows were presented by the late Mr. Clark John Henry esq. Fairlawn, Market. Harborough John West, of the Manor house. Tbe register dates Dawnay Capt. Hon. John, Dingley, Market Harborough from about the year 1620. The living is a rectory, net de Trafford Charles Edmund esq. Hothorpe hall, Rugby yearly value £270, including 150 acres of glebe, with Downe Viscount K.C.V.O., C.B., C.I.E. Dingley park, Market residence, in the gift of the present rector and the Rev. i Harborough J. B. Jerwood B.A. vicar of Little Tew, Oxon. and held Eady Joseph Chamberlain esq. St. Mary's, Market Har­ since 1874 by the Rev. Thomas Frederick Jerwood B.A. i borough of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and rural dean of Rothwelll Gee John esq. Salford house, Weiford, Rugby (second portion). The rectory house was built in the 17th I' Loder Reginald Bernhard esq. hall, Northampton century by Richard Mowse. St. Hugh's church, an iron Renton Alexander Leslie esq. hall, Rugby building in Northampton road, was erected in 1893, as I' Rokeby Captain Henry Langharn, manor, a chapel of ease to the parish church; the Rev. Edward Firth, Northampton Everett B.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge, ha., been Rokeby Rev. Henry Ralph B.A. Arthingworth manor, curate in charge since 1906. The church of St. Mary in Northampton Arden, attached to this parish, but locally in Great Bowden, Smeeton John esq. Theddingwort.h, Rugby is now disused. There is a Wesleyan chapel in Northampton' Srneeton John Henry esq. Naseby, Rugby road. An estate p~oducing £106 a year, to be applied in 1 Clerk to the Magistrates, Henry W. Lamb, West street, charity, which had been lost, has been recovered; one half Kettering of the yearly income is appropriated for apprenticing, Petty sessions are held the second Tuesday in every month, and the remainder is applied to the relief of sick and poor at the lirban District Council buildings, Northampton road, people: the interest of £300 left by the late Mr. Barfoot- at 11.30 a.m Saunt is distributed in coals and blankets. Viscount The places in the division are :-Arthingworth, Ashley, Downe K.C.V.O., c.B., C.I.E. is lord of t.he manor. The Hrampton Ash, Braybrooke, Clips tone, Dingley, East principal landowners are Viscount Downe, the trustees of Farndon, Hazelbeach, Oxen don, Hothorpe, , the late William Henry Barfoot-Saunt esq. of Oxendon Hall Maidwell, , Naseby, , Stoke (d. 1907), the trustees of the late Rev. F. Hewson, the Albany, Sulby, Sutton Bassett, Weiford, Weston-by· rector and W. F. G. West esq. The soil is a rich loam; Welland, Wilbarston, Thorpe Lubenham subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat and I barley. The area is 1,436 acre.q; rateable value, £15,921; Council School, built in 1907 for 450 children; average the population in 1901 was 2,231. attendance, 430; Joseph Wagstaffe B.A. master COMMERCIAL. Gilbert William, chimney sweeper PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Early closing day, Thursday. IIIeff,;,rd Arthur Wil~am, carpenter Eady J. Toiler, Latimer house IIAdams Charles, shopkeeper IJen~ngs Blanche (!Vhss), dress maker Fowle Col. John C.B. Westbrooke house 1 Barber Wil.liarn Henry, Greyhound p.HIJenmngs James~ bwlder Jerwood Rev. Thos. Fredk. B.A. Rectory Bird Thomas, baker Parker WaIter, .msurance agent J eweIl Mrs. Kettering road Bird William, dairyrnan IPeach Claude, lIls~rance. agent Klarner Adolf '1 Brick & Tile Co. Limited Pepperday Jane Olive (:MISS), laundry Newman William Edwin, Thirlrnere Carter Charlotte Louisa (Miss), dress rnal·P~eston Arthur, Cherry Tree inn Noel Hon. Charles Hubert Francis,Old ho Collins Fanny (Mrs.), shopkeeper Vi ood Ann (Mrs.), dress maker Olney Thomas IForster Mary Anne (Mrs.), shopkeeper (For remainder of names in Little "'est Mrs. Manor house Garfield Robert, carpenter , Bowden, see Market Harborough~. BRADGATE PARK, see Newtown Linford. BRANSTON (or Branstone) is a village and parish,4! 233 sittings, all free. The register dates from the year miles south-east from Harby and Stathern station on the 1591. and is on parchment and in !rood condition. The Great Northern and London and Nort.h Western joint rail- living is a rectory, net yearly value £350, derived from 304 ways and 8 north-north-east from Melton Mowbray, in acres of glebe, w, t.h residence, in the gift of the Duke of the Eastern division of the county, hundred of FramIand, RutIand and held since 1905 by the Rev. David Wilkie Belvoir petty sp"sinDal division, Melton Mowbray union Peregr,ne B.A., L.Th. of University College, Durham. Knipton and county court district., rural deanery of FramIand (first reservoir is partly in this parish. The Duke of Rutland, portion), archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peter- who is lord of the manor, and the Rector are the sole land­ borough. 1he small river Devon flows near the village. owners. The parish feast is held on the Sunday before Old The church of St. Guthlac is a building of stone, partly in Michaelmas day. The soil is red loam; subsoil, ironstd'ne ihe Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, clere- and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots and storied nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an em- some pasture land. The area is 1,802 acres of land and 35 battled western t.ower with pinnacles aud a crocketed of water; rateable value, £2,174; in 1911 the population spire, and containing 3 bells, dated respectively 1623, 1662 was 222. and 1738: in the chancel floor is an incised slab to John' Parish Clerk, William Thornton. Jacthyn, a former rector, ob. 6 July, 1460: the church was reseated in 1840; in 1872 a new porch was built and Post Office.-Miss Annie Burgin Grocut, sub-postmistl'esil. the south aisle rest.ored, and in 1880 an organ ch8mber. Letters arrive from Grantham at 8.30 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. ; was erected and a new organ presented by James Henry' dispatched at 11.45 a.m. & 4.25 p.m. week days only. Murray, in memory of his wife, daught.er of a former Eaton is the nearest money order & telegraph office rector: in 1895 the east window in the chancel was filled I with stained glass and a reredos erected as a memorial 'I.Public Elementary School (non-provided) (mixed), under ~o J. H. Murray, ob. July 21, 1894: in 1891 tbe roof was re- the County Council, erected in 1843, at an expense of newed and chancel rearranged and repaved with tiles, the 1 £427, for 50 children; avera!?e ..ttendance, 30 i Miss lIave partly reseated, at a cost of over £1,000: there are I Orpah Murrell, mistress