J>l1lEOTORY .] 1'1"'ORTHAMPTONSHIRE'. •wAbkNi1dE• .The soil is claY'; subsoil, limelltone. The chief crops are Parish Clerk, Henry Crowson. wheat and barley. The area. is l,022.L SU. IP.; rateable LET'l'ER Box cleared at 5.15 p.m. Let~rs arrive at 8 'a.in. value, £1,375; the population in 18811 was 152/ through Stamford. .Barnack is the nearest money order ASHToN, formerly a hamlet in this parish, was, March 25, & telegraph office 1887, by a Local Government Order, added to Bainton; at \ The children of this place attend the school at Bainton the same date certain detached parts of Bainton were amal- Railway Station, Ufford Bridge i the guard of each train gamated with Ufford. I issues & collects tickets Bailey Smalley Crowson GeOl'ge, stone mason Pratt John Thomas, grocer & carpenter Mason Thomas Gurney, Ufford hall Eayr8' Thomas, farmer Shelton George, farmer Wood Rev. William Spicer, jun. M.A. Herring Samh Ann (Mrs.), private schl Stokes John. farmer ' Rectory Holmes Frederick, farmer Truss John, farmer, Ufford heath Young Miss Johnson John, farmer UIlett Naomi (Mrs.), dress maker COMMERCIAL. Mason Fanny (Mrs.), White Hart P.H Wright John, farm bailiff to John Gros- Andrews George, farm bailiff to Lord Monk Jesse, jun. blacksmith smitll esq Kesteven Nottingham Harriett (Mrs.), farmer • UPTON (near Northampton) is a parish, situated on the was built in 1876, at a total cost, including site, of road from Northampton to Daventry, 2 miles west from [150,000, & is a structure of red & coloured brick with Northampton, in the Mid division of the count.y, hundred of Bath stone dressing-s, in the Italian style, from designs by Nobottle Grove, petty sessional division, union and county Mr. Robert Griffiths, architeot, of Stafford, arranged in court district of Northampton; rural deanery and archdea- seven blocks, the centre block 'including a clock tower 190 conry of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. The feet high, with a clock & four dials, & ~Iitaining a water church of St. Michael is a small butancient building of stone, tank which supplies the whole building with water: at- in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel tached to the asylum is a church, built of stone, consisting and nave, south porchand an embattled western tower, with of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch &; a turret containing pinnacles, containing 2 bells: there are 120 sittings. The one bell: it has sittings for 400 persons: connected with register dates from the year 1598. The living is a rectory the asylum are various workshops, gas works & extensi"e annexed to the rectory of St. Peter's, Northampton, tithe farm buildings: in 1884 the building was enlarged, at a rent-charge £320, joint net yearly value £330, with resi- cost of £4,500: in 1886 a detached hospital was built, & dence, in the gift of the Crown, and held since 1873 by the in 1888 a block was added for the treatment of idiot chil- Rev. Edward Nicolls Tom M.A. of St. John's College, Cam- dren: the hall, 75 by 45 feet, is used for entertainments bridge. Upton Hall, the seat of George Turneresq. J.p.lord of &; has a raised stage & scenery for dramatic performanL'e8, the manor and sole landowner, is an ancient building, the & at the north end is a strangers'gallery, &; for these put'- original portion of which is stone; the front was rebuilt of poses the hall will seat 500 persons: the day rooms for brick with stone facings and a wing added about the year patients are.la.rge, airy &; well-furnished, & amply supplied 1600; the interior contains some valuable paintings. The with boo;Jcs; there are also pianos in the women's & billiard soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley tabl~ in the men's wards; & a J'ecrea.tiOll room: the asy-- and some pasture land. The area is 979 acres; rateable lum will hold 850 patients; the total number on the 30th value, £2,213; the population in 1881 was 720, including September, 1889, was 778, of whom 527 belonged to the 642 officers and inmates in the aSflum. county; Richard Greene F.R.c.p.sdin. medieal superin- Parish Clerk, Samuel Carr. tendent; Samuel Ale". Kenny Strahan M.D., M.ch. & Wm. Letters through Northampton, the nearest money order & Harding M.B., C.M. assistant medical officers; Rev. Benja.- telegraph office, arrive at 8.30 a.m . min Mathews B.A. chaplain; Alfred Page, treasurer; WAJ,L Ll!;TTER Box, cleared at 5 p.m Henry Philip Markham, clerk t() the Tisitors; Frederick The children of this place place attend the schools at North- Anthony Robinsou, clerk to the asylum; W. H. Sander- ampton son, storekeeper ~ Miss A. S. MarJet, hOllsekeeper l Wm. The County Lunatic Asylum, Berry Wood, situated 3 miles Henry Mitchell, head attendant; Miss Laura Evans, head from Northampton, on the road from Duston to Nobottle, nurse Greene Richd.F.R.C.p.Edin. Berry Wood Turner George ;t.P. Upton hall Bray William, sand & gravel merchant Harding WiIliam M. B., C.M. Berry Wood Strahan Samuel Alexander Kenny M.D., Farmer Frederick, farmer, Upton lodge Robinson Fredk. Anthony, Berry Wood M.ch. Berry Wood Spokes John, miller (water), Upton m,l UPTON (near Peterborough), a chapelry formerly at- family, who were formerly lords of the manor: the edifice tached to Castor rectory, was formed into an ecclesiastical was repewed in I842 by the Right Rev. George Davys, parish June 15, 1851, It is 7 miles nOl·th-west from Peter- then Bishop of Peterborough, and the chancel rebuilt by the borough and It north-east from Wansford Road station on parishioners; in 1863 the roof was entirely renewed and the the Peterborough and Stamford section of the London and fabric otherwise considerably renovated: there are i:50 sit­ North Western railwaYI in the Northern division of the tings. The register dates from the year 1770. The living county, petty sessional division, liberty, union and county is a vicarage, gross yearly value from tithe rent-charge £250, court district of Peterborough, rural deanery of Peter- net £180, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough, and held borough (first portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and I since 1877 by the Rev. Thomas Guest Forrest RA. of St. diocese of Peterborough. The church of St. John the Peter's College, Cambridge, who 'resides at Wansford. In Baptist, formerly a chapel of ease to Castor, is a building an orchard between thechurch and manor honse is a massive of stone, originally in the Norman and Decorated styles, stone pedestal which once bore a sundial. The Manor House, and consists of chancel, nave of two bays, north ai.sle or now a farmhouse, was once the residence of Thomas Dove, Dove chapel, and a gable bell-cote containing one bell; but chaplain in ordinary to Queen Elizabeth, who termed him nave and chapel were rebuilt in the 17th century, and the Iher Silver Dove, and recommended him for election to the chancel much later I the parclose separating the chapel bishopric of Peterborongh, which he held from 16bl to 1630 from the nave is of classical design and forms three gables: I and was interred in the north transept of the cathedra.l in the chapel is a. noble canopied monument of the Roman there: a singular subterranean passage, the Walls of which Ionic order with a large altar-tomb, on which are the re- are lined with stone, was in 1887 diSC'Qvered under the house. cumbent effigies of Sir William Dove knt. o"tJ. 1633, srm George Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam esq. J.P. of Milton of Bishop Dove, and his wives, Frances (Downhall), 1622 House, is lord of the manor and sole landowner: The soil is and Dorothy, widow of Arthur Brooke esq. and daughter of varied; subsoil, strong clay. The chief 'Crops are wheat, Sir Thomas Smith, alias Nevill; she died in 1665: the barley, beans and peas. The area is 1,180 acres; !"ateable monument is said to have been the work of Nicholas Stone; value, £1,25°; the population in 1881 was 72. the knight is represented in plate armour, with trunk hose Parish Clerk, Henry Southwell. and ruff; the effigies are richly executed and in excellent Letters through Peterborough, arrive at 7.30 a.m. The preservation: there are numerous other mural tablets and nearest money IJrder & telegraph office is at Wansford ledgers in the chancel and chapel of later date to the same, The children of this place attend the school at Castor

Tebbutt Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Manor farm j • W ADENHOE is a village and parish, on'the river Nene, cel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, nortll porch and a about 5 miles north from Thrapston, 4 south-west from western tower with plain parapet, containing 3 bells: there Oundle and 2 north from Thorpe Acburch station on the are seats for 650 persons. The register dates from the year Northampton and Peterborough section of the London and 1559. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £180, with North Western railway, in the Northern division of the residence, in the giftof George Eden Hunt esq. J.P. and held .county, hundred of Navisiord, petty sessional division, union since 1831 by the Rev. Robert Roberts B.A. of Corpus Christi a.nd county court district of Oundle, rural deanery of Oundle college, Cambridge, who is also rector of and resides at Ald­ (first portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of winkle: theRev.Abner Edmund BrowuM.A.. of St.Catharine's Peterborough. The church of St. Michael is an ancient College, Cambridge, has been curate in charge since 1882. building of stone, in the Norman style. consistiug of chan- Holditch's charity of £1 3S' 6d. yearly is for clothing.