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NEWTOW~ CNTHA.NK is a hamlet on the north side There is a School Council of 7 members; Thos. Eaton. of the and Swannington railway, about 6~ Leicester, correspondent; F. Hanger, attendance officer miles west from Leicester and a quarter of a mile Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), erected in nor~h-east from station, in the petty sessional 1873 & enlarged in 1906, for 285 mixed & 194 in­ division and county court district of Market Bosworth. fants; average attendance, 224 mixed &:; 103 infants; G.roby Hamlet will be found under a separate heading. William Diggary Nicholas, master; Mrs. Eunica Nicholas, infants' mistress Post, ~i. O. & T. 0., S. B. &:; A. &:; I. Office.-Miss Desford Industrial School, locally in Botcheston, under Annie A:; till , sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from the control of the Leicester Borough Council, for 200 Leicester by mail cart at 6 a.m.; disp1\whed at 7.30 boys; Charles Oxley, superintendent p.m.; no sunday delivery. Wall Box at Ratby sta­ Carriers to & from Leicester.-Richardson Bros. John tion cleared at 7.15 p.m Henry Wood & Son & Charles Geary, every wed. & sat RATBY. Geary Albsl't Henry James, bDot ma Richardson Bros. hosiery manufac- Cufflin W illiam Geary Charles, baker turers & carriers Faulkes Thomas, Kirby grange Geary J oseph, grazier, Kirby grange Richardson George .ilbert, grazier Gilbank..s Rev. George Ernest M.A. Geary Mary Ann (Mrs.), fishmonger Richardson John, bag ho-si6iI' (vicar), Vica,rage Grewcock William. grocer Scampton & Lester, farmers Haws Mrs. Ratby viUa Grudgings Geo. shopkpr. & insur.agt Sherwin Marston, joiner Sandall Rev. Herbert eecil M.A.. Harris John, farmer, Bondm.an Hays Shipley Henry, sho,pkpr. & beer ratlr (curate) Harrison Henry, draper Shi-pman Benjamin & Sons, builders COllI1l1ElRCIAL. Hunt George Statham, coal merchant Shipman John Thomas, carpenter Albright William, farmer, Woodlands Kelly Thomas William Gordon RA., Stapleton Geo.rge Hy.police constable Baker William, tailor M.D., D.P.H. physician & surgeon, Sutton Albert, gasfitter Ball William, farmer, The Nook & medical officer & public vaccina­ Tilde-sley Isaac, cowkeeper Ba.tten & Son, corn merchants tor Desford district, Market Bos­ Toon Chas. beer retlr. The Yewtrees BiddIes Fred, Earl of Stamford P.H worth union & medical officer of TODn Jose ph, bag hosier Bowley Bros. agricultural machine healtlh to Marke-t, Bosworth Rural Tyler Wm. Sons & Co. hosiery manu- owners Dis,trict Council factureI1s (T. Bentley, manager) Brooks George, insurance agent Kent, ThomaS', bla.cksmith Wesley J O'hn, grazier Copson H. & J. bakers Lansdell Frands Joseph, farm bailiff WigglesWDI'th William, builder ClNLgg George, carter, Shellbrook Lee William, grocer Willeott John S. tailor Cragg William, grazieiI' Lemmon John, baker Wood John Henry & Son. carriers CraIllJp John, assistant ovsrseer Lemmon Joseph, beer Tet.ailer Woodman Geo. staMon master (M.R) Crodks Stsphen, grazier Marriott William Hemsley, saddler & Cufflin Thomas, baker grazier BOTCHESTON. Dexter George, insurance agent Marshall Thomas, Plough P.H Ellis Joseph & Sons Limited, coal lVIarvin George, Railway inn Pickard ..ilbert, Bufton lodge merchan.ts &c. Depot, Station MooTe George Herbert, hair dress ..r CO)IMERCIAL. Fitchett Ge,orge, farmer, Old farm Moore John, grazier Brown A.nn (Mrs.), farmer Forman Fred, Bull's Head P.H Mo-ore WnL grazier, Bondman Hays De-sfGrd Industrial School (Oharles Frank Thos. farmer, Holywell farm Neal John Samuel, photographer & Oxley, supt) Freeman Herbt.Jn. frmr. TheOldHayes news agent Duffin John, farmer Freeman John Henry. butcher Preston Mary J ane (Mrs.), fruiterer Lewin GeDrge, Greyhound P.H Freeman J oseph, shopkeeper Preston Stephen, jDiner Startin J ames, farmer Freeman Tom, greengrocer Prest-on Thoma.s, framework knitter Freeman William, beer retailer Ramsay John, farmer, Boxtree farm FreeInan William, shopkeeper Ratby Co-operative Socie-ty Limited NEWTOWN UNTHANK. Furborough ThDmas, shopkeeper (George Statham Hunt, sec) Albright Miss, Franklyn lodge Garfit Charles eorringham M.B., Richa,rds George, far'me'r Carring-ton M 1'9 Ch.B. surgeon, ; Richards Joseph, grazier Kirby Mrs. Newtown grange calls here mono wed. & fri Lacey John Henry, Brookleigh RATCLIFFE CULEY is a tDwnship, chapelI'Y and free seats. The register dates from the year 1585. The small village, near the confluence Df the rivers Sen'ce living is a chapelry, annexed with Sheepy Parva to. the and Anker and on the border.:; of Warwickshire, about rectory of Sheepy Magna, joint net yearly value £700. 2 miles north-east from Atherstone station on the Trent including 550 acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. M. E. Valley section of the London and North Western rail- de Beauvoir Southwell, and held since 1888 by the Rev. way and 6~ miles south-west from Market Bosworth, in \'Villiam George Southwell M.A. of Queen's College. the Western division of the county, Sheepy Magna Oxford, who resides at Sheepy Magna. Stanes Brocket parish, hundred of , Market Bosworth petty Henry Chamberlayne esq. of Witherley Hall, is lord of sessional division, Atherstone union and county court the manor and principal landDwner. The soil is loam; district, rural deanery of Sparkenhoe {first portion), subsoil, marl. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. and roots. The area is 1,238 acres; rateable value, The church of All Saints is an ancient building of £1,690; the population in 1901 was 212. stDne, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, Parish Clerk, Samuel Bolstridge. nave and an embattled western tower, with spire, con- Let- taining 2 bells: the church was partially restored in \'VaIl Letter Box cleared at 7·45 a.m. &; 5·55 p.m. 18 9 8, and an oak lectern provided, at a ()ost, of about ters through Atherstone arrive at 7· 15 a.m. Sheepy £200: the stained east window was the gift of Mrs. Magna is the nearest money order & telegraph office Hal'vey, in memory of her aunt, Mrs. Corbett, who was The children of this place attend the Sheepy Public lady of the manor: there are 140 allotted seats and 70 Elementary School Garfield John, farm bailiff to W. E. Meek John, farmer COMlIIERCIAL. Oake,ley esq. D.L., J.P. Lodge farm Ol'ton Jostllph & Nathanie1, farmers Bostock Frederick William, farmer Griffin AlbeTt Ernt'st, farmer Wathes Alfred, farmer Brown Edward, farmer Hatwell W illi am , Gate inn Wathes Cornelius, fa,rmer Coles Thomas, 'shopkeeper Jones Thomas, farmer VVi,tters Robert & Steyen, farmers Eaton Joseph C. farmer, Eightlands Leake William, g-razier Wykes Frank, farmer Foster John, fa.rmer Le'd John, frmI'. Ratdiffe House frm RATCLIFFE-ON -THE-WREAKE is a village porl!h a-nd an embattled western tower, with spire, con­ and parish, 2 miles north from Syston station on the taining a clock and 5 bells, recast ln 1812 at thp cost main liue of the Midland railway, 7 north-north-east of RDbert, 7th Earl Ferrers F.S.A. on the rebuilding of from Leicester and 7 south-east from Loughborough, in the tower and spire: the stained east window was the Eastern division of the county, East Goscote hun- erected in 1878 as a memorial to John DDve Harris esq. dred. Barrow-on-Soar unlon, Lei~ester petty sessional late M.P. for Leicestershire, by his widow, who also division and county court district, rural deanery of presented a superb set of communion furniture. worked GoscDte (second portion), archdeacDnry of Leicester and by herself; ihe reredos is the gift of his only daughter, diocese of Peterborough. The village is near the FDsse- Emma, wife of Sir W. H. Salt barl. who died in 1892: way, on the navigable river Wreake. over which there the stained west window at the western end was the is a bridge of four arches. The church of St. Botolph, gift of John Dove Harris esq. of Ratcliffe Hall. who also erected in 1310, is a building of stone in the Early thoroughly restored the interior of the church, with the Decorated style, consiRting of chancel, nave, south exception of the chancel, in 1877, at a cost of £850; in