tHRECTORY.] LEICESTERSHIRE. CLAYBROOKE. 59 Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. & 1. acres, let for £45 yearly; there are other charities, pro~ Office.-Frederick William Whittaker, sub-postmaster. ducing about £10 a year, £1 5s. of which is paid to the Letters arrive through 1\lelton Mowbray 1ft 7.15 a.m. & vicar for the provision of Bibles for the chiLlren & the 3.45 p.m.; despatched at 10.55 B.m. & 6.5 p.m. week remainder distributed. amongst the poor; James Lester. days only. Wall Letter Box clearel at 9 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. master week days only Railway Station, Long Clawson & Hose.-John George Public Elementarv School (mixed & infants), erected in Flanagan, station master 1849, to hold 160 children; average attendance, 140; the Carrier.-Malcolm King, to Nottingham, thurs. & sat. ; school was endowed in 1873 by Mr. John Garton with 41 to Melton, tues Atkinson Guy Christopher Barlow, Coleman William, jun. cheese maker Paget Betsy (Mrs.), grazier Dovecote house ICorner & Butler, grocers Paget Thomas, sen. farmer Barnard John Corner Henry, grazier Paget Thomas, jun. farmer Dawson Edwin Popplewell, Clawson hall Doubleday Thomas & John Geo.farmers Peck Henry, blacksmith Gardner Rev. James Sanders, Vicarage Doubleday Frederick, butcher Peck Thomas, blacksmith Hinchcliff Rev. David [Wesleyan] Ensor Thomas, farmer Porter James W. Crown & Plough P.H Xewcome Chester Pern, The Hollies Hall John, chimney sweeper Richmond Henry, farmer Shaw Frederick, Manor house Hart Richard, harness maker Rollinson 'Villam Richard, Star P.H Stokes Miss Hourd Richard Ed win, baker Sandy George Woods, grazier Swain John Moore Howard Thomas, farmer Shilcock John Henry, miller (wind) & COMMERCIAL. Huckerby Annie (Mrs.), grazier farmer Atkinson Guy Christopher Barlow Huckerby Thomas, carpenter Skinner l\Iary (Mrs.), farmer M.R.c.s.Eng., L.S.A. surgeon, & medi- Isam John, grazier Smith Randolph M. grazier cal officer & public vaccinator, Claw- Jackson Thomas, butcher Spencer William Edwin, grazipr son district, Melton Mowbray union, Jesson Fosson, grazier Stevenson Thomas Hoe, farmer Dovecote house Jesson Freeling, cowkeeper Stone William F. grocer & draper &. Attewell Joseph, grazier KelIam Bros. coal dealers assistant overseer Bailey Dinah (Mrs.), grazier King Malcolm, greengrocer & carrier Stubbs Eliza (!\Irs.), grocer Bramford Edward, !armer Littler Titus M.R.C.V.S. veterinary sur- Swain In. Moore M.R.c.s.Eng. surgeon Brown Arthur, grazIer geon & farmer Wakefield George, butcher Brown Eliza (Mrs.), grazier Mann Roger, joiner Whittaker Frederick William, baker &. Brown Luke, grar.ier Marriott Henry, farmer grocer, Post office Brown William Arthur, grazier Miller Arthur, carpenter Wilford Edward & Rose C\Iiss), farmers Buxton Thomas, wheelwright Milnes John, grazier Wilford Herbert Bird, farmer Cartwright David, carpenter Morris Selina (Mrs.), grocer Wilford James Corner, fa.rmer, Old Clayton Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper Musson William, lace agent Manor house Coleman Mary (Mrs.), landowner Or ton John Ernest E. Royal Oak P.H Wilkinson Thomas, farmer CLAYBROOKE is an e~k>nsive parish ecclesiastically, Consols, the interest for distribution to the poor of Great comprising Great and Littlf' Claybrooke (known also respec- and I_ittle Claybrooke; John Mason, in 1825, left £50; tively as Nether and Over Claybrooke), Wigston Parva, John Fawkes, in 1836, left £20, the interest of £10 thereof Bittesby, and the populoLs hamlet of Ullesthorpe, b the to be given to Sunday school, and the intprest of the other Southern division of the county, and Wibtoft, in Warwick- £10 for hread for the poor of Little Claybrooke, to be distri­ shire; in Guthlaxton hundred, Lutterworth union, petty buted on St. Thomas's day; John William Wye left £20 sessional division and county court district, rural deanery Stock in 21 per Cents. for the benefit of the poor of Great of Guthlaxton (second portion), arch deaconry of Leicester and Little Claybrooke; Marc Smith left the proceeds of a and diocese of Peterborough. From Lutterworth the house (now two shops) in Coventry as follows :-W3. to six distances are-Great Claybrooke 41 miles north-west, 'lged poor of Upper Claybrookc, 30s. to similar number ill. Little Claybrooke 4 miles north-west, Bittesby 21 miles Lower Claybrooke and 30s. to L'llesthorpe &c.; this charity west and Ulle'lthorpe 3t miles north-west; the latter now produces about £70 yearly; the poor's land, lOa. 1r. 2:!p. having a station on the Leicester and Rugby branch of the produces about £36 yearly; a plot of land comprising 3 aClCS Midland railway. One of the sources of the river Soar rises allotted at the Inclosure and 6 acres previously left (donor in the west of the parish, and crossing it on J;hp north-west unknown) produce about £49 for distribution, £20 of which is the Roman Fossway. By Local Government Board Order is paid to the schoolmistress at l'llesthorpf'. Claybrooke a detached part of Great Claybrooke was in 1885 transferred church feast i'l held on the Sunday after St. Peter's clay. At to Little Claybrooke, and in 1877 a detached part of Monks High Cross, where the WaUing Street and the Fossway cross. Kirkby to Ullesthorpe. The church of St. Ppter, at Little Wa.i the Roman station Venonce, and near this spot is a Claybrooke, is a building of stone chiefly in thf' Gothic style barrow called "Clondsley Bush." Messrs. Nixon, Toone of the 14th century and consisting of chancel, clerestoried and Harrison hold stock sales at Ullesthorpe every alternate nave, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled tuesday. The landowners are Hugh George Goodacre esq. western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 4 the Rev. H. J. Liddon M.A. of Taunton, Edward C. S. Severn bells, three dated 1618, 1626, 1672, and one undated; the esq. of Wallop, Shrewsbury, the trustees of T. G. Paget esq. whole were rehung in 1898 at a cost of £202: the chancel is Messrs. George A. and W. D. Hutchinson, Whetstone Grew­ of three bays, lighted by windows with exquisite curvilinear cock esq. J. H. Ward-Boughton-Leigh esq. of Ullesthorpe. tracery, and between them are niches: in the north lVall Warwickshire, and Francis J. Stanhope esq. At Great is a priest's doorway, and the south wall retains traces of a Claybrooke is a 'Vesleyan chapel, erected in 1883, and at low-side window: there is a modern stone font, handsomely ULLESTHORPE a Congregational chapel, erected in 1806. carved, and some remains of old stained glass: on the south and seating 200 people. The soil is light clay, loam and side of the chancel is a memorial window to Mary Emily occasionally sandy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops ar6 and Emma Simpson, d. 1884: the church was partly restored wheat, barley, oats and roots; the greater part of the parish in 1878, at a cost of £2,300. under the direction of the late is used for grazing. The area of Great Claybrooke is 1,090 G. E. Street esq. R.A. and the tower was repaired in 1907: acres; rateable value, £2,040; of Little Claybrooke, 536 there are 400 sittings. The register dates from the year acres; rateable value, £1,109; of Bittesby, 750 acres ; 1705 and is in fair condition. The livin~ is a vicarage, rateable value, £871; of Ullesthorpe, 1,485 acres; rateable with the chapelry of Wibtoft annexed, joint net yearly value, £3,333; and of Wibtoft (Warwickshire), 856 acres ; value £397, including 90 acres of glebe, with residence, in the rateable value, £852. The population of Great Claybrooke gift of the Crown, and held since 1871 by the Rev. Charles in 1901 was 323; of Little Clayhrooke, 76; of Bittesby, 33 ; Frederick Hayter M.A. of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. Herbert of Ullesthorpe, 312; and Wibtoft (Warwickshire), 70, and Thorndike, the learned author of .. Discourses on Church the entire ecclesiastical parish, 1,855. Government ani Religious Assemblies," and of the" Epi- Wibtoft, a chapelry and township of this parish, is in logue to the Tragedy of the Church of England," and one of Warwickshire, for which see KelIy's Directory of that the Commissioners of the Savoy Conference in 1661, was for county. some time vicar of this parish, and afterwards a prebendary Bittesby township consists of one farm-house. of \Vestminster Abbey, where he was buried in July, 'Vigston Parva is given under a separate heading. 1672. A cemetery of three-quarters of an acre at Little Parish Clerk, Charles Brooks, Great Claybrooke. Claybrooke was formed in 1856, at a cost of £500, and Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. B. & A. & I. Office, Great Claybrooke. enlarged in 1898 to 11 acres, it is under the control of a -Ernest WaIter Brooks, sub-postmaster. Letters arrivt' burial board of 8 members. Claybrooke Village Hall, at I from Rugby at 7.30 a.m. & 5.10 p.m. ; despatchej at 10.30 Great Claybrooke, erected by Miss Ellis, in 1894, at a cost I a.m. & 7.p.m.; no delivery on sunday of about £1,000, is a structure of brick with stone dressings, IPost, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., S B. & A. & I. Office, and is used for lE'cturing and parish meetings; it contains UIlesthorpe.-~liss Mary Jane Heels, sub-postmistress. reading rooms; the hall ",ill hold 300 persons. Thomas Letters arrive from Rugby at 7.15 a.m. & 12.20 p.m. Dicey esq. in 1807 left £100, invested in £150 21 per Cent. despatched at 1.5 & 7.55 p.m. ; no delivery on sunday .