BUTLERS M.ARSTOX. 47 DIRECTORY.] WARWICKSHIRE. BURTO~ D.ASSETT. KNIGHTCOTE. COJI!MERCIAL. Hoyle Henry (1farked thuq *receive their letters tLrough Allibon William, tailor, Post office Kineton, Warwick.] Keytel\irs COMMERCIAL. Askew Richard, boot maker lYestacott Rev. William M.A. Vicarage Adkins Richard, farmer Bee re William, Red Lion P.H Bloxham John, farmer Bourton Daniel, carrier COMMERCIAL. Bloxham Richard, farmer, Onger farm Cook Joseph, boot ruaker & parish clerk *Brown Matthew, farmer, Old Le~·s Bloxham Wm. rate collector & farmer Gulliver James (Mrs.), dressmaker Faiobrother William, farmer & grazier Bunce John, carrier Harrison William, general dealer *Gardner Edward, farmer, Burton hill Cashmore Mathew, wheelwright & beer Herring Mary J ane (Mrs.), furnished Griffin Ann (Mrs.), farmer & miller retailer apartments (wind), Little Dassett Corbett Benjohn, cattle dealer & grazier Hirons Elizabeth (Miss), shopkeeper *Griffin Thos. Henry, farmer, Frog hall Hazlewood Thomas, gardener Jeffs John, blacksmith *Jessett Edward, farmer, Bedlam farm Lloyd John, carrier Knibb Richard, farmer, The Green Knott Edward PettiforReading,farmer, Pearson William, shopkeeper Knight Ja.bez, baker Little Dassett Turner Richard, farmer Southam Thomas, farmer *Malsbury .Arthur Charles, farmer & Yardley William, farmer Strong John, farmer grazier, Marlboro' farm Summerton Thomas, carp~nter *Tomlin Henry, farmer, Ireland farm NORTH END. Wickham Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper *Webb William, farmer,Owlington frm Welch Mrs. Fernbank Wickham John, carrier 13URTON HASTINGS, in Domesday "Bortone," ob- stored to his son, Sir Edward Hastings K.B. second Baron tained its additional name of Hastings, because that family Hastings, some generations after which, passing by marriage were for some time, in the reign of Henry Ill. the owners into the possession of Thomas Cotton esq. they descended to <>f a part of this lordship; it is a parish near the .Ashby his great-grandson, Sir Robert Bruce Cotton kt. of Conning­ canal nearly 3 miles north-east from Bulkington station on ton, Huntingdonshire, who founded the MS. library now in the Trent Valley (London and North Western) railway, 3~ the British Museum, and known as the "Cottonian" 'South-east-by-east from Nuneaton, and 98 from London, in collection. Mrs. Barrs, of Odstone Hall, Leicester, is lady the North-Eastern division of the county, Kirby division of of the manor. The principal landowners are the trustees the hundred of Knightlow, Coventry petty sessional division, of the late Mr. J. W. Taverner, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Barrs, union and county court division of Hinckley, rural deanery Mrs. Murcott, of Weston Hall, Leamington, John Atkins <>f Monk's Kirby, archdeaconry of Coventry and diocese of esq. of Barnacle, Bulkington, William Drackley esq. Worcester. The church of St. Botolph, anciently belonging and Mrs. Tomlinson, of Loughborough, who is also lay to the monastery of Nuneaton, is an edifice of stone in the rector of Burton Hastings. The soil is mostly sandy loam; Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south subsoil, generally gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats porch, and a low embattled western tower with pinnacles, barley, and turnips. The area is 1,423 acres; rateable containing 3 bells; there are 10osittings, so being free. The value, £2,280; the population in 1891 was 175 in the civil, register dates from the year I574· The living is a vicarage, and 159 in the ecclesiastical parish. average tithe rent-charge £ro; net yearly value, £75, in- Shelford is a hamlet I mile south-east from Burton eluding 40 acres of glebe, in the gift of and held since 1873 Hastings, in Knightlow hundred. A sale of Shropshire by the Rev. Digby Turpin B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, ewes and rams is held here annually about August or who is also rector of Stretton Baskerville. In Edward IV.'s September. reign this place was in the possession ofJ Sir William de Wall Letter Box, cleared at 5.20 p.m. week days only. Hastings kt. afterwards (1461) Baron Hastings, of .Ashby-de- Letters received through Nuneaton arrive at 9 a.m. and la-Zouche K.G. and lord chamberlain to King Edward IV., from Hinckley at 7 a.m. Burbage is the nearest money who was beheaded, 13th June, 1483, by order of Richard, order & telegraph office Duke of Gloucester, then Lord Protector, and subsequently Parish School (mixed), for 56 children; average attendance, King Richard Ill. His estates, then confiscated, were re- 20; Miss Ann Hewitt, mistress .Adams William, farm bailiff to William *Henson William, farmer, Burton fields [Marked thus • receive their letters through Drackley esq. Shelford Joyce Edward, wheelwright Hinckley.] Beale George, farmer, She1ford Morris Jane & Sophia (Misses), millers Dewhurst Robinson, farmer, Shelfrd.ho (water) & farmers Drackley William, Burton house DrackleyWilliam, farmer & landowner, *Willcox John, farm bailiff to John Till *Turpin Rev. Digby M. A. [vicar] Burton house esq. Burton fields :BUTLERS MARSTON is a small village and parish, mounds, supposed to be ancient barrows. The Old Manor 1:i miles south-west from Kineton station on the East and House. now known as West Meads, is the residence of West Junction railway, 13 north-west from Banbury and 12 Charles Andrews esq. a descendant of Richard Wuodward, -south from Warwick, in the South-Eastern division of the of this place, who raised a troop of horse at his own expense eonnty, Kineton division of Kineton hundred, Burton Dassett for King Charles I. and, with his younger brother, was slain and Kington petty sessional division, Shipston-on-Stonr at the battle of Edge Hill, October 23rd, 1642. The Manor union and county court district, rural deanery of North House and West Meads have recently been restored and Kineton and archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The beautified by their present proprietor. Butlers Marston church of SS. Peter and Paul is a buildmg of stone, chiefly Manor House, standing on an eminence near the church, in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, sodth aisle, and occupied by Captain Melville Anderson, is the property :South porch, and a low embattled western tower containing of Charles .Andrews esq. of West Meads. The principal a clock and 5 bells ; in the church is a mural tablet to the landowners are the Dean ftnd Chapter of Christ Church, Woodward family, dated r684, many members of which Oxford, Charles Andrews, Thomas Herbert Middleton, of 1'amily have been buried in the nave, and there is a carved oak Tysoe & John W. Margetts esqrs. The soil is clay; subsoil, pulpit dated 1632; the church was restored in 1872, at the blue lias and rhretic. 'rhe chief crop" are wheat, barley and joint expense of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, beans. The area is 1,724a. 1r. 30p. ; rateable value, Oxford, the Rev. George Fuller Thomas M. A. then vicar of the £r,4r6; the population in 1891 was 230. parish, and the parishioners, and affords about 250 sittings. Sexton, William Marshall. The register dates from the year 1539. The living is a Letters through Warwick, which is the nearest money order dischar~ed vicara~e, tithe rent-charge £9 10s., net yearly & telegraph office, arrive at 7.30 a. m. Wall Box:, cleared value £wo, including 65 acres of glebe, with residence, in at 5.30 p.m. week days only the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, ..and held since 1893 by the Rev. Samuel Walton Kay. Parish School (mixed), erected, with teacher's house, in The vicaragE\ is a building of stone, pleasantly situated on a r87r, by subscription, from plans by William White esq gentle eminence and commands a delightful view. Here is F S . .A. ; it will hold 70 children ; avera!:{e attendance, 33 a Wesleyan chapel, which is now closed. There is a charity of Orlando Wilkins, master ; l\Irs . .Alice Wilkins, mistress 20s. a year from lands in Ettington. In the village are two Carrier.-W. Faulkner, to Stratford-on-Avon on friday .Anderson Capt. Melville, Manor house Bull George, farmer 1 Parker John, beer retailer & overseer & Andrews Charles, West Meads Checkley Thomas, farmer tax collector & assessor Kay Rev. Samuel Walton, Vicarage Faulkner William, carrier Townshend Ernest, farmer, WestMeads Gardner John, farmer, College farm Townshend John,frmr. The Village farm COMMERCIAL. Graves Septimus P. farmer, Moorlands Wheildon Joseph, farmer, Tubs end Allibone Arthur, tailor Green John, farmer, Blacklands White James, farmer, Herd hill Bond J obn, shopkeeper Norris James, blacksmith Wilkins Orlando,organistatthe Church Brandis Ueorge, shoemaker Pratt George, farmer, Lobbington hall .