Bt. ... CKFOBDBY. LEICESTERSHIRE (KELLY'8 BLACKFORDBY is a civi( parish and comprises Albion Clay Co. Limited are the principal landowners. The the villages of Blackfordby and Boothorpe, on the borders soil of the parish is mixed; the higher portion is on the ~f Derbyshire, nearly 2~ miles north-west from Ashby­ sandstone, the subsoil generally being of clay and gravel; de-Ia-Zouch station on the' Midland railway and 120 from a considerable part of the parish'is laid down in grass, but London, in the Western division of the county, West the chief crops are oats, wheat and barley. The area of Goscote hundred; union, petty sessional division and county the ecclesiastical parish contains 1,662 acres; and the civil court district of Ashby-de-Ja·Zouch, rural deanery of West parish 1,239 acres; rateable value, £4,786; the population Akeley, archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peter­ of the civil parish ih 1911 was 517, and of the ecclesiastical borough. By Local Government Board Order a cetached 1,298, which extends into Derbyshire. part of Over and Nether Seal was in 1884 trtnsferred Post & M. O. Office:-Thomas Brooks Shorthose, sub post­ to this parish. The ecclesiastical parish was formed Feb. master. Letters through Burton-on-Trent. There are' 15, 1876, by Order in Council, of Blackfordby chapelry deliveries at 8.30 a.m. & 2.15 p.m. (except wednesday) & and parts of Holy Trinity, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Woodville dispatches Qf letters on week-days at 8.30 a.m. & 2.15 und Donisthorpe ecclesiastical parishes. The church of & 6.45 p.m.; no sunday delivery. Woodville, about a St. Margaret., rebuilt in 1858, on a commanding site oc­ mile from the village of Blackfordby, is the nearest cupied by a church since the 11th century, is an edifice telegraph office of grey sandstone, in the Early English styJt. consisting 'Of chancel, nave and a tower at the soutn-\ve3L" angle with Wall Letter Box, at Church, cleared on week days only aC; .a broach spire 100 feet in height and containing one large 8.10 a.m. & 2 & 6.30 p.m bell, which bears the inscriptioll: "Blackfordby church Public Elementary Schools, near the church, erected in bells of 1663 and 1724 helped in making this bell, 1888" : 1889, with a master's house, on a site given by Major the stained west window was erected at the expense of Robertson Aikman, for 71 boys & girls & 46 infants; the Right Hon. Sir Matthew Ingle Joyce, of Abbot's Oak, Benjamin Jenkins, master; Mrs. Jenkins, mistress Whitwick: the church affords 300 sittings. The earliest Clerk to Parish Council & Assist,ant Overseer, Edwin Brad- register, commencing from February 20th, 1653 (old style), bury, Moira road, Woodville was restored to the church by the Right Hon. Sir M. I. J oyce, after being rebound at his expense. The later registers of baptisms date from 1854; marriages, 1876; The BOUNDARY is a civil parish and straggling village in burials, 1813. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value th~ ~cclesiastical parish, on the Ashby 'and Burton road, .£200, with residepce, in the gift of the Earl of Loudoun, about half a mile north-west of the church, and lies partly .and held since 1912 by the Rev. Benjamin Kenyon L.Th. of in Leicestershire and partly in the county of Derby; a Durham University, who is also vicar of Smisby, Derbyshire: large portion of the village is contained in Blackfordby, 'The vicarage ,house, erected in 1878, close by the church, Hartshorn and Smisby, and outside the civil limits. Here is -'occupies a beautiful site given by the Earl of Loudoun. a Congregational chapel, built in 1855, and has 200 sittings. '"There is a small Wesleyan Methodist chapel iri the yillage of The area is 4 acres; assessable value, £86; the population Blackfordby. There are charities of 3Os. yearly value for in 1911 was 64. For civil purposes this parish is in Derby- . bread, besides the Ross Charity, amounting to about £6 shire. ' . yearly. and the greater part of Blackfordby, having been Wall Letter BoX!, Boundary, cleared at 7.55 a.m. & 6 p.m. ~riginally in the parish of Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch, the poor week days only. Jlarticipate in all its charities equally with the poor of that town. There are large brick, sanitary pipe and pottery I BOOTHORPE is within the parish of Blac~fordby, ·-works at Woodville, a port.ion of which is within the parish. and the hamlet of Boothorpe lies three-quarters of a mile "'"The Earl of Loudoun, who is lord of the manor, John H. E. south-west from Blackfordby church. ,Smith esq. the Right Hon. Sir :Matthew lngle Joyce and the Verger, William Hall. ' . BLACKFORDllY. Armson John, cowkeeper Middleton John, greengrocer - Names marked thus * should be Bailey George, farmer Middleton Thomas, coal dealer addressed Ashby-de-Ia-Zouch. Benbow William, farm bailiff to Albion Pickering lIarold, farmer Clay Co. Ltd. Boothorpe (postal Pickering Neville, boot repairer PRIVATE RESIDE~TS. address, Woodville, Burton-on-Trent) Redfern Percy, farmer, Boothorpe Joyce Geoffrey, Blackfordby hall. *Brodribb Albt. Edwd. farmer, Moira rd *Ward William, grazier, Norris hill Kenyon .Rev. Benjamin L.Th. [VICar], Ellis John, .cowkeeper Western Edwd. cowkpr. Boothorpe lane • The VIcarage ,*Huner Joseph, farmer, Drift farm " Lawton Robert, Boothorpe (postal ad- Illsley Joseph, Blue Bell P.R .* dress, Woodville, Burton-on-!ren.t) Joyce Geoffrey, farmer, Blackfordby hall BOUNDARY. Manners :s:arry Posnette, Norns HIll ho Joyce Henry, farm bailiff to Hartshorne Hodson William, farmer "Newbold Miss & Seals Rural District Council Johnson Joseph, insurance agent COMMERCIAL. Langford William, Black Lion P.R Thornley Ann Elizh. (Mrs.), Red Lion inn .. Adcock Ambrose, cowkeeper Locker Josiah, farmer Yates William, insurance agent ~:BLASTON ST. MICHAEL and ST. GILES, in the gift of the trustees of Mrs. Fenwicke, and held since 'in a valley 1i miles north-east from ]Iallaton station on 1905 by the Rev. Charles Wolfe Murray. The register dates !the Market Harborough and Newark jomt line of the Great from the year 1619. The church of St. Michael, rebuilt Northern and London and North Western railways. 3 north in 1867-68, is a small building of stone jn the Gotlric style, Trom Medbourne station on the Blisworth and Stamford consisting of nave, with a western turret containing one branch of. the London and North Western railway, 5 miles bell: there are 50 sittings. The living is a donative, an­ south-west from Uppingham and 8 north-east from nexed to the r.ectory of Hallaton, joint net yearly value Market Harborough, conjointly form a village and town- £447, including 466 acres of glebe, in the alternate gift of ship, but are ecclesiastically separate parishes, in the the trustees of the late W. Heygate esq. and the trustees of . fSuuthem division of the county, Gartree hundred, East, the late Calverly T. Bewicke esq. l.P. and held since 1907 ~N(9lCton petty sessional division, union and county comt by the Rev. Thomas James Preece, of St. Catharine's College, ,rlistriet of Uppingham, rural deanery of Gartree (third Cambridge, and surrogate, who resides at Hallaton. There "portion" arch deaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peter- is a yearly charity of £12 lOs. left by Valentine Goodman, borough. The church of St. Giles, rebuilt in 1877, by the in 1685, to the most indigent and needy of this parish, being 'late Rev. G. C. Fenwicke M.A. a former rector, at a cost one of four parishes named by him. The Manor House is . of £1,250, as a memorial to his parents, the Rev. George the property and residence of Mrs. Maudslay, and Blaston "..()usley Fenwicke, of Blaston and rector of Rearsby, and Hall is now occupied by Mrs. E. A. Hardcastle. The prin- Elizabeth Annie his wife, is a small building of stone in' cipallandowners are the trustees of the late Mrs. Fenwicke, 'the Gothic style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, south Thomas Augustus Hardcastle esq. and Robert H. Price-Dent porch and. a t.urret containing one hell; in the apse are esq. The soil is black earth and stiff clay; subsoil, clay, three stained lancet windows' and all the other windows chiefly grazing land. The chief crops are wheat, beans, .m-e also filled with stained glass: at the north side ls a brass oats and roots. The area is 1,287 acres; rateable value, recording the erection of tl1e church: the communion plate £2,005; the population in 1911 was 95, of which 59 were in ,includes a medireval silver parcel-gilt chalice, c. 1500, 5! the ecclesiastical parish of St. Giles. ',oches in ~eigbt, with a conical bowl, tzilt on the insi~e: Sexton of St. Giles and St. Michael, Ebenezer Marlow. the stem 18 hexagonal and the foat mullet-shaped Wltl1 knops of the letter" 1\1 " surmounted by a marguerite and Letter Box cleared at 5.30 p.m. week days only. Letter engraved in one compartment with a crucifix:; it was Box at cross roads cleared at 6.15 p.m. Letters through restored about 1845, and exhibited· to the Soc. Antiq. Lond. TJppingham arrive at 1.30 a.m. Hallaton is the nearest in November, 1885: thertl are 100 sittings. The register money order office. Horninghold is the nearest telegraph .date3 from the year 1676. The living is a rectory, nef, office • yearly income £150, with 32 <'Cres of glebe, now let for £40. 'fhe children of this place attend school at Hallaton .