88 BELVOIB. LEIOESTER~HIRE. Letters through Grantham arrive at 8 a.m. The nearest BELVOIR RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. money order &; telegraph office is at Woolsthorpe, about. Constituted by an Order of the Leicestershire County 1 mile distant Council, dated 7th of August, 1894, for the following Letter Box cleared at 5.30 p.m.; sunday, 4.30 p.m parishes :-Belvoir, Barkston, Bottesford, Croxton-Ker­ rial, Harston, Knipton, Muston, Plungar & Redmile. The area is 17,871 acres; rateable value, £31,074; the COUNTY MAGISTRATES, BELVOIR PETTY SES­ population in 1911 was 3,256 SIONAL DIVISION. The Council meet monthly, on monday, at the Peacock Rutland His Grace the Duke of (Lord Lieut.), Belvoir castie, hotel, Belvoir, at 2.30 p.m Grantham, chairman Chairman, Duke of Rutland Beasley Charles esq. Harston, Grantham Officials. Hare Thomas esq. Harston, Grantham Clerk to the Council, Aubrey Henry Malim, West gate, 8cott Hon. Henry Robert Hepburne, The Lodge, Knipton, Grantham Grantham Clerk to the Highway Committee, Albert E. Pearson, St. Vinoont-Jackson Rev. Canon William M.A. Bottesford Peter's hill, Grantham Rectory, Nottingham Medical Officer of Health, J. Hastings Glover M.B., c.M.Edin. Wright Frank esq. Plungar, Bottesford, Nottingham Bottesford The Chairman for the time being of the Belvoir Rural District Council is an ex-officio magistrate Highway Surveyor &; Sanitary Inspector &; Surveyor, Richard Clerk to the Magistrates, Arthur Henry Marsh, Bank cham­ John Kettleborrow, Normanton, Nottingham bers, Melton Mowbray BELVOIR OUT-RELIEF UNION. Petty Sessions are held at the Peacock hotel, every alter­ nate monday, at 12 noon. The places in the petty ses­ Under an Ord.. r of the Local Government Board, dated sional division are :-Belvoir, Barkstone, Bottesford, November 26th, 1894, Belvoir was constituted an Out­ Branston, Croxton-Kerrial, Eastwell, Eaton, Harby, Relief Union for the purposes of out-relief, to include the Harston, Knipton, Muston, Plungar, Redmile, Saltby &; following parishes :-Belvoir, Bottesford, Croxton-Ker­ Stathern. rial, IIarston, Knipton, Muston &; Redmi:e. The area is 14,295 acres; rateable value, £27,764; the popUlation in 1901 was 2,995 I1ELVOIR LOCAL PENSION SUB-COMMITTEE OF The Board meet monthly, on monday, at the Peacock hotel, LEICESTERSHIRE. Belvoir, at 2.30 p.m The following places are included in the Sub-Committee's Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Duke of Rutland district :-Barkestone, Belvoir, Bottesford, Branston, Clerk to the Guardians, Aubrey Henry Malim, West gate, Croxton-Kerrial, Eastwell, Eaton, Harby, Harston, Grantham Knipton, Muston, Plungar, Redmile, Saltby & Stathern Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Belvoir district, Meetings are held at Court House, Belvoir, on first monday John Alexander Macdonald M.B., C.M. Woolsthorpe, near in every month. Grantham; Bottesford district, J. Hastings Glover M.B., . ., C.M. Bottesford ChaIrman, The Duke of Rutland, BelvOlr castle, Grantham I Clerk, Arthur Henry Marsh, Bank chambers, Nottingham The children of this place attend the school at Wools- street, Melton Mowbray thorpe Rutland His Grace the Duke of (Lord COMM:1<RCIAL. \Hewitt Jack, huntsman to the Duke Lieut.), Belvoir castle; &; 16 Arlington Divers William H. head gardener, Mearing Frank, architect to the Duke street &; Carlton &; Royal Automobile Belvoir castle of Rutland clubs B W &; Turf club w, London Doubleday Henry, blacksmith IParnham William, Peacock hotel &; Scott Hon. Henry Robert ".P. (agent Fletcher Frederick William, sub-agent to posting house to the Duke), Belvoir castle the Duke, Belvoir castle BESCABY (formerly extra-parocbial) is now a parish, Duke of Rutland is lord of the manor and t.he principal lying between Waltham aJ;ld Saltby, about It miles north- landowner; it contains 1,227 acres, about 300 of which are ea,t from the former, and It miles west from the latter, 7 included within the walls of Croxton Park; rateable value, mile.~ north-east from :Melton Mowbray station and 8 south- £1,046; the population in 1901 was 20. This parish is west from Grantham, in the Eastern division of the county, reputed to be extra-parochial for ecclesiastieal purposes. Melton Mowbray petty sessional division, union and county Letters through Melton Mowbray. The nearest money court district, Framland hundred. The lordship consists order &; telegraph office is at Waltham, about I! miles only of a farmhouse and 3 cottages, but there are many distant moats and foundations of buildings yet visible; in this The children of this place attend the school at Waltham- manor is Holwell Spring, the source of the river Eye. The le-Wolds Ward David, farmer BILLESDON is a small union town and parish, in a I G.C.V.O. and held since 1906 by the Rev. George Christian fertile and pleasant valley, on the road from Leicester to M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford, and chaplain to the Billesdon Uppingham, 4t miles south-west from Tilton station on union. Here is a Baptist chapel, founded in 1813, with the Great Northern and London and North Western joint. 124 sittings, and a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1859 and railway, 3 south-east from Ingarsby on the Great Northern restored in 1892. A cemetery of one acre, formed in 1870, railway, 9 east from Leicester and 10 west-by-north from for BiIlesdon and Rolleston, is controlled by the Burial Uppingham, in the Eastern division of the county, Gartree Board. The Village Hall, erected for the Ancient Order of hundred, East Norton petty sessional division, Tlillesdon IForesters, is now used for public entertainments, and will union, I,eicester county court district, rural deanery of hold about 400 people; it is managed by a limited company. Gartree (third portion), arch deaconry of Leicester and In an open space in the town stands an ancient market diocese of Peterborough. There are three springs which cross, but the market and two fairs are now obsolete. The have their sources in this parish, known as the Billesdon charities amount to about £60 yearly. There are alms­ Brooks, two oi which join near Port Bridge, about 1~ miles houses for four poor widows, who receive about £4 each On the road to Leicester. The church of St. John the Bap- annually. Near the village is an ancient Roman mound tist is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and encampment, covering several acres. The Coplow, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western at present (1912) unoccupied, is situate on a height about tower, with lofty spire, containing 4 bells: there is a me- a mile north of the village, and commands an extensive morial window, erected in 1871, to Jane Elizabeth Schole prospect over a delightful country; the house is surrounded fidd and to the late William Franks esq. the west window by beautiful grounds and plantations, sheltered from the is also stained: and I,here is another in the baptistery, north by a wood, known as " Billesdon Coplow"; on the erected with money collected by the children of the parish south side is a noted fox cover. Sir Frederick F. C. Fowke in 1903: in the chancel is a memorial to Edward Thomas bart. of Lowesby Hall, is lord of the manor. The principal D.D. 46 years vicar, d. Dec. 1836, and to Katherine, his wife, landowners are Orlando Hunt esq. and Edward Williams d. Dec. 1843: a carved rood screen, designed by Mr. T. B. esq. J.P. The soil is stiff heavy clay and loam; subsoil, Carter, archilect, of 5 Staple inn, London, /las been erected clay. 'rhe land is principally in pasture. The area of the by the Fowke family, of Lowesby Hall: the church was township, 2,159 acres; rateable value, £3,878; the popu­ thoroughJy restated in 1865, and affords 400 sittings: new lation in 1911 was 653 (including 8 officers and 39 inmates in fencing and gates were erected around the churchyard in the workhouse), and in the ecclesiastical parish 874. 189§{ The register dates from the year 1579. The living Parish Clerk, William Lewin. is "-vicarage, with the chapelries of Goadby and Roileston I'ost, M. O. &; T. 0., S. B. &; I. &; Telephonic Express Delivery annexed, joint net yearly value £200, including 196 acres of Office.-Henry Payne, SUb-postmaster. Letters arrive glebe, with residence, in the gift of Viscount Churchill through Leicester at 6.30 a.m.; are delivered at 7 a.m. &; .