DIRECTORY.] LEICESTERSHIRE. BARWELL. 35 BARSBY is a village and lordship in Ashby Folville here in 1887, and a Wesleyan chapeL The poor have parish, 5 miles east-by-south from Syston station on the £27 yearly in clothing from Woollaston's charity_ The Leicester and Peterborough branch of the Midland rail- principal landowners are E. D. Hilliard esq. and John H. way, 3i east-by-north from John O'Gaunt station on the Lee esq. The soil is clayey; subsoil, sand. The land is Great Northern and London and North Western joint almost entirely in ~ass; Stilton cheese is extensively made. railway, 10 north-east from Leicester and 7t south-west The acreage is 1,147; rateable value, £1,707; the popuJa­ from 1\1alton Mowbray, in the Eastern division of the tion in 1901 was 171. county, East Goscot.e hundred, Melton Mowbray union Post Office.-Albert Boden Platts, sub-postmaster. petty sessional division and county court di.,trict and Letters through Leicester, via Hoby, arrive at 7.40 a.m diocese of Peterborough. Barsby lordship is within the & 3.10 p.m.; dispatched at 10.40 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. ; soke of Rothley. By Local Government Board Order a no delivery on sunday. Gaddesby, It miles distant, is detached part of Ashby Folville and South Croxton the nearest money order & telegraph office. were in 1884 transferred to Barsby, and at the same The children of this place attend the school at Ashby date a detached part of Barsby was annexed to South Folville Croxton. The inhabitants attend the church at Ashby Carriers.-William Roberl'>, to Leicester, sat.; Ga.roode, Folville, but there is a Church Mission room, erected of South Croxton, passes through to Melton, tues Quarry Rev. Richard M.A. (vicar of Dilks Sarah (:\Irs.), farmer Pears Alfred, William IV. P.H Gaddesby) Foister Charles, grazier Platts Albert Boden, grocer, & post office COMMERCIAL. Hunt \Villiam, grazier Powell John, grazier Adams Elijah Henry, painter Jones William, grazier Randall Thomas, grazier Amos George, grazier Ladkin Ralph, grazier Roberts William, carrier Bonshor Sarah (Mrs.), grazier Littlewood Charles, blacksmith Rodeley Horace, baker Brown Robert, grazier Mansfield James Davison, carpenter Swan Jame;;, grazier Burgin James, grazier & grazier Thorpe Henry, grazier Dilks Mary (Mrs.), grazier North Thomas, carpenter Walker Thomas, grazier BARTON-IN"-THE-BEANS, see Nailstone. BARWELL is a large village, township and parish, I} this parish, has two wards and will hold 24 patients: it miles north-west from Elmesthorpe station on the Lei­ is managed by a joint committee of the Urban and Rura.l cester and Nuneaton branch of the London and North District Councils. Boots and shoes are largely manu­ Western railway; the Midland railway also run trains factured here. Captain George J. Hooke Pearson, of over this branch; Barwell is 2 north-east from Hinckley, Stoke Albany House, Market Harborough, is lord of the 11 south-west from Leicester and 103 from London, in manor. The soil is various; subsoil, gravel, sand and clay. the 'Western division of the county, Sparkenhoe hundred, The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, peas and roots. :Market Bosworth petty sessional division, Hinckley union The acreage is 2,387; rateable value, £9,098; the population and county court district, rural deanery of Sparkenhoe in 1901 was 2,721 in the civil and 2,925 in the ecclesia')tical (second portion), archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese parish. of Peterborough. The viHage is lighted with gas, supplied Parish Clerk, John N eedharn, who has held the office for from works at Earl Shilton. The church of St. Mary is 50 years and is 95 years of age. a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting Post, M. O. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. & I. of chancel, embattled nave of four bays with clerestory, Office, 60 High street.-George Charles Gilby, Rub­ aisles, north and south porches and embattled western postmaster. Letters arrive through Hinckley at 6.30 &; tower containing a clock and 8 bells, 6 of which were 10.55 a.m. &; 2.45 p.m.; di~patchei at 11 a.m. &; 7.40 cast in 1877: the chancel retains a. sedile and a piscina p.m.; sundays, 11.25 a.m and the east window is partially filled with stained glass: Pillar Letter Boxes, Malt Mill bank, cleared at 10.55 a.m. &; the west window is a memorial to the late H. Frisby and 7.35 p.m.; sunday, 11.20 a.m.; Mill street, cleJ.red at there are others to Charlotte Fredrica. Barrow (d. 1859) 11 a.m. & 7.40p.m.; sunday 11.30a.m and the Rev. Richard Titley M.A. (d. 1892), of Selhurst, Surrey: a mural monument to Richard Breton esq. dated Public Elementary School, High street (mixed & infants), 1659, and brasses to John Torksey (1613), Susanna Stafford erected in 1871 & 1872 & opened in 1873, enlarged in (1676), Robert Seagrave (1734) and Mary Seagrave (1730) : 1885 & 1895; it incorporates the Free school, founded the font is ancient: the church was restored in 1877, at by Alderman Gabriel Newton, of Leicester, & is en· a cost of £813, and an organ chamber was added and the dowed with £26 yearly; the school will hold 350 boys organ reconstructed in 1888, at a cost of £476: the church & girls & 100 infants; average attendance, 300 boys & affords about 400 sittings. In 1898 new churchyard gates girls &; 100 infants; John Batty Elwell, master; Miss were presented by Mrs. Brown of this place. The register Ada Wright, infants' mistres'> dates from the year 1661, but the earliest portions are Wesle-yan, Chapel street (mixed), opened in 1900, for 230 imperfect. 'l'he living is a rectory, with the chapelries children; average atteIldance, 202; Wm. Wills Hill, master of Staple ton and Potters Marston annexed, joint net yearly Carriers to:- value £650, including 168 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of and held since 1865 by the Rev. Richard Titley Leicester-William Green, daily; David Cox, mono wo>Ll. M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and J.P. The Wes- & sat.; Mrs. Elizabeth Ward, mono wed. frL & sat leyan chapel, erected in 1903-4, will seat 730: the Primitive Hinckley-Enoch Botterill & Thomas Peace Herbert, daily Methodist chapel, erected in 1902-3, has 500 sittings. An omnibus from Hinckley, daily, arriving about 2.25 p.m_ Two acres of land in Brockey lane was purchased in 1898 en route for Earl Shilton; returning about 3.30 p.m. for a cemetery. The charities are of the annual value of for Hinckley about £17. The Hinckley Isolation Hospital, situated in Police, Thomas Martin, 57 Shilton road, constable PRIVATE RESIDENTS. I Arguile George, tailor, Shilwn road Bennett George Sellars, boot & s~oe Brown Mrs. 105 High street Arguile M~y (Mrs:), shopkeeper & manufacturer, see Smith & Bennett Crick William Throne Hi"hfield house beer retaIler, 87 Hlgh street Birch Edward, furn. dealer, 48 High st Frisby Thos. Hy. R~d h~ll, Shilton rd Arguile Mary Ann (Mrs.), dress maker, Boneham Hy. cowkpr. Barwellside gate Garner Harry, 11 Shilton road Qu.een s~r~t . Bonham Wllliam, confectioner, 27 Mill st Geary Albert, 35 High street Argwle Wliliam, draper, 59 Hlgh stree~ Bonser George Burdett & Co. boot Geary George, 37 High street Baker George Fred, shopkeeper, 3<> manufacturers, King street Harris Thomas, The Elms, Brockley lanp, Stapleton lane llotterill Enoch, carrier, 45 The Common Moore Amos, 10 Chapel street Barwell Crick~t Club (A. Herbert, hon. Breward Oliver, boot manufacturer, see Punshon George 64 .Mill street sec.), 65 Shilwn road Garner, White &; Breward Smith William, is6 High street Barwell. ~ Distri~t Be?-efit Nursing Brewin Alfred, farmer,MountPleasant fm Titley Rev. Alfred John Gardner M.A. Assoclation (Miss Tltley, Barwell Brewin John, farmer, Hinckley lane (curate), 103 High street rectory, hon ..sec:), Church lan~ (postal address, Hinckley) Titley Rev. Richard M.A., ;f.P. Rectory, Ba:.::well ~. DIStrlot Co-operative So- Bryan John, boot&; shoe dealer1 High st Church lane clety Luruted (G. Geary, se::!.), 106 Carnall George Wm. draper, HIgh street Ward William Lea house I &; 124 High street & 2, 4 & 20 Chapel st Clamp George, shopkeeper, 32 High st , Barwell &; District Liberal Club Co. Clow J ;>hn, ::lllOe maker, 4 Mill street COMMERCIAL. I Limited (John R. Abbott, sec.), 50 Cobley John, blacksmith, 28 Chapel st AlIen Thomas E. corn dealer, 49 Mill st High street Cox David, carrier, 12 Shilton road Archer Thomas, carpenter, 13 Shilton rd Beale Alexander, farmer, Barwell fields Crick Willia n Throne M.R.C.S.Eng., Arguile, Grewcock & Ward, boot & Bennett & Co. shoe manufacturars, 114 L.R.C.P.LUIld. phy:>ici3.11 & surgeon, shoe manufacturers, 6 Mill street I High street Highfiell houstl .. ~ LEICS. & RUT. 3* .