DIRECTORY.] NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. BRIXWORTH. 43 Wall Letter Box, Nobottle, cleared at 4.30 p.m. week master ; Mrs. Dickinson, mistress ; & Miss Belton, days only infants' mistress -- Public Elementary School, Little Brington (mixed & Carriers to Northampton. John Yeomans, Little Bring­ infants), enlarged in 1892-3 at the cost of Earl Spencer ton, wed. & sat. & Mrs. Isabella Stowe & Son & & now holding 180 children; average attendance, boys Wm. Geo. Threadgold, Great Brington, wed. & sat & girls, 120; infants, 35; Tom Franklin Dickinson, • GREAT BRINGTON. Threadgold Wm.Geo. grazier&carrier Manning Sophia (Mrs.), baker & gcr Goodall Mrs. Spencer cottage Treadgold John, gardener to Lady Middleton George, farmer Bumpbery Lady, The Cottage Hnmphery Redley J ames, butcher Martin Rev. William B.D. Rectory Stowe Isabella (Mrs.) & Son, carriers Spokes Mary (Mrs.), farmer Morley Alexander Lucy Yea Woolman William, boot maker Williams Waiter, blacksmith W orley Richard, shopkeeper I W orley George, grazier COMMERCIAL. LI'rl'LE BRINGTON. I Wykes Alfred, assessor & collector of _\lthorp Estate Office (Alexander taxes, St. J ames' place L. Y. l\Iorley, agent) Alien William Clarence Hanwell,l Wykes Arthur Edwin, assistant over­ Beard Frederick D. & Son, tailors White house seer & rate collector Dixon William, farmer Garratt John, The Laurels Wykes John Webb, estate agent, sur­ Gouda Charles, blacksmith Lewis J ames veyor, valuer & farmer Harris Charles Albert, grocer Wykes Rev. Theophilus (Baptist), Yeomans Jn. Britannia inn, & carrier Kimbell Eaton, farmer, The Grange Woodbine cottage Morley Alexander Lucy Yea, agent to Wykes John lYebb, The Cedars ~OBOTTLE. Earl Spencer K.G COMMERCIAL. Ashby Charles, grazier Phillips Wm. farmer, Rectory farm Bates William Oliver, Ye Olde Sara- Cave George William, farmer, No- Reading Room & Library (Edward J. cen's Head inn bottle grange Anderson, sec) Gilbert Thomas, insurance agent Darker George, gamekeeper to Earl Shears Wait. Jas. Fox & Hounds P.H Little Brington Industrial & Provident. Spencer K.G Spokes Harry .Alfred, farmer Society Limited HPygate Frederick H. fanner Threadgold Thomas, jun. farmer Lowick Richard Manning, farmer Redley William, farmer BRIXWORTH is a parish and head of a union, on mansion of stone, and at present occupied by T. Guy the road from Northampton to !Market Harborough, with Paget esq. Lady Wantage, of Lockinge Park, Berks, a station I mile west from the village on the Northamp- Vere Wayte Wood esq. and Sir V ere Isham bart. J.P. of ton and Market Harborough branch of the London and Lamport Hall, are owners of the manor, which is divided North Western railway, although Spratton station is into three portions. Lady Wantage, Alfred Andrew the nearest for passengers to New Brixworth; Brixworth Andrew esq. of The Chantry, Sawbridge-worth, Herts, is 6! miles north from Northampton, in the Mid division V. W. Woods esq. and Richard Timms esq. of North­ of the county, hundred of Orlingbury, petty sessional ampton, are the chief landowners. The soil is mainly division and county court district of Northampton, rural Northamptonshire sandstone with ironstone and a little deanery of Rothwell (third portion), archdeaconry of clay; subsoil, stone. The parish produces large quan­ Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. In the tities of iron ore; skulls, Roman and Saxon pottery, winter months the village is lighted by oil lamps, the and other ancient relics have been found in the course cost being defrayed by voluntary contributions. The of excavations. The chief crops .are wheat, barley and church of All Saints, supposed to have been originally grass. The area is 3,143 acres; rateable value, £9,176; erected about the year 68o, is an edifice of stone and the population in 1901 was 1,123, including 5 officers Roman bricl•s, presumed to be of Saxon construction, and 66 inmates in the workhouse. with additions in later .styles, and consists of chancel, Parish Clerlr, John 'William Warwick. clerestoried nave, south chapel of Early English character and a western tower with pinnacles and spire containing Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Thomas Holt, sub-postmaster. 5 bells, dated 1522 and l68g, which during 1900_5 were Letters arrive from Northampton at 6.2 a.m. & 1.40 quarter-turned, tuned and rehung in new frames at a p.m. ; dispatched at 12·35 & 6.25 p.m. Money order cost of £ 177 : on the western side of the tower is a office open from 9 to 6 & telegraph office from 8 to circular turret containing a staircase of Saxon work 8; sundays, 8.3o to IO a.m of a later date than the rest of the building: the clock Wall Letter Box, near School, cleared 6 p.m. week was placed in 1897, at a cost of £8o, in commemoration days; 11.50 a.m. sundays of the Diamond Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Police Station, Sergeant Campion, in charge Victoria: during the restoration in r866 the bases of circular columns were met with in the area of the BRIXWORTH RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. tower, and are believed to have formed part of the Meets at the Brixworth Guardians' Board room, Work- Romar;t building which once stood here, th~ materials house, every alternate thursday. of wh~ch appear to. h~ve been largely used m. the con- Clerk, Wm. Chas. Woodford, sr Market sq.Northampton struction of ~he ex1stmg church: a s?l~ll rehquary of 1 Treasurer, Alfred Page, Northampton stone, enclosmg a wooden box, contammg human re- Medical Officer of Health Rayner Winterbotham mains, _was ~iscovered about ~Bog in the wa!l of ~he ' M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Brixworth south a1sle: m 1884 some medueval masonry, mcludmg Hiohway Surveyor William H. Wykes Elysium terrace the base of a stone cross, w~s found in the south-east Northampton ' ' ' part of the churchyard, and m 1897 the base of a Saxon 1 Sanitary Surveyor & Inspector Arthur Lewis, Hill Side, cross, bearing a Scandinavian legend; during the period Brixworth ' 1900-9 the nave. roof, south chapel, tower, spire and BRIXWORTH UNION. turret were repaned at a cost of £1,462: there are 470 1 sittings. The register of burials dates from the year The Board meet every alternate thur~day at th_e Board 154-6; baptisms, 1562; marriages, 1565. The living is a room .at the Workhouse. The Umon c~mpm;;es ~he discharged vicarage, net yearly value £219, including followmg places :-Althorp, Bought{)n, Brmgton, Bnx- 170 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the I worth, Chapel Brampton, Church Brampton, Cold Bishop of Peterborough, and held since 1896 by the Ashby, Coton, Cottesbrooke, Draughton, East Haddon, Rev. Alfred Katenbeck Pavey M.A. of Hertford College, Faxton, Great Creaton, Guilsborough, Hanging Hough- Oxford, rural dean of Rothwell (third portion), and ton, Hannington, Harlestone, Has~lbeech, Holcot, chaplain of Brixworth Union. The Wesleyan Methodist Holdenby, Hollowell, Lamport, Ma1dwell, Mawsley, chapel here was erected in x8u, and enlarged in 186o. Moulton, Moulton Park, Naseby, Old or Wold, Over- The poor's land yields about £4-o yearly, which sum is stone, Pitsford, Ravensthorpe, Scaldwell, . Spratton, for distribution. The church land produces £x6 yearly; Teeton, Thornby & Walgrave. The populatiOn of the Thomas Roe's charity of £135 a year provides for edu- union in 1901 was u,829; area, 63,647 acres; rateable cational purposes and was divided in equal propor- value in 1910, £nx,831 tions between Brixworth and Scaldwell, but has now Clerk to Guardians & Assessment Committee, William been suspended by the Education Authorities. The old Charles Woodford, 31 Market square, Northampton village school is now used as an institute for men and Treasurer, Alfred Page, Northampton youths. A fair used to be held annually on the Monday Medical Officers & Publio Vaccinators, No. 1 district, next after Ascension day, but is now discontinued. The Rayner Winterbotham M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. l>ennels of the Pytchley hunt are here; :Monday, Wednes- Brixworth; No. 2 & No. 3 districts, David Elder day, Friday and Saturday are the hunting days; North- Walker M.B., C. :M. Guilsborough; No. 4 district. ampton, Market Har1borough and Rugby are convenient Waiter Smartt F.R.C.S. & L.R.C.P.Irel. Moulton; 1 places for hunting visitors. Brixworth Hall, the property , No. 5 district, William John Franklin Churchhouse of Vere Wayte Wood esq. is an ancient quadrangular 1 L.R.C.P.Edin. Long Buckby .