• OIRECI'ORY.] LEICESTERSHIRE. BARKBY. 31 Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Herbert Miles, sub-postmaster. There was formerly a school here, founded by Viscount Letters through Leicester arrive at 6.35 a.m. ; dispatched, Maynard in 1760, for 16 scholars & endowed with a 1.45 & 8.30 p.m. ; no sunday delivery house for the master & £8 yearly; the Council &hool Wall Letter Box, Railway Station, cleared at 8.45 p.m. now stands on its site week days only Public Elementary School (mixed), for 260 children; average Railway Station (Leicester & Burton), John Witts, station attendance, 200 ; J. C. Williams, master ; Miss Edith master Dexter, infants' mistress Baclham Re 'I". Henry B. A. [curate] Desford Coal Co. Umited (Emest New Bagworth Coal Co. Limited (The) Emmerson Jabez Bramall, manager) Percival Joseph, shopkeeper Price Ernest William, Bagworth hall Dilks Oliver, farmer Percival Thomas, carter Ellis Joseph & Sons Ltd. lime merchants Pickering Arthur Edward, hair dresser COMMERCIAL. Farmer Maurice, farmer Prime William, shopkeeper Hill Sidney, farmer Radford Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper Bagworth Brick Co. Limited Holt James, The Barrel! inn Scott Edith Ada (Mrs.), Plough P.H Bevin John Sanders, farmer, The Laurels Kennewell Frederick, shopkeeper Smith Clara (Mrs.), dress maker Bloxsom Thomas Morton, farmer Lees William, shopkeeper Smith William, blacksmith & johmaster Coalville Working Men's Co-operative Miles Herbt. shopkeeper, & post office Sperry Joseph, farmer Society Limited Miles John, farmer Starbuck John Hy. Maynard Arms hotel Cramp Waiter James, boot repairer Moore Emma (Mrs.), dress maker BARDON is a parish, with a station (Bardon Hill) for the production of granite for macadamising. Mrs. <Jn the Leicester and Burton branch of the Midland rail­ Perry-Herrick, of Beau Manor Park, is the sole landowner. way, 7 miles south-east from Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Bardon Hall, a fine mansion, is the residence of Breedon 10 north-west from Leicester, in the Mid division of the Newland Everard esq. The soil is various ; subsoil, granite county, Sparkenhoe hundred, Ashby-de-la-Zouch union, and clay. The area is 1,351 acres ; rateable value, £5,028 ; county court district and petty sessional division. The the population in 1891 was 69, and in 1901, 567, the in­ church of St. Peter, erected in 1898-9, as a memorial of crease being caused by a portion of Hugglescote parish Mr. and Mrs. Breedon Everard and ecclesiastically attached being added to Bardon Park in 1893, and the erection of a t.o Hugglescote, is a building of Bardon Hill granite, wit.h number of new cottages. Doulting stone dre8sings, in the English Geometrical Deco­ In January, 1911, part of Copt Oak was ecclesiastically rated style, consisting of chancel, with organ chamber annexed to Bardon. and vestry, nave, south transept, north aisle, a western Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & A. & I. Office.-Cbarles narthex, serving as a baptistery, and a western turret Lock, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Leicester containing 3 bells : the organ cost £290: there are sittings at 6.35 a.m. ; dispatched at 7.5 p.m. ; no delivery on for 200 persons. The churchyard was consecrated by the sunday. The Bardon Hill railway station also receive Bishop of Peterborough, May 13th 1908. Services are & dispatch telegrams. This office is open on sundays conducted by the Rev. Reginald Percy Farrow :M.A. of from 8.30 to 10 a.m Queen's College, Oxford, who has been curate in charge Railway Station, Thomas Allen, station master since 1910, the expenses being defrayed by Messrs. Ellis Public Elementary School, under the Education Committee and Everard and Mrs. Perry-Herrick, of Beau Manor Park. of the Leicestershire County Council (mixed), built in Here is a Congregational chapel, founded in 1662, and has 1895 by Messrs. Ellis & Everard & Mrs. Perry-Herrick, 250 sittings. The quarries here, belonging to Messrs. at a cost of £1,400, for 190 children ; average attendance, Ellis and Everard, are said to be the largest in the country 160 ; Harry Wood Pain, master (Marked thus * receive letters COMMERCIAL. Hincks George, farmer (postal address, through Markfield). Bardon Hill " Granite " Cricket Club Whitwick, Leicester) (W. G. M. Bailey, sec. & treas) *Hirst Charles, farm bailiff to Mrs. PBIVATB RESIDENTS. Bradley Thomas, f"-rmer (postal address, Perry-Herrick, Kellams farm Chambre Capt. WaiterS. B.N. Bardon lo Whitwick, Leicester) Jackson Thomas K. farmer, Bardon hill Drummond Mrs. Battle flat Cooper Chas. Ernest, farmer, Station frm Lock Charles, shopkeeper, Post office Everard Breedon Newland, Bardon hall *Cottrell Henry, head gardener to B. N. Middleton T. Harold, assistant overseer, Everard Mrs. Bardon house Everard esq Forest place Farrow Rev. Reginald Percy :M.A. Dean John, miller, Battle flat Middleton Tom, carpenter, Forest hou~e [curate in charge], The Parsonage *l'dan Thomas, farmer Neale John, farmer, Battle flat Haddon Rev. Chas. [Cong.], Forest lodge Ellis & Everard, granite merchants, Reading Room (W. G. M. Bailey, sec) Hopwood Rev. John Albert [Congre- Bardon hill & Markfield quarries Rudkin Frederick Snow, Birch Tree P.H gational], The Manse Ellis Frank, butcher Saunders William, shopkeeper Ward John l.P. Woodside *Fantam Richard, farmer, Old hall Tracey Samuel Geo. cowkpr. Battle flat Weston Mrs. Battle flat Fantam William, farmer, Battle flat Williamson William Smith, farmer, Granite Sick & Benefit Society (James Forest House farm C. Williamson, sec) BARKBY is a township, parish and pleasant village, alterations during the past few years. The principal 2 miles south-east from Syston station on the main line landowners are George William Pochin esq. n.L., l.P. who is of the Midland railway and 5 north-east from Leicester, lord of the manor, Merton College, Oxford, and Capt. in the Eastern division of the county, East Goscote W. G. Lillingston, of Ulverscroft. The soil is sand and hundred, Barrow-upon-Soar union, Leicester petty ses­ clay; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, sional division and county court district, rural deanery oats and pasturage. The area of the township is 1,809 of Goscote (second portion), archdeaconry of Leicester acres of land and 9 of water ; rateable value, £5,618 ; the and diocese of Peterborough. The church of St. Mary population in 1901 was 682 in the township and 750 in the is a large edifice, in the Early English style of the 14th ecclesiastical parish. century, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower with lofty spire containing 5 bells BARKBY THORPE is a hamlet and township one-third and a clock, provided in 1898, at a cost of about £90 : of a mile south from Barkby; the area is 955 acres ; rate­ there is a memorial window to Major-General Johnstone able value, £1,031 ; the population in 1901 was 68. and Rebecca his wife, dated 1857, and numerous tablets In this township is also the lordship and hamlet of to the Pochin family : the church has been restored and Hamilton. a new pulpit erected. The churchyard was considerably Parish Clerk, David Illston. enlarged in 1887 by public subscription. The register Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Kate Hitchcox, sub­ -dates from the year 1539. The living is a discharged postmistress. Letters from Leicester arrive at 7.15 a.m. & vicarage, net yearly value £140, arising from 152 acres of 5.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 9.50 a.m. & 7.5 p.m. ; no glebe, with residence, in the gift of George William Pochin delivery on sunday esq. and held since 1897 by the Rev. Charles Henry Clark. Wall Letter Box in Village cleared at 9.45 a.m. & 6.55 There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels p.m. & another between Barkby & Syston cleared at here. A cemetery of two acres has been formed at a cost 9.55 a.m. & 7.10 p.m of £900 ; it is under the control of a joint burial conunittee Public Elementary School (mixed), for 140 children; average of Barkby Parish Council and Barkby Thorpe Parish attendance, 71; Miss Jane Croft, mistress; Miss Barbara Meeting. Barkby Hall, the residence of George William Cree, infants' mistress Pochin esq. is situated in extensive grounds near the cburch ; Carrier to Leicester.-Martin Luther Richardson, wed. it is a plain stone building and has undergone extensive & sat .