DIRECTORY.) DESFORD 379 in winter, 6 in summer. Communion every alternate PosT OFFICE.-Mr. Mills Mantle, sub-postmaster. Sunday at mid-day. Rev. J. Hy. Savory. Warden.'J, Letters arrive fromMelton at 8-15, and are dispatched Messrs. G. Jones and J. Walker; Harmonium, Mrs. at 5-30 week-days only. Nearest Money Order and Patching; Olerk, Mr. M. Mantle. Hymns A. and M. Telegraph Office at Somerby (2i miles). Hamblin Miss Annie, the School FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. Wild Mrs. Elizabeth, The Grange Hartopp Mrs. Lena&MissFlorence, Barnes John I Evans Evan Lewis Wild John Gardiner, Gartree Hill The Hall J ones Geo, bailiff to Miss Hartopp lodge Laxton John, gamekeeper Patching John Warwick, grzr & bldr Wild Ths. and Son (Thomas jun.) Mantle Mills, shopr, tailor, parish Reid Arthur clerk, and sub-postmaster Walker Jno. & thrshng mchn owner CARRIERS (to Melton Tu.) Savory Rev. Jas. Hy, B.A, Vicarage Ward Mrs. My. Ann & Son (David) Wheat, through from Somerby Wigginton John William, grazier Wigginton John W. DESFORD is a parish and large village situated on Dispensary. A School Board was established in 187 4, rising ground, nearly a mile south from a station on and neat school buildings with master's house were the Leicester and Burton railway. It is 3 miles E. erected at a cost of £2600. There is accommodation by :N. from Market Bosworth, and 8 W. by S. from for 180 children of both sexes. Area, 2343a. 3r. Leicester, 8 N. E. from Hinckley, and 110 from 22p.; rateable value, £4892 2s. ; population in 1881 1 London. The parish is in the Bosworth division, 900. The feast is on the Sunday after November 11. Sparkenhoe hundred, and rural deanery of Guthlax- Barron's Park is a hamlet containing three ton No. 1, Market Bosworth union and County Court farms, about 2 miles E. from Desford. It contains district. It comprises the township of Desford and 415 acres, and about 11 inhabitants. the hamlet of Barron's Park. It is the centre of a ST. MARTIN's CHURCH.-Services on Sunday at County Council district. The Queen, as Duchess of 10-30 and 6-30. Communion first Sunday in month. Lancaster, is lady of the manor of Desford. The R J B A h rrr d M H B · · 11 d h R h T f ev. re er, B. A. rr ar ens, essrs. • pnnmpa an owners are t e ector, t e rustees ° Chamberlain and W. B. Headley; Hon. Organist, Mrs. Barnes' Charity1 the Rev. F. Chamberlain, Mrs. Archer; Olerk, David Mansfield. Hymns A. and M. Smeeth, Messrs. G. Paul, T. T. Paget, Arthur Fox, and H. B. Chamberlain. St. Martin's is a stone CHAPELs.-GENERAL BAPTIST: Services on Sunday edifice, chiefly ot the Early English and Decorated at 2 and 6. Keeper, Miss Mary Smith. PARTICULAR periods, and comprises chancel, nave, south aisle, BAPTIST, 2 and 6. John Holt. vestry, and western tower, in which are clock and ScHOOL .BoARD.-Messrs. J. Dymock (chairman), three bells, surmounted by crocketted spire. There R. C. Chawner, F. Jordan, A. Swann, and S. Peacock. are some curious windows and an antique font. There Olerk, Mr. Thomas B. Fitch; Master and Mistress, are sedilia in the chancel, a canopied niche in the C. and Mrs. L. T. Davis. north wall, and piscina in the aisle. In 1883 the DESFORD INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. -About a. miLe Church was restored at an expense of £1843, including N. from the railway station, on an elevated site, are the renovation of the chancel, which was defrayed by the Desford Industrial Schools, built at the cost of the late Rector (the Rev. Archibald Fox, of Bufton the Leicester School Board, and opened January, lodge), the balance being raised by general subscrip- 1881. They are in Ratby parish, but in the Desford tion. The nave was newly roofed, the north wall postal delivery. The buildings and grounds occupy rebuilt, and the church generally re-floored and fitted an area of lOO acres, 20 of which are rented. There with open benches. Among the special gifts were is accommodation for 200 boys, who are committed the pulpit, by Mrs. Chamberlain, the lectern by Mr. here by the magistrates' warrant. The average num- Joseph Wilson, and a stained window by Mrs. her of inmates is 190. The cost is nearly £20 a year Cowlishaw. The Registers date from 1559. The per head, defrayed chiefly by Government grant and Jiving is a rectory of the yearly value of £130, de- the School Board. Superintendent and Matron, rived from 110 acres of glebe, with residence, and is Thomas and Mrs. :M:ary Esther Adcock ; Schoolmaster, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. There are General John Thomas Exton; Farm Bailiff, Josiah Whit- and Particular Baptist Chapels. The poor have about more ; Tailor, George Payne ; Slwemaker, Charles £30 a year left by Dr. William Barnes in 1725, and Green ; Olerk, Charles William Robbins. some smaller bequests. The trustees are the rector, PosT, MoNEY ORDER OFFICE & SAVINGS BANK.- churc hwardens, overseers, and three non-official Ed ward Yarnall, sub-postmaster. Letters from trustees (H. B. Chamberlain, G. F. Brown, and R. C. Leicester delivered about 7-10 a. m. ; box cleared at Chawner). There are lodge of Nottingham Imperial 6-15 on week-days, and 6 on Sunday; box at station Order of Odd Fellows, two male and one female sick cleared at 6-40 week-days and 6-30 on Sunday. clubs, also a branch of the Leicestershire Provident Telegraph Office at Desford station. For names at Botcheston and Goodacre Tom Albert, miller's mgr Reid Thos, surveyor, house agent & Newtown Unthank (which are in the Grant Job, agent to J. Ellis & Sons, asst oversr for Desford & Peckleton Desford Postal delivery), see Ratby. railway station, h Glenfield Rust Miss Clara (Ratby) Hobden -, sergt. -major Leicester· Storer John, bag hosier Adcock Thomas, supt of Industrial shire Yeomanry '*Thompson Mrs. Elzh, Forest house School Leicestershire Provident Dispensary Weet John, miller and wheelwright Archer Rev.John Bright, M. A, rector branch (Tu, Th, S, 12 a. m.) Yarnall Edw, saddler and post office Bailey Miss Ann, brdng & day schl Mabes John, chimney sweeper BLACKSMITHS. *Beazeley John E. (builder) Mansfield David, parish clerk and Frith Michael Boulds Benjamin, tailor clock cleaner Gutteridge Thomas, and machinist Brown George Hy, agent Prudential N ealon John Aloysius, M. D, surgeon Potter J ames Clarke Joseph Hy, station master Pateman Arthur, baker BOOTMAKERS. Crowson Miss Mary, hosy mkr & dlr Paul Henry, painter and plumber Burdett Wm. I Forster Thomas Davis Cynlais &Mrs. Lizzie Treherne, Peacock Mr. Samuel Green Chas, I Gregory Wm. & cttgr master and mistress of Board schl Plant Mrs. Ann, stay maker Moore Wm. I Stretton Edward :Moss .