DIRECTORY. ] LEICESTERSHIRE. ELLISl'OWN. 73 Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office.- 80 child'ren; average attendance, S9; Thomas John- Robert Lord, sub-postmaster. Letters through Grant- son, master ham arrive at 9 a.m. ; dispatched at 4 p.m. week days Oarriers.-Robert Harrisan, t<> Grantham, sat.; to Mel- only. The nearest telegraph office is at Knipton, 3 ton Mowbray, tues.; William Hubbard, to MeltOl), miles distant Mowbray, tues.; to Grantham, wed. &; sat.; Thoma& Nat,ional School (mixed), was enlarged in 1874, to hold Pearson, to Grantham, wed. & sat Beastall Thomas Matthew 100ulson In. Wm. clerk to parish cncl Pearson Thos. carrier &; shopkeeper Beastall Thos. Matthew, jun. Ivy bnk Gigson Robert, harness maker Rogers Ann (Mrs.), frmr. & landowny Paynter Maj. Geo. J.P. Eaton ~range Harrison Robt. carrier & coal dealer Rowbotham Geo. :miller (wind) & bky Rivington Rev. Theodore M.A. (vicar) Hubbard Matthew, butcher & farmer Shelton Ann (Miss), farmer COMMERCIAL. Hubbard William, carrier Shipman Andrew, farmer Beastall Thomas Matthew, farmer ; J ackson Oatherine (Mrs.), & WaIter, Singleton Henry, shoe maker Beastall Thomas Matthew, jun. far- bakers &; grocers Thl)rpe William, farmer mer, Ivy bank JackllOn George, farmer Throssell Charles, farmer Brewen Richd. threshng.machne.ownr Lord John, carpenter Throssill WaIter, Castle hotel Oemetery [Lord Robert, cowkeeper, Post office Watchorn Albert, butcher Ooulson George, tailor Parr Samuel, blacksmith &; grazier Wild Elizabeth (Mrs.), & Edwd.frmn EDMONDTHORPE is a village and parish on thf! gift of Mrs. Smith, widow of Edward Smith esq. M.P. Rutland border, with a station (Edmondthorpe and Wy- in 1769; one large chalice, the gift of Bridget, 3rd wife­ mondham) on the new line' from Saxby to Bourne, 2i of Sir Edward Smith bart. in 1699, and a smaller chalice­ miles east from Whissendine stativn on the Sy,ston and without mark: in 1875 the church was thoroughly Peterborough and Ket:tering- and Nottingham line, both restored, and affords 300 sittings. The register dates from being branches of the Midland! railway, 6 north from the yea.r 1630' The living is a rectory, net yearly value Oakham and 8 east-by-south from Melton Mowbray, in £300, with residence and 63 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Framland, the Lord Ohancellor, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Melton MOWlbray p€'tt,y sessiunal division, union and Lindsey Neville Knox M.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford. county court, district, rural deanery of Framland (second Sir Edward Smith bart. gave, in 1687, £10 to be­ port~on), archd<8aconry of Leicester and diocese of Peter- invested for the poor, and in 1720, Sir Edwarcl borough. The Oakham canal passes near, bUb is, not Smith bart. his son and SUCC6iSlSOr, gave £200 to be navigable. The church of St. Michael and All Angels is invested in land for the repair of the church and the an edifice of stone, originally Early English, with por- overplus to the poor. Edmondthorpe Hall, a fine old tions in the Transitional and Dooorated' s,tyles, and con- s,ttruclure, surrounded by pleasure grounds and a park sist,g of chancel, cleTestoried nave, aisles, north porch of 75 acres, is the seat of William Ann Pochin esq. D.L.,. and an embattled' western tower, with pinnacles, contain- J.P. who is lord' of the manor and owner of most of the­ ing a clock and 3 bells, two of which are dated 1665 and land. The land is chiefly grazing. Stilton cheese was 1776: in the south aisle are various m<8morials of the formerly made here. The svil is chiefly red loam and Heriz or Smith family of Withcote, Husbands Bosworth clay; subsoil, clay. The area is 1,800 acres j rateable­ and Edmondthorpe, including one with fuU-Iength recum- value, £3,045; the popUlation in 1891 was 251. bent marble effigies to Sir Roger Smith, knight<8d at Parish Clerk, Tom Simpkin. Whitehall, 13 July, 1641; ob. 1655, and Jane (Heron), Post Office.-Miss Emma Worsdale, sub-postmistress. ob. 1599, and Arma (Goodman), ob. 1652, his wives; Letters through Oakham arrive at 7.55 a.m.; dis- there are also marble busts of his two sons, Edward, patched 5.20 p.m. week days only. Postal orders are ob. 1632 and another, oh. 1646; and handsome marble issued here, but not paid. The nearest; money order tablets to other members of the Smith family, dating &; telegraph office is at Wymondham, I! miles distant from 1672 t<> 1757: the church plate includes a rich School (mixed), erected in 1838 & rebuilt in 1863 at the- silver paten bequeathed by Dame Olivia (Pepy,s) wife of s-ole cost of William Ann Pochin esq. to hold about 1000 Sir Edward Smith bart. in 1710; another apparently children; average attendance, 30; Miss Edith Ellen older without inscription; two large silver flagons, the Booth, mistress Knox Rev. Lindsey Neville M.A.RctrY!HOlIin John, farm bailiff to W.A. Starling Hrbt. Wm. grcr. & beer retl~ Pochin Mrs. Edmondthorpe hall Pochin esq. D.L., J.P Watchorn Samuel, farmer PochinWilliam Ann D.L.,J.P. Edmond- Morley Joseph, farmer Wormall George, grazier &; threshing thorpe hall Sleath Thomas, farmer machine owner Black John Thomas, farmer l ELLISTOWN is a village of modern growth, deriving bridge. Here are Wesleyan Reformed and Primitive Me­ its name from the collieries and brick works, established thodist chapels. Several collieries have been opened in the­ abou\ 1870 by the late Mr. J. J. Ellis, and is one mile district, the largest and most important of which are the­ from Bagworth and Ellistown station on the Leicester Ellistown collieries, connected with which are extensive­ and Burton branch of the Midland railway, and the same brick, sanitary pipe and fire clay works. Here a great distance from Hugglescote station on the London and variety of glazed stoneware, sanitary pipes, plain and orna­ North Western railway, 7 south-east from Ashby-de-Ia- mental red and white bricks, and other building materials. Zouch, 5 nort·h-eas't from Market Bosworth, 12 west are manufactured from clay of the finest possible quality, from Leicester by road and IIO by road and II3 by rail and which with the collieries employ about 800 persons. from London: it was formed into an ecclesia,stical parish from this and the <surrounding villages. The principal in 1896, and comprises Ellistown proper, that portion of landowners are the Ellistown Collieries, the trumees of Ibstock known as Battram, near the Nailstone collieries the late Thomas Guy Paget esq. of Humberstone (d. 1894),. and a portion of Hugglescvte, andl is in the Western the trustees of the late Col. Ellis and of the late Rev. division of the county, union and petty sessional division William Roby Burgin M.A. of Shardlow, Derbyshire. The­ of Market Bosworth, county court district of Ashby-de- population of this village is about 1,7°0. la-Zouch, rural deanery of Akeley (southern divisiun), Verger, John ChaIll!bers. archdeaoonry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. Post &; M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity &; Insurance Office. The church of St. ChriS'topher, erected in 1895, at a cost Whitehill.-William Harris, sub-postmaster. Letters of £1,800, on a site given by the Rev. William Roby through Leicester at 7.20 a.m.; dispatched at 7·30. Burgin, is a building of red brick, with stone dressings, p.m. on week days only. The telegraph office is at in the Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave, west Bagworth station, 2 miles distant porch and a turret containing one bell: there are 270 sit- Wall Letter Box, near the Collieries, cleared lilt 7.40 p.m. tings. The register dates from the year 1896. The living week days only is a vicarage, net yearly value £140, in the gift of the National School (infants), erected in 1881 &; enlarged iD Bishop of Peterborough, and held since 1896 by the Rev. 1899, for 200 children; average attendance, II8; Mrs. William Edward Terry M.A. of Selwyn College, Cam- Lagoe, mistress Ellis I. L. J. The Grange Blower David, jun. shorthand teacher Cooper John, greengrocer Holland Rev. Alex. (Wesleyan Reform) Blower John, cowkeeper, Battram Cramp John, hair dresser & boot ma Terry Rev. Wm. Edwd. M.A. (vicar) Blower Reuben, joiner & builder Darby Edward, cowkeeper & hauliel' Brooks Abraham, shopkeeper &; beer Deacon Thomas, baker &; grocer COMMERCIAL. retailer, South street Derry Thomas, shopkeeper & bakell Barratt Joseph, farm manager to Mr. Brownlow Joseph, brick works mangr Dowell Amos, hairdresser &c G. S. Johnson Chiswell John, beer retailer Erlwards John, fishmonger Biddle John, baker Coalville Working Men's Co-operative Ellistown Collieries, Brick,Pipe &; Fir&­ Bird Sophia (Mrs.), shopkeeper Society Limited (branch) (Arthur clay works, manu~rs.of glazed stone­ Blower David, boot dealer Lockwood, secretary) ware sanitary pipes, ridge & roofing .