DIRECTORY.] LEICESTERSHIRE. RATBY. 553 C()-operative Stores Limited (John Hull WilliaIn, plumber, see Tebutt Bawlins (The) Endowed School Henry Smit,hard, manager) & Hull . (Edward Walker Hensman M.A. Cora,h Arthux, baker James William, painter head master; for staff see p. 552) Corlllh Henry, shopkeeper Jesson Vendy Henry, butcher Rue Sidney, beer retailer CuIDing JaInes Sculthorpe, surveyor Kinch Hephzibah (Mrs.),King William Sanders John, saw milLs,& timber dlr &. sanitary in."pector to' Urban Dis­ IV. P.H Sherriff Brothers, grocers triot Council & deputy registrar of King Edwin, grocer Shuttlewood William, ohemis.t births & deat,hs BarrDW sub-district Leslie Walter William, saddler Simpson William, butcher .&; insurance agent London City & Midland Bank Ltd. Speight HeI"bt.Holmes,surveyors' clrk Cupitt ThDma.s, coal dealer (sub-branoh to Loughborough), Squire Archibald, head gardener to Darker SolDmon, registrar of births & open tues. & fri. from 10.30 a.Ill. E. H. Warner esq deaths Quorn sub-district, Barrow­ to I rp.m,; dra.,'Y Dn head office, Sutton John, painter on-SDar union Threadneedle sheet, London E C Swain John, farmer DiJSney J o'hn, shoe maker Lucas Thomas, jun. watch maker Teagle William, s<hDpkeeper Ellis Joseplh' & Sons Limited, coal Lycett Edward, Bull's Head P.H Tebutt & Hull, plumbers Inerchants, QUDrn station Maohin William, beer retailer Temperance Hall, Barrow lane Facer Brothers, joiners Ma-nn John, farmoer Thompson John, builder Faoer Frank, house furnisher Martin Maria (Mrs.), draiJer Thornton William, tailor & draper Fewkes William H. builder ~idlandJ Railway Parcels Receiving Thorton Frederick, insurance agent Forward '.Dhomas, clerk to the Barro" Office (Facer Brothers, agents) Turner Samuel, boot & shoe maker union & Rural District Council Moss John, farmer, Quorn fields Turner William, mill manager Frisby George, grocer N e-ectham J sph. Cooper, WhiteHart P. H Unit·t, James AI'tlhur L.R.C.P,Edin .• Gamble Charles, news agent Nort,h Thos. & Son, grocers, Post Dff M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, & medical Gamble George, builder North Henry H. pianoforte tuner {)fficer & public vaccinator Quorn Grain ..:Hfred, insurance agent Paget William, shopkeeper dist,rict, Barrow-on-Soar union Gumley Thorn a,s , brm bailiff to E. H. Parr's Bank Limited (sub-branch to Village Hall Co. (GeDrge White, sec) Warner esq . Loughborough), open tues. & fri. Waddington George ~.ufred, baker Hack David Smith, shopkeeper from 10 a.m. to I p.m.; draw on Walton Geo. John, White Horse hotel Hack Hannah Mary (Mi,gs), millinOO' head office, Bartholomew lane, Lon­ Ward Lister. butcher & dress maker don EC Webster Th:Jmas, baker Ha.clrett> Harry, boot repairer Pepper Thomas, coal mer. & farmer Webs.ter William, grocer & baker Hands J oseph, jDiner Pries.tley George, lamp & oil dealer We,sley Henry, shopkeeper Hartopp Jas. A. Manor House hotel Quorn Building SDciety (Geo. White, White George, clerk. t{) Urban Di~tl'ict Hebden John, cab proprietor sec) Council & house & estate agent & Hollingswortlh Wm. market gardener Quorndon & Mountsorrel Gas, Coke & sec. to Quorn Building Society Holme,s Thomas, blacksmith Coal Go. (James Camm, manager) Wisehall John Buxton, shopkeeper H01'spool William, builder &c Rawlings WaIter, beer ret. & shopkpr Wright M. & Sons Ltd. elastic web manufacturers, Bridge mill RAGDALE (or Wreakdale) is a village and parish, Wright B.A. of the University of London, rural dean of on the banks of a feeder of the Wreake, 2 miles north Goscote (second portion), and vicar {)i Frisby-on-the­ from Brooksby station on the Syston and Peterborough Wreake, where he resides. The Duke Sforza-Cesarini branch of the Midland railway, 12 north-east from Lei- gives £5 annually to be distributed to the poor of the cestpr and 6 west from Melton ~Iowbray, in the Eastern parish. The old mansion here was formerly a seat of division of the county, East Goscote hundred, Melton the Earls Ferrers: in the large dining room and over Mowbray lwtty sessional division, union and county the front door are the arms of the Shirley family. court district, rural deanery of Goscote (second por- Ragdale Hall is now unoccupied. Col. A. C. Cantrell­ tion), . archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peter- Hubbersty, of Lamcote and Tollerton Hall, is lord of borough. The church of AJl Saints is a building of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is clay; sub­ stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, soil, clay. The land is chiefly pasture; some corn and south aisle, south porch and a low western tower con- root crops are grown. The area is 1,446 acres; rate­ taining 2 bells: in the south aisle is a stained window able value, £1,109; in 1901 the population was IO!. with the emblazoned shields of several of the Earls Parish Clerk, Samuel Frisby. Ferrers, who formerly had a residence in this parish: \Vall Letter Box, cleared at 6,45 p,m. week days only the church was restored in 1874, at the cost of the Letters through Leicester, via Hoby, arrive at 8.30 Duchess Sforza-Cesarini, daughter of Robert, Viscount a.m. The nearest monl'Y order & telegraph office, for TamwoTth: there are 100 sittings. In the churchyard delivery, is at Rearsby & the nearest telegraph office, is a fine and well-preserved stone cross. The register for collection only, is at Brooksby railway station, 2 dates from the year 1640. The living is a donative, net miles distant, which is open on week days only yearly value £40, in the gift of Col. A. G. Cantre11- Public Elementary School (mixed), for 40 children; Hubbersty, and held since 1880 by the Rev. Thomas average attendance, 10; Miss Mary Skinner, mistress Barkl'r John, fa.rmer I Fos-ter Robart, farmer, Old hall I Hatton Herbert, f,armer, Old hall BiddIes Emma (Mrs.), farmer Frisby Charlotte (Mrs.), grazier RATBY is a parish, township and large irn·gularly- stipend of GrO'by chapelry, in the gift of .Mrs. K. H. V. built village, with station on the Leicester (West bridge) Grey, of Sutton Hall, Easingwold, and held since 1902 and Desford branch of the Midland railway, 5 mile!; by the Rev. George Ernest Gilbanks M,~-\,. of Trinity west-bv-north from Leicester and about 8 north-east Coll{'ge, Oxford. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. from Market Bosworth, in the Mid division of the The puor are benefited by certain charities left by county, Sparkenhoe hundred, union of :Market Bosworth, Manfride Sacheverell in 1615, and now (1908) amounting petty sessional division and county COUTt district of to £17 7s. yearly. The mall' population is mainly em­ Leicester, rural deanery of Guthlaxton (first portion), ployed at the Groby quarries. ~o\bout a mile west of archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. the village, on Holywell farm, is a Roman encampment, The church of SS. Philip and James is a large and called" Bm'Y Camp," of about 12 acres, identified by handsome building in the Early Decorated style, con- some archreologists with the Roman station "Ratae": sisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, north porch and a near it is a spring, called "Holywell," the water froIn massive embattled western tower, with pinnacles, con- which has never been known to freeze. Old Hares fann. taining 6 bells; in the chancel is an elaborately carved is a smaller camp, Mrs. K, H, V. Grey is lady of the recessed marble monument to Manfride Sacheverell, manor and chipf landowner. The soil is strong marl; ob. 1615: in the south aisle is a large window with subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and flamboyant tracery of fine character; the font is ancient oats. The area is 2,941 acre~, including Botcheston and of good design: the east window is stained and ... nd Newtown Unthank; rateable value, £8,965; the there is a memorial window to the family of Geary, of population in 1891 "as 1,352 and in 1901, 1,803 in the Old Hares, besides others; in I879-8I the church was civil and 2,731 in the ecclesiastical parish, including 15 restored, new-roofed, re seated and the choir fitted with officials and their families and 187 boys in the oak stalls; a north porch, vestry and organ chamber Desford Industrial School. were added and a stone pulpit erected, at It cost of about £2,500, and further restoration was carried out in I888, at a cost of £I,OOO: there are 500 sittings. The BOTCHESTO~, a hamlet in the parish of Ratby and rpgister dates from the year 174<;. The living is a county court district of Market Bosworth, lies about 7 vicarage with the chapelry of Groby annl'xed, net miles west from Leicester and half-a-mile north-west yearly value £280, including' 81 acres of glebe, from Desford station. on the north side of the old residence, and £100 from the Bradgate estate, as the Leicester and Swannington railway. .