Barkstone le Vale Village Map

 

This map is a combination of two sheets

Extract from White's Leicester & Rutland Directory 1877

Barkestone, or Barkeston, a parish and pleasant village, in the Vale of Belvoir, on the south side of the Nottingham and Grantham Canal, is 9 miles W. by S. of Grantham, 61/2 miles E.S.E. of Bingham, and 11 miles N. by E. of Melton Mowbray. Its parish is in the Framland Hundred, Bingham Union (which is mostly in Nottinghamshire), and County Court District; it contained, in 1871, a population of 330 persons, and comprises 2870 acres of fertile clayey land, about half of which is arable. The rateable value of the parish is £2962. The Duke of Rutland owns most of the soil, and is lord of the manor, which was held at the Conquest by the Todenei family, and passed by them to the Albinis, and from the latter to Lord Roos. It was purchased of the Digbys by the Earl of Rutland, in 1577. The Church (St. John the Baptist) was appointed to Belvoir Priory, and consists of nave, north and south aisles, and chancel. It was enlarged, by the addition of the south aisle, thoroughly repaired, and newly fitted with open seats, in 1840, at a cost of £2364, of which £1000 was given by the Rev. Fredk. G. Burnaby, M.A., a late vicar, £400 by the parish, and the rest by subscription. Most of the nave was rebuilt at that time, and the chancel was re-edified by the Duke of Rutland in 1867. The latter is separated from the nave by a finely carved oak screen, with folding doors. The tower at the west end, containing four bells and surmounted by a spire and four pinnacles. The organ was given by the Rev. F. G. Burnaby, M. A. In the north aisle is a fine marble monument in memory of Daniel Smith, the founder of the free school. The pulpit and reading desk are of oak, the latter being richly carved, and added to the church in 1868. The Duke of Rutland is impropriator of the great tithes and patron of the vicarage, valued in K.B. at £7 5s. 4d., and now at £114, and held by the Rev. John P. Power, M. A., who has a neat residence and 70 acres of glebe. The living was augmented with £200 of Q. A. B. in 1763, and all the tithes and moduses were commuted at the enclosure, in 1791. A farm of 68 acres in this parish, let for £126 a year, was left in 1703 by William Chester in trust that the rent should be applied as follows : one-fifth for distribution among the poor of Barkestone, except 7s. for two Bibles : three-fifths for the poor of Knipton, Croxton-Kerrial, and Buckminster ; and the remaining fifth for the poor of Burton-on-the-Wolds and Harby. The churchwardens and overseers of the respective parishes are the trustees. The FREE School here, for this parish and Plungar, was founded by Daniel Smith, who built two schoolrooms and a house, and vested them in trustees in 1830, endowing them with the adjoining garden, and with a close of 11a. 3r. 11p. at Plungar, now let for £25 a year. By will in 1834 he directed his executors to purchase as much Stock as would produce £12 10s. per annum, of which £10 is distributed in equal shares in the two parishes among the poor, and £2 10s. is applied in purchasing books for the school library. In 1849 the Rev. Frederick George Burnaby, M. A., a late vicar, built a new school for boys and a house for the master, at a cost of £500, and endowed the school with £1000 South Sea Stock. The old schools are used for girls and infants, and have received a legacy of £400 3 per cent. Consols from the trustees of the late Mr. John Haves, of Leicester, who was born in this parish. The free scholars (8 boys and 6 girls from this parish , and 8 boys and 4 girls from Plungar) are appointed by the ministers and churchwardens of the two parishes. They are taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, and the girls also sewing. The parish feast is on the first Sunday after July 10.
POST OFFICE at Mr. William Smith's. Letters are received at 10.30 a.m. from, and are despatched at 3.45 p.m. to Bottesford, which is the nearest Money Order Office.

Bonser John, farmer and grazier
Cant George, shopkeeper, coal dealer and carrier
Cant Thomas, farmer and grazier
Doubleday Richard, bootmaker
Gilbert Samuel, blacksmith
Hall William, grazier and victualler, The Chequers
Heason Isaac, bootmaker
Hornbuckle John, farmer and grazier
Hornbuckle Mary, grzr. & carrier
Hornbuckle Thomas, carrier
Hourd Thomas, tailor
Kellam Edward, grazier
Kellam William, grazier
Kitching John, farmer and grazier

Knight William, corn miller
Marshall George, farmer and grazier, Jericho lodge
Marshall Matthew, farmer
Marshall William, farmer and grazier
Musson Mrs. Elizabeth
Musson Thomas, farmer and grazier, Manor house
Power Rev. John Peckleton, M. A., vicar, The Vicarage
Poyzer Richard, hosiery manufacturer and grazier
Pulfree William, joiner & wheelwright
Scofield James, joiner & wheelwright
Shelbourne William, farmer and grazier

Smith William, grocer, grazier and postmaster
Stevens John, joiner & builder
Tidd George Hichson, butcher and victualler, Sun Inn
Turner John, bricklayer and builder
Whitehead Thomas Luther, schmaster
Wilders Joseph, grazier
Wilford Miss Francis, schoolmistress

Carriers - To Grantham, William Shelbourne, Saturday. To Nottingham, George Cant, Saturday ; Mrs Mary & Thomas Hornbuckle, Wednesday and Saturday

 

 

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