Cold Overton

Extract from White's Leicester and Rutland Directory 1877

COLD OVERTON. a small village and parish, adjoining Rutlandshire, 4 miles W.N.W. of Oakham, in Framland Hundred, Oakham Union and that County Court District, in 1871 contained 85 persons, living in 15 houses, on 1657 acres of land, chiefly clay, with some gravel, and the ground hilly. The rateable value of the parish is £2305 3s. 6d. Edward Frewen, Esq., is lord of the manor and owner of the soil, and resides generally at Brickwall, Sussex, and occasionally at Overton Hall, a neat mansion, in a small park on the north side of the village. The hall is still the residence of Mrs. Eleanor Frewen Turner, and near it is a beautiful lake or fish-pond, half a mile in length. The grounds are well laid out, and contain some fine elm trees. The CHURCH (St. John) consists of nave, with aisles and chancel, and contains an organ, given by a member of the Frewen family. At the west end of the south aisle is the burial-place of that family. 'The chancel and the rectory house have been restored by the late and present rectors, and mainly at their cost. The living is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £19 12s. 2d., and now at £300 per annum, in the patronage of Edward Frewen, Esq., and in the incumbency of the Rev. Richard Burnet, B.A., who has a good residence which has lately been restored. There is a glebe of 45A. 2R. 87P., and a yearly rent-charge of £269, a in 1889, in lieu of tithes. John Frewen Turner, Esq., a late lord of the manor, who resided at the Hall, purchased the estate of the St. John family, and founded here, at the cost of more than £2000, in 1826, an Asylum for Female Orphans, in which 20 orphan girls were maintained and educated. The Orphanage it discontinued, and a FREE SCHOOL for the boys and girls of the village is held on the premises, the remainder being occupied as a private residence. In 1820 the same benevolent gentleman founded another charity at Sapcote.
POST from Oakham; but Somerby is the nearest Money Order Office.

Burnet Rev Richard, B.A. rector, The Rectory
Carter John, grazier
Exton William, farmer and grazier
Freeman Joseph, farmer and grazier

Frewen C. H. Esq., J.P. The Hall
Frewen-Turner Mrs Eleanor, The Hall
Martin Thos. grazier & market grdnr
Pougher John, farmer and grazier
Tomlin Henry Joseph, grazier

Trotter James, grazier
Vincent Miss Margaret, schoolmistress
Wright James, farmer
Wright May, farmer and grazier

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