Harston

 

Extract from White's Leicester and Rutland Directory 1877

HARSTON, a parish and pleasant village, on the south side of the grounds of Belvoir Castle, 6 miles W.N.W. of Grantham, in Framland Hundred, Grantham Union and County Court District, in 1871 contained 162 persons, living in 38 houses, on 1009 acres. The assessment to the county rate in 1876 was £1423. The parish adjoins Lincolnshire, and the soil is partly clay and partly red loam. It belongs to Sir William Earle Welby-Gregory, Bart., M.P., and the Duke of Rutland, who are joint lords of the manor, which, at the Conquest, was held by the King, as part of Croxton manor. The parish was enclosed in 1789. Charles Beasley, Esq., has a handsome residence here, beautifully situated. The CHURCH (St. Michael and All Angels) was, with the exception of the tower, which contains a peal of three bells, rebuilt in 1822. The church was improved in 1856, by Mrs. J. E. Welby and the late T. C. Beasley, Esq.; and, in 1871, the late G. E. Welby-Gregory, Bart., added a beautiful Early English chancel, from the designs of C. Kirk, Esq., of Sleaford, at a cost of more than £600. The triple lancet of the east window has been filled with beautiful stained glass, by Messrs. Ward & Hughes, and some of the windows in the side-walls have been similarly enriched. The floor is laid with encaustic tiles, and the walls are painted from the designs of Mr. Leach, of Cambridge. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in K.B. at £8 1s. 7d., and now at £800 per annum, in the patronage of Sir W. E. Welby-Gregory, Bart., M.P., and in the incumbency of the Rev. Walter Hugh Earle Welby, M.A., who has a good residence, erected in 1831, at a cost of £1200, and commanding extensive views. There is a glebe of 40 acres, and the tithes were commuted in 1843 for £240 per annum. NATIONAl. SCHOOL was erected in 1868, in memory of the late T. C. Beasley, Esq., by his children, at a cost of over £500. It has an average attendance of 25 children.
POST viâ Grantham; but Knipton is the nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office. There is a WALL Box here, cleared at 5.20 p.m.

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