Muston

 

Extract from White's Leicester and Rutland Directory 1877

MUSTON, or Musson, parish, 'which is in Framland Hundred, Grantham Union and County Court District, contained in 1871 353 persons, living in 74 houses, on 1623 acres of land. It gives name to a neat village on the banks of the river Devon, in the vale of Belvoir, l1/2 mile E.N.E. of Bottesford, and 51/2 miles W. by N. of Grantham. The parish adjoins Lincolnshire, and is chiefly a strong clay, extending southward to the Grantham Canal. The Duke of Rutland is lord of the manor, but part of the soil belongs to Montague Earle Welby, Esq., and Bottesford Hospital. The assessment to the county rate in 1876 was £2512. The manor was held by Owston Abbey, and was granted at the Dissolution to the Earl of Rutland. The CHURCH (St. John) is a large and handsome structure of the 14th century, with 15th century clerestory, consisting of a nave, chancel, side aisles, and two porches, with a tower rising from the centre, crowned by a broach spire, containing four bells. A handsome font was given by the parishioners in 1850, and there are several bits of ancient stained glass in the windows. The church was restored at a cost of £850, defrayed by subscription, in 1875, when it was newly roofed and reseated, and a warming apparatus was added at the same time. The churchyard adjoins the Deven, and is shaded by rows of fine elms. Crabbe, the poet, was presented to the rectory in 1798, and in the church is a marble tablet in memory of his wife. The living is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £15 13s.11/2d., and now at £433, and is in the patronage of the Crown and incumbency of the Rev. James Furnival, M.A., who has a good residence and about 40 acres of glebe. The FREE METHODISTS have a small chapel here, built in 1802. The SCHOOL was built in 1875, on a site given by the Duke of Rutland, who also defrayed two-thirds of the cost of the erection, and chiefly supports it. The poor have 5s.a year out of Middlebeck's Close, left by Robert Cragg in 1682. The parish feast is on the Sunday before St. Peter's day.

POST OFFICE at Mr William Norman's. Letters are received at 8.40 a.m. from, and are despatched at 4.45 p.m to, Bottesford, which is the nearest Money Order Office

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