Sewstern

Extract from White's Leicester and Rutland Directory 1877

SEWSTERN, a village, township, and chapelry, in the parish of Buckminster, and about a mile S. of that village, occupies a bold eastern declivity of the Wold hills, bounded on the east by Lincolnshire, and distant ten miles E. by N. of Melton Mowbray. It contains 57 houses, 232 inhabitants, and 1201 acres of land extending southward to Blue Point, near the junction of this county with those of Rutland and Lincoln. The Earl of Dysart owns most of the soil, and is lord of the manor, which has a strong clayey soil. Mr. John Jackson, the executors of Mr. William Preston Mrs Frances Osborne, and Mr. John Almould have land here. The ancient Chapel was demolished many years ago. and the curacy consolidated with the vicarage of Buckminster; but a neat CHAPEL OF EASE was built by subscription in 1842, in the Elizabethan style, at a cost of £650. It has sittings for 140 hearers, and a small cupola, containing one bell. The tithes we commuted in 1841, the rectorial for £300, and the vicarial for £4 per annum. Here is a WESLEYAN CHAPEL, erected in 1820 by subscription. Sewstern participates in the Board School at Buckminster. A yearly rent-charge of £6, out of 12 acres of land left by Thomas Bury in 1723, is divided among five poor widows, except 15s. for a sermon on St. Thomas's day, and 5s. for the parish clerk. The feast is on the Sunday after October 10.
POST, viâ Grantham, but Colsterworth is the nearest Money Order Office. Here is a WALL LETTER BOX

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