Stonesby Village Map

 

Extract from White's Leicester and Rutland Directory 1877 

STONESBY parish, in Melton Mowbray Union and County Court District, and Framland Hundred, in 1871 contained 236 persons, living in 56 houses, on 1370 acres of land, partly clay and partly red loam. The village lies 11/2 E. of Waltham-on-the-Wolds and 61/2 miles N.E. of Melton Mowbray, and its parish is traversed by one of the tributary streams of the Eye. The Duke of Rutland is lord of the manor, which he purchased of the Meres family; but a great part of the soil belongs to the Earl of Dysart, the Rev. M. 0. Norman, Mr. John Love, and Mr. Joseph Westerdale. The CHURCH (St. Peter) consists of nave, aisles, chancel, south porch, and a tower containing three bells. The font is a fine specimen of Norman sculpture. The church was thoroughly restored in 1873-4, when the tower, arch, and south-west window was reopened newly seated with open benches, and a new pulpit of carved oak erected, at a cost of £450, raised by subscription, chiefly through the exertions of Mr. John Snodin. A handsome communion cloth and a kneeling-carpet in wool has recently been presented by Mrs. Snodin. The tithes were commuted at the enclosure in 1780. The benefice, which is a discharged vicarage, valued in K.1l. at £5 0s. 71/2d., and now at £130, was augmented with £600 of Q.A.B. from 1776 to 1809, and is in the patronage of the Rev. James Alexander Wood, M.A., and the incumbency of the Rev. Thomas Barton Hill, M.A. The WESLEYANS have a chapel here, erected in 1847. The SCHOOL is attended by about 40 children, and was rebuilt by subscription in 1850, at a cost of £250. The Church Land, allotted at the enclosure, is lA. 29p., and it and the herbage on the roads in the parish is let by auction for about £15, which is applied to church repairs. The poor have the interest of £10 left by Thomas Reeve in 1756, and of £20 left by an unknown donor. The parish feast is on the Sunday after Old Midsummer day. There is a brick tile manufactory belonging to the Duke of Rutland, where drains are made for his tenantry.

Post, viâ Melton Mowbray, but Waltham is the nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office. WALL LETTER Box cleared at 5 p.m.

 

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