1855 Post Office Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland

Date: 1855 to 1855
Location: Shearsby, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom

KNAPTOFT, or KNAPTON, a township and parish, with the chapelry and village of SHEARSBY, a little off the road between Leicester and Welford, 2 miles from Theddingworth station, 97 1/2 from London, 7 east-north-east from Lutterworth, and 8 west-by-north from Market Harborough, is in Guthlaxton Hundred, Lutterworth Union, South Leicestershire. The church of Knaptoft has altogether gone to decay, in consequence of which the inhabitants attend the church at Shearsby, which is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen ; it is a Gothic building, with tower and 4 bells, and is a curacy, consolidated with Knaptoft, in the gift of the Duke of Rutland, who is lord of the manor; the incumbent is the Rev. Plumpton Wilson, LL.B. At the Bath inn, in the village, is a mineral spring called the Spa, which has some repute for its medicinal virtues, but there is very little resort to it. Knaptoft township has only 55 people, and 1,392 acres. Shearsby township and chapelry had, in 1851, 372 people, and 1150 acres. Some of the people are employed in framework knitting. Walton in Knaptoft is another township of this parish, with 223 inhabitants ^[1].

Contents 1 Knaptoft 1.1 Traders 2 Shearsby 2.1 Traders

Knaptoft

Traders

Ashby Sophia (Mrs), farmer & grazier

Darnell Laxon, farmer & grazier

Henshaw William, farmer & grazier

Wilson John, farmer & grazier

Wilson Thomas, farmer & grazier

Shearsby

Walker Mrs Christiana

Traders

Archer Thomas, shoemaker

Bottrill Richard, 'Chandlers' Arms,' shopkeeper & carrier

Elliott John, New Inn, famer & butcher

Freer John, farmer & grazier

Goode John, farmer & grazier

Harris Edward, blacksmith

Heighton Richard, wheelwright

Higgs Benjamin, farmer & grazier

Hunt Thomas, brickmaker

Hunt Thomas, shoemaker

Jayes John, miller

Kempin George, wheelwright

Messenger Richard, farmer & grazier

Moor Joseph, tailor

Read Thomas & Read John, fellmongers

Reeve Ann (Miss) Bath inn

Reeve William, farmer & grazier

Simons William, parish clerk, schoolmaster & postmaster

Smart John, carrier

Pallett John 'Old Crown' & blacksmith

Williams John, farmer, grazier & shopkeeper

POST 0FFICE.-Simons William, receiver. Letters are received through the Market Harborough office; arrive at 12 a. m.; dispatched at 2 p.m. The nearest money order offices are at Lutterworth & Welford

CARRIERS TO:- LEICESTER- Vice & Smart, saturday, 7 morning LUTTERWORTH- Bottrill, saturday, 7 morning

1. ↑ Post Office Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1855. Kelly and Co. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.30136219. Accessed 28 Sep. 2022.