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Sharnford

Sharnford is a village and parish, pleasantly situated north of the spot where the Watling Street and Fosseway intersect, on the river Soar, 4 miles north-west from Ullesthorpe station on the Rugby and Leicester branch of the Midland railway and 3½ south-west from Croft station on the Leicester and Nuneaton branch of the London and North Western railway and 4½ south-east from Hinckley, in the Western division of the county, Sparkenhoe hundred, Market Bosworth petty sessional division, Hinckley union and county court district, rural deanery of Guthlaxton (second portion), archdeanery of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough.

The church of St. Helen is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower, with crocketed pinnacles and containing 6 bells, three of which are dated respectively 1602, 1771, 1827; the other three were added in 1893: the east window is stained: the west window is a memorial to the Rev. Thomas Joseph Clark Harris, d. 1867; and there is a memorial window on the south side of the chancel to Colonel John Edmund Watson R.A. brother of the Rev. H. L. Watson M.A. late rector 1850-1904: the church was restored in 1846 and again in 1866, at a cost of £560, and has 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1593. The living is a rectory, with Little Wigston annexed, net yearly value £264, with 229½ acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1904 by the Rev. Ebenezer Douglas Starey, of Ayerst Hall, Cambridge.

Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1827, and seating 150 persons.

The charaties amount to £7, which is expended yearly in coal for the poor.

There is no lord of the manor. The property is is mostly small freeholds. The soil is various; subsoil, gravel, sand and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans, peas and roots, and fruit is extensively grown. The acreage is 1,421; rateable value. £2,534; in 1901 the population was 418.

Parish clerk, Richard Ison.

Post Office James ARNOLD, sub-postmaster.
Public Elementary School (Mixed), enlarged in the year 1871, at an expense of £190, for 81 children; Frederick ANDERSON master, Mrs Beatrice ANDERSON mistress
Carrier to Leicester Thomas MASTERS

Residents
HARRIS Col. James Edward M.A., J.P., C.C. The Shade
STAREY Rev. Ebenezer Douglas (rector) Rectory

Commercial
ARNOLD Edith E. (Miss), dress maker
BENTLEY John, farmer
BEVINS Arthur, farmer
BIRD Frank, farmer
BRAY Henry, miller (wind) & baker
BUCKINGHAM Joseph, grocer
CLARKE Edmund, grazier
COOKE Arthur Benjamin, motor repr
CROSS Joseph, farmer
FAULKES Reuben, New inn
FORRGAN Harriet (Mrs), shopkeeper
GEARY Lewis, blacksmith
GLOVER, William Scotton, carpenter
GODFREY Eliza Ann (Mrs), Star P.H.
HARDY John, refreshment rooms
HEXTALL George, blacksmith
HOLYOAK Allen, farmer
HOLYOAK Stephen, farmer
HOLYOAK William, farmer
JACQUES George, shoe maker
LAPWORTH Thomas, farmer and assistant overseer & collector of rates
LORD Thomas & Son, builders
LORD John, wheelwright
MASTERS Thomas, carrier
MILLS Edward, grocer
ORTON Horace John, butcher
WOOD Thos. threshing machine propr

Kelly's "Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland," 1912

Transcribed by Nivard Ovington, 2013