Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire

Description
Fenny Drayton, a village and a parish in Leicestershire, 3 1/2 miles E by S from Nuneaton station on the L. & N.W.R., and 6 SW of Market Bosworth, with a post office under Nuneaton; money order and telegraph office, Atherstone. Acreage, 1174; population, 116. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £275 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style. Fenny Stratford, a parish and small market-town in Bucks, 6 miles S from Newport-Pagnell. The town has a, station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bletchley station. It has a market for cattle every alternate Thursday, and fairs on 19 April and 11 Oct. The Grand Junction Canal and river Ouzel pass-through it, and a fair trade in bricks and tiles is carried on. A large trade in timber is carried on, and the town has now an excellent supply of water. There is a weekly newspaper published here, and the town is the head of a petty sessional division. Acreage, 1040 ; population, 2614. Bletchley Park is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the-diocese of Oxford; net value, £97. The church is a building of brick and stone in a debased Gothic style, erected in 1724-30, and enlarged in 1823, and again in 1866. Ther& are a church mission-room, a Baptist, two Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, and a Salvation Army barracks.