Martinsthorpe

MARTINSTHORPE (anciently called Mastrop) is a parish, 1 mile west from Manton junction station on the Syston and Peterborough and Nottingham and Kettering branches of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, 3 north from Uppingham and 2½ south from Oakham; it is in the hundred of Martinsley, union and county court district of Oakham. The living is a sinecure rectory, united to the vicarage of Manton, joint net yearly value £198, including 52 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire K.G., P.C., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., T.D. and Miss C. E. Trapp, and held since 1900 by the Rev. Charles James Blomfield Scriven M.A. of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, chaplain of Oakham Poor Law Institution, who resides at Oakham. The old Hall here, belonging to the Denbigh family, was partially pulled down in 1775, and the remaining portion is now a farmhouse. Col. R. E. M. Heathcote D.S.O. is principal landowner. The number of acres is 539; the population in 1921 was 1.

Cox George H. farm bailiff to Col. R. E. M. Heathcote D.S.O. Old Hall farm