Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland 1900

REDMILE is a pleasant village and parish with a station on the Newark and Melton joint branch of the Great Northern and London and North Western railways, 71/2 miles west from Grantham, 13 north-by-east from Melton Mowbray and 119 from London, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Framland, Belvoir petty sessional division and union, Grantham county court district, rural deanery of Framland (first portion), archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. The Nottingham and Grantham canal passes on the north-west side of the village, where there is a wharf. The church of St Peter is a building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower, with octagonal crocketed spire, containing a clock and three bells, dated respectively 1613, 1770 and 1841: there is a stained window in the chancel to Thomas Powys and his wife, died 1853, erected 1859, at a cost of £80 by their children: the church was restored in 1883. The register dates from the year 1658. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £254, arising from 312 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Rutland KG.,GCB. and held since 1890 by the Rev. Anthony Garstin. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel here. The Duke of Rutland is lord of the manor and principle landowner. There are charities, and a field of three acres for the parish clerk. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay and sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and peas. The area is 1,763 acres of land and 8 of water; rateable value, £2,247; the population in 1891 was 417.

Parish clerk, William Lovett.
Post Office. - Tom Walter Silverrwood, sub post-master. Delivery commences at 8 a.m.; Box cleared at 4.25pm.; no collection on Sundays. Letters received from Nottingham by foot post from Bottesford. Postal orders are issued here but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Bottesford, 3 miles distant.
National School (mixed), built on site of the old one, in 1871, for 95 children; average attendance, 80; Noah Ratcliffe, master.
Redmile station, G.N.R.& L. & N.W.R. joint line, William Parrish, station master.

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Garstin Rev. Anthony, Rectory
Patchett Mrs

Commercial
Bird John Joseph, grocer
Bradford Tom M, grocer
Cant William, farmer
Carlisle Daniel, miller (wind & steam)
Carr Ebenezer, shoe maker
Chandler Jasper, farmer
Clarke Robert. Old Windmill public house
Clower John, Peacock public house,farmer & coal dealer
Clower Thomas, farmer
Copley Richard, carrier
Crofts Robert, plumber and glazier
Day Erasmus, shopkeeper
Hill James, farmer
Lovett William, farmer
Mabbat Edward, farmer
Mackley Jane (Mrs) farmer
Miller John, cowkeeper
O'Sullivan Cornelius, drill sergeant to the Belvoir Rifles
Patchett Edmund, baker & farmer
Parr Edward, wagonette proprietor and coal dealer
Pogson Ernest Francis, patentee of the Horse Pitch Fork or Elevator for stacking hay or loose corn
Preston James, grazier
Roberts Edward, carrier
Roberts William, wheelwright
Silverwood Robert, assistant overseer
Silverwood Tom Walter, tailor, grocer and
boots retailer, Post Office
Wilson George, saddler and harness maker

Carriers
Robert Copley to Nottingham, Saturday
Edward Roberts to Grantham, Saturday