DIRECTORY.J 893 WILFORD. [.] Hall Mrs. The Cottage Greasley John, gardener Reddish Samuel, carrier & shopkeeper Hall Thos. Dickenson, 3.P. Manor ho Guy Andrew, farmer Reek Henry, cowkeeper Harrison Miss, The Grove Hooper William, cowkeeper Slater Robert, shoe maker Innocent William, The Old vicarage Hough Thomas, farmer Talbott Francis, nterinary surgeon Plumptre Rev. Wm.Alfred, M:.A.[ vicar] Innocent John, farmer, & land steward Talbott Frank W atson, corn factor toT. D. Hall, esq Taylor George, farmer COMMERCIAL. Keyworth Edwin, farmer Tutbery John, tailor Bates John, builder & bricklayer Mason John, blacksmith Wadsworth Edward, farmer Bower William, farmer, Whatton field Parker William, farmer, Whatton field Walls William, miller • Fisher Robert, farmer Pell Jsph.Gri.ffin, farmer, & post office White Samuel, joiner & carpenter Fo8ter Francis, farmer Reddish John, shopkeeper Yates Thomas, far!ller

NORTH WHEATLEY is a pleasant parish and vil- ley (and Bole with Saunby), which, when made absolute, lage, within the parliamentary borough of East , will form a united rectory. There is a National school for from which place it is 5 miles north-east, 2 north-west from boys and ~iris, also a Primitive Methodist and a Wesleyan Sturton station, 146 from London, and 5 south-west from chapel. Here is a charity, value £18 6s. ye!lrly, £1 5s. 9~d­ Gainsborough, in the North em division of the county, North of which i~ paid to South Wheatley; the whole is for dis­ Claydivision of Bassetlawwapentake, East Retford union and tribution among the necessitous poor on St. Thomas's-day. county court district, rural deanery of Retford No. J, arch- Gypsum is found here. Lord Middleton is lord of the deaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of Lincoln. The manor and the principal landowner. The soil is clayey; church of St. Peter, situated on high ground, is an old subsoil, red marl with indurated clay. The crops are chiefly stone edifice, chiefly in the Late Perpendicular style, and has cereals, with orchard produce, cherries predominatin~. chancel with vestry, nave, south entrance porch, and a square The parish contains 2,181 acres; rateable value, .£2,833; tower containing 5 bells: the church has old oak fittings, and the population in 1871 was 406. an ancient Norman font. The register dates from the year Sezton, lsaac Cole. 1649. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £250, witll 24 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Lord Middleton, Letters arrive from East Retford at 10.20 a.m. There is a and held by the Rev. Thomas Chamberlin Bigsby G'harnberlin, WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 4.20 p.m. on week days M.A., of Emmannel College, Cambridge, who is also rector of only. Gainsborough & Retford are the nearest money Saundby; the rectorial tithes are .£370. The rector of Clay- order offices worth receives £10 19s. 5d. from this parish: an exchange is National School, John Goodman Humphreys, master: nowbeingmadesoas to consolidate North and South Wheat- Mrs. Sarah Ann Humphreys, mistress • Chamberlin Rev. Thomas Chamberlin Flint Timothy Hall, Plough Ogle Benjamin, farmer Bigsby, :M.A. fvicar], Vicarage Harrison William, farmer Rose John, farmer Bailey William, l'armer ' Haxby Henry, miller Sliugsby William, farmer Benson William, wheelwright . Hird Benjamin, farmer 8mith John, shoe maker Benson William, jun. wheelwright .Tackson George, wheelwright Spittlehouse Thomas, farmer Biogham George, farmer Kirk Job, ehoe maker Stovin William, shopkeeper Bingley George, farmer Lamb George, tailor . Whitlan Willia.m, bricklayer Bingley John, farmer Lane William, shopkeeper&; farmer Whitlan William, farmer Borley William, Sun inn Lockwood Charles, farmer Wilkinson John, farm bailiff to William Boswell John, farmer Maltby .A.ndrew, farmer Wilkinson, esq · Fleteher J ames, farmer & butcher Ogle Ann ( .\"Irs.), farmel," W right John, blacksmith 1

Jl .. l:lft'J·~' 1 'j •· t ~ ·'11 ..fl ... Lt ·•11: r l ~ #' Q t f I )i 0 Of I i ,.! • SOUTH WHEA TLEY is a parish and villa~ witbin \\"ho is alsd vicar of Bole. Spencer's charity of .£1511. 9!d. the parliamentary borough t>f East Retford, one mife and a is distributed yearly. F. J. S. Foljambe, esq., 1\l.P., is lord quarter from Sturton station, :; miles north-east from East of the manor. William Mason, esq., is the principal land­ Retford, 5 south-west from Gainsborongh, and 149 from owner. The soil is clayey; &ubsoil~ red rnarl with indu­ London, ·m -the Northern division of the county, tiortli rated clay. The crops are chiefly cereals. The parish con­ Clay division. of the Bassetlaw wapentake, EMt 'Retford tains 631 acres; ·rateable value, .£SOi; the popqla~ion in union and county ooort l()istrict, rural deaoet\' ' of Retl. 1871 \tas 35. ford ~o. 1, archdeaeonry of Nottingham, and '(Jioeese 'of 1 BtuE STOCltiNG 1.\NE is ontt mile south-west. Lincoln. Tbechnreh of "St. Helen is- a very old dilapidated Parish Clerk; William Hemoseed. stone building, and hu .Early Nor.man chancel_, nave; oltt 7 ... • brick poreb;rand a ~~qua&'e iower ~ontaining 3 bells. The register datetlfrom the y~r 1.546>t The-living isa vicarage, Letter# througlr 'East "Retford ·-arrive labont 10.20 a.m".l yearly,·alue.£100. witbrt!$id~inthegiftoftlteRishopsof There is a WAt]4 LETTER Box at North Wheatley, LiQOOln 'llUd MancbesU:raltemately, and. beld b)" the Rev. ~leared at 4.20 p.m. on week days only. The nearest Thomas Henry Craster$ Mo4·• of University College, Oxford, money ordet" office!f are at Gainsbo1ougq & :ij,etford 1 Gibson William, faimer" '-'/ , : Geotge, farmer } -;' ,' h' Radford Williatn., fan:net 1J 1 1 ~Jifard)t ~~-I _, '1, t.a '"'"' ' >l ' 1 • , 1 N .. · '' *'' •·• , · ·c~· ' ·' rf' - \ tl. t ..,. 1 • ,...... WrP'I"IDM'ERPOOL is a small village .and parish, 10 miles raees at -eo.ch' ~nd~ the interior deeo:rations 8.l'e' very eta­ south-east from Nottingham1 and.9.nortb-east from Lough-· borate>: 1.-be grounds are tastefully laid out and kept in ex­ borough, in the Southern division of the county, southern cellent order. Major George C. Robertson is lord of the division of the Wftpentak~ of ~ Bingbtua union maner and. sole landowner. The ·soil ill' a heavy tiaJ'i' With and county eourt district, mraJ deanery of Bingham No. l, limestone underneath.. The chief crops are wheat, barley, archdeaconry of 1iottingham, and diocese of Lincoln. The oats and Toots. The area is 2,190 aetas S' rateable 'Value, church of St. Peter is a stone building,. conlistingo{ cban- £;.40o; the population in 1871 was 149.

eel, nave, and ernb~ttled tower with pinnacles at the t;ROW HILL is half a mile north. - • angles.: tl1e spire was dt!$tr0yed by lightrung in 1832. The t Pamh Clerk, Joseph Hallam. register dates from the year 1539. The liring is a rectory, _. _ yearly value £400, 1Vitb 460 acres of glebe, in the gift ~f Major George Coke RQbertson, $nd held by the. Rev. letters received through Nottingham at 12 noon; dis- Arthnr Tltorold Wood, of St. Bees. There is a mixed girls' patched at 4: p.m. The nearest money order f)ffices are at school in the parish. Widmerpool Hall, the seat of Major Nottingham & Loughborough George Coke Robertson, is a spacious mansion, built of Bath Free School, MiiS Laura Read, mistress and Clipsham stone, with handsome clock tower, and ter- CARRIER~ pass through to Nottingham on wed. & sat Robertson Major Geo. Coke, The Hall Garton William Bowley, farmer Jalland .John F. farmer Wood Rev. Arthur Thorold [rector] Hassell George, farmer Lane Beriah, farmer COlllMERC:tAL. Herriott Josepb, gardener Wallis Thomas, farmer Browu George, fanner • Hull William, blacksmith

WILFORD is a township, parish, and pleasant village, 1 wapentake of Rnshcliffe; union of Basford, Notting"bam mile from Nottingham by the Wigford bridge: it stands on county court di11trict, rural deanery of Bingham No. 3, the south bank of the navigable river Trent, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of Lincoln. Here Southern division of the county, northern division of the is a handsome bridge over the Trent, built by the late Sir