58 ..NEW BOLINGBROKE. . [KELLY's

NEW :BOLINGBROKE is a village and ecclesiastical held since r888 by the Rev. Henry .Alexander Butler, of the parish of considerable extent, formed Sept. 7• 1858, frotn the University of . The Wesleyans have a chapel here. civil parishes of Carrington, Revesby and West Fen, and A pleasure fair is held on the roth and nth July. Hngh situated on the road from Boston to , 7t miles Mounteney Lely esq. J.P. of Carlton Scroop Hall, and the west from Eastville station on the East Lincolnshire branch 1 Duchy of Lancaster are the principal landowners. The soil and 8 miles north-east from Dogdyke station on the Great i-; mostly clay; subsoil, blue clay. The chief crops are Northern railway, 9 miles north from Boston and 9 south- wheat, oats and beans. The area is 404 acres; rateable east from Horncastle, in the South Lindsey division of the value, £543; the population in 188r was 549· A portion of county, parts of Lindsey, soke of Bolingbroke, Boston union, this parish is now included in Carrington. petty sessional division and county court district, Parish Clerk, George Green. rural deanery of Bolingbroke and archdeacunry and diocese PosT OFFICE.-George Huskinson Hanson, receiver. Letters of Lincoln. The church of St. Peter is a structure of brick arrive from Boston at 6.40 a.m.; dispatched at 6.30 p.m. with stone facings, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Mareham- nave, north aisle, south porch and an octagonal open belfry, le-Fen. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid surmounted by small spire and containing a clock and one The children of this place attend the Board school at Mad- bell: it was erected in r853 under the Fen Chapel .Act from lam, in Carrington parish designs by Messrs. Teulon1 and endowed by the trustees CARRIERS TO :- under that .Act with £8o yearly, and augmented by W. BosTON-George Baker & Wm. Baker, wed. thurs. & sat Ostler esq. and Queen Anne's bounty to [299. The register lloRNCASTLE-William Baker, sat dates from the year r854. The living is a vicarage, gross SPrLsBY-George Baker, mon yearly value £299, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and PACKET TO BosTON-Frost & Charles Stennet1l, wed Butler Rev. Henry .Alexander [vicar] Hare John, Globe P.H. & farmer Taylor Brothers, builders & bricklayers COMMERCIAL. Harrison Michael, beer retailer Taylor Thomas, bricklayer Allison Lebbeus, tailor Johnson Mary (Mrs.) & Son, farmers Taylor William, beer retailer & farmer Bailey John, farmer William, shopkeeper & boot maker Travis Hannah (Mrs.), draper & grocer Baker George, shopkeeper & carrier Langstaff Robert, plumber & glazier Twelvetrees .Albert, grocer & draper Brown George, grocer & draper Lawson Thomas, shopkeeper Walker John Joseph, blacksmith Everitt Horace, brewer, maltster & coal Leggate Richard, farmer Watkinson William, farmer merchant Leggate Tharral, wheelwright & joiner Watkinson Wm.jun.miller(wind)&bakr Foster John, blacksmith & assistant overseer Ward Jn. Duchy of Lancaster .ArmsP.H Freer John, machine owner Maddison Joseph, miller (wind) & baker West James Audling, saddler Green George, wheelwright Pawson Elijah, watch maker West Jonas, saddler Hanson George Huskinson, druggist & Smith William, farmer Winn Moses, carpenter & wheelwright grocer, & post office Sutton Nathaniel, farmer :BONBY is a small village and parish, 6 miles south- to the abbey of St. Fromond. .A reading room was built by south-west from Barton, 7 north from and 3 miles subscription in r888 on land given by the Earl of Yarborough north-west from the Elsham station on the South D.L., J.P. who is lord of the manor andprincipallandowner. branch of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway, The soil of about one half the parish is a fine chalk subsoil, in the North Liudsey division of the county, wapentake of highly fertile; the other part of the parish, viz. the Carrs, Yarborough, Brigg union, parts of Lindsey, consists of a clay subsoil of a black nature. The chief crops Barton-upon-Humber petty sessional division and county are wheat and barley. The area is 2,410 acres; rateable . court district, rural deanery of Yarborough No. r, arch- value, [3,952 ; the population in r88r was 4o6. deaconry of Stow and . The church of St. Parish Clerk, James Taylor. Andrew is an ancient edifice of brick, in the Early English PosT 0FFICE.-Mark Gray, receiver. Letters through style, consisting of chancel, navo, south porch, and a western Barton-on-Humber arrive at 9·5 a.m. : dispatched at 3·45 tower containing 3 bells : there are r5o sittings. The p.m. South Ferriby is the nearest money order office, register dates from the year r649. The living is a vicarage, Barton-on-Humber, 3 miles distant, the nearest telegraph gross yearly value from tithe rent-charge £291, net [242, office with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Yarborough, and held since r884 by the Rev. John French Flowers M.A. of National School (mixed), for 8 5 scholars ; average attendance, Lincoln College, Oxford. There are W esleyan and Primitive 63 ; George Mason, master ; Miss M. E. Beacock, assistant Methodist chapels here. Here was anciently a priory of mistress Austin Canons, founded in the reign of King John, as a cell CARRIER-Wm. Trippett, to Hull,tues. & fri.; to Brigg,thurs Flowers Rev. John French M.A. [vicar] Grant Joseph, blacksmith Reading Room COMMERCIAL. Gray Mark, machine owner, & post off Rusling Charles, shoe maker Beacock Joseph, grocer & draper Havercroft Thomas T. farmer Smith Thomas, butcher Cooper Thomas Henry, saddler Herbert Thomas, tailor Trippit William, farmer & carrier Curtis George, farmer Hookham John, farmer Uppleby Henry William, farmer Ellis George, machine owner Lyne .Arthur, rope manufacturer Walker George, farmer Empson Edwin, farmer Morley James, wheelwright Williamson Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper :BOOTHBY (or BOOTHBY-GRAFFOE, the village which 20, 1356, and afterwards a captive in , was confined gives name to this wapentake) is pleasantly situated on the here from Saturday, .Aug. 4, 1359, to Saturday, March 21, Cliff range and the Roman way, , 8 miles r36o, when he was removed to the Tower of London; the south from Lincoln and ~~ north from station on remains of this castle are very extensive, and a portion, the Lincoln and branch of the Great Northern together with some modern erections, form a commodious railway: the parish is in the North division of the mansion and offices, now the property of the widow of county, parts of Kesteven, higher division of Boothby- Frederick Marfleet esq. who purchased the manor about the Graffoe wapentake, Lincoln (South) petty sessional division, year 1840: the castle area, 330 feet by 180 feet, was enclosed I.incoln union and county court district, rural deanery by outer and inner moats, and at the angles are the remains of Longoboby and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. of four circular towers, formerly connected by intermediate The church of St. .Andrew is a building of stone in the buildings, and forming a quadrangular pile: the south-east Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave and tower, still nearly entire, is surmounted by three pinnacles sqnare western tower with 4 pinnacles, and containing 3 and a spire-shaped roof : the south-west tower is in ruins, bells: the church was rebuilt in 1842 on the site of the and the north-west tower has been taken down; that at the former edifice at a cost of about £r,ooo: there are r3o north-east angle has a curious groined roof, supported by sittings. The register dates from the year 1720. The living an umbilical pillar, from which spring twelve arches, each is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £r26, net yearly value £4r5, forming a niche in the wall, in every one of which there including 317 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of appears to have been a Pointed window; the later buildings the Rev. Charles Garth Fullerton M.A. of Thrybergh Park, are partly Elizabethan: the double moat is still extant. Yorkshire, and held since r882 by the Rev. Henry 'l'aylor Boothby Hall, the seat of Charles Edward Marfleet esq. is a Cordeaux M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. .At the handsome building of stone in the Italian style, erected in enclosure, in 1774> the tithes were commuted for 321 acres r8~: the views to the south and west are extensive. of laud, and in 1841 those of Somerton Castle were corn- Charles Edward Marfleet esq. is lord of the manor of Booth~ mnted for an annual rent-charge of £ r26. In the year 128r by and principal landowner, and Mrs. Frederick Marfleet .Anthony Beke, or de Bek, Bishop of Durham, obtained a owns the manor of Somerton Castle. The soil is strong license from Edward I. to crenellate his mansion at loam on the lowlands and limestone on the high land; sub­ "Saubretonne," or "Somerton," in this parish, which be soil, limestone. The crops are on the four and five course afterwards presented to the king, who committed its custody shift. The area is 2,050 acres; rateable value, [2,594; to Henry, Lord Bellamonte; King John I. (Le Bon) of the population in 188r was r68. France, taken prisoner at the battle of Poictiers, September Parish Clerk, John Storey.