DIBl.:CTORY.] ~INCOLNSHIRE. GO~BERTON. .221

Holmes Arthur, tailor Pulfrey Robert, carrier Swingler George,gr~cer & postmaster, Jackson Cecil, gro. Gonerby Hill Foot Pulfrey William, coal merchant Gonerby Hill Foot Jenkinson G.&Sons,farmrs.Highfid.ho Pulling Thomas, wheelwright Thompson Charles, butcher Latter Henry, basket ma. Post office Robinson Ann (Mts.) (exors.of),frmrs 'fhompson William, cowkeeper Lee k Grinling Limited, maltsters, Ruff Chas.dairymn.Gonerby Hill Foot Wheeld;m George Limited, maltsters Gonerby Hill Foot Savage Richard Isaac,Recruiting Ser- (George William Wells, manager), Lock Philip, farmer jeant P.H Middle Gonerby Mantell Sarah Elizabeth & Laura Scrimshaw Harry, butcher Wilkinson George Robert, butcher (Misses), shopkeepers Selby Wait. blacksmith & asst. oversr Wilson Harry, chimney sweeper, Parker Wm. & Sons,bakers & grocers Seward Thomas, farmer Gonerby Hill Foot Parker Charles, dairyman Smith Edward, farmer Woodward ChRirles,RutlandArms P.H Parker Geo. Hy. frmr.Gonerby moor Soons Frederick James, assist. insur- Wright William Ernest, Lord Nelson Parker Thomas. farmer ance supt. Gonerby Hill Foot P.H. Gonerby Hill Foot

GOSBERTON is a parish and large village, with a wheat, oats, potatoes, beans and celery. The area is station, 1! miles distant, on the Spalding and Donoaster 8,253 acres of land and 16 of water; rateable value, extension of the Great Northern and Great Eastern joint £16,036; the population in 19II was 1,973 in the civil railway, 2! miles north-west from Smfieet, 6! north-by­ and 1,944 in the ecclesiastical parish, wt>.st from Spalding, 4 south-east from Donington, and Sexton, George Farr. zoo from , in the Holland division of the county, wapentake of Kirton, petty sessional division of h.irton OOSBERTON, CLOUGH and RISEGJ.TE is an ec­ and Skirbeck, parts of Holland, Spalding union and county clesiastical parish, formed Dec. 17th, 1912, from parts court district, and in West Holland rural deanery and of the parishes of , Surfieet, and archdeaconry and . The village is . The church of St. Gilbert and St. Hugh lighted with gas by a company. The church of SS. Peter was erected in 1904 at a cost of £1,200. The living is and Paul is a large cruciform building of stone, chiefly a perpetual curacy, net yearly value £160, in the gift of in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, with south the Bishop of Lincoln, and held since 1912 by the Rev. chapel, nave, transepts, south porch and an embattled Waiter Thomas French M . .\.. of Balliol College, Oxford. tower with pinnacles and spire and containing a clock and· 6 bells : t-he tower and spire were repaired and CHEAL is 2~ miles south-west; RIGBOLT, 4 south­ Ftrengthened and a new weathercock fixed about 1896 : west; , 2~ miles west-by-south; WES­ in 1896-7 the church was extensively repaired at a cost THORPE, 1l miles on the west side ; BELNIE and of over £3,ooo: the chancel was rebuilt and extended W.-\.RGATE are also places in the parish. eastward, and the roofs of the nave and aisles renewed : the stained east window was the gift of Samuel Everard Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.­ e3q.: there are two in the north aisle to members of Reuben Edward Bevis, sub-postmaster. LettErs the Dods family, besides others: a new organ, purchased through the Spalding office delivered at 6.30 a.m. & by subscription at a cost of £250, and choir seats were 2.15 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.40 a.m. & 7.20 p.m. ; added in r882: in 1896 the church was refioored and sund·ays, delivered at 7· 15 a. m.; dispatched at 5.30 reseated, and the south chapel new roofed and reseated : p.m 8ince then th~ roofs of the transepts have been renewed Post Office, Clough.-_-\.lfred W. Witherington, sub-post­ in oak and raised to the original pitch, a new pulpit of master. Letters arrive from Spalding, viA Gosberton, oak :md marble, and a carved oak table, altar linen and at 7·45 a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m.; no delivery of <>tandard candlesticks for the sanctuary provided: the letters on sunday. Gosberton, 4 miles distant, is the brass eagle lectern was presented by Mr. C. J. Calthrop, nearest money order & telegraph office <>f Barton-on-Humber: in 1901 new oak choi.r seats were Post Office, Risegate.-Robert Pearce, sub-postmaster. placed under the tower: the total cost of recent works Letters delivered through Spalding via Gosberton, at and rhurch ornaments amounts to nearly £4,000: there 7.20 a.m.; dispatched at 6.15 p.m. week days only. are 550 sittings. The register dates from the year 1656. Gosberton, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value & telegraph office £225, including 30 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of thE' Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, and held since Wall Letter Box near Five Bells P.H. Risegate, cleared at I9II by the Rev. Charles Arthur Payne. The vicar of 6.25 p.m St. Saviour's, Leicester, is impropriator {)f the rectorial Wall Letter Box at Westhorpe cleared at 6.35 p.m. week davs onlv tithes. There is a Baptist chapel, founded in 1666, • • with 212 sittings; and Wesleyan and United Methodist Wall Letter Box, Gosberton, adjoining infants' school, chapels. The cemetery of 2 acres, with mortuary cleared at 10.45 a.m. & 7.15 p.m. week days & 5·45 chapel, costing together £1,ooo, was opened on the p.m, sundays 2ut May, r888-; it is managed by the Parish Council, Pillar Letter Box, Sutterton road, cleared at 7 p.m. which usually appoint a committee. The charities for week days only distribution amount to £120 yearly, arising from grants Public Elementary Schools. of land )eft by sundry persons, and there are alms­ Under the control of six managers, -appointed July, 1903; houses for 8 widows. Gosberton Public Hall, built by A. G. Fletcher, solicitor, Donington, Spalding, clerk; subscription in 1872, at a cost of nearly £1,ooo, on a George Handford, sohool at-tendance officer site given by Earl Brownlow, will seat about 350 per­ Gosberton (mixed & infants), with a house for the sons, and is weJI adapted for concerts or meetings: master, erected in 1856, for 150 children; average there are also a lodge and billiard rooms. Gosberton attendance, 126 mixed & 95 infants; Joseph Kimber­ House, a late Georgian edifice of red brick, is the seat ley, master; Miss Eliza Hare, infants' mistress of Edward Everard Earle Welby-Everard esq. J.P. Gos~ Clough & Risegate (mixed), with a house for the master, berton Hall, new occupied as a private school, stands erected in 1878, for 200 children; average attendance, in the centre of extensive grounds. Cawood Hall, an 16o; , master ancient structure, is now a farmhouse, occupied by :Mr. John Ouzman. Benjamin Smith esq. of Horbling, is Railway Station, George Ivett Marritt. station master lord of the manor of Monks Hall. The principal land­ O"\\ners are Earl Brownlow P.C. the Earl of Ancaster Carrier to:- and E. Everard Earle Welby-Everard esq. J.P. The Bosto~-Will~a?1 Leverton, wed. & sat !.'oil is loam and clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are Spaldmg-Wilham Leverton, tues Payne Rev. Charles Arthur (vicar), Bevis Reuben Edward, sub-post- GOSBERTON. The Vicarage master, stationer & registrar of PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Proctor Ebenezer B., J.P. Hill house births & deaths for the Gosberton Biggs John Maundy, West house Tate Samuel B.A., M.D. The Elms district, Spalding union Birkinshnw Harry L. S Welby-Everard Edwd. Everard Earle Biggs John Maundy M.R.C.S.Eng., Brittain John Ro bert, The Bank B.A., J.P. Gosberton house L.R.C.P.Lond., L.S.A.Lond. phy- Casswell Major George, Bank house Winter Mrs. •rocklesby house sician & surgeon, West house Casswell Thos.Russell J .P. Holme Lea Blundy George, beer retailer, Fen Casswell The Misses, The Terrace COMMERCIAL. Booth John, horse breaker Harrison Mrs. Gosberton hall Braybiooks Tom Gibson, blacksmith Howi&On Rev. James (Baptist) Alien Francis Stennett, baker,High st Briggs Allen, shopkeeper Kenning Mordecai, The Woodlands .A.rmstrong Thos. cottage farmer, Fen Brittain John Robert, farmer, Bank Mowbray George, Mornington house, Barks George, farmer Brooks Ernest, baker · Gosberton Clough Bendall .A.rthur, farmer Casswell Major Geo. farmer, Bank ho