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Glover Rev. Frederick .Augustus M. A., Gibbons Robert, farmer Orry Maddison Wm. grocer, Post office LL.B., Mus.B., J.P. [rector], Rectory Hull Edward Gordon B.A., M.D., B.ch. Pain Elmet, farmer Hull Edward Gordon B.A., M.D., B.ch physician & surgeon, & medical Rawson William, horse breaker COMMERCIAL. officer & public vaccinawr, Withern Risdale William, farmer .Askey Wm. Gresswell, grocer & tailor district, Louth union Sivel Samuel, boot maker .Atkin Charles, cattle dealer Hutchings Hannah (Mrs.), farmer, Tickler Fred, miller (water) .Atkin Richard, farmer .Alford road Watson Thomas, grocer Carritt William, pig dealer Jarvis William, farmer Webster Henry, butcher & cattle dealer Clark James, carrier Larder Charles,carpenter &wheelwright ·wells John, farmer Clark William, carrier Loughton William, farmer Wells Walliss Thos. fat·mer, Withern hall Enderby .Arthur, farmer, Manor house Maidens Christopher, farmer, Stain hill "'ells Wm.Walliss, farmer, Fishpondho Fenwick Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper Marshall Jn. Thos.RedLion P.H.&farmer White Bartholomew, blacksmith Harrison George, machine owner & Marshall Wallis, farmer, Longlands Willson William, farmer engineer &c Mountain Henry, market gardener Woodlifi Jas. thrashing machine proptr WOLD NEWTON (or NEWTON-LE-WOLD) is a village I the church was reconsecrated on .All Saints' day (Nov. t) and parish, situated in a valley on the road, 8~ miles north- 1862, by the .Archbishop of Canterbury. The register dates west from Louth, 8~ south from Great and 4 west from the year 1578. The living is a rectory, tithe rent­ from station on the East Lincolnshire branch charge £474• net yearly value £404, including Io acres of of the Great Northern railway, in the division glebe with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and .of the county, parts of Lindsey, Bradley Haverstoe wapen- held since 1875 by the Rev. Charles Bird Jackson M.A. of take, Caiswr union, Grimsby petty sessional division and Brasenose College, Oxford. Here is a small Primitive MethG­ county district, rural deanery of Grimsby No. 1, arch- dist chapel, with sittings for 40 persons. The trustees of deaconry of Stow and . The church of the late William Wright esq. are lords of the manor, and the .All Saints, situated upon an eminence, was entirely rebuilt whole of the parish, with the exception of the glebe, belongs and refitted in 1862 by the Hon. and Rev. G. W. Bourke, to them. The soil is a heavy loam; subsoil, chalk. The then rector, under the superintendence of Mr. James Fowler, chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is architect, of Lincoln, and is a small edifice of stone and 2,o6o acres; rateable value, £2,496; the population in I88I brick, m the Early English style, consisting of aspidal was 165. chancel, nave, south porch, vestry and an octagonal western turret, surmounted by an elegant spirelet and containing PosT OFFICE.-WrayHickabottom,receiver. Letters through one bell: the stained triplet of lancet windows at the west Great Grimsby arrive at 9· 15 a.m. Box cleared at 2.55 end was presented by Mrs. Turner, of Nettleton rectory, p.m. week days only. is the nearest money near : the font, a 14th century work, has a muti- order & telegraph office lated inscription to John Curteys and his wife, the probable National School (mixed), built in 1845, for 45 children; donors: the total cost of the rebuilding &c. was £1,o76, and average attendance, 38; Mrs. Rose Craxford, mistJ'CiS. Jackson Rev. Charles Bird M.A. Recwry ISmith Elijah, farm bailiff to Thomas IKillick Thomas, shopkeeper Wright Mrs Coates esq , see ENDERBY. WOODHALL is a village and parish, extending from ford Hotchkin esq. of , is lord of the manor Kirkstead station on the Boston and Lincoln branch of the and, with E. H. Cartwright esq. the principal landowner Great Northern railway, and the ferry over the river The soil is sand and heavy loam; subsoil, mostly blue clay. Witham, to 3 miles south-west from , in the The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area South Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, is 2,231 acres ; rateable value, £3,918 ; the population in .south division of the wapentake of Gartree, petty sessional 1881 was 278, of which 196 are included in Langton St.. division, union and county court district of Horncastle, rural .Andrew ecclesiastical parish, for which see Woodhall Spa. deanery of Gartree, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of By a Local Government Board order, dated December Lincoln. The church of St. Margaret is a very small 24th, 188o, the Fen .Allotment containing 3 inhabitants wa& building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of nave, transferred to parish. and a tower with pinnacles and spire containing 2 bells : the Parish Clerk, Thomas Mitchell. interior of the church was thoroughly restored in 1878, and has 6o sittings. The register dates from the year I 558. The Letters by foot post through Horncastle, the nearest moner living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £CJO, in the gift of the order & telegraph office, arrive at 9·30 a.m. & leave at Bishop of Linroln, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Henry 4 p.m Benwell M. A. of Exeter College, Oxford, who is also rector of Parochial School (infants), for 30 children; average attend- and resides at Langtun-by-Horncastle. Thomas John Staf- ance, 25; Thomas Mitchell, master COMMERCIAL. Fanthorpe Betsey (Mrs.), farmer, Da r- Mar .Aaron, farm bailiff to E. H. Cart- .Allcock William, farmer wood house wright esq Bell Benjamin, farmer Harrison Chas. A. farmer, Woodhall ho Whaller Mary (Mrs.), farmer Dixon Thomas, farmer Healey .Alfred, farmer

WOODHALL SPA, situated 6~ miles south-west from red brick, with stone facings, built in 1875 at a cost of Horncastle, has a station on the Horncastle branch of the £r,5oo. There is also a chapel for Presbyterians, endowed Great Northern railwa.y from Kirkstead Junction, which is with a freehold estate, of which the Rev. Robert Holden, the also within the parish, and is in the South Lindsey division present minister, is beneficial owner. The population in of the county, and petty sessional division, union and county x881 was 515. court district of Horncastle. The Spa extends over a strip Parish Clerk, Richard Hucknall. of light sandy soil, enjoying a dry and bracing air and pro- THE SPA, the mineral spring of Woodhall, designated tected from the north and west winds by a long range of "The English Kreuznacb," was accidentally discovered in lofty wolds running parallel with the coast, and also by ex- r8u, in the course of experiments made by the late John tensive woods and plantations: it consists at present chiefly Parkinson esq. with the hope of finding coal on this site,; of one wide, straight thoroughfare, nearly parallel with the after the expenditure of several thousand pounds and the railway which crosses the estate from east to west; this sinking of a shaft w a depth of I,ooo feet, the enterprise was­ long street is fringed with large and picturesquely designed abandoned on account of the rising of the spring which has: houses of brick and some shops and new buildings are now become famous for Its exceptionally valuable properties. constantly being added. St. Andrew's, Langton and Wood- About 1849, the late Thomas Hotchkin esq. then lord of the hall Spa is an ecclesiastical parish formed June 21, 1Bso, manor, spent nearly £3o,ooo in sinking the well and from the civil parishes of Langton, "'oodhall, Thornton and erecting an hotel and bath-house, and other improvemen~ Thimbleby, in the rural deanery of Gartree, archdeaconry were effected by his successor, J. T. S. Hotchkin esq.; of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church, erected in more recently, in 1886, the estate, consisting of about 100 I846, is a small building of stone, consisting of chancel, acres, was purchased by a syndicate and.extensive alterations nave, south porch, and an open stone belfry containing one and improvements have already been effected, under the bell, and has sittings for ICJO persons. The register dates direction of Mr. C. F. Davis, architect, of Bath. The old from the year 1870. The living is a vicarage, net yearly bath house has been in a great measure remodelled as value £250, in the gift of the rector of St. Margaret, Lang- second-class baths, and a large new building erected, witll ton, and held since 1869 by the Rev. James Con way Waiter modem improvements, in which water can be applied either B. A. of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, who is also in- in the form of a simple and complete warm bath or locally cumbent of the donative living of Kirkstead; the Rev. as a douche or vapour, while the modern treatmentbyml!o9- Francis Samuel Pyemont Pyemont B. A. of Durham Univer- sage is also carried out in all its details. Two external sides sity, is curate in charge. There is a Primitive Methodist of the building form a promenade, one looking out on the chapel erected in 1834 and a Wesleyan Methodist chapel of archery and tennis ground, fully an acre in exten~ and \he •