DIRECTORY. J LINCOLNSHIRE. STRrBBY. 549

holm, joint net yearly value £mo, including 70 acres of 355 acres; rateable value, £H9 t the population in xgn glebe, in the gift of the Governon of Oakham and Up­ was 25. pingham schools, and held since IIJ09 by the ReY. Henry Fortescue Ostrehan, who resides at Barholm. The Hon. Letters through Langtoft, Peterborough. Greatford is Nesta Trollope is lady of the manor and principal land­ the nearest money order & telegraph office, about ::a owner. The soil is light loam; subsoil, gravel. The miles distant chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area- is The children of this place go to Greatford school Nottingham Gustave Frederick William, farmer, St'owa farm STRAGGLETHORPE is a parish and fimall village, of the trustees of the late Algemon John Frederick on the Brant strea.m, 3 miles west from Leadenham Platt esq. of Barnby Manor, New:uk, and held since station on the Grantham and Lincoln branch of the Great 1911 by the Rev. Edward Heseltine Hibbert B.A. Brant Broughton, about 1 mila living is a chapelry, united, with the vit'arage of Fenton, distant to the rectory of Beckingham, joint net yearly value £44o, The children of this place attend the school at Brani including 430 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift Broughton Gilliatt Mrs. Old hall I Tonge Richard, farmer STROXTON is a parish and small village, in a narrow retains a piscina, and on the north side an arched dell, 2~ miles west-by-north from Ponton station on the aumbry of Early English date: the east window is main line of the Great Northern railway and 4 i!outh stained: a fine Early English tombstone, with raised from Grantham, in the Rutland and Stamford division floriated cross, found near the west end of the church, of the county, parts of Kesteven, wllpentake of Winni­ has been placed on a slab near the porch: in the tran­ briggs and Threo, Spittlegate petty sessional division, sept is a mural monument,-with arms, to William Blyth, Grantham union and county court district, rural deanery of Stroxton, 1644 : · the restoration . of the church, in­ of South Grantham and archdeaconry and diocese of tended as a memorial to the Rev. P. J. Earle Welby, a Lincoln. The church of All Saints is an edifice of stone former rector, was carried out in 1875 under the direc­ in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of tion of Messrs. Kirk, architects, of Sleaford, at a cost of chancel, with sid.e chapel, nave of two bays, aisles, about £I,8oo: there are sittings for 100 persons. The south porch and a saddle-backed western tower, con­ register dates from the year 1735- The living is a taining 3 bells: in the restoration and enlargement rectory, net yearly value £197, with residence, in the which took place during 1874-5 the old foundations of gift of Sir Charles Glynne Earle Welby hart. C.B. and the aisles were ascertained and the whole of the external held since 1895 by the Rev. Sumner Colpoys Wood B.A. walls rebuilt upon the old lines, the arcades being of Queens' College, Cambridge. In this parish are opened and the previously built up columns and arches, three .copious springs, which help to supply Grantham both in the nave and chancel, carefully repaired : a new with water. Sir Charles Glynne Earle Welby hart. south porch was also erected, and the tower, an inferior C. B. is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil structure forming no part of the ancient church, was is creach; subsoil, stone. The chief crops are wheat, rebuilt: the original Norman chancel arch is now the barley and roots·. The area is 993 acres; rateable tower arch, and a later Norman doorway, formerly the value, £1,292; population in rgn, go. western entrance to the early church, has been reseL in Letters through Grantham. Wall Letter Box. The the western face of the tower: in the north wall of the nearest money order & telegraph ofiice is at G:rant­ chancel is a third arch of this period opening into the ham, 4 miles distant · side chapel: several small carved dedication crosses be­ Public Elementary School (mixed), erected about 1845, longing to the old fabric have been-replaced nearly in the by the late Sir Glynne Earle Welby-Gregory bart. for position which they previously occupied: the chancel 25 children; Miss Elizabeth Storey, mistress Wood Rev. Sumner Colpoys B.A. Retry! Langham Cecil, farmer, Stroxton jLangham John, farmer, Church farm Jackson John Amos, farmer,Manor ho Lodge farm Watson Stansby, farmer . STR UBBY is a parish and village, 4 miles north-ea"'t here, erected in 1845. In 1728 Mr. Thomas Williamson from Aby station on the East Lincolnshire section of I left a yearly rent charge of £2 128. out of a farm at the Great Northern railway, about 4 north from Cum berW{)rth for the poor of this parish, to be dis- Alford and 10 !'Outh-east from Louth, in the Louth tributed in bread. Strubby is in the manor of Bilsby, division of the county, parts of Lindsey, Wold division and the open fields were inclosed in 1840. Robert of the hundred of Calceworth, petty s-essional division of Charles de Grey Vyner esq. is the principal landowner. Alford, Louth union and county court district,- rural The soil is clay; subsoil, blue clay and red marl. dea11ery of North Calcewaith, and archdeaconry and The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans and dioce;;e of Lincoln. The church of St. Oswald, rebuilt turnips. The area of Strnbby with Woodthorpe is (with the exception of the ohancel) in 1857, at a cost of 2,050 acres; .. rateable value, £r,gig; the population in about £soo, is an edifice of brick and stone in the Early 19II was 201. Decorated and Perpendicular styles. con£-isting of chancel, Post Office.-William Janney, sub-postmaster_ Letters nave of four bays, south aisle, south porch and a turret through Alford; no delivery on sundays. Withern, containing one bell : the only existing portion of the o!d 2 miles di_stant, is the nearest money order & tele­ chnrch is the ~nth arcade: in the church are several graph office monuments to the Eallett family, including one dated I$3I, but without a Christian name, another to William WOODTHORPE is a hamlet belonging to Strubby, Ballett, of Woodthorpe, and alderman of London, 1648, frc.m which place it is nearlf 2 miles south. Wood~ aged Q9; and a third to Charles Ballett esq. 1703: in thorpe Hall, the residence of Mr. William Kelk, is a the chancel is an effigy of Adam de Strubby: the substantial brick mansion, and was formerly the seat of chancel was rebuilt by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners th_~ Ballett family, several of whom are buried in the in 1874 at a. cost of upwards of £4oo, and a small church of Strubby. Near the. Hall stands a remarkable vestry was added by the incum bent: there are 161 oak, said to be a landmark to navigators on the North sittings. The register dates from the year 1558. The Sea, and supposed to be over I,ooo years old. William living is a discharged vicarage. net yearly value £240, Holland Ballet Fletcher esq. is the principal landowner. including 17 acres of glebe, with residence, in the g-tft Sexton, Allan Larder. of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, and held since Overseer, William Janney, Post office. rcp6 by the Rev. James Holden, « Durham University. Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1878, for The rectorial titheil are now held by the Ecclesiastical 34 children; Mrs. Annie Janney, mistress· CommisBioners. There is a W esleyan Methodist chapel Carrier, Henry "Mot~on, to Louth, wed. & sat ~INCS. 18 f