1919 Spalding

514 SOMERSBY. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY"s wa;; born here August 6, ;Bog, his father, the Rev. Holywell is a woody dell on the Somersby estate, G. C. Tennyson, being rector of the parish at the time; with a spring flowing from a rock. "Warden Hill" is he succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate in 1851, died an elevated spot on the same estate, and also a plan at Aldworth, Haslemere, Surrey, 6 Oct. 1892, and was tation. buried in Westminster Abbey. A new organ has been presented by Meaburn Staniland esq. J.P. in memory Cloven Hill, a curiously divided eminence, parallel of his nephew, Lieut.-Col. Richard Stanley Worsley with Warden; and Harden's Gap, below Warden, on D.S.O., A.S.C. who lost his life in the Mediterranean the flat, are both on the estate of South Ormsby, be on May 4th, 1917, by the torpedoing uf the troopship longing-· to Godfrey Bertram Massingberd-Mundy esq. "Transylvania." Mea burn Staniland esq. J .P. is lord of D.L., J.P. th~ manor and sole landowner. The soil is clay and Sexton, Edward Blades. sand; subsoil, mostly blue and red clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The area is Letters through Spilsby. Tetford is the nearest money on acres; rateable value £652; the population in I<:JII order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant was 47 in the civil parish and in the ecclesiastical parish (which includes Bag Enderby) go. The children of this parish attend the school at Tetford Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over. tEnderby Albert E. farmer, 'l'he Staniland Mea burn J.P. Somersby ha Manor farm Armstrong J oseph, smallholder Rutter Henry, farmer SOTBY is a parish and village, 3~ milas south-west register dates frotn the year 1658; other registers re from East Barkwith statiorf on the Louth and Lincoln lating to this parish from 1695 to 1779 !\re at Baum branch o~ the Great ~orthern railway, 16 east-north-e~st ber, and the Rev. James Gornall, rector r888-1904, from L:neoln, 5 east from \Vragby and 8 north-west placed in the parish chest a copy of the transcripts from Horncastle, in the Horncastle division of the in the Archidiaconal Registry, dating from 1556 to county, parts of Lindsey, east division of the wapentake 1590. The living is a discharged rectory, net yearly of Wraggoe, Wragby petty sessional division, Horncastle value from 325 acres of glebe £3o8, including 300 onion and cuunty court district, rural deanery of Wraggoe, acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Linco:n. The church Chancellor, and held since 1917 by the Rev. Herbert of St. PPter is a small building of stone in the Early Alfred Stead M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, English and Norman styles, consisting "()f chancel, nave who is also vicar of Market Stainton. A rectory room, and an open belfry containing one bell: the chancel was co11structed to huld so persons, was built in r882 by rebuilt in 1857 in the Ea'I"ly Englisb style, frum plan, th~ Rev. James Dombrain M.A. rector 188o-88, on his br l\fr. M. JJrurv. of Lmcoln; and in the course o: tht- premises. The l'"nited Methodist chapel was erected work some mural paint~ugs were disclosed on the splays and opened in r8g4. Lady Alwyne Compton-Vyner, whQ of the chancel windows, representing Our Lord and St. i.- lady of the manor, and the rector are the sole land Mary Magdalene, "Relshazzar's Feast" and "The Last owners. The soil is mostly marl; subsoil, marl and Supper," apparently of the 14th century : a large quan- white clay. The chief crops are barley, oats, wheat tity of oyster shells were alsu met with: the arch divid- and turnips. The area is r,646 acres; rateable value, ing the nave and chancel is Early Norman, and very £r,o37; population in 19II, III. massive: there remains a credence table, piscina and a Letters throu~h Lincoln, via Wragby. Wall Letter selJulchral arch, the latter probably covering the tomb Box, at the Rectory. East Barkwith, 3 miles distant, nf the founder, or possibly that of Ralph, a vassal of the is the nearest money order & telegraph office Bishop of Bayeux, who is mentioned in Domesday as The United Parochial schools at Panton & Ranby serve having land in this parish: there are roo sittings. The also for this parish & that of Market Stain ton PRIVATE RESIDENTS. I COMMERCIAL. tDunn Waiter E. farmer, Giebe farm Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over. tEnder by .John Sydney, farmer, Stead Rev. Herbert .Alfred M.A. tDunn Annie (Mrs.) & Son, farmers, Manor farm • (rector), Rectory Sotby house Grundy Henry, Nag's Head P.H tDunn Albert Freeman, farmer,~Ioor Maltby John, cottage farmer farm Weatherhog John, blacksmith SOUTHORPE, formerly extra-parochial, is now a tsnts use Northorpe churcli. William Embleton-Fox parish, near the river Eau, 2 miles south-west from esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The Northorpe and 2 east from Blyton stations on the main soil is clay and loam; subsoil, ~lay and gravel. The line of the Grimsby and Cleethorpes section of the Great chief crops He cereals. The area is 467, acres; rate Central railway, and 7 north-east from Gainsborough, in able value, £959; the population in r9u was 41. the Brigg division of the county, parts of Lindsey, Cor Letters through Gainsborough. Blyton, 2 miles distant, ringham wapentake, Gainsborough union, petty ses is the nearest money order & telegraph office ~ional division and county court district. The inhabi- The children of this place attend the school at Northorpe Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over tPye William, farmer · tClixby Herbert, farmer I Watson Fred, farmer SOUTHREY, see Bardney. SPALDING. SPALDI~G is a seaport, market and union town and I Boume and Stamford, Holbeac'h and Lynn, and also to parish, with a station on the Ea.st Lincolnshire branch of l March, the East Lincolnshire line giving access to the Great Northern railway, 14 miles south from Boston, Boston, Louth, Grimsby and Hull. The Great Eastern 45 south-east from Lincoln, I7 north from Peterborough, and Great Northern joint line hence to Doncaster, pass~s 20 east from Stamford, 10 east from Bourne and 93 from through Sleaford, Lincoln and Gainsborough, giving London, and is bead uf a. county court district, in the direct communication between the Eastern Counties Holland with Boston division of the county, wapentake and the north. A branch line of the Midland and Great and petty ECessional division of Elloe, parts of Holland, Northern joint railways from Bourne to Spalding, con :tural deangry of West Elloe, and archdeaconry and strncted in 1893, connects the existing lines with the diocese of Lincoln. Spalding is a member of the port Eastern counties, including the ports of Lynn and Sut of Boston, and is the port for Stamford, Market Deep- ton Bridge, thus opening up direct communication with ing and Crowland, having water communication with the Midlands. The Hig-h Bridge over the Welland was the whole county. The river Welland runs through the rebuilt in 1838; there are five other bridges, but for town, dividing it into two portions, the larger of which foot passengers only. is on the north banK: it is navigable for vessels of 120 The town is not incorporated, but was under the con tons, by which means a trade in coal, oil-cake and trol of a board of Commissioners under the " Spalding timber is carried on: the course of the river, exwnding 1 Improvement Act of r853." but under the provisions of in a comparatively straight line for 2 miles, constitutes ! the "Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. tha remains of highest antiquity about Spalding, for 73), it is now governed by an Urban District Council of the embankments on each side of the arm of the sea I5 members, and divided into five wards. An Act was or Wash, beginning from the Marsh Rails, are nn- , passed in the year r86o for supplying the town with doubtedly the work of the Romans. The Great Northern j water, which is conducted in pipes from Bourne; the railway has branch lines from here to Peterboro· works are close to the town, on the road to Pinchbeck; DIREOTOBY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. EIPALDIRG, the capital is £ 13,000; raised iu shares of £10 each. seven stone carvings, the work of a Belgian sculptor, The town is lighted with gas from works the property J. Tner linckx, of Malines, were added to the exterior. of the Urban District Council. Here iH a Friends' meeting-house, a Congregational The parish church of SS. Mary and Nicholas is a chapel in Pinchbeck road, erected in 1821, seating soo ~pacious building, originally Early English, and rebuilt persons, with a branch chapel in Holbeach road, bnilt in 1294, but with many alterations in the Decorated and in 1841, and having 100 sittings ; the Baptist chapel, in Perpendicular styles, some later portions being of Post Chapel lane, founded in 1646, has sittings for 650 per Reformation date: the plan is complex and anomalous sons, and has a branch chapel on Spalding Common, but, in its original arrangement, it consisted of chancel !eating 200; there are also Primitive Methodist, Wes with south aisle, nave with aisles, transept with eastern leyan Methodist, United Methodist chapels, and meet and wastern aisles, north porch and an embattled Per ing-rooms for the Christadelpliians and the Plymouth pendicular tower, with pinnacles and spire, attached to Brethren.

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