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white clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, I Letters through , the nearest money order & barley and turnips. The area is 361 acres; rateable value, telegraph office, arrive at .30 a.m. & dispatched at [4:86; the population in 1881 was 49· By,a. Local Govern- 9 ment Board order, dated December 24th, 188o, the Fen 3·3° p.m Allotment was transferred to Sibseylparish in Boston Union. The children of this parish attend the school at Roughton Jobson Edwin, wheelwright DEEPING ST. JAMES (or EAST DEEPING) is a large of land with cottages &c. and producing [200 yearly, scattered village and parish, forming an eastern suburb of half of which is applied to the repairs of highways and and extending into the Fen for a distance causeways, and the balance to charitable purposes. Deep­ of 3 miles on the north-east. The leading street is bounded ing ,Waterton Hall is the residence of Charles Edmund

.East Lincolnshire 1branch of the Great Northern railway, rights of East and have been sold, for par­ about two miles east from the village, in the South ticulars of which see Market Deeping. A small part of the division of the county, parts of Kesteven, Ness wapentake, township is in Uffington manor. Sir Thomas Wlrichcote Bourn petty sessional division, union and county court bart. D.L. of Hall, Falkingham, William Thompson district, rural deanery of Ness and arch deaconry and diocese esq. Mr. Thomas Chesterfield and :Mr. William J ackson are

styles, consisting of chancel, nave of seven bays with tri- lation in 1881 was 11648. torium, south aisle, south porch, and a western tower with is a hamlet, half-a-Inile north of the church. lofty spire, erected in 1717, in a debased Gothic style, and Parish Clerk, Arthur Pepper. containing a clock and 5 bells : the aisle retains piscinre and PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. aumbreys, and there are two lockers: the font is cylindric-al Hannah Cansdale, sub-postmistress. Letters through and is enriched with an interesting Norman arcading: the Market Deeping arrive at 8 a. m. ; dispatched at 7.40 p.m.; south porch, of Early English date, is very fine, and exhibits sundays 7.15 p.m. Market Deeping is the nearest tele· a profusion of the dog-tooth ornament : a coffin slab with graph office the effigy of an ecclesiastic lies at the east end of the a1sle : LETI'ER Box, Bridge street, cleared 7·35 p.m. ; sundays, the transepts have been destroyed and the openings into 7.25 p.m them built up : in the aisle are six fine windows filled with ScHOOLS :- rieh and varied Decorated tracery: the windows on the A School Board of 5 members was formed October 27, 1876; north side are Perpendicular: ~there are Boo sittings. The Geo. Henry Dean, clerk to the board & attendance officer register dates from the year 1674. The living is a vicarage, Board (boys), formerly the Free school, erected in 1816, net yearly value {,220, with house and including 75 acres of & re-erected in 1867, for 140 childen; average attendance, glebe, in the gift of Sir Thomas Whichcote hart. and held 8o; John Curtis Trinders, master since 1841 by the Rev. John George M.A. of Emmanuel Col- Board (girls), near the church, erected in 1851, for 140 lege, Cambridge. The Catholic chapel, converted to its children; average attendance, 76; Miss Louisa F. Stan- present use in x88o, is a plain building of stone and brick, well, mistress dedicated to Our Lady of Lincoln and St. Guthlac; !it has Board (infants), at the Cross, originally the workhouse, stained windows, and is supported by the Waterton family, for 100 children; average attendance, 6o ; Miss Hannah on whose estate it is situated : in the chapel is a fine old Bell, mistress font of the time of Edward II. and the crucifix on the rood Board (infants), Bridge street, built in 1839, for 8o beam came from an old church in Belgium, where it was children; average attendance, so; Robt. Claydon, master first erected in 1330: services are held every Sunday and CARRIERS:- Holidays of Obligation by the Prremonstratensian Canons of William Buttress, to Stamford, fri. & Peterborough, sat Spa!ding. The Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in John Smith, of Market Deeping, passes through to & from 1878, the Particular Baptist chapel _in 1839, and the Free Spalding tues. & Peterborough wed. & sat Methodist in 188o. William Henry Teete, to Stamford, fri. & Peterborough, sat Robert Tygh, in the year 1553, and subsequently other Francis Walling, of Langtoft, passes through to & from benefactors, left land and· tenements, including land ac- Peterborough on sat. & Spalding, tues quired under the Inclosure Act, now comprising 6o acres Railway Station, William Essame, station master Armstrong Miss C.10le Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Lake J ames, joiner & builder Chesterfield Mrs Cook Frederick Harker, farmer LambertThos.market gardnr.Horsegata George Rev. John M.A. Vicarage Cropper John, shopkeeper, Horsegate Liewsley Thomas, grocer Ingerson Jonathan Crowson Jn.buildr.& monumntl.mason Lowth Ann (Mrs.), farmer Tomlin Edward Cunnington Joseph, farmer & distiller Mackman Wright, Railway hotel Waterton Charles Edmund, Deeping Dale John, :::ltamford Arms P.H. Market Deeping Gas Light & Coke Co. Waterton hall Davis Richard, tinman & bra1..ier Lim. works (Saml. B. Sharpe, sec) COMMERCIAL. Dean George Henry, clerk & attend- Maxom Edward, rope & twine maker Achnrch John, farmer & potato mer ance officer to Deeping St. James, Merrilion Abraham, shoe maker Algar Emma & Louisa (Misses), mil- Deeping St. Nicholas,Maxey, Tailing- Merrilion James, market gardener liners & dress makers ton & Northborough united district Merrilion Mark, market gardener Alien Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper school boards & poor's rate collector Merrishaw Silvester, beer retailer Alien Thomas, farmer, Horsegate Faulkener WilliamEdward, wheelwrght Monk Saml. inland rev. officer,Horsegt Baker James (Mrs.), farmer Feneley Charles, baker Morton Samuel, grocer & baker Baker James, carpenter & wheelwright Foster John, beer retailer, Frognall Nurse Thomas, butcher Baker John, net maker & game dealer Fowler Andrew, boot maker Oldham James, miller (wind) & baker Barron Alfred, farmer Fowler James, fruiterer, Horsegate Otter Frank, Chestnut Horse P.H Bennett William, blacksmith Freeman Joseph, George & Dragon P.H Pal mer Susannah Maria (Mrs. ),shopkpr Bilton Sarah (Mrs.), dress maker Frisby Robert, farmer Parsonage Charles, beer retailer Boyden John, boot maker Frisby Samuel, farmer Parsons \\'illiam Thomas, farmer Brown Thomas, Three Tuns P. H Gout Chas. beer ret. & farmer,Cranmore Penney Betsey(Mrs. ), butcher & beer ret Bucknell Daniel, butcher Green William, tailor Perkins Daniel, farmer, Sheepskin hall Burbidge Wm. Cave, farmr.& landwnr Gunn George Wm. Bell P.H. & farmer Perkins Thomas, farmer Burchnall Robert, blacksmith &c Haines James, wheelwright Perkins \\'illiam, farmer, Five houses Buttress William,beer retailer & carrier Hainsworth David, builder & monu- Qua.mbery Wm. blacksmith, Horsegate Cansdale Hannah (Mrs.), grocer, mental mason Reader Sa.very, blacksmith draper, & sub-postinistress Hart John, 'Vaterton Arms P.H Ridlington Robert, shopkeeper Charity Samuel, Goat P.H Haynes William, farmer, Frognall Sanderson John, carpenter & joiner Chesterfield Jane Ann (Mrs.), draper Hibbett Edwin, machinist Sewell John, farmer Chesterfield Thomas, coal dealer Hooten Samuel, cowkeeper Sewell William, town crier for l\Iarket Chesterfield Thos. farmer & landowner Howitt Matthew, butcher Deeping & bill poster, High street Chesterfield William, farmer Jack.son William, farmer & landowner Shillaker John, grocer & draper &c Chesterfield William, jun. farmer Lake Jame3, farm ~r Sismey Sarah (Mrs.), farmer LIN. 9 •