FRISKNEY. FRISKNEY, a Large but Widely Scattered Village and Parish, 4 Miles S.W
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Candieshoe '\Vapentake. 2S1 the appropriation of Bardney Abbey. The Church (St. Andrew), which was rebuilt in 1857, at a cost of about £900, in lieu of the old church, which was a small antique fabric, consisting of a single aisle, is a neat building, in the Early English style of architecture, comprising nave, chancel, and a turret with two bells. It contains a handsome stone pulpit and two stained glass windows. The Rectory House is a commodious residence, which was built in 1870, at the expense of the rector. The tithes were com muted in 1840, for annual rent charges of £185 to the rector, and £19. 10s. to the lay impropriator, G. W. Maddison, Esq.; and the former has about 11 acres of glebe. Firsby Station, on the East Lincolnshire Railway, is about half a mile west of the village, and is the junction for the -wainfleet and Spilsby branch line. The Wesleyan Chapel here was built in 1839. The poor parishioners have 5 acres of land, given by William Cheales, in 1675, and now let for £12 a year; and they have also 13s. 4d. annually in two rent charges, left by unknown donors. Here is a school attended by about 40 children. Letters via Spilsby, which is the nearest Money Order Office. Ashlin John, landowner and farmer; Hall John, marble and stone mason, Malt by John, farmer h Spilsby and dealer in building materials ; Searby Robert Leesing, farmer Blackburn William, farmer & Burgh-in-the-Marsh & Wain.fteet W arth Thomas Got hard, farmer and Cash William, wheelwright Handsley Dawson, shoemaker and corn, cake and seed merchant Chapman Miss Ann, day school shopkeeper Clark William, farm foreman Hodgson William, victualler, Rail· RAILWAY Station on the East Lincoln.. Cooter Edmund, station master way Hotel shire Branch of the Great North .. Daubney John, farmer Hunt John, farmer ern line. There are five up and GranthamBrothers, corn merchants, Kemp John, farmer four down trains daily, with extra. millers, & manure agents, Patent Kemp Mr Parker ones on Monday, Wednesday and Vertical Flour Mills; & at Burgh Kime Robert, beerhouse & shopkpr Saturday, to suit the Boston and in-the-Marsh, Wainjleet, Alford, Kime William, farmer Grimsby markets; Edmd. Cooter, Lou,th, Grimsby, Holton-le-Clay, Letts Robert, farmer station master and W althmn Mager Charles, corn miller & baker FRISKNEY. FRISKNEY, a large but widely scattered village and parish, 4 miles S.W. of Wainfleet, 14 miles N.E. of Boston, and 4 miles E. of Eastville Railway Station, increased its population from 691 in 1801, to 1668 in 1871, and contains 27 miles of roads, and 7003 acres of land, in that part of the county which is sometimes designated East Hollmzd. It consists partly of marshes, bordering upon the Wash, oppo site Boston Deeps, and partly of an extensive allotment of that part of the East Fen which was so prolific in the growth of cranberries that, in favourable seasons as many as 4000 pecks were sometimes gathered; but the average was only 2000 pecks, and as much as 5s. per peck was paid to the gatherers, and Mr. Oldfield says they have been sold as high as 30s. to 50s. per peck. Since the drainage and en closure of the fen but few have been gathered. The drainage of the fens was commenced about 1802; and in 1809 an act was obtained for embanking, enclosing, and draining the marshes, &c., of Friskney, which were then generally flooded six months in the year, and had several extensive decoys, in which upwards of 30,000 heads of ducks, teal, and widgeon, have been taken in one season, and sent to the London market. Great quantities of shrimps and cockles are taken on the coast, and sent to all parts by rail, and give employment to numerous hands. The cranberry moss, and all but one decoy, have given place to fertile corn fields, and the whole parish is now well dra.ined and cultivated. The drainage has been improved at considerable expense, in consequence of the outfall having been latterly much im peded by the drainage of the wolcls. It is in the manor of Wainfleet-cum-Friskney, which is parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster, and is leased to Chas. T. S. Birch Reynardson, Esq.. ; but tl1e Lake, 'Vails, Booth, Paulet, Hollway, Hincldey, 'Vard, and other families own the greater part of the soil. The ancient hall of the Friskney family stood about half a mile south west of the church, and in digging up its foundations, about the year 1802, several joints of a Roman aqueduct were discovered. In 1813, a British celt was found in a ditch in the fen, and since then two other celts have been found; and in 1871 workmen, when digging a trench round a newly-erected school here, discovered a considerable quantity of ancient British pottery, and fmgments of bones. Until a few years ago there existed on the north side of the churchyard the mooring posts to which the Fenmen usually fastened their boats while attending divine service here. At a place called Abbey Hills are the remains of a moat, supposed to have encompassed a church and monastery, in the foundations of which a small circular vault was discovered in 1814, and on its floor were several marine shells, and a steel instrument resem· bling a cleaver, with a ring at the end. Numerous fragments of mullioned windows, stained glass, the pavement of the court-yard, and the bases of several pillars, have also been fo11nd here. Among the parish records is a long account of the heavy expenses imposed upon the inhabitants for the support of the contending armies during the wars between Charles I. and the Parliament. The Church (All Saints) is a spacious and handsome building, in the Perpendicular style of architecture, with a tower containing five bells and a clock, the latter purchased in 1841. The chancel is separated from the nave by a wooden screen of Gothic fretwork; and in its south wall are three richly sculptured sedilia, which were used by the priests at high mass, while the Gloria in excelsis was chanted by the choristers. The east window has been very beautiful, but its tracery was removed, and the.. upper part of the arch walled up, in 1570, by the " farmers of the parsonage." It was restored to its pristine beauty in 1849, and filled with stained glass, in memory of Mrs. Salkeld. The chancel was, about the same time, thoroughly repaired .