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Wall L~tter Bo11es, Ilj)ar Blue Bell P.l!. cleared a~~--+~ 'l'.engue ~ (North Township} (mixed), built in. I8,0, & ~40 p.m. >~nea.r Oatsheaf l'.H, cleared at l;l.4Q J;., fpr So children.; average atrtelldance, sa; Jolu,t. Dick· S·-40 p.m.,; near Mr._ Freir'~,. cleared at I.-5. .& 6.-S son. ma~Ster p.m. & Tongue End school, cleared at 8 a.m Public Elementary Schools. Railway Stations. Middle. Township- (mixed), built in 1876, for 135 chil· Littleworth, Harry Dennick, station master dren, & enlarged in 1909, for tio children ; average Counter Drain, Lionel G. Dennis, station master attendance, 16:r ;· George Henry Barley, master DEEPING ST. NICHOLAS. Griffin Joseph, farmer Watts Robert Knowles. farmer Bensun Rev. Wm. Matthew, Vicarage Ivatt Charles Wm. cottage farmer Whitfield George, farmer (postal Crick Mrs Ivatt Robert, cottage farmer address, Langtoft, Pet-erborough) Freir George Ives George, cottage farmer Wigginton John, Oatsheaf P.H Holland Mrs Ives William, cottage farmer Wilkin<>on James Wm. assist. oversr Porter William Edward, The Hollies Jackson Frederick, cottage farmer Winsor Ja.mes Arth. cottage farmer COKMERCIAL. J ackson Henry A, cottage farmer Winsor Robert Alien, C(}ttage farmer Anderson Edward, eottage farmer Jackson John William, !Blue .Bell P.H Winsor William, cottage farmer Atkinson Lucas, farmer, Deeping Lakin William, farm bailiff to Winsor William, jun. cottage fa,.,rm,..,er High bank (letters should be T. S. Phillips esq Worth Sidney, farmer addressed, Postland, Spalding) · Law John, cottage fa1mer, Deeping Bailey Charles William, cottage frmr High bank (letters should be TONGUE END. Barley George Henry, registrar of addressed i»ostland, Spalding) [Letters should he addressed "Pode Hole'' births & deaths for Deeping-- St. Leadbeater John, cottage farmer insteavl of Deeping St. Nicholas.] Nicholas sub-district Leadbeater Thomas, cottage farmer COMMERCIAL. Barnes Charl-es, cottage farmer Luck George, cottage farmer Andrew Charles Edwa.rd, farmer ' Beardsley Harry Howard, farmer, Neal Peter, farmer Andrew Edward Farrer, butcher Deeping High bank (letters should Patma.n Alfred, cottage farmer Bollins James Henry, farm bailiff to be addressed Postland, Spalding) Patman John James, cottage farmer Harry Pennington esq . Bi.shop William H. wheelwright Patman Thomas, farm bailiff to Clifton Henry, farm bailiff to Mt. Brewster Samuel, cottage farmer Waiter Gordon Smith esq Frank Herbert Cook Brittain John Henry, farmer Pea.rson John Henry, farm bailiff to Frost George, farm bailiff to· Green Campain Mary & Susannah (Misses), A. J. Preston esq Waltham esq fat·mers Parkins Fred, Plough P.H Gout John Edwin, Carrington Arms Carter H. P. & Son farmers Phillips Joseph, cottage farmer P.H Chappell Edward, f~rmer Pick 'l'homas Arthur, farmer Grummitt George William, farmer Charlton Henry K. cottage farmer Porter William Edward, farmer & (letters should be addressed Bas- Clayton Robert, farmer landowner, The Hollies, Church & ton, Peterborough) Cox George, cottage farmer Hedge farms Hollis John William, farm bailiff to Crick & France, butchers Posey John Willia.m, cottage farmer ,:,amuel Freir esq Cr~ck John Baptist, Harrow inn Pratt John, farm bailiff to W. E. Middleton Henry, farm bailiff to Dennis William & Sons Limited, Porter esq Messrs. Digby & Co. (letters

farmers• & landowners Preston Albert James, farmer should be addressed Grutham, Eady James Edward, farmer 1 Pycroft Fred, cottage farmer Bourne) Ellis & Everard Ltd. coal, lime, coke Reedman Robert, cottage farmer Myers James, farm bailiff to Harry &c.mers. Railway stn; & a.tStamfrd Scarcliffe Tom, blacksmith Shillaker esq Foster Alfred, cottage farmer Sharpe Robert, beer retailer Rose Albert, farm bailiff to Tom A. Fowler Charles, cottage farmer Shinkins Thomas Leonard, cottage White esq ·

France Charles, butcher, see Crick 1 farmer Searby Harry, fllimer & France Shinn William, farm bailiff to Wm. Seymour William, farm bailiff to Freir George, farmer ColtStowgate (let-' Smith David, cottage farmer should be addressed Baston, Peter- tars through Deeping St. James) I Smith Thomas, cottage farmer borough) Gray Samuel Henry, farmer, Deep- Stainsby Charles Fred, beer retailer Starker Arthur, Chequers P.H ing High bank (letters should be Steele Joseph, cottage farmer Turner John, cottage farmer addressed Postland, •Spalding) Stennett William, cottage farmer Ward Erne;;t Harold, farmer, Baston Griffin Frank, cottage farmer Ward Wait. farmer, The Shrubbery Fen (postal address, Peterborough) WEST DEEPING (or Deeping West) is a parish and are stffined: there are 140 sittings. The register compact and well-built village; on the banks of the Wel- dates from the year 1657· The living is a rectory, net land, which is here crossed by a bridge of one arch, and yearly value £263,' arising from 200 acres of glebe, witb a little south of. the Stamford road, 1 mile east from residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held •rallington station on the main line of the Great Northern since 1899 by the Rev. John Carpenter M.A. of Sidney railway, 2 miles south-wem from Market Deeping and Sussex College, Cambridge. A Cemetery of a quarter about s. east from Stamford, in the Kesteven division of of an acre was formed in 1883, at a cost of about {.300, the county, parts of Kesteven, Ness wapentake, Bourne and is now under the control of a Burial Board. Th& petty sessional division, Stamford union and county court charities amount to about [30 a year, left in house district, rural deanery of Ness and archdeaconry and property and land, and divided between the school and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Andrew is an the poor. The Manor House, built in 1634, is now ancient edifice of stone in the Early English and Decorated occupied by Mr. Waiter Askew. l'he manorial rights stylrs, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch ~Vf been sold; for particulars, see M-arket Deeping. and a western tower with crocketed spire and pinnacles Mr. Matthew Mold and Manasseh Joseph Tryon esq. containing 5 bells: in the chancel are sedilia and a. piscina, are the principal landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil,. and the remains of two low side windows: at the east end gravel. The chief crops are cereals. The area js 1,282: of the south aisle is another piscina, and near it a acres of land and 14 of water; rateable value, [2,145;. hagiO!JCope : the octagonal font is a finely executed work, the population in 1911 was 302. with panelled sides, exhibiting the arms of the Wake Deputy Parish Clerk Thomas Henson. and othf>r f<~milies: on the panel adjoining that which ' bears the Wake arms is a shield of arms believed to Post O:ffice.-Mrs. Emma Merrishaw, sub-postmistr~ss. be that of the Black Prince, who married the heiress Letters arrive through Peterborough at 6.30 a..m. & of the Wake lands: in 18']'6 the chancel was restored, 6.35 p.m.; dispatched at 7.25 a. m. k 6.25 p.m.; no and the nave, tower and spire were substantially sunday mail. The nearest money order & telegraph repa-ired, the whole at a cost of [2,800, under the -office is at Market Deeping direction of Mr. W. Butterfield, architect: an ancient Public .Elementary School (mixed), for 85 children,. stone screen divides the nave and chancel; the latter with an average attendance of 6o; supported in part has been elaborately decorated in colour by Mr-.r ToWDA-, by the endowment mentioned above & by ~iss end, and,. has .a gilt and coloured .reredos, enrichOO, with Molecey's' gift of Consols of [2P8 10S. ~d. ; William mosaics.: the west window and all the .chancel windows Howard Smith, master Benuer John fickering Mrs• .Aldgate house A.:Skew Waiter, farmer, :Manor farm Carpenwr BPv. John .M.A. (rector), COVMKRCIAL. Cemetery (William H. Smith, clerk Rectory ~ckland William, wheelwright, car- Tryon esq Gi,ding William... Het'ey .penter ar; pndertaker Clark. William, Jann bailift to M. I. Goode !.lr•~ Ot-om..-ell houae A.nate& Wm • .A.lbed tnilleP (waten) Fallard Frederick. C. coal deale-c