614 UFFINGTON. . (KELL"i''S church. A priory of Austin Canons was founded in this No. 16 (UFFINGTO~ Rl'R.AL DISTRICT) SUB­ by W. D'Albini, in the reign of Henry Ill. and dedi­ COM'MITTEE OF KESTEVE~ LOCAL. PENSION cated to St. Leonard; an extensive flour mill is sup­ CO~f~ITTEE. posed to occupy the site, but no vestiges of the build­ • :\ieetings are held at the Town hall, Stamford, on first ings now remain. Oasewick Hall, the seat of Lord friday in the month at 2.30 p.m. · Kesteven J.P. is a large Elizabethan mansion, standing Chairman, M. J. Tryon, North fields, Stamford in a well-wooded park of 77 acres, surrounded by fine Clerk, Robert William Dodrnan, 5 All Saints street scenery and commanding an extensive view of Norbhants and Lincolnshire. Uffington House, the seat of the Earl The following are included in the area of the Sub-District :-Uffington, , , Great­ of Lindsey D.L., J.P. who is lord of the manor, was ford & Braceborough totally destroyed by fire on the night of Monday, 19 Pensions Officers, Gustavus M. Fulton, 51 High street1 Dec. 1904 ; the mansion, which stood in a park of 66 Stamford & Robert Henry Hamilton, 13 .Albion street, acres. on the north bank of the W elland, was a handsome Spalding rectangular structure, erected about 1830 by Henrt Bertie, and contained a splendid collection of art UFFINGTON RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. treasures, which were fortunately saved. The principal Meets at the Tallington School room, third monday in landowners are the Earl of Lindsey, Lord Kesteven and month, at 6 p.m. the trustee; of the late James Griffith Dearden esq. of The district comprises the following parishes :-Barholm, Walcot Hall, Stamford. The soil is various, consisting Braceborough, Deeping (West), Greatford, Stowe, Tal­ of loam, gravel and clay, producing a fair crop of wheat, lington, Uffington & Wilsthorpe, being the Lincoln­ barley and beans; about one-third of the parish is grass shire parishes (except Stamford) in Stamford union. land and mead·ow of fair quality; subsoil, clay, and The are:t i.; 12,898 acres; rateable value in 1912, rock. The chief crops are hay and pasturage. 'The area £22,915; population in I9Iil, 11,544· is 4,144 acres of land and 21 of water; rateable value, Chairman, Lord Kesteven,Casewick hall, Uffington,Stmfrd £6,744; population in 1911, 419. Officials. Clerk, Richard :\lills English, 40 Broad street, Stamford t:'ffington Fen is about 9 miles north of the parish Treasurer, Meaburn Staniland Young, 30 St. Paul's st. church. Stamford Medical Officer of Health, Thomas· Porter Greenwood· Sexton, John Oswin Thornton. L.R.·C .. P.Edin. 36 St. Mary's street, .Stamford Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, Herbert Hilliam, 10 Post & T. Office.-William Wells, sub-postmaster. Let­ Emlyn's street, Stamford ters arrive from Stamford at 6.45 a.m. & 12.50 p.m.; Road Surveyor, A. Cave, dispatched at 11.20 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; sundays, arrive 7· 2 0 a.m.; dispatched 1 2 -30 p.m. The nearest money Police Station, :Maddison Bett, constable order office is at Stamford. Letters for U:ffington Fen Pubhc Elementary School (mixed) with house for the received master, endowed in 1814 with yearly; it will hold thro~gh 1 £2~ Wall Letter Box, Newstead, cleared at 7.20 & 11.40 a. m. j 70 children; average attendance, 40; James Morriss, & 6.50 p.m.; sundays, 2.30 p.m I master · Lindsey Earl of D.L., J.P. Uffington' Alien Needham, farmer, ·The Grange Jones .Albert, Trollope .Arms P.H house; & 53 Ea ton square & Wel- Bald win Thomas Cubitt (farm bailiff Martin Maxwell, farmer,West Hall fm lington club, SW to Lord Kesteven J.P.), Casewick lo Molesworth & Springthorpe, millers

Kesteven .Lord J. P. Casewick hall ; & i Benstead Ro bert, blacksmith (water), Newstead mills 3 St. James' place & .Arthur's & Burbidge John J .. gamekeeper to the Plumb John, boot maker Junior Oarlton clubs, London SW Ead of Lindsey D.L., J.P Shillaker Georgiana. (Mrs.), farmer, Onion Misses, The Cottage Burbidge John Thomas, farmer Home & Wood farms Pinder Major Thomas William J.P. Byatt J

Aldwinckle Jn. & Cicely .(Miss),frmrs 1 of Lindsey D.L., J.P Woodward John Philip, farmer ULCEBY is a parish and small village, 3 miles south­ Great Carlton, Louth, and the rector, are the principal west from Alford station on the East Lincolnshire sec­ landowners. The soil is chalky loam; subsoil, chalk tion of the Great Northern railway and s! east-north­ and red clay. The chief crops are wheat,. barley, seeds east from , in the South Lindsey division of the and turnips. The area of Ulceby with Fordington is county, parts of Lindsey, Wold division of Calceworth 1,947 acres; rateable value, £1,589; the population in hundred, petty sessional division of Alford, union and 19n was 185. county court district of Spilsby, rural deanery of South Calcewaith, and archdeaconry and . FORDI.NGTO~ is a hamlet, in the parish of Dceby:~ The church of All Saints is a small and p:ain edifice in the hundred of Candleshoe, about half-a-mile south­ of brick, erected in 1826, at a cost of £450, and consists west from the church. There was formerly a church of chancel and nave, with a belfry containing one bell ; here, but no trace of it now remains. it was restored internally and reseated in 1885, and affords Post Office.-Henry Elliott, sub-postmaster. Letters 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1749. through Alford, arrive at 7.10 a.m. & (for callers only) The living is a rectory, with that of Fordington annexed, 3.30 p.m. Letter Box cleared at 5.40 p.m.; no de­ joint net yearly value £350, arising from 460 acres of livery on sunday. .Alford, 3 miles distant, is the glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since 1877 nearest money order & telegraph office by the Rev. Waiter Gilbert Peacock B..A. of Balliol Letter Box, at Ulceby Top, cleared at 7.25 a.m. & 5 .so College, Oxford, who is also vicar of Haugh. Here is p.m. week days only a Wesleyan chapel. Miss Mansell, who is lady of the manor, Mrs. Nisbet Hamilton-Ogilvy, of Biel, Preston­ County Council School (mixed), built in 1912 for 50 kirk, East Lothian, N.B. Joseph W. Davey esq. of children; average attendance, 40; 1Iiss Deakin, mist Peacock Rev. Waiter Gilbert B.A. Dales Josepb, farmer Hardy Robert, farmer, Manor house Rectory Davey Joseph W. farmer (correspon­ Riggall Car!, assistant aversrer COMMERCIAL. dence to Great Carlton) Riggall George A. farmer, 'l'he Grange Brown Arthur, blacksmith Elliott Henry, sub-postmaster & shop­ Riggall Robt. Wm. farmr. The Glebe Oawthorpe William J. builder keeper Towler Edward, Gate P.H ULCEBY VILLA.GE is a parish and large village, and diocese of Lincoln. The church' of St. Nicholas is with a station, called Ulceby Junction, on the branch· an edifice of stone, in the Decorated and Perpendicular line from to Hull, of the Great Central rail­ styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, way, · 164! miles from London, 6 south from New lady chapel, north and south porches and an embattled Holland and 7 south-east from Barton-on-Humber, in western tower with spire containing 5 bells : there are the North Lindsey division of the county, parts of some memorial windows : the chancel and the east end Lindsey, northern division of the Yarborough wapim­ of the south aisle each contain an aumbry and piscina: take, union of Glanhrd , Barton-upon-Humber the font is Norman or earlier: the church was 1·estored petty sessional division and county court district, rural and the seats reconstructed in 1852, under the direction deanery of North Yarborough, archdeaconry of Stow of Mr. Keyworth, of Hull: the south aisle was entirelt