68 GEDLING. . [KELLY's derived from 400 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Earl of in the midst of extenshre grounds and plantations. The Camarvon, and held since 1887 by the Rev. the Hon. principal landowners are tlie Earl of Carnarvon, who is Alberic Edward Bertie M.A. of Merton College, Oxford and lord of the manor, and Earl Manvers. The soil is clay; rural dean of Gedling. The poor's land lets for £27 yearly, subsoil, sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and was purchased in 1735 with £122 10s. bequeathed and beans. "l'he area of the township is 1,918 acres ; to the poor of the whole parish. Bishop Chenevix, of rateable value, £10,418 ; the population in 1901 was 785 Waterford, left, in 1779, the dividend of £550 9s. 2d.; in the civil and 1,412 in the ecclesiastical parish. and £210, interest of money in Savings Bank, is distributed Allwell is a spring, 1 mile north-west, from which the in coal and money. Here is a club, erected on ground village is supplied. given for the purpose by the Earl of Carnarvon; it con- Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. & I. tains reading, recreation and billiard rooms and has 60 Office.-William Armstrong, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive members. Tn the centre of the village stands a handsome from by mail cart at 5.35 & 3.40 p.m. ; fountain, with seats on either side, presented to the parish dispatched at 7.34 p.m.; no vost on sunday by the late Countess of Carnarvon tin 1874. The Wigby Public Elementary School (mixed), for 132 children; average Colliery Co. Ltd. have a pit here. Gedling Manor, the attendance, 130; John William Tebbey, master property of the Earl of Carnarvon, is now the residence Railway Station, Richard Maddison, station master of William Henry Blackburn esq. Gedling House is the seat of Carriers to Nottingham.-Henry Collishaw, mon. fri. & sat. W. H. Rawnsley esq.; both stand in delightful positions Tippler Brothers, daily Attenborough Mrs Stanton The Misses Girling H. Sergt.-Inst. 4th Nottingham- Bertie Rev. the Hon. Alberic Edward Tweedale George shire Volunteer Batt M.A. (rector & rural dean) Ward John Hemstock Sarah (Mrs.), farmer & Blackburn William Henry, Gedling manr Wainwright Arthur Charles blacksmith • Clarke John Robert Waterfield Henry Hind William, dairyman Eggleston Francis, Ashmount Wilding William V. Pembroke house Horspool William, fishmonger Eggleston Joseph, Avondale Wilson John :j Machin William Thomas, farmer Essex Thomas, Rydal mount Wilson Joseph, Flora cOttage Mason Joseph, grocer, Main street Foulds Henry Moses, St. Mirren's, Wright James :Millington Hy. farmer & coal merchant Stoke lane COMMERCIAL. Palethorpe Thomas, market gardener Griffin Stephen Armstrong William, stationer & sub- Parker Thomas, boot maker liemstock Mrs postmaster Parr Thomas, farmer, Poddough farm liolmes Reuben. Salisbury villa Bames William, cowkeeper Poyzer Charles, gasfitter James Henry Bellamy & Son, builders Price William, boot maker Messom John FredencK Brierley Elleh (Mrs.), dress maker Rutherford Luther, builder Morton George, Westdale Brown Charles, blacksmith Sadler William, grocer Oldbury Mrs Collishaw Henry, farmer Salmon Henry Wilson, dentist Orton Thomas Charles, Thelma villa Cumberland Arthur, grocer South Nottinghamshire Fox Hounds Os borne Bertram Dawson Garnet, butcher (Lord Harrington, master; George Pratt Edmund, Stoke lodge Digby Colliery Co. Ltd. (The) (S. A. German Shepherd, huntsman), The Rawnsley Waiter Hugh J".P. Gedling Everett, manager) Kennells house & Well vale, Alford Doubleday John, farmer Taylor Henry, Chesterfield Arms P.H Savidge John Richard Gedling Club (Clement Kirk, sec) Wilson Joseph, florist GIBTON, anciently Greton, is a small village and Chancellor, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Edwin Charles parish, on the east bank of the navigable Trent, 4 miles Shawfield, who resides at South Scarle. The Free Metho­ north-east from Carlton station on the main line of the dists have a chapel here. The Duke of Newcastle is lord of Great Northern railway and 9 north-by-east from Newark, the manor of Moreland, including the parishes of Girton in the Newark division of the.county, northern division and South Scarle. The soil is light sand; subsoil, gravel of the wapentake of Newark, union, petty sessional division and clay. The chief crops are wheat and roots. The and county court district of Newark, rural deanery area is 1,045 acres ofj land, 7 of water and 24 of tidal . of Newark East, archdeaconry of Nottingham and diocese water; rateable value, £1,529; the population in 1901 of Southwell. The church (name not known) is an was 132. ancient building Of stone, in the Perpendicular style, con- Parish Clerk, William Noble. sisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a small turret Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.30 p.m at the east end of the nave, containing 1 bell : it was Letters from Newark, arrive at 7.30 a.m. The nearest partly rebuilt and thoroughly restored in 1879, and has money order & telegraph office is at Collingham, 3 miles 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1680. distant The living is a vicarage, annexed, with the chapelry of The place is included in the Besthorpe School district; the Besthorpe, to that of South Scarle, joint net yearly value children attend the school at Besthorpe £220, including 52 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Lord Carrier to Newark.-Percy Willows, wed :Barker George Gee John, fisherman Roe Hannah (Mrs.), cottage farmer Robertson Miss Gee William, farmer & rate collector Sudbury Tom, ferryman (Meering) Bradley J arvis, farmer Holland Ed ward, joiner Wells Teal, farmer Brown George, thrashing machine owner Hopkinsori William, cottage farmer Widdoson John, Plough P.H & farmer Hunt John, farmer,;Grange farm Willows Percy, carrier Coulson John, fisherman Noble William, farmer Wilson Thomas, boat o,uwmner GONALSTON is a village and parish, 1! miles from and 157 acres of glebe, in the gift of John LieU Francklin the Trent, on the road from Nottingham to Southwell, ll esq. J".P. and held since 1889 by the Rev. Francis Henry miles north from station on the Midland rail- Paley M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge. Gonalston way (Nottingham and Lincoln line), 9 north-east from Hall, now (1904) unoccupied, is a modem mansion occupying Nottingham, 5 south-west from Southwell and 138 from I an elevated site near the road, and is the property of John London, in the Newark division of the county, southern LieU Francklin esq. J".P. lord of the manor and sole pro· division of the wapentake of , Southwell petty prietor of the land. The chief crops are wheat, barley and sessional division and union, county court district of turnips. The area is 1,342 of land, part arable, with about Newark, rural deanery of Gedling, archdeaconry of Not- 30 acres of woodlarid and 4 of water; rateable value, tingham and diocese of Southwell. The church of St. £2,336 ; the population in 1901 was 128. Laurence is a stone building, in the Early English style, Parish Clerk, Thomas Holloway. consisting of chancel and nave, so~th p~rch and a we::;t~rn Post Office.-William Challand Hutchinson, sub-postmaster. tower at the north-west angle, With spue and contammg Letters through Nottingham arrive at 6.45 a.m. & 4.25 4 beJ.Is, . dated 1684 and 1853 ; th': ~ave and tower were p.m. ; dispatched at 6.20 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. Postal rebuilt m 1~9 : there are two p1Scmae. and thr~e alt~ Orders are issued & paid here. The nearest money stones, and m the church are _two effigies of knights l;1l order & telegraph office is at Lowdham & Hoveringham, armour, c. 1200, and representmg members of the Henz about 2 miles distant family and one of Matilda de Heriz, c. 1340 : there are 80 . . sittings. The register dates from the year 1537. The The children of this place attend the school at Lowdham living is a rectory, net yearly value £231, with residence, Carriers pass through to Nottingham, tues. thurs. & sat Francklin John Liell J".P Burton Joseph, farmer, Manor farm Hall Zacariah, farmer Paley Rev. Francis Henry M.A. Rectory Clarke Charles, farmer Holloway Thomas, boot maker Clarke John, farmer Hurt John, farmer COMHEBCIAL. Faulks William, joiner Pearson William, farmer Bagshaw Jolln Henry, blacksmith Goodson John, farmer Woodward Francis, farmer