l>Ilt.ECTURY. J . ULCEBY VILLAGE. 583

formerly rector hem, ob. 1612, and a recumbent stone Post, T. & Telephonic ExpNss Delivery Office.-William effigy ot a knight in armonr, discovered ~bout 184o, Wells, sub-postmaster. Letters through Stamford'-. built into one of the walls of the chl}rch; some mem­ which is the nearest money order office. Letters for bers of the Lindsey family are buried here, including Uffington Fen received through Charles, fifth son of Montague, second Earl of Lindsey K.G. d. 1716; and Charles, his son, d. I72o: the No. r6 (UFFINGTON RURAL DISTRICT) SUB­ communion plat~, of silver gilt, was presented by the COM~IITTEE OF KESTEVEN LOCAL PENSION Lindsey family, and there is also a massive silver COMMITTEE. salver, given by Susannah, wife of Sir Thomas Trollope, in 1724 : there are 400 sittings: the churchyard, which Meetingi are held at the Town hall, Stamford, on first is tastefully planted with evergreens, is surrounded friday in the month at ~.30 p.m. with some very fine lime and chestnut trees. The Chairman, M. J. Tryon, N Jr~ fields, Stamford register of baptisms dates from I675; marriages, I684; Clerk, Robert .William Dol'.illan, 5 .A.ll S:1ints street burials, 1676. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £420, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Lindsey, The following parishes are included in the araa of the and held since 1915 by the Rev. Frederick Willi:1m .Ajn­ Sub-District :~Uffington, Tallington, Barholm, Great­ ley M.A. of Clare College, C,ambridge. There are some ford &; Braceborough charitable bequests to the poor, and amongst others Pensions Officers, Gusta.vus M. Fulton, 16 All Saints £so bequeathed by the Lindsey family, as recorded on place, Stamford & Robert Henry Hamilton, 13 .A.lbion-- a tablet placed in the church. A priory 'Of Austin street, Spalding canons was founded in this parish by W. D'.A.lbini, in the reign of Henry Ill. and dedicated to St. Leonard; UFFINGTON RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. an extensive flour mill is supposed to occupy the site, Meets at the Tallington School room, third monday in but no vestiges of the building now remain. Casewick month, at 6 p.m. Hall, the seat of the Hon. N esta. Trollope, is a large Elizabethan mansion, standing in a well-wooded park of The di~trict comprises the following parishes :-Barholm, 77 acres, surrounded by fine scenery and com:r\:ianding Braceborough, Deeping (West), , Stowe, Tal­ an extensive view of Northants and Lincolnshire. lington, Uffington & Wilsthorpe, being th.e Lincoln· Uffington House, the seat of tha Earl of Lindsey D.L., shire parishes (except Stamford) in Stamford union. J.P. who is lord of the manor, wa!'l totally destroyed The areil. ia 12,898 acres; ra-teable value in 1912, by fire on the night of Monday, 19 Dec. 1904; the £22,915; population in 19I'I, 1,544· mansion, which stood in a park of 66 acres, on the Chairman, Earl of Lindsey, Uffington house, Uftington,. north bank of the Welland, was a handsome rectangular Stamford 11tructure, erected about 1830 by Henry Bertie, and Officials. contained a. splendid collection of art treasure~. which were f~rtunately saved. The principal landowners are Clerk, H. J. Tillson, 25 Broad street, Stamford ths Earl of Lindsey, the Hon. Nesta Trollopa and the Treasurer, J. Bayldon, Barclays Bank Lim1ted,Stamford trustees of the late Jarnes Griffith Dearden esq. The Medical Officer of Health, Thomas Porter Greenwood soil is various, consisting of loam, gravel and clay, L.B.C.P .Edin. 36 St. Mary's street, Stamford producing a fair crop of wheat, barley and beans; about Surveyor & Sanitary In!!pector, Frederick R. Ryman, 70 one-third of the parish is grass land and meadow of Tinwell road, Stamford fair quality; subsoil, clay and rock. The chiaf crops Road Surveyor, A. Cave, Baston are hay and pasturage. 'fhe area i!'l 4,144 acres of land and 21 of water; rat-eable value, £6,985; population in Police Station, Maddison Bett, constable 19!1 1 419. Uffington Fen is· about 9 mile~ north of-the parish Pubhc Elementary School (mixed), with house for the church. master, endowed in 1814 with £20 yearly; it will hold Sexton, John Oswin Thorn ton. 70 children; Jame!'l Morriss, master Lindsey Earl of D.L., J.P. Uffington Baldwin Thomas Cubitt (farm bailiff l''risby George, Beri.ie Arms inn house; & 53 Eaton square SW 1; to Hon. Nesta Trollope,Casewick lo tHodgkin Samuel, farmer,Horne frm Wellington club s w I & St.James' Bee John Marriott, farmer Jones .Albert, Trollope Arms P.H club W I, Londo'- Benstead Robert, blacksmith tMartin Maxwell,farmr.West Hall fm Ainley Rev-. Frederick William M ..A.. tBradshaw Philip John, farmer, Wood Molesworth & Springthorpe, millertl Rectory farm (water), Newstead mills Coe Samuel Joseph, Logielea tBurbidge John Thomas, farmer Plumb John. boot maker Onion Misses, The Cottage Burch William Austin, gardener to Thornton John Oswin, wheelwright &; Pind~ Major Thomas William J .P. the Earl of Lindsey D.L., J .P sexton Newste"ad house Cave Charles, farmer Water Works (under control of 'the Trollope Hon. Nesta, Casewick hall ·Cousins Francis, gamekeeper to the District Council) (Robert Benstead, COMMERCIAL. Earl of Lindsey manager) Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over. Ellis & Everard Limited, coal, oil Wells William, baker, & post office tAllen Needham, farmer,The Grange cake & manure merchants &c tWoodward John Philip, farmer ULCEBY is a parish and small 'Village, 3 miles south- j a Wesleyan chapel. Paul E. Wilks esq. Major W. H. west from Alford station on the East Lincolnshire sec- Rawnsley, William Thornally esq. and the rector are tion of the Great Northern railway and s! east-north- the principal landowners. The soil is chalky loam; sub­ east tram , in the division of the soil, chalk &nd red clay. The chief crops are wheat. county, parts of Lindsey, Wold division of Calceworth barley, seeds and turnips. The area of Ulceby wi~h hundred, petty sessional division of .A.lford, union and Fordington is 1:,947 acres; assessable value, £949; the county court district of Spilsby, rural deamJy of South population in 19II was 185. Calcewaith, and archd~a.cor~ry and diocese ~f _ Linc?ln. FOBDINGTON is a. hamlet, in the parish of mceby, The _church of ~11 Samts IS a small ~nd p.am e