396 BLEAFORD. . The following is a list of places in the county court dis­ RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY. trict :-, Asgarby-with-Boughton,,Ashby­ Meetings, 1st wednesday in each month at Town Hall, de-la-Launde, Aunsby, Ancaster-with-West Willoughby Clerk, Edmund Clements, Southgate, & Sudbrooke, , , Braunce­ Treasurer, Col. Francis Augustus Fane, Bank, Slesford well & , , Blankney-with-Linwood, Cul­ Medical Officer of Health, Oswald Giles L.R.C.P.LOnd.Lafford verthorpe, Cranwell, Craythorpe-with-Frieston, Dembleby, terrace, Sleaford Digby, Dorrington, Dogdike, -with-, Inspector of Nuisances, Jesse Clare, Quarrington , , Hale Great, Hale Little, ­ ScHOOL ATTENDANCE Co:MMI'ITEE. with-Garrick, Helprington-with-Thorpe Latimer, Haydor­ Meetings at Clerk's Offices, 1st monday in month. with-Aisby & , Howell, Priory, Hold­ Clerk, Edmund Clements, Southgate, Sleaford ingham, Haceby, , Kirkby-la-Thorpe, Kyme North, Attendance & Inquiry Officers, Lawrence Stephen Castle­ Kyme South, Kirkby Green, , Leadenham­ dine, Boston road, Sleaford ; & William Codd Burk.itt, with-Bayards Leap, Martin, Newton, , Quar­ rington, Rauceby North & South, Rowston-with-Sheffield PUBLIC 0I<'FICERS :- House, Roxholm, Ruskington, Scredington, , Assessor & Collector of Assessed Taxes, John Roberts, Swaton, Swarby, Sleaford Old & New, Scopwick, Temple Market street Brner with Temple High Grange, , Timber­ Clerk to Commissioners of Taxes for the Hundreds of land, -with-Stow, WilloughbyScot, Willough­ Aswardhurn, Flaxwell, Boothby Graffoe & Langoe, to by Silk, Wilsford & Hanbeck, Walcot, Wellbourn, Well- Trustees of Robert Carr's Charity, Edmund Clements, m• gore Southgate County Police Station, Eastgate, superintendent, Alfred Clerk to the Trustees of Ruskington, Dorrington & North Richdale ; the local force consists of four men & one in­ Kyme Drainage, A ugustus Leverton J essopp, N orthgate spector of cattle for the parts of Clerks to Alnwick & Drainage & to Billinghay Fire Brigade, West hanks, G. Williams, capt South District Drainage, Peake, Snow & Peake, Market pl Inland Revenue Office, Corn Exchange, Market place, Clerk to Blankney, Linwood & Martin Drainage, Henry George S. Young, supervisor; Michael T. Counahan & Snow, Market place Arthur M. Barton, officers Clerk to Digby Separate Drainage, Henry Arthnr Peake, Lincolnshire Regiment, 2nd Vol. Batt.(E Co.); armoury & Market place orderly room, Southgate ; Capt. H. A. Peake ; Lieut. !<', Collector of Poor Rates, John Nixon, Carre street A. Peacock; John Henry Bissill, hon. assist. surgeon County Surveyor for the Parts of Kesteven, Charles Kirk Stamp Office, Northgate, Miss Georgians Smedley, distri­ M.A. Jermyn street butor Diocesan Surveyor, Herbert Kirk, Jermyn street Town Hall, Market place, Joseph Househam, keeper Inland Revenue Officers, Arthur M. Barton, Northgate & Young Men's Literary Institution, News Room & Library, Michael T. Counahan, Southgate Corn exchange, Market pl. Joseph Shacklock, librarian Inspector of Weights & Measures, Alfred Richdale, Eastgate Stamp Distributor, Miss Georgiana Smedley SLEAFORD UNION. Superintendent of Police, Alfred Richdale, Eastgate Board day, every alternate monday, at the Workhouse, at Supervisor of Inland Revenue, Geo. S. Youn?, Corn exchng ro a.m. Town Crier, Henry Charles Rowbottom, Boston road The union comprises the following places :-Anwick,Asgarby, PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services:- .Ashby-de-la-Launde, Aswarby, Aunsby, Bayards Leap, St. Denis' Church, Market place, Rev. Alfred Langdon B.!. Billinghay, Blankney, Bloxholm, -with­ vicar, 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m Dunsby, Burton Pedwardine, Cranwell, , Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception,Catholic,Rev.Felix Dembleby, Digby, Dorrington, Evedon, Ewerby, Hale Henry May, priest; holy communion, 8.30 & mass, II Great, Hale Little, , Heckington, Hel· a. m.: catechism & instruction, 2.30 & service, sermon & pringham, Holdingham, Howell, Kelby, Kirkby Green, benediction, 6.30 p.m.; daily mass, 8 a.m Kirkby-la-Thorpe,KymeNorth, Kyme South, Leadenham, Baptist, Old Sleaford, 10.30 a. m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m Leasingham, Martin, Newton, Osbournby, Quarrington, Baptist, Eastgate, Rev.Edwd.Samuel,10.30 a. m. & 6.30 p.m Ranceby North, Rauceby South, Rowston, Roxholme, Congregational, Southgate, Rev. Peter Carrotte, minister, Ruskington, Scopwick, Scat-Willoughby, Scredington, rr a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m Silk-Willoughby, Sleaford New, Sleaford Old, Spanby. Primitive Methodist, Westgate, 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; fri. Swarby, Swaton, Temple Bruer with Temple High Grange, at 7 p.m Thorpe Tilney, Threekingham, Timberland, Walcot, Wesleyan,Northgate,Revs. Robert Dillon,GeorgeH. Howson Walcott, , , Wilsford > the popula­ & James Ellis, ministers, 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. tion of the union in x88I was 25,720; rateable value, 7 p.m £r8o,866 Wesleyan Reform Union, West banks, Rev. E. Sibcy, 10.30 C'lerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Edmund a. m. & 6 p.m.; mon. 7 p.m Clements, Southgate, Sleaford ScHooLs:- Treasurer, Col. Francis Augustus Fane, Bank, Sleaford Grammar, Northgate, founded by Robert Carr esq. of Relieving Officers & Collectors to the Guardians, North dis­ Aswarby (second son of Robert Carr, of Sleaford, ob. trict, William Codd Burkett, Ruskington; South district, 1590 ), in the year 16o4, & is endowed with a freehold Lawrence Stephen Castledine, Boston road, Sleaford estate of 130 acres at Gedney, in this county, & now Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Billinghay district, producing an income of about £150: the present school­ John Christopher Irving L.R.C.P.Edin. Billinghay; Blank­ house & master's residence were erected in 1834: the ney district, Maitland Thompson L.R.C.P.Edin. Methering­ school was re-established under an Order in Chancery bam; Heckington district, Waiter William Godfrey dated 7th April, 1830 & in 1835 new regulations were Stables, Heckington ; Leadenham district, George Kings­ framed by the trustees; Rev. Robert Gibson, head master; ton Barton M.D. Leadenham; Osbournby district, Thomas Edmund Clements, clerk Blasson, ; Sleaford district, Charles Fredk. Art School, Duke street, Eastgate, in connection with the Bedford, Market place, Sleaford ; Wilsford district, Frank Science & Art Department, South Kensington, was estab­ Newcombe, Ancaster lished here in 1879, & is managed by a committee, of Superintendent Registrar, Edmnnd Clements, Southgate, which Col. F. Fane is chairman ; Mr. Kirk, hon. sec.; Sleaford; deputy, Wm. H. Clements, ~outhgate, Sleaford Miss W edd, mistress Registrar of Births & Deaths, Aswarby sub-district, J. New­ Alvey's Endowed & National, Eastgate (mixed), was land, ; deputy, Almond, Alpringham ; Billing­ founded under the will of William Alvey esq. dated 26th hay sub-district, William Codd Burkitt, Ruskington; August, 1726, who bequeathed a freehold estate of 53 deputy, John Nixon, Carr street, Sleaford; Leadenham acres, at Fishtoft, to the vicar of Sleaford for the time sub-district, William Milner, Wellingore; deputy, John being, & six other trustees, upon trust to apply the rents Thomas, Wellingore; Sleaford sub-district, Lawrence " in teaching the poor children of Sleaford to read, write, Stephen Castledine, Boston road, Sleaford; deputy, James sew & knit : " the income of this charity is now about M. Repton, Boston road, Old Sleaford £x6o yearly; new schools, together with a master's house, Registrars of Marriages, Billinghay district, William Codd were erected in 185r, at a cost of /,Boo, on ground given Burkitt, Ruskington; deputy, Joseph Morris, Union by the Marquess of Bristol: the united schools will hold house, Sleaford; Sleaford district, vacant; deputy, vacant 200 children ; John Nightingarl, master; Mrs. Mary Ann The Workhouse, Eastgate, on the Sleaford & Tattershall Nightingarl, mistress road, erected in 1838, at a cost of £4,000, is a building Alvey's Endowed & National (infants), Westgat.e, erected of Ancaster stone, in the Tudor style, from designll by the in 1855; Miss Marlow, mistress late Mr. Donthorn, of , & has since been enlarged; Wesleyan (boys & girls), erected from designs by Messrs. it will now hold 180 inmates ; Rev. Alfred Langdon B.A. Pattinson, of Ruskington, at a cost of £ I,IOo; William chaplain; Charles Frederick Bedford, medical officer ; Henry Marchant, master ; Miss Marshall, mistress Joseph Morris, master; Mrs. Jane Morris, matron ; Miss Catholic, for so children ; average attendance, 32; Mrs. Harriet Barnes, schoolmistress Ferriby, mistrel!s