DIRECTORY. J . . 429 Letters through Kirten-in-Lindseh Lines, 2! miles dis­ Public Elementary School (mixed), fol'- 70 children. tant, which is the nearest money order & telegraph Children attending this school are eligible as candi­ office to Mant Mr. Alfred Row bottom, bead Cleatham & Greetwell Hall teacher ; Miss Eveline May IWwbottom, assistant . Binnall Rev. Richard Gibbons M.A. Brown W1lliam, smallholder Hoyles T. H. & S. J. farmers, Twig- (rector), The Rectory tDay John Wm. farmer, South farm moor (letters through ) Maw Arthur M. Cleatham hall Dennett William, gamekeeper to Martin John Charles, smallholder Oldfield· J oseph R. Greet well hall Charle~ B. Ward esq Ro'l'fbottom Alfred, schoolmaster & (letters th£ough Scawby) Ha:rrison Henry, smallholder over~ er COMMERCIAL. Hewitt John, farmer, Hall farm, Stainton Hy. farmr. Twigmoor grnge Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over. Twigmoor (letters thronghScawby) tStamp George, farmer, Manor farm . Harry & George, smallhldn MAREHAM-LE-FEN is a parish and pleasant of the almshouses at Revesby. The trustees of the late Vlllage, 2 miles from Tumby Woodside station on the Hon. Richard Philip Stanhope are lords nf the manor Kirkstead and LI-ttle Steeping branch of the Great and the principal lanaownPrs, but there are many small N ortbern railway, 6~ miles north-east from freeholders. The soil is sandy loam; sub :soil, gravel station on the Lincoln and branrh of the Great and white clay. The chief crops are barley, oats, Northern railway, 6 south from and 13 north turnips and potatoes. The area is 2,286 acres; rate­ -Iroru Boston, in the Horncastle division of the county, able value, £3,478 ; the population in 19n was 661 in , Horncastle soke, union, petty sessional the civil and 570 in the ecclesiastical parish. division and county court district, rural deanery of Parish Clerk, Edward Coupland. Gartree,. archdeaconry of Stow and . Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Thomas Sarjantson Chapman, The church of St. Helen, thoroughly restored and reseated sub-postmaster. Letters arrive by mail cart from in 1873, is a building of oolite, in the Early English and Boston Decr,rated style, ronsisting of chancel, na"Ve, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with four panelled Public Elementary Endowed School (mixed), erected in anJ crocketed pinnacles, containing 3 bells: the stained 1841 & enlarged m 188o by James. Bank10 Stanhope ea:.~t window and reredos were the gift of the late Charles esq. of , for 140 children; the school J. Corbett esq. of Imber Court, Surrey (d. 1882): thew has several endowments in land, one of which watt are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year given in IB49 by the Ven. William Goodenough, arch­ 1562. 'I'he li"ring is a rectory, average net yearly Via.1ue deacon of Carlisle, a former rector of this parish; [333, including 307 acres of glebe, with residence, in :Mrs. Eddies, mistress ~e gift of the Bishop of Manches.teT, a.nd held since The school is controlled by six--managers; Rev. F. J. 1907 by the Rev. Frederick J obn Williamson M . .A.. of St. Williamson M. A. correspondent John's Colleg-e, Cambridge. The Wesleyan chapel, Oa.rriere. • erected in IB91, at a cost of £I,8oo, is of brick with stone facings in the Gothic style, and has sittings for Mark Abbott, to Boston, wed 350 persons. There , is also a Primitive Methodist John Johnson, tu Horncastle, wed. & i>at chapel. Tha.. inhabitants are entitled to the benefits Fred Mason, to Tattershall station, every day Chapman Miss, RoseTille Dawson Rt. cottage farmer & wood kpr Johnson Joseph Edward, baker Chapman Thomas S. Scarborough ho Effield John, farmer Mason Fred, carrier Oole Mr-<1 tEllwood Arthur Addison, farmer, Padley Herbert, shoe maker Ellwood Arthur Addison, Manor ho Manor house Prestwood Waiter, timber dealer Kime Titus, The Lawns Evison John, farmer Roberts Stephen,Foresters' Arma P.H )Villiamson Rev. Frederick John M.A. Evison Thomas, plumber Scarborough John, tailor • (rector), -Rectory Fisher Alfred, cottage farmer Scarborough Robert, timber dealer COMMERCIAL. tFowler Edward, farmer Shaw John, farmer Marked thus t farm 150 acres !H over. tGoodrick' Arthur, farmer & potato Sinclair William & ~on Limited, seecl Abbott Mark, farmer & carrier mer. & grower, Trumby House frm merchants . Bell John W. farmer Gosling Richard, beer retailer Spring Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Blackwell Ernest, baker- Gosling Robert, sen. timber dealer Stennett Elijah, farmer Bontoft Seymour W. & Son, butchers Gosling Samuel, cottage farmer Stennett Sarah (Mrs.), Royal Oak P.B Boothby David, cottage farmer · I Herring Herbert R. earpenter Stennet George, farmer, Birkwood Br=itt Robert, farmer Hodgson Fred, larmer Trafford John, farmer

Bush Benj. beer retlr. Moorhouses I Hodgson John C. machinist Tye Lizzie '{Mrs.), beer retailer Caborn ·Charles, saddler Hodgson John W. farmer Vinter Arthur E. hair dresser Cht1pman .& Son, grocers, Post office Hodgson Thomas, farmer,The Grange Watkins Gerrard M.R.C.V.S. veter- Chapman Jonathan, farmer Hubbard Frederick, farmer & potato inary surgeon & veterinary in- Codd Clara (Miss), shopkeeper grower & merchant spector under the "Disease• of Cunnington Eldred Septimus, tailor Jobson William, cycle agent Animals A.ets" to 'Lindsey County Cnrtis Arthur, farmer, Fen lane J ohnson Henry, butcher Council Daubney Ellen (Mrs.), carpenter , Johnson John, shopkeeper & carrier Wrightson Charles, farmer

]I'[AREHAM-ON·THE-HlLL is a. parish, 1:1" milel! chPster, and held since 1912 by the Rev. John Gerrard &outh-east from Horncastle terminal station of a branch McOubbin M.A. of Cambridge University, who resides at of the Great Northern railway, in the Horncastle divi- . Here is a Wesleyan chapel, rebuilt in sion of the county, parts •of Lindsey, union, petty ses- 1853· Richard Ward esq. and Francis Nundy esq. are &ional division, sake and county court district of Horn- the principal landowners. The soil is ligh~ clay a~d sandy castle, rural deanery of Hor:ncastle, archdeaconry of Stow loam; subsoil, white clay. The chief crops are turnips, • 1tnd diocese of Lincoln. -The"church of All Saints is a seeds, barley and oats. The area is 1,298 acres; ,rate­ small and very plain pre-Reformation edifice of local able value, £1,240; population in Igii, 144 in the green sandstone, consisting of chancel and nave and a civil and 269 in the ecclesiastical parish (which includes small wooden bell-cot containing one bell: during the High Toynton). repairing of the church in 1804, two nobles of Edward Parish Clerk, Herbert Marshall. IV. two angels of Henry VII. and several silver coins Wall Letter Box. Letters through Horncastle, 2 miles in a leather purse were found in the wall: there are distant, which is the nearest money order & telegraph_ 6o sittings. The register dates from 1572. The living office is a perpetual curacy, consolidated with that of .High Church of School (mixed), erected by I!Ub- Trynton, joint net -yearly value £292, with 34 acres of scription, with residence for mistress, in 1874• fOJ' glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Man- 50 children; Miss Sarah J. Smithson, mistress Nundy Mrs. Highfield house Hufton Charles, blacksmith tWingate Henry, farmer COMMERCIAL. tHurdman Harry & George, farmers Wingate Lowther,farmer & dairyman,.. Marked thUs t farm 150 acres or over. tNundy Francis, farmer, The Grange The Laurels Boult George & Harry, carpenters & Paul Frederick James, farmer wheelwrights Todd George, farmer MARK:BY is a parish and small village, 4 miles north- Calceworth hundred, Alford petty sessional di'ritrion, east from Alford station on the East Lincolnshire section union and county court district, South Calce­ of the Great Northern railway, in the Horncastle divi- waith rural deanery, and arohdeaconry and diocese of aion of the county, part& of I.indsey, W old division of Lincoln. The church of St. Peter is an ancient edifl.ce

•