CA·L'DECOTT• . [KELLY'S .Assoc, of King's College, . Here is a Congregational Parish Clerk, Frederick Jeffs. -chapel, erected in 1858, and seating 60 persons. The Mar­ Post Office.-James William Burditt, sub-postmaster. quess of Exeter is lord of the manor, and the Ecclesiastical Letters arrive from Uppingham at 6.35 a.m. & 4.15 p.m. ; Commissioners and the Rev. Wentworth Watson M.A., l.P. dispatched at 10.20 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. Rockingham & of Rockingham Castle, Northants, are the principal land­ Great Easton, 2 miles distant, are the nearest money order 'owners. The soil is strong loam; subsoil, various. The & telegraph offices land is chiefly pasture. The area is 1,157 acres of land and Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1878, for 60 5 of water; assessable value, £1,780; the population in 1901 children; average attendance, 52; Miss Clara J. Adcock, was 273. mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brown George, grazier Richards Robert, Plough P.R -(jlarke Mrs Burclmall Mary Elizh, (~Irs.), shopkeeper Sarson Wilfred Ernest, beer ret. & smith Close Mrs Burdett Wm. Ernest, coal mer. Station Singleton Eliza (:\Irs.), grazier Pocock Rev. Spencer Richards ASSOC. Burditt Jam.~.Wm. shopkpr. Post office Upping~ar:t & Upper Welland Fishing K.C.L. (vicar), Vicarage Chambers Wllliam, Black Horse P.R .AssoclatIOn (~. E. Burdett, hon. sec) Stiles Charles Thomas Fernleigh house Claypole George, boot maker VICe Leonard, mIller (steam & water) , Ellis & Everard Lim. coal mers. Station Ward Robert James, farmer & grazier COMMERCIAL. Hunt Henry, horse trainer & farmer IWardle John William, wool merchant Almond Joseph, grazier Marlow Mary Ann (Mrs.), grazier Wignell John, grazier Brown George, baker Peach Edward, grazier Wright Kellham, grazier or CASTERTON MAGNA, I Day. This place was a Roman settlement, with a strongly .formerly called Bridge Casterton, is a parish and village fortified camp, of which there are still remains, and coins on the North road, and on the north bank of the river and other articles of 'great antiquity have been·;.round here. Gwash, and on the borders of , 21 miles north- The Marquess of Exeter is lord of .the manor and sole land­ west from Stamford station on the Stamford and Essendine . owner. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans and branch of the Great Northern railway, 11 east-by-south from roots, and pasture land. The area is 2,298 acres of land and , in the hundred of East Stamford, union and county·. 5 of water; rateable value, £1,600; the.:population in 1901 court district, rural deanery of Rutland (second portion), I was 251. archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Here Parish Clerk, 'Villiam Crowson. is a stone bridge of two _arches, carrying the North .road Post, T. 0., E. D. & P. O. Office.-William Crowson, sub- ove~ the Gwash. The c~urch of SS. ~eter and Pa.ul IS an postmaster. Letters are received through the Stamford ancI~n~ battlemented edifice ?f stone III the GothIC style, office; delivered at 7 a.m. & 1 p.m. & dispatched at 11.30 'Conslstmg of chance~, na,:"e, aIsles, ~outh porch and an. e.m- a.m. & 6.35 p.m. & on sundays at 11.55 a.m. The nearest battled wester~ to\\er WIth foyr p.mnacles and contammg money order office is at Stamford 21 miles distant 5 bells: there IS a small memOrIal wmdow to Henry Herbert, . .'. son of Edward and Mary Elizabeth May, dated 1857: in Public Elementary Sc~ool (mIxed), erected. m 1861, & new 1905 two windows were filled with stained glass in memory class room added m 190.1, for 80 children; average of the Rt. Rev. James Atlay D.D. Bishop of Hereford attendance, 63; WaIter RIchard Terrell, master 1868-95, and his parents: the font is Norman: there are Parish Constable, John Robert Crowson 200 sittings. The registers date from the year 1665. The . living is a rectory, with that of Pickworth annexed, joint I Carners pass through- net yearly value £360, with residence and 64 acres of glebe, Dalby, from Exton to Stamford, fri in the gift of the Marquess of Exeter, and held since 1900 Bennett, from Market Overton to Stamford, on mono & fri by the Rev. John Scott Ramsay M.A. of St. Andrews Mills, from Empingham to ' Millstone,' Stamford, mono & fri University. There is an annual distribution of bread to Young, from Stretton·to Stamrord, fri the poor, by bequest of Susannah Woods, on St. Thomas' Yates, from Greetham to Stamford, mono & fri

Ramsay Rev. John Scott }I.A. [rector], Dexter William, farmer & farm bailiff I Mount Alfred, farmer .Rectory & wood manager toMarquess of Exeter Palmer George Frederick, farm bailiff Eayrs Thomas, farmer, Bridge house to Henry Goodyer esq. The Walk COMMERCIAL. Hart Charles, farmer (letters through ) Clark John, farmer & grazier Kettle John, blacksmith Porter Charles Gann, baker Crowson John Robert, grocer Knight Edward George, shoeing smith Shead Frederick Geo. frmr. The Limes Crowson William, wheelwright & car_ & agricultural implement maker Welch James, Plough P.H. & painter penter,& parish clerk &sub-postmastr Knight John, Crown inn LITTLE CASTERTON is a village and parish, on landowners. The soil is in parts heavy and in others light; the south bank of the , 11 miles west from subsoil, freestone. The chief crops are barley, wheat, oats, station on the Stamford and Essendine branch beans, roots and pasture land. The area is 1,220 acres of of the Great Northern railway, III east-by-south from land and 7 of water; rateable value, £1,575; the population Oakham and 21 north-west from Stamford, in the hun- in 1901 was 172. dred of East Stanlford, union and county court district, rural deanery of Rutland (second portion), archdeaconry TOLETHORPE (or Tolthorpe) is a hamlet and chapelry, of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. The church of in the parish of Little Casterton, half a mile north-east. All Saints is a small Norman and Early English building , the seat of Stephen Ormston Eaton esq. of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and is a curious mansion of stone of the 14th century, and has a western turret, containing 2 bells: in the chancel is a brass been enlarged; it stands on a height, overlooking the river to Sir Thomas Burton, of Tolthorpe, and his wife, dated Gwash, and near it is a chalybeate spring, said to possess 1381, and in the south aisle an interesting Early English properties similar to the waters of Tunbridge Wells. On arched tomb: the church was repaired in 1844 and restored the river Gwash is a small water-mill...... and reseated in 1908, and has 150 sittings. The register Parish Clerk, Richard Taylor. dates from the year 1559. The living is a rectory, with Letters through Stamford arrive at 7 a.m. & 12.30 p.m. the chapelry of Tolthorpe annexed, jdint net yearly value Wall Letter Box, cleared at 12.50 & 6.15 p.m. week days £155, with residence, and including 50 acres of glebe, in only. Stamford is the nearest money order & Great the gift of Lord Chesham, and held since 1907 by the Rev. Casterton the nearest telegraph office, It miles distant Charles Coverdale Tancock D.D. of Exeter College, Oxford, Free School, founded in 1832 by the late Rev. Richard hon. canon of Rochester. There is a Wesleyan chapel near Twopeny & the Dowager Countess of Pomfret, for 26 -the village of Great Casterton. S. O. Eaton esq. who is lord children; average attendance, 12; Miss Elizabeth Fenn, of the manor, and Mr. F. W. Williamson are the principal mistress Eaton Stephen Ormston, Tolethorpe hall Hinch Arthur, farmer, Frith farm Sewell John Taylor, farmer & cartage Hailstone Mrs. Tolethorpe cottage Lamb George Arthur, farmer (letters contractor, North Fields Tancock Rev. Charles Coverdale D.D. through Great Casterton) Spurr Fanny (Miss), dress maker (letters [rector], Rectory Lane John, head gardener to S. O. through Great Casterton) COMMERCIAL. Eaton esq . Stamford Freestone Quarry (John Bagworth William, beer retailer Michelson Richard (Mrs.), threshing Woolston, proprietor) Broughton Albert, farmer, Hall farm machine owner (letters through Templeman Arthur, farmer Elsam Frank, millwright Great Casterton) Tooley William, farmer, Quarry farm CLIPSHAM is a parish and village on the borders of ford and 9 north-east from Oakham, in Oakham Soke Lincolnshire, 3i miles west from Little Bytham station hundred, Stamford union and county court district, rural on the Great Northern railway and 3i south-east from deanery of Rutland (first portion), archdeaconry of Oak­ South Witham station and 2 miles north-east from Castle ham and diocese of Peterborough. The church of St. Bytham station, both on the Saxby and Bourne branch Mary is an ancient building of stone in the Early English, vf the Midland railway, 9 north-north-west from Stam- Norman and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave