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Spilsby to Louth. There are Wesleyan and Primitive National School (mixed), built in 1857, for 120 clu1dren • Methodist chapels. average attendance, go ; Miss Ell en Simpson, mistresa ~ Parish Clerk, William Kirkby. Miss Maria Keighley, infants' mistress PosT 0I<'FICE.-Mrs. Eliza Brumpton, receiver. Letters ar­ rive through Alford at 8.30 a.m. by foot messenger, who CARRIERs.-Jabez Speed, to Louth, wed. & sat.; to Alford, Teturns at 4 p.m. in winter & 5 p.m. summer. The tues. ; Barrnck Kirkby, to Louth, wed. & sat.; to Alford, nearest money order & telegraph office is at Alford iues Cholmeley Rev. James M.A. Rectory Foster Edward, farmer Patchett George, shopkeeper Gilbert Charlt.(Mrs.),shopkpr.Whitepit Rhoades Samuel, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Gresswell Dan Jennings, farmer Rutland Cbas. shopkpr. & wheelwright Blackburn Jabez, butcher, Whitepit Ingamells William, miller (wind) & Speed Jabez, carrier Borrell ·wm. shoe maker, Whitepit baker, Whitepit I Stones Levi & Jabez, sheep ointment & Camplin George, shoe maker, Whitepit Jackson William, blacksmith manure manufacturers, skin mer- Clark William, shoe maker, Whitepit Kemp Anthony, farmer chants & farmers, Whitepit .Elvin Thomas, thrashing machine pro- Marwood Thomas, shopkeeper Stones Thomas Balderson, farmer prietor, Whitepit Oliver Charles, tailor Taylor Albert, shopkeeper, Whitepit SWALLOW is a small village and parish, situated on value £44o, net :£314, including 103 acres of glebe, with the road from Great to , 4 miles east from residence, in the gift of the Earl of Yarborough, and held Caistor and 8 south-west from Great Grimsby, in the North since 188o by the Rev. James Edmund Wallis Loft li.A. of Lindsey division of the connty, parts of Lindsey, Bradley Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. The rectory-house was Haverstoe wapentake, Grimsby petty sessional division, built in 1865, at a cost of £r,7oo. There are Wesleyan and Caistor union and county court district, rural deanery of Primitive Methodist chapels. The Earl of Yarborough D.L., Grimsby No. r, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lin­ ,J.P. is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is coln. The church of the Holy Trinity is an ancient edifice light ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and ()f stone, in the Saxon or very Early Norman and Early turnips. The area is 2,790 acres ; rateable value, £2,500; English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and a the population in r88r was 238. western tower containing one bell: the chancel was rebuilt Parish Clerk, Charles Blythe. in 1868, partly on the old foundations: in 1883 the church was thoroughly restored and a new north aisle added, at a PosT 0FFICE.-John James Johnson, receiver. Letters cost of £1,091 9s. a stained window placed in the chancel through Caistor arrive at 9 a. m.; cleared at 3.15 p.m. by Miss Bingham, of Thorganby, in memory of the Farrow week days only. The nearest money order & telegraph :and Bingham families, and there is one in the nave inserted office is at Laceby at the sole expense of Mrs. Loft, wife of the rector: there School (mixed), built in 1856 by a former Earl of Yar- are go sittings. The register dates from the year 1672. borough, for 6o children ; average attendance, 30; Miss The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £3oo, gross yearly Annie Mary Anson, mistress Loft Rev. James Edmund Wallis M.A. 1 Drury William, farmer I Lowish Richd.Cavill, frmr.Swallowvale Rectory Johnson John James, blacksmith & Smith Joseph, shoe maker Bingham Thomas, farmer shopkeeper, Post office Tomlinson Alfred, farmer .Barman Joseph, farmer Robinson Lucy (Mrs.), carpenter & Walmsley Robert, White Hart P.H Bucknell William Marshall, farmer wheelwright WillowsGeo. Hy. frmr. Swallowmonnt SWARBY is a parish and small village, 4 miles south- ! yard at the east end of the south aisle, is a mutilated recum· west from , 3~ west from Scredington station, on bent effigy. The register dates from the year 1813. The living the Stamford, Bourn and Sleaford branch of the Great is a vicarage, gross yearly value £9o, including 47 acres of Northern railway and 10 east-by-north from , in glebe, in the gift of Sir Thomas \Vhichcote bart. and held the division of the county, parts of Kesteven, since 1885 by the Rev. Edward Lambert Treffry B.A. of .A.swardhurn wapentake, Sleaford union, petty sessional I Magdalen College, Oxford, who is also rector of and resides division and county court district, rural deanery of As ward- at Aswarby. John Archer-Houblon esq. D.L., J.P. of Hal­ hurn with Lafford No. 2, and archdeaconry and diocese of lingbury, Bishop's Stortford, who is lord of the manor,

Lincoln. The church of St. Mary and All Saints is a small 1 and Sir Thomas Whichcote bart. D.L. of Aswarby Hall, are but ancient building of stone, in the Early English, Late i the principal landowners. The soil is light loam and stiff Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, ! clay ; subsoil, limestone. The population in 1881 was 171 ; nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an interesting ' the parish contains about 910 acres, including three farms embattled western tower of excellent masonry, with a low at CROFTON, a hamlet half a mile south-east of the village; pyramidal roof and four pinnacles, and containing one bell : rateable value, £96g. the north aisle is Decorated and the south aisle Perpendicu- Parish Clerk Timothy Running. lar: in the chancel, which has been partly rebuilt, is a ' Decorated niche, richly canopied, and a low side window of Letters through Sleaford, which is the nearest money order Early English date: at the east end of the south aisle is a & telegraph oflice, arrive at 9·45 a.m. ; messenger calls bracket supporting a headless figure, seated on a bench: the for letters about 4.30 p.m font is Early;English: the stairs to the rood loft remain on the School (mixed), erected with mistress's residence, in 1859, north side : the church has been thoroughly restored and was at the cost of Sir Thomas Whichcote bart. for so children; re-opened in April, I 887: there are 300 sittings. In the church- average attendance, 30 ; Miss Winifred Pearson, mistress Birch John, farmer Hart Edwin, shoe maker Rollinson Edward, farmer Brader Thos. shoe ma. & provision dlr . Knight Edwin, farmer I Smith Tom, farmer I Foster Thomas, Bell P.H. & shopkeeper 1 SW A TON is a parish and village, situated near the an- Virgin, are the traces of a tryptych and a small trefoiled cient Roman Carr dyke, on the road from Spalding to piscina: portions of the ancient canopied chancel screen are Grantham, 3 miles north-east from Billingborough station now in the south transept: in the north aisle is the recum­ ()n the Bourn and Sleaford branch of the Great Northern bent stone effigy of a lady of the 14th century: the west railway, and 2~ south from Helpringham station on the window, which is of great size, occupies the entire end of Great Northern and Great Eastern joint line from Spalding the church,and as well as the western windows of the aisles, to Doncaster and 9 south-east from Sleaford, in the North has reticulated quatrefoiled tracery: the font is a remark­ Kesteven division of the county, parts of Kesteven, ably good and almost unique example of curvilinear Gothic, wapentake, Sleaford union, petty sessional divisron and county and consists of an octagonal basin, carried on a shaftA!d .court district, rural deanery of Aveland No. r, and arch- hexagonal stem: the pulpit, reading-desk and choir stalls deaconry and . The church of St. Michael and seats are of finely carved oak, many of the latter being is a remarkably beautiful cruciform building of stone, in the of 15th century work: the nave was reseated and restored in .Early Geometrical, Late,Decorated and Perpendicular styles, 1851 and 1856, when some interesting frescoes, representing .consisting of chancel, nave, and aisles of three bays under a scenes in the life of Our Lord, were discovered above the .single roof, transepts, fine south porch and a central em- chancel arch: there are 200 sittings. The register dates battled tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 3 I from the year r68r. The living is a vicarage, with Spanby bells: the chancel, lower part of the tower and the piers sup- rectory annexed, tithe rent-charge average £66, joint gross porting it are the earliest portion, the nave and aisles Deco- yearly value £409• including 25A. 3R. 3P. of glebe, with resi­ rated and the upper part of the tower Perpendicular : the dence, in the gift of Mi!!S Campbell and Mrs. Seymour, and chancel has three lancets on each side and retains a large held since 188o by tbe Rev. Richard Henry Mann B.A. of double Early English piscina : in the south transept chapel, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A small stock fair Wa.'i dedicated to S. John Baptist, is a piscina and aumbry, and, formerly held here on October uth, but was discontinued here is the entrance to the rood loft and a carved oak chest: i abont the year 1866. Henry Lee-Warner esq. J.P. of Wal­ in the north transept chapel, possibly dediC3ted to the Holy singham Abbey, Norfolk, is lord of the manor and the prin-