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DIRECTORY.] . LINTO~. 121 Christmas John, farmer Kester John, market -gardener Rose Arthur, farm bailiff to Henry Emerson William, shoe ma. &; baker Muney Frederick, farmer Ora!lfield esq. Wortos farm Frc'1Dant El.Lot, m=.Iler (steam) ~loney William, farmer Sanderson Stephen, Bower P.H Goodin Herbert Aug. grocer & draper Papworth John, district surveyor,Oclm~ Unwin John, bricklayer Gre1•nall Wm. builder, carpenter, br:.dge county oouncJ Webb Frederick, Bull iinn, & farmer blacksmith & wheelwright Pigott Charles Robert, farmer &; corn Wyatt Smith, farmer Hc.usden Joseph, farmer merchant LANDWADE is a parish, 4 miles north-west from New­ and on Thursday evenings. The living is a chapelry an­ market _.station, in the Eastern division of the county, nexed to the vicarage of Exning, in Suffolk, joint ne'l hundred of Staploe, union, petty sessional division and yearly value £3I5, inc~uding 225 acres of glebe, and held county court district of Newmarket, rural deanery of since 1B9I by the Rev. Arthur Vaile M.A. of Oriel College, Fordham, archdeaconry of Sudbury and . Oxford. The soil is various. The chief crops are wheat, The church of St. Nicholas, a private chapel of the Cotoon barley and oats. The area is 127 acres; rateable value, family, is an ancient structure, consisting of chancel, £I85; the population in I89I was 3I and only six houses. nave, transepts, south porch and a low embattled western Letters through Newmarket via Exning, arrive at 8.20 tower: it contains several monuments to the Cottons : a.m. The nearest money order &; telegraph office is d Divine 1ervice is held here on alternate Sund11y afternoons Fordham l'fewton Neville, farmer, I.andwade hall I Westlel Waiter, farmer I LEVERINGTON is a parish and village, in the Isle of missioners are lords of the manor of Barton, Ely and on the Norfolk border of the county, I, mile which extends into this parish. Henry Sharpe esq. J.P. north·west of the Midland and Great Northern joint rail- Thomas Dearlove Dearlove, of Oxburgh Ha!~ Emneth, way station at Wisbech and 2 miles north-we»t from Wis- Francis Jackson esq. of South Brink, Wisbech, Edward bech station on the Great Eastern railway, in the Northern Hugh Jackson esq. of North Brink, Wisbech, John H. division of the county, Wisbech 4undred, union, petty Chamberlin esq. and Mr. John Brownlow are the prin­ sessional divison and county court district, rural deanery cipal landowners, and there are several other landowners .of Wisbech, and in the peculiar arehidiaoonal jurisdiction farmmg their own property. The soil is rich loam. 'fhe of the Bil!lhop of Ely. Leverill.gton is now divided into chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans, potatoes, peas three ecclesiastical parishes, viz. : Leverington proper, and fruit. The parish is divided into two: Leverington, and Southea-cnm-Murrow. The church of SS. with a population in I'89I of 570 and eccle~ Leonard and John is an ancient edifice of Barnack stone, siastical parish, with a ropulation in I89I of 716; area chiefly in the Early English and Perpendicul~ styles, of Leverington, 4•297 acres; rateable value, £8,Igi. consisting of chancel with aisle, clerest0ried nave, aisles, Parson Drove is given under a separate heading. south porch, and an embattled western tower with spire, contruning a clock and 6 bells : the chancel retains ih FITTON END is ·I mile north of Leverington. There sedilia, and there are several monuments and an eagle is a small manor here, detached from the LeveringtoD lectern of oak : the font is ad-orned with figures under manor lordship. canopies: in 1877 a. new roof was placed on the chancel Gorefield and Southea-eum-Murrow are given unde:t aisle, an organ and new chancel stalls erected and the separate headings. bells renovated, at a cost of about £goo: the very remark­ able south porch was restored in I8gi ; the church was Pllrish Sexton, Thomas Holmes. previously restored in I856 and affords 400 sittings. The Post Office.-John Kirton, sub-IJ<>stmaster. Lettera register dates from the year I558. The living of Lever­ through W:isbech arrive at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 7.20 ington proper is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge p.m. Postal 'Orders are issued here, but not paid. The & £68o, net yearly value £300, with residence and 5 acrel! nearest money order telegraph office is at Wisbech of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Ely, and held since Police Station, Sergeant John Weedon, in charge 189I by the Rev. Charles Bernard Drake M.A. of St. A School lloard of 5 members was formed December 20, John's College, . The 'Primitive Methodist 1875; W. Welchman, Wisbech, clerk to the board; chapel here was erected in I885. Thre are charities of John Garner, Gorefield, attendance officer about £300 a. year for distribution, and I9 houses granted Endowed School (mixed), enlarged in 1891, for 140 child­ rent free to I~Qor parishioners. The Bishop of Ely is loro ren ; average attendance, So ; Charles Chivers, master ; of the manor of Leverington, and the Ecclesiastical Com- the school is endowed from the local charities • Carriek George, Leverington Jaall Brownlow Saml. farmer & landowner Kirton Jn. boot &; shoe ma. Post office Coates Alfred, Manor house Bunuing James, eowkeeper, Common Lock James, farmer Crosskill Alfred, Sutton road Burrows William, farmer Reames Hy. Ja.s. farmer, Common Crowe Misses Coates Alfred, farmer, Manor house Sharpe Henry, farmer, seed grower et Dra~e Rev.Chas.Bornard M.A.R('!ctory Cooper Richard, farmer landowner Peatling Mrs. Leverington house Ethl'rington Abraham, market gar- ~mith Jesse, beer retailer, Sutton rd Sharpe Henry J.P dener & poulterer, Common Stockdale Samuel, sen. farmer, Pep- Stockdale Samuel Joseph Marshall, Fenlow John, farmer, Common permint hall Lancewood Forster Josiah, farmer, Common St.oekdale Samuel Joseph Marshall, Stockdale Samuel, Peppermint hall l<,rier Frederick, land surveyor &; farmer, Lancewood Taylor Mrs. Roman house assistant overseer &; collector of Stringer John, farmer COMMERCIAL. taxes for Le\•erington Wade John, monumental mason A.bbott Joel Miles, wheelwright &; ear- Haddon Thomas, White Swan P.H. & Waling Robert, farmer pentel" shoe maker Weaver Richd. shopkeeper &:; butcher Barron Thos. baker &; miller (wind) Hodson John, farmer Wilson Ambrose, farmer, Park lane Baxter Henry, farmer Humphr('!y John Hy. farmer, Common Wing Chas. Howard,farmer,Fitton hall Bills Robert, Rising Sun P.H. &; black- Humphrey William, farmer &; dike· Winter Thomas, beer retailer smith reeve & surveyor of highways Winter William, farmer & dealer ~rownlow John, farmer & landowner, Humphrey Thomas Worth, farmer Yates Harriet (Miss), dress maker Sutton road • LINTON is a sma11 union town, parish and head of a petty broke College, Cambridge, the lay impropriators, a new sessional division, pleasantly seated on the river Granta, 'Organ being at the same time erected by the parishioners: on thEY confines of the county, bordering upon , with a restoration of the church begun in I887, was completed a station on the Cambridge and Sudbury branch of the in x8g1, and the total cost, including the chancel, Great Eastern railway, 11 miles south-east from Cam- amounted to about £I,400: there are 530 sittings. The bridge, I3 south-west from Newmarket, 6 north from register dates from the year' 1559· The living is a vicar~ Saffron Walden and 48 from London. in the Eastern divi~ age, average tithe rent-charge £200, net yearly value sion of the county, hundred of Chilford. county court £194, including 9 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop district of Saffron Walden, rural deanery of Camps, of Ely, and held since I887 by the Rev. John Charles ~econd divisi'On, and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely. Longe M.A. ·of Jesus College, Cambridge, and chaplain The church of St. Mary is a building of Hint and rubble, of Linton union. Here is a Qongregational chapel, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, erected in I818 and seating 500 persons, with a graveyard aisles, north and south porches and an embattled western attached; and there are also Salvation Army Barracks tower containing a. clock and 5 bells : in the nisles are and a small Literary Institute. The Beeches, the pro~ several monuments to the families of Paris (1551 and perty and residence of Johann Gottlieb Brinkmann esq. 165o), Stanley (I726 and I7Bo), Millicent (I555 and I577) is pleasantly situated and stands in its own grounds of and Flack (I693, I704 and I705): the chancel and M!illi- about 7 acres. Harrison's charity of [2 Ss. gd. yearly is­ cent chapel "Were restored in 1879 at the expense of Pem- for bread. .A fair for smallwares, formerly held on Roly