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the poor by the incumbents and overseers as follows :­ Parish Clerk, Robert Briggs. Sedgebrook, 15; Syston, £10; Silk Willoughby, £zo; South PosT OFFICE.-Robert Briggs, receiver. Letters arrive from Rauceby, £m; North Rauceby, £5; and Quarrington, £5 at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest yearly; £2o is also allotted to any school in con­ money order office is at Caythorpe & telegraph office at ducted as an elementary school : the surplus, if any, goes to Hougham railway station form a ' 1 suspense fund,'' to be dealt with by a new scheme Lady Thorold's School (mixed), erected in x861 by the upon reaching £soo. Marston Hall, anciently the seat of the Thorolds, is now a farm house. Sir John Henry Thorold trustees of the charity & enlarged in 1874; it will hold I92 hart. D.L., J.P. of Syston Park, is lord of the manor and children; average attendance, 96; the school is supported chief landowner. Here is the Grantham sewage farm. The in part by a yearly endowment of £I20; William Hand­ soil is light; subsoil, sand. The chief crops are barley, oats, cock, master; Mrs. Frances H. Handcock, mistress tnrnips&c. The areais2,368 acres; rateable value, £3,257; CARRIERs.-Rawding & Johnson, to Grantham, sat.; to the population in z881 was 307· Newark, wed Handcock William Farmer Henry, farmer Lane John, tailor Pilley Samuel Goulson Joseph, shopkeeper Lord Henry, farrier Smith Joseph Harmston Richard, wheelwright Mason William Preston, manager to Headland Charles, gamekeeper to Sir Grantham Sewage farm COMMERCIAL. John H. Thorold bart. n.L., J.P Richardson Jn. ThoroldArms P.H.&frmr Adcock Frederick, farmer Hodson Hugh, cattle dealer Robinson William, bricklayer Armstrong James, farmer Hodson William, farmer Rowland John, shoe ma. & shopkeeper Brown Joseph, butcher Hutchinson William, farmer, Old hall Scrimshire Thos. Eminson, blacksmith Gheetham Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Johnson William, carrier & farmer Treadgold Robert, miller (wind & Dellar John George, blacksmith Kenny Thomas, butcher water) & farmer MARTIN, near Horncastle, is a parish, bounded on the alternate patronage of William Jollands Gilliat and the Dean west by the Bain navigation, 2! miles south-south-west from and Chapter of Lichfield, and held since 1875 by the Rev. Horncastle, in the South Lindsey division of the county, parts John Clare Hudson M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge, of Lindsey, sou\h division of the wapentake of Gartree, Horn­ who resides at Thornton. The Rev. Thomas Scott, the cele­ castle petty sessional division, county court district and brated Biblical commentator and the son of a small farmer of !lilion, rural deanery of Horncastle, archdeaconry of Stow Baytoft, near Spilsby, where be was born I6 I<'ebruary, I747, and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Michael is a plain commenced his ministerial labours in this parish in or about but ancient edifice of stone, in theN orman and Early English 1772. On the moor in this parish is a detached tower, built styles, consisting of chancel and nave only ; a recess in the by Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex K.G. and some time Lord west end of the nave contains one bell: the late Norman chan­ High Treasurer of England, in the reign of Henry VIII. ; it is .cel arch is much admired ; there is a piscina on the south 6o feet high, and contains a spiral staircase of brick. William side of the chancel, and in the north wall an arched recess ; J ollands Gillia t esq. of Martin Hall, is lord of the manor and the east window is a memorial to the Rev. J. B. Smith, a principal landowner. The soil is sandy loam ; subsoil, former rector; the font was presented in 1851 by the late J. gravel and white clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley Wadham Floyer esq. of Martin Hall: in 1877 the chancel and oats. The area is 764 acres; rateable value, £I,I45; floor was relaid, the nave refitted and a pulpit of Caen stone the population in 1881 was 70 in the civil parish and 155 in erected and the unused north doorway converted into a win­ the ecclesiastical. dow, the entire cost being £240: there are 70 sittings. The Letters by foot post through Horncastle, the nearest money register dates from r561. The living is a discharged rectory, eonsolidated with Thornton, tithe rent-charge (Martin) order & telegraph office, arrive 9·5 a.m. ; leave 3·45 p.m

.£!43 1 joint net yearly value £248, with residence, in the The children of this parish attend the school at Roughton Gilliat William Jollands, Martin hall I Pritchard Lieut. Emeric John Vidal R.N. Manor house MARTIN (or MERTON), near , is a township dist chapels. The trustees of the late Rev. John William and parish, formed August I, 1882, 3 miles south-east from King B.D. are lords of the manor and principal landowners. Metheringham station on the Great Northern and Great The soil is part sand, part clay and fen, with black top; sub­ Eastern joint extension from Spalding to Don caster, 5 miles soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and beans. The south-west from Kirkstead station on the Lincoln and Boston area is 3,6r7 acres; rateable value, £5,001 ; the population branch of the Great Northern railway, 12 north-north-east in r88r was 822. from Sleaford and 14 south-east from Lincoln, in the civil PosT 0FFICE.-Fred Hansord, sub-postmaster. Letters parish of Timberland, North Kesteven division of the county, received through Lincoln arri\'e at 9· 30 a. m. ; dispatched parts of Kesteven, first division of the wapentake of at 4· ro p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office Langoe, Sleaford petty sessional division, union and county is at Metheringham, 4 miles distant court district, rural deanery of Longoboby and archdeaconry PosT OFFICI<;, Martin Dales.-C.S.R.Palmer,receiver. Letters and diocese of Lincoln. The church of the Holy Trinity, received through Lincoln arrive at 7.30 a. m. ; dispatched erected in 1876, at a cost of £3,000, from designs by Mr. T. at 6.30 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Wood- H. Wyatt, of London, is a building of stone, in the Gothic hall Spa & telegraph office Kirkstead railway station style, consisting- of chancel, nave, tr~nsepts and south porch, National Endowed ScLool (mixed), originally founded in with one bell at the east end of the church : it is intended to 1753 by Mrs. Mary King, who endowed it with £65 yearly, erect a tower and spire so soon as the necessary funds can be derived from 35 acres of land for the free education of obtained: the Rev. J. W. King gave the site and £r,ooo poor children; it was enlarged in 1874 by the late Rev. J. towards the cost of erection: it has 237 sittings. The W. King, at a cost of £2oo, & is now conducted under a register dates from the year 1876. The living is a perpetual scheme formed by the Charity Commissioners; the school cnracy, tithe rent-charge £45, net yearly value £2o9, in the will hold 130 children; average attendance, 95; James gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held since 1884 by the Rev. William Firth, master Joseph Bull Ferry. Here are Wesleyan and Primitive Metho-, CARRIER.-James Atkin, to Lincoln, fri. ; to Sleaford, mon

Martin. 1 Garton Alfred, joiner Skinner .Mary Ann (Mrs.), Red Lion P.H Ferry Rev. Joseph Bull [incumbent] 1 Goose John, farmer Smalley Thomas, hawker Webster Mrs Hansord Fred, shopkeeper, Post office Smalley William, baker Hollinshead James, miller (wind & Swannack Joseph, farmer & O'!erseer COMMERCIAL. steam) & baker Taylor Henry, grocer & draper Andrews Samuel, bricklayer Holmes John William, farmer, Moor Taylor Thomas, travelling tea dealer Auckland Jas. (exors.of), farmers, Fen Housley John E. A. farmer, Fen Webster John, farmer Auckland l\Iary (Mrs.), Chaplin Arms Knight Thomas (exors.of), brick makrs ·webster Joseph, farmer P.H. & farmer Marshall John, butcher Bailey Frederick, farmer, Fen Marshall "'illiam, farmer, Fen Martin Dales. Briggs Catherine (Miss), private school Marshall William, tailor Busby "'illiam, farmer Brown George, blacksmith Newman John "'illiam Bowser, farmer Cheeseman William, beer retailer Cawdron John, beer retailer Poole Rubert, saddler Lunn & Palmer, grocers & shopkeeper!', Cawdron William, beer retailer Ra\·ell John, farmer Kirkstead Ferry Duckering Thomas, farmer Read John, blacksmith Pinder John, farmer Farbon Joseph & Charles, millers Read William,shopkeepr.& wheelwright Wilson Saxby, boot maker (wind & steam) Sands Reuben, wheelwright MAR TON is a village and parish situated on the Roman station called Stow Park, I mile south-east of the village, road called Till Bridge lane, separated from Nottingham- on the Spalding and Doncaster joint extension of the Great shire by the navigable river Trent, and 5 miles south-south- Eastern and Great Northern railways, in the West Lindsey east from Gainsborough and ISO from London, with a division of the county, parts of Lindsey, wapentake of Well,