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~ Gainsborough, intersected at rig-ht angles by smaller The Cemetery, on the -east side of the town, a.nd ones, the l'ailway station peing on the south side. originally It acres in extent, was enlarged in rgo8, and Under the provisions of the "Local Government Act, contains a mortuary chapel; it was opened I ('eb. 1855, 1894" (56 .and 57 Vict. c. 73), the town is now governed at & cost of £456, and is under the control of the by -an Urban District Council of ~2 members, having Urban Council. The 'l'emperance Hall, in Queen street, from 1878 been under the control of a Local Board: it is is now used by the Constitutional Club, and the Town lighted with gas from works the property of a. Limited Hall and Corn Exchange, standing- on church property Company, and supplied with water by the on the west side of the Market place, is available for Water Works Company, incorporated 29th June, 1875; public meetings and concerts. Here is also a County the water, derived from springs at the foot of Bully Police Station. The market, art Tuesday, for corn and hill, in the parish of , a distance of si mile!, is provisions, is well frequented, and there are cattle 'conveyed from thence through iron pipes; no pumping markets every Tuesday; yearly fairs for cattle, sheep is required, as the pressure of the water from the and horses are held on the 4th Tuesday in Lent and higher level (about 28o feet) forces it to a greater on September 25th. A steeplechase meeting is held height than any building in the town; the water is here annually early in the spring. There are two pure and perfectly fit for use without any filtration. branch.hanks and a brewery. An hDspital was founded The church of St. Thomas is a. building of stone in here in r612 by Sir George St. Poll, of Snarford, for the Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, the maintenance of eight indigent men, of whom five con~isting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south reside in the hospital; for this purpose he bequeathed porch, which contains a Norman arch of the I rth {;2oo for the erection of buildings, and also a sum of century, organ chamber and vestry, forming a kind of {;E;.o expended in the purcp.a~p, of land at Tealby; his transept, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles widow was also a considerable benefactor both to this containing a bells, two of which were added in IBB7: hospital and to the poor of Market Rasen, and left {;20 the_ top of the tower was regtored in r884: built into for three ministers; the income of the hospital is now the west end of the south aisle is a sculptured tablet, derived from a charge of £4o on the estate at Falding- , representing the "Fall of Man," with a legend, now worth, and from a charge of £7 4s. on the estate of almost illegible, but probably a Latin quotation of the. Charterhouse governors, at Buslingthorpe; the8e I Cor. xv. 22: the church was partially restored about charities were left to be distributed at the- discretion 1862, when the na:ve was almost who)ly rebuilt, the of the trustees; the inmates of the hospital receive organ chamber and vestry erected, the tower ar_ch £5 gs. yearly, and the three non-residents £4 IIS. opened, new roofs' fixed and the inteFior refitted: a new yearly, and a gratuity at Christmas of coals and organ was introduced in 1882, and a lectern gilo'"en in clothes ;· the trustees are the vicar of this parish, the memory iJf the Rev. Samuel Allen Windle, vicar here rector of Faldingworth and the master of the endowed 1878-8o: the stained east window is a memorial to school. Some Catholic almshouses were erected in Thomas Rhodes, and a memorial brass was placed in 1845, pursuant to the will of David Young esq. of 1899 to the Rev. Sanford. George Scobell, vicar r846-66, West Rasen, who died in 1832, and who beq1_1eathed an a.nd his wife: the church plate dates from I63o: there endowment of [,2o yearly to each of the three in· are 526 sittings, The register dates from the year 1561. mate~, who also live rent free, and besides receive a. The living is a. vicarage, net yearly value [4o8, includ­ donation of £2o yearly. There are also ~everal minor ing 99 acres of gleb~, with residence, in the gift of the cha.rities, prod11cing £so yearly, whit!h sum il5 dispemed Lord. Chancellor, and hefd since rgr8 by the Rev. to the poor in sums of 2-s. 6d. each by a local committee Edward Battyll Scott. The. Catholic church, dedicated appointed by the Oharity CommisM.onel's. The M&Tket to the Holy Rood, was built in 1824, and i!i an edifice &..sen Dcispen,sa.ry, eosta.bli.shed in r856, and t.he ()()ltltage­ -Of brick, enlarged in I86g by adding aisles and tower: Hospital, in Dea.r street, founded in r86g, are intended there are several stained windows, two of which are for the il'elief of the industriou! poor ~ the hospital holds memorials to the late Mrs. Drakes and the late Rev. six patien'ts, each of whom has to pay a .smaJl •um Alger:non Moore: the mission here was established in weekly; 1Jhe yearly average of in-patients is about 2S; 178o. The Wedeyan chapel, in Chapel street, was out-patients, 236, Lieut.-CoL Ingram Cosmo Conway­ erected at a cost of upwards of [4,ooo. The Unit-ed Gordon is lord of the manor and principal landowner. Methodist chapel, in Union street, was built in I86I, The area is 972 acres of land and 4 of water; rateable and will seat soo. The Primitive Methodi~t chapel in value, [,9,726; population in I9II, 2,296. J"ameson Bridge street, rebuilt in 1866, will hold 300. Parish Clerk, Henry £haw, Market place.

OFF I mAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL I~STITUTIONS &c. Post, M. 0. &; T_ Office, 7 Queen street (lettP-rs should Fieldsend Charles, Ivy house, Kirmond-le-Mire have Lines added).-Miss C. A. Cocking, postmistre~s Hardy Bcnjamin, r2 Queen street, Market Rasen Hill Thomas, 55 Queen street, Market Rasen ' • URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. Holdershaw Cook, Lynwode house, near :Market Rasen Office, 2 ..Mill street. Naylor Frank, Middle Rasen Searby Charles Samuel, Binbrook Eoa.rd day, lst wednesday in the month at 10.30 a,m. Wright Charles, Willingham ball, Market Rasen . Members. · 'The ChaV"rnan, for the time being, of the Market Rasen ·Chairman, Tom Bonnett. Urban District Council, is an ex-officio magistrate Vice-Chairman, William Walker Gledhill. Clerk to the Magistrates, Arth.AugustusPadley,Mill st John Blakey Benjamin Hardy J.P Petty Sessions are held at the Police station every ut Tom Bonnett Thomas Hill J.P tues. in the !llonth a.t 10 a.m. & a court of summary Char)es Conway J.P Roger Scupham jurisdiction sits daily at ro a.m. when required James Cooper J.P William Joseph Strickland Li~t of places in the Petty Sessional Division of Market William Elvin Arthur John Tillett Rasen :-Binbrook, Buslingthorpe, Cl:uby, Falding- William Walker Gledhill Percy J. Timms worth, Friesthorpe, Kingerby, Kirkby-cum-Osgodby, Officers, Kirmond-1e-Mire, Linwood, Newton-by-Toft, Nor- manby-le-Wold, North OwerAby, South Owersby, Clerk, A. rthur Augustus Padley, Mill street C't ... J , Market Rasen, Middle Rasen, Treasurer, Bertra.m Armishaw Lowe, 1 y ~ Staintou-le-Vale, Tealby, Thf!raanby, Thornton-le- Mi.dland Bank Limited, Market place I "' Medical Officer of Health, Dudley Francis Torrene ME Moor, Toft-by-Newton, Usselby, Walesby, West Rasen B.Ch. Conway villa, Kilnwell road · ., For police purposes Market Rasen includes the whole of petty sessional area "' . Surveyor, Sanitary In~pootor & Co1lectoo-, Oha-rl~s Robert Heril"ing, 3 MiJl 8itreet • MARKET RASEN SUB-COMMITTEE OP LINDSEY ... COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR MARKET RASEN LOCAL PENSION COMMITTEE . PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. The following parishes are included in the area of Glew John Green, Broohide, King' street, Ma.rket the Sub-District :-Buslingthorpe, Caenby, *Claxby, Ra.sen, chairman Faldingworth, Firsby East, Firs by We!!t, Friesthorpe, ''Burkinsbaw Henry Simpson\ Binbrook Fulnetby, Glentham, Hackthorn, Hainton, Hanworth Olarke Henry, Tealby Cold, Holton-cnm-Beckering, Kingerby, Kirkby-cum­ Conway Oh&des, Willingham road, Market Ra11en Osgodby, Legsby-with-Bleasby, Linwood, Lissington, Oonway-Gordon Lieut. -Ool. In gram Cosmo, Targra.ve Newton-by-Toft, Normanby-by-Spital, *Normanby-le­ house, Chiche!!ter, Sussex Wold, *Owersby-North, *Ower!'!by South, Owmby-by· Oooper James, The Grove, Market Rasen Spital, Rand, Rasen Market, Rasen Middle, Rasen _d'Eyncourt Edmund Oharles.. Tennyson M.A. Bayon11 West, Saxby, , Snarford, Snelland, Spridling­ manor, Teo.lby ton, *Stainton-le-Vale, Teal by, Toft, Torrington East,