DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. BLYTON. 309 Nisbet-Hamilton Miss Cdiocese of Lincoln, 3t miles south the Lord Chancellor, and held since x883 by the Rev. Jrom Kirton-in-Lindsey station and 9 north-east from Gains· Thomas Binfield Lndlow M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. borough. The church of St. Alkmund, rebuilt in 1877, at a Blyborough Hall, the seat of George Augustus Luard esq. cost of £x,5oo, under the direction of Mr. James Fowler, of JP. is a modern mansion, with splendid grounds, ap­ Louth, is an edifice chiefly in the Early English style, consist- pro~Whed through a long a\·enne of very fine oaks. George ing of chancel, with chantry chapel, nave, north aisle, south A. Luard esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor, and J. G. porch and a western tower containing 1 bell: the east and Little esq. J.P. are the landowners. The soil is sandy; sub­ .south windows of the chancel are stained, being memorials soil, sand and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and to the late G. B. Luard esq. and to the late rector: the turnips. The area is 2,345 acres; rateable value, £3,128; .restoration included the building of a north aisle, of the the population in 1881 was 249· iormer existence of which, the arches and pillars of an PosT OFFICK.-Thoma.s Troop, receiver. Letters arrive arcade, built up in the north wall, afforded ~vidence; the from Kirton-in-Lindsey at 9.4s a.m. & are dispatched only portions of the old church now remaining are the thereto at 4.s p.m. The nearest money order&; telegraph .chancel walls, most of the west wall and the tower: in the office is at Kirton-in-Lindsey .chapel stands the ancient font, portions of effigies and a tomb with recumbent effigy to Robert Conyng, rector, National School (mixed), built in x871, at(_he cost of G. 1434: a new pulpit and font, of Ca.en stone and marble, A. Luard esq. J.P. for 6o children; average attendance, have been placed in the church: in the course of the re- 4S; & supported by the rector, landowners & school fees: ~toration some fragments of Norman work were discovered, children attending this school, may, if duly qualified, be- and an ogee arch, between the chancel and chapel, beneath come candidates for the exhibitions attached to the Board which lay a skeleton, conjectured to be that of Waiter, School at Kirton Lindsey; Miss Mary Ann Larratt, mist Little John Geo. Augustus, The Grange COMMERCIAL. Gleadell Thomas, carpenter· Luard George Augustus J.P. The Hall Copeman John, farmer, Cliff Harris Joseph, farmer Ludlow Rev. Thomas Binfield H.A. [rec- Dawber Daniel Wm. John, farmer Little Thomas George, farmer tor], The Rectory · Dawber Joseph, farmer .13LYTON is a parish, with station on the Manchester, Bacon hart. is lord of the manor, impropriator and principal Sheffield ana_Lincolnshire railway, in the Northern division landowner. The soil varies from light sandy to stiff loam; of the county, wapentake of Corringham, parts of Lindsey, subsoil, clay. The crops are a succession of grain, with a Gainsborongh union, petty sessional division and county good share of pasturage for grazing pnrposes.~The area is court district, rural deanery of Corringham, archdeaconry 3,999 acres; rateable value, £7,168; the population in 1881 London, via GBEENHILL and REDHILL, formerly extra-parochial

Betford. St. Martin's church is an ancient edifice of stqne, places, now form a parish, situated between1'Blyton and in the Early English style, with additions in the Decorated East Stockwith; it is in the Gainsborough union, county and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, cleres- court district and petty sessional division. There are two toried nave of three bays, aisles and an embattled farmhouses on the estate The area is 381 acres, the pro­ tower with four pinnacles, containing 3 bells: the chancel perty of Mrs. Hodgkinson; rateable value, £524; the popu· was rebuilt some years previous to 1866, at the cost of the lation in 1871 was 8. Earl of Scarbrough, but retains an original east window of LE"M'ER Box cleared at 4-SO p.m Early Decorated character: in the south aislP., once a Letters through Gainsborough, whichI is the nearest chantry, there remain a piscina and aumbry: the font is money order & telegraph office Perpendicular, with richly carved panels and an embattled WHARTON is a hamlet, one mile south-west. .cornice: the nave and aisles were restored in x88o,and a new Parish Clerk, George Lilley. roof fixed, under the direction of Mr. Jas. Fowler, architect, PosT OFFICE.-James Tinker, receiver. Letters arrive <>f Louth, the total cost being about £x,3so: here is a brass from Gainsborough at 9.30 a. m. ; dispatched at 3.so p.m. plate commemorating one of the Cecil family,dated 1614, The Gainsborough is the nearest money order &; telegraph register dates from the year IS7I. The living is a vicarage, office yearly value £3SO with residence, in the gift of Sir H. B. ScHOOLS:­ Bacon hart. J. P. and held since 1876 by the Rev. John Stanley Cockshott M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. The Boys', William Hardy, master Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a place of National (mixed), built in I842, for so children, with an worship here. There is 8 fund for educational purposes average attendance of so, & supported by subscriptions; left by John Milns, in I8Ig, with money producing about Miss Sarah Elizabeth Johnson, mistress £ 20 yearly, managed by trustees. A school was erected Railway Station, John Gleadell, clerk in charge by Sir H. B. Bacon hart. in 1881, to hold 100 scholars, CARRIER TO GAINSBOROUGH.-George Marshall, on tuesday with an average attendance of 40 scholars. Sir H. B. & saturday :Blyton. Hall George, farmer, Station road Warriner John, farmer .Addleshaw Alfred Harvey William, shopkeeper & baker Wiles John, shoe maker ·Cockshott Rev. John Stanley M.A. Hill John, tailor Wilkinson Thos. farmer,Sandbeck farm [vicar], Vicarage Horne John, tailor Wray Francis Spinks, butcher Ranby Isa.ac Horsley Charles, shoe maker Sargeant Mrs. George Horsley Henry, farmer Wha.rton. .Sargeant Mrs. James Horsley John, pig dealer Han~n Samuel, farmer & grazier Howell James, grocer Ranby John, farmer, Manor farm COMMERCIAL. Ingall William, coal dealer Roberts George, farmer & grazier, oBows Richard, shoe maker Jackson Samuel, cowkeeper Wharton hall Bradley John, cowkeeper Jenkinson Joseph,grocer & hair dresser Sanderson William, farmer & grazier, Brown John, Blnck Horse P.H Kirkland John Henry, miller & artifi- Beck house Bnrrell Eli, blacksmith cial manure agent, Blyton wind mill Wray John, farmer llnrrell Jabez, farmer Langhton George, farmer Champion William, White Hart P.H., & Lea Grasley, farmer Ca.rr. farmer Lilley George, parish clerk & sexton Bows William, farmer Clifton Joieph, tailor Major Wm. grocer, draper & seed mer Hackney Reuben, farmer <:.:obb Henry, coal merchant Marshal! George, farmer & carrier H urst Robert, farmer DIBBLE G. F. & SoNs, millers (steam Musgrave Arthur, frmr. Grange farm Lockwood Thomas, farmer power), farmers, potato & carrot Ranby Hannah (Mrs.), farmer N icholson John, farmer salesmen; & at Smithfield market, Rollett Thomas (Mrs.), farmer & grazr Ranby William Crosier, farmer Manchester Sanderson Davey Stephenson, cowkpr Rouston George, farmer Dibble George Frederick, market gar· Sargeant Thomas Henry, farmer Staniwell Joseph, farmer dener, butter & poultry dealer Selby Joseph, joiner & wheelwright Wakefield William, farmer Emerson William, grazier Selby William, joiner & wheelwright Fillingham Chas. farmer & cattle dlr Smithson John, farmer, Blyton grange Greenhill a.nd Redbill. Fillingham Henry, shopkeeper Smithson William, farmer Belton William, fa'rmer, Redhill Gurnhill Moses, fiU'Iller Tinker James, blacksmith, & post office Greenhill farm