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A School Board of 5 members was formed in !876; Dennis r CARRIERS TO : ...... Major, clerk to the board t Board (formerly Free) Schoo~ fat' 120 cllHdren; average at• I Bmaa Ducker, thurs tendance, 95 ; William Boulton, master; Mrs. Boulton, CArsToR-Duelrer, sa:t mistress. Children attending this school are eligible. if G.&.INSBOROUGH-Ducker, tues ~uly qualified, as candidates foi' exhibitions connected with Kirton-in-Lindsey school KIRTON~Ducker, mon. & wed . Catlin William, farmer · t Major Robert, farmer , Waddingha.m. Charles J ames, bricklayer Mum by Joseph, boot maker Catlm William Dobbs Joseph, farmer Page John, farmer Herring Frederick. Driffill John, carpenter & wheelwright Pickering William, ·farmer Riles. J oseph Ducker William, shopkeeper Rands John, boot & shoe maker Holland Rev. Walter Lancelot B.A. . Emmerson John, farmer Rayner Thomas, Marquis of Gr8llby The Rectory Gledhill John, farmer inn & brewer & farmer Howlett Elisha John, farmer Rober~ George, farmer Kirby George, Waddingham house Green Ri~..hard, farmer Roberts William, farmer May Samuel Herring Frederick, farmer Row botham Thomas, .butcher Wray Mrs. The Villa Hird John, butcher Stuffin William, farmer COMMERCIAL . Howlett .James, wheelwright Tarry Ebenezer, tailor • Abey Robert., grocer & draper Kent Thomas, miller (steam) Turner Thomas, farmer Anderson John, grocer Kirby George, farmer Anderson Robert, farmer' Kirby William, farmer, Cliff Brandy 'Wharf. Anderson Wm. miller (wind & steam) LettRichard Alfred B.A .• l'lt.B.,C.M.nub. Cousins Robt. Anchor P.H. · & coal mer Bavin Thomas, farmer surgeon ' Drake George, coal merchant Cash Christopher, grocer Major Dennis, farmer King J oseph, pig dealer W ADDINGTON is an extensive village and parish,and Letters from Lincoln at 8.25 a. m.; dispatched at 4.40 station on the Great Northern railway from Grantham to p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at . Lincoln, in the Mid division of the county, county of the Lincoln · · city of Lincoln, parts of , hundred of Boothby National School, erected in 1854, for I22 children; average Graffoe, union and county court district of Lincoln, rural attendance, 109; & supported by voluntary c.ontribu- deanery of Longoboby, and archdeaconry and diocese of tions; John Peake, master; Miss Alice Rigby, mistress Lincoln, 4 miles south from Lincoln, bounded on the west Railway Station, Edwin Hinlt,ley, station master by the river Witbam. The church of St. Michael is a CARRIER TO & FROM LINCOLN.-Robert Williams, fri building of stone, in the Transitional and Earlier English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a western tower Mere is a parish, in the Mid division of the county, hrm­ containing 5 bells : the interior exhibits some good WGrk; dred of Boothby Graffoe, parts of Kesteven, union and but has been much disfigured by the rebuilding of the tower county court district of Lincoln, 4~ miles south-south-east within the church about the year 1779, the old towel' having from Lincoln. At some remote time this was a considerable then been taken down as dangerons : by this proceeding the village, the foundations of buildings, boundaries of yards, nave, originally of three bays, has been reduced to two, the with adjacent homesteads, and even the streets and lanes greater part of the westernmost pier, with its capitals, being being still distinctly traceable: there is also a mound called thus enclosed in the rubble walls of the obtruding tower: in "Chapel hill," on,which stands a large ruin, possibly of a I867 £5oo were expended on the internal repair of the fabric. church. According to the Hundred Rolls, the Knights The register dates from the year 1675. The living is a rec- Templars established themselveS here about the year 1200. tory, gross yearly value £6so, derived from the rent of Here was once an hospital, the funds belonging to which have glebe land, with house, in the gift of Lincoln College, O~~:ford, been regulated by the Court of Chancery, and now serve for and held since 1 852 by the Rev. George Gresley Perry M.A. the promotion of many useful objects, among which is the late fellow of that college, rural dean of Longoboby and payment of £2o yearly each to 12 poor persons of the neigh­ prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral. The rectory was rebuilt bouring villages : a. moiety is given to the Lincoln Diocesan in x857. Here are Wesleyan Methodist and Baptist chapels. Training College, £120 yearly to increase the stipend of the Swift's charity of £ 20 yearly, left by Mr. Swift, of Wad- head master of the Grammar School, and £25 yearly as dington, is for apprenticing boys of poor parents, and for a prizes to students of the same school, and the residue dole of bread. Lord Aveland D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor. is divided among the Lincoln National Schools. There being The principal landowners are the Rev. Oldfeld Kelsall no church here, Mr. Mackinder has erected a mission house Prescot.t M.A. of Bournemouth, and Nathaniel Clayton esq. to hold about 100 persons; one of the students from the n.L., J.P. of Eastcliff,_ Lincoln. The chief crops are wheat, Bishop's Hostel in Lincoln preaches on Sunday afternoons. arley, oats and turnips. The area is 4,671 acres~ rateable The area is included with Waddington; l'ateable value, value, £6,097 ; the population in 1881 was s78. £3,059; the population in 1881 was 78. Sexton, Robert Moore. Letters through Lincoln, via Branston. Branston is the PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Mary Ann Challans; sub-postmistress. nearest money order & telegraph office Wa.ddington. Elvidge William, farmer I Sims John, farmer, Waterloo farm

Bartholomew Francis, Waddington hth EmminghamWm.frmr.Waddingtn.hth 1 Smith Matthew George, farmer Brook Misses . Gilbert GeJrge, beer retailer & farmer Taylor John, farmer, Green farm Cappe Mrs . Goul:ling John, blacksmith Taylor Robert, tailor Perry Rev. Canon George Gresley M.A. Hall Thomas, farmer & maltster Toynbee Thomas, blacksmith & agri- [rector & rural dean] Harrison Stephen, farmer cultural implement maker Roebuck Miss Houghton John, miller & baker Waiter Samuel, farmer Sharpe Mrs Howden William Butler Martin, Ward William, farmer , Tipler Edward Horse & Jockey P.B Wilkinson Hezekiah, gardener,Nursery COMMERCIAl.. Jackson Robert, shopkeeper Woodruff Charles William, joiner, brick Atkin William, farmer, Glebe farm, Kelsey William & James, skin dealers maker & farmer Waddington heath Kelsey Robert, joiner Woodruff Geo. shopkeeper & shoe ma Bartholomew Francis, farmer, land Lawson Cooper, butcher Woodruff Henry, shoe maker agent & ~aluer, W addington heath Lincoln BrickCo. (Wm. Dixon, manager) W orsdell George (Mrs.), miller (wind) Challans Mary Ann (Mrs.), grocer & Moxon Thomas, farmer & grazier Wright Joseph, farmer, Grange farm drape-r & post office Mnxlow John, shopkeeper Wright Robert, boot maker Coupland Graves, grocer Onyon Henry, Horseshoe "P.H Dawson John, market gardener Onyon John, stone mason Mere .. Dean Geo. Wheatsheaf P.H. & farmer Pearson Henry, farmer Mackinder Herbert, farmer, Mere hall Dobson William, farmer SimpBOn Joseph, lime burner Pears John, farmer WADDINGWORTH is a parish, in the Mid division fi779· The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £137; of the eonnty, parts of Lindsey, southern division of Gartree gross yearly value, including 25 acres of glebe, £143, in the wapentake, union, petty sessional division and county court gift .of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1843 by the Rev. district 'Of , rural deanery of Horncastle, and arch· John Fawssett M. A. of Jesus College, Cambridge, who is also deaconry and , 6 miles north-west from vicar of and resides at Baumber. The poor have the in­ Horncastle. The church of St. Ma;rgaret is a very, small terest of £3oo,left by Mrs. baker in 1848, -and distributed -edifice of stone, in the GDthic style, consisting of chancel and in coals a.t Christmas. The principal landowners are Miss nave, and a belfry ·containing ~ bell. The register .dates Trafford, who is lady of the manor, Miss Trafford Sontllwell from-the yoor I64.o,• and the l'egisters of Baumbei'cotltai:Q and Cupta.in Robert Charles Vyner, of Moat house, Gautby, entries relating to tbis and other parishe& from :t695 to Horncastle. The soil is strong loam and ciay; subsoil,