]50 COVI:..NH.\TII ST. MARY. LINCOLNSHIRE. ...LI~ELI ... \ 's A. D. Pennington M.A. rector of Utterby, and Mr. David P J.:•ish 2lerk, D. Dennis. Willoughby, of Covenham St. Mary. It app2ars frum Domesday Book that the see of . Lincoln possessed four LGtters rec~ived from Louih, anive at 8.45 a.m. Fu1- stow is the nearest money order olllce & Ludborough, 4~ carucates of arable land in Covenham. The trustees of the late William Thomas Kime esq. are lords of the miles distant, the nearest telegmph oflice manor, and own a great portion of the land, and the Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1842 by sub. trustees of the late Mrs. Benson and Mr. George Motley scripbon, for the parishes of Covenham St. Barthulo­ are also landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, chalk. rnew & Se. Mary, Fotherby, Little Grimsby & Utterby; The chief crops are wheat, barley and oat·s. The area is it will hold ISO children; flY erage uttendunce, s6;. 972 acres; rateable value, £g8r; population in xgox, g6. John Forshaw, master By Local Government Board Order 20,999, dated March 24, 1887, a detached part of Covenham St. Mary, known Carrier to Louth.~Joseph Larder, every wed. & sut as Grainthorpe Fen, was added to Grainthorpe. B aggaley Mrs Larder J oseph, carrier & slwpke:oper Street WJliam, shoe maker & oversee:r- Grundy Jas. shopkeeper & blacksmith ""1otley Ed ward L. farme.r Sykes H. C. farmer Haith George, farmer Motley Jn. Wm. farmer, Blenheim ho Willoughby David, farmer Kent Thomas Willia.m, farmer Robimon Hy. (.Mrs.),fara!r.&lafldo\\n, Willows George, farmer COWBIT is a small village and parish, on the east side of of the vil.lagP, extends 20 miles from north to 11outh, anr) Deeping Fen, with a station on the Spalding and March is nearly a mile broad : it is formed by winter floods from, branch of the Great Northern and Great Eastern joint the navigable river Welland, which flows through it, and railway, 3 mites south from Spalding and g6 from Lon­ it is in some •vears as much as eight months under water. don, in the Holland division of the county, Elloe wapen­ BBllesm<-re is the residence of Mrs. Brady. The trustees take and petty sessional division, parts of Holland, of the late C. F. Bonner esq. of Ayscoughfee Hall, Spald­ Spalding union and county court district, rural deanery ing, are lords of the manor. The principal landowner· of West E:loe and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. is t·he vic.1r, but most of the land is held by small free­ The church of St. Ma.ry is an ancient structure in the holders. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The chief Perpendicular style, consisting originally of nave and erops are wheat, oats, beans, roots, potatoes and pastur­ south porch, built probably by Prior de Maulton of the age. The parish contains r,944 acres of land, including :Benedictine Monastery at Spalding, about 1200: in q86 its fen allotments, and the hamlet of Peakhill, I mile­ a chancel and an embattled western tower of stone werP farther south, 8 of water and 4 of tidal water; ruteabl~ added by John Rnssell, Bishop of Lincoln ( I48o-g6) : the value, £4,463; the p<>pulation of the civil parish in I90i tower contains an e:ectnc clock and 2 bells. and its tower was 462; ecclesiastical parish, 571. .etage is vaulted and has a good doorway: the church Under· the provisions of the " D.ivided Parishes .Act," was restored in r8'8'2, at a cost of £r,soo, when the roof Star Lode Drove &c. Allotments were transferred to Pinch­ wa.o~ covered with lead, the ficoring relaid with wooden heck and Uradge Bank Allotments to Spalding, r.nd by blocks and furnished with new seats, and a stainPd ea,;t Local Government Board Order 20,I63, dated March 24,. -window erected by the vicar to the memory of his son, 1887, Deeping Road Allotments were added to Spalding. Lieut. Arthur Dove, of H. M. S. "Atalanta; " two other Sexton, Alfred Flowers. windows in the chancel are stained, and there is a piscma Po3t Ofiice.-Mrs. Elizabeth Tyrrell, sub-postmistress_ and an ancient stone font: there are 200 sittings. The L-3tters through Spalding arrive at 7.30 a.m. ; dis­ register dates from the year I7oo. 'fhe living is a •icar• patched at 5 55 p.m. Postal Orders are issued & paid. aga., net yearly value £4oo, arising from 300 acres d hertJ. Spalding is the nearest money order office. glebe with residence, in the gift of faoffees, nnd held The telegraph office is at the milway station for dis­ 11ince I86z bv• the Rev. John Thomas Dove ~LA. of Caius patch only & Moulton Chap~l. 3 miles distant, for­ College, Cambridge, and J.P. Lincs. Here is a f.!llall delivery of telegrams Free Methodist chapel, erected about I 842 and rebuilt Public Elementary School (mixed), endowed with lands­ in 1861. The charities for distribut:on amount to £so left by various persons producing £Bo yearly, ibis­ yearly, which sum is distributed in cash and coals to income being applied to the support of the Echools. the village poor upon St. Thomas' day. In a gardt.>n at under a scheme framed by the Court of Chancery. :Brother House, is an ancient stone named aft.er St. Guth­ . The school holds no scholars ; average att~ndance, lac, and marking the boundary of the possessions of 93 ; William Cummins, master Crowland Abbey, as appears from a monkish inscl"iption R<iilway Station, G. N. & G. E. R. George Cox, station on it in Latin hexameters. The Wash, on the west side ma~ter Brady Charles H. Craven, Dellt>smere,: Drury Matthew, farmer, Peak Hill Pearson Lyd~a (Mrs.), farmer Peak Hill D~ury ·williarn, farmer Ridlingtun J. E. & Son, coal mer­ Brady Mrs. Bellesrriere. Peak Hill Elsom Henry, Blue Boar P.H chants, Railway station Dove Rev. John Thomas M.A., J.P. Elwes Williarn. farmer Ridlington 'l'howas, farmer Er, rat(l- Vicarage Goodvear -~Villiam, farmer collector Hall T;1o>nas, farmer Rippin Daniel, cottager, Peak Hill COMMERCIAL. llog-g Robert, blacksmith Skells Daw;;, farmer Adcock John, farmer Holmes William, cottager Stainsby John, farmer Atkin Henry, farmer J ackson J oseph, farm er Stainsby William, farmer Barnes Robert M. farmer Jarvis Harris, Dun Cow P.H Suley George, farmer, Peak Hill Bean Thomas, farme1· Lynn Elijah, farmer 'lyrrell Elizabeth (.:vlrs. ), shopkeeper,. Boon John Harry, farmer Lynn J ames, farmer Post ofhce Bray brook J ame·s, f:umer ~'[ears Arthur, beer retailer Tyrrell J oseph, farmer Brown J ames, beer re-tailer, Peak Hill Newbon H<>nry, baker & miller (wind Tyrrell Parker, farmer Byworth William, fRrrmr & steam) Wain Juhn 1-Villiam, Black Lion P.H­ Chapm:m Samuel, Bull inn & wheel- Olden John, f2rmer & farmer wrig-ht Parker RohE'rt, dairyman Welbourn Mart ha (Mrs.), farmer Cordley Thomas, f:lrmer Pickering Henry, farmer j We:ls Willia:.n, farmer Davis David, cowkeeper Pinder Middleton cottager CRANWELL is a parish near the hig·h road to Linc(lln, Early Saxon or Danish work: the east end of the aisle­ 4 miles north-west fr<<m Sleaford, tl!e nearest railway was probably rebuilt in the DecoratEd period, and in station on the Great Northern and Gn~at Eastern joint r.he Perpendicular period the chancel "\\a~ lengthened railway, in the North Kesteven division of the county, and an east window inserted : the north wall of the aisle wapentake of Flaxwell, part-s of Kesteven, Sleaford union, was rebuilt about 1812: the font is Early English, having county court district and petty sessional division, rural an octa.ngular bowl, stem and base : the church plate deanery of Lafford No. I, archdeaconry and diocese of includes a silver chaEce dating from the time of Eliza­ Lincoln. The church of St. Andrew is a small but beth, and a silver paten dated 17Io : in 1904 the church ancient building of stone, in the Norman and Early Eng­ was thoroughly restored at a cost of £-I,5oo, a vestry lish styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south <.md organ chamber being added and three st;;ined porch and a small western turret containing one bell: windows erected: a new pulpit and choir stall3 were a portion of the north-east angle of the nave, about 10 also provided, the church reseated and a system of feet in l<>ngth, exhibits long and short work, po8sibly heating by hut water instituted: there are IIO sittingo. Saxon: the theory of the Pre-Norman origin of this The churchyard was extended by gifts of land from St. church was confirmed by the discovery, during the John's College, Cambridge and Sir John Henry 'Ihorold re&toration of 1904, of four blocks of stone enriched with bart. The register dates from the year 156o. The Runic knot ornamentation, which is ch:~.racteristic of living is a discharged viro:aragc, net yearly value [274> .