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SCREDINGTON is a. parish and small village, 4 miles ment of 19A. oR. 29P. produces [30 yearly for fuel, and south-east from and 5 north-east from Falkingham, there is also the poor's money of {,2 for distribution, left by with a. station called and on the an unknown donor. Bricks are made here. The tmstees Bourn and Sleaford branch of the Great Northern railway, of the late William Gird wood esq. who are lords Qf the in the division of the county, parts of Kes- manor, Miss Harriette Anne Clark and J. M. Cole esq. are teven, Aswardhurn wapentake, petty sessional division, the chief landowners. The soil is light loam and clay; sub­ county court district and union of Sleaford, rural deanery soil, principally clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and of Aswardhurn with Lafford No. 2, and archdeaconry and seeds. The area is 2,520 acres; rateable value, £2,238; the . The church of St. Andrew is a. small population in t88t was 394· but ancient building of stone in the Early English style, NoRTHBECK is a hamlet a quarter of a mile north; High­ consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a gate, I mile south-east; Hambleton, a quarter of a mill) western tower with spire containing 2 bells: the church was , south; Neafold Hill, half a mile south-east. restored in 1869, at a cost of about £1,000 : in the aisle is Parish Clerk, George Dexter. an altar tomb, with a recumbent effigy in stone of a former LETTER Box cleared daily at 4 p.m. sundays excepted. vicar in eucharistic vestments: there is also a tomb to Letters through Falkingham arrive at 9 a.m. The nearest William Paulet, dated 1464 : there are sittings for 150 per- money order & telegraph office is at sons, of which 40 are free. The register dates from the A School Board of 5 members was formed January 29, 1876; year 1738. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value Philip Hunt, clerk to the board. £250, net {,x88, including 157 acres of glebe, in the gift of Board School (mixed), built in 1877, at a cost of £570, for the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, and held since 1883 by the 150 children; average attendance, So; Miss Thomson, Rev. Alfred Hodge. A vicarage has been recently (x888) mistress built by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Here is aWes- Railway Station, David Olley, station master leyan Methodist chapel, built in 1875· The poor's allot- ' CARRIER TO SL1i:AFORD.-Henry Baker, mon Hodge Rev. Alfred, Vicarage Dickens William, farmer Isaac Wm. beer retailer & blacksmith COMMERCIAL. Dodds Chas. grocer & draper, Post off Johnson Dixon, Blue Bell P.H Barnes Richard, surveyor & shopkeeper Gibson Joseph, coal mer.; & at Sleaford Johnson James,Brickmakers' .Arms P.H Bembridge Thomas, farm bll.iliff to R. Gibson Thomas, cowkeeper Lamb John, farmer M. Cole esq Gratrix Thomas, farmer Lilly John, farmer Bennett Benjamin, shoe maker Grice George, joiner Porter Percival, farmer Baker Henry, carrier Holmes Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Quincey John, farmer Clark Harriette Anne (Miss), farmer & Holmes William, farmer Rippon William, farmer landowner Hunt Philip, clerk to school board Swallow Thomas, farmer, Northbeck Dexter George, grocer Isaac Robert, cowkeeper Wright John, farmer is a parish and small and pretty village, 4 glebe, with residence, in the gift of H. C. V. J. Bracken­ miles north-east from and 2~ north-west from the bury esq. and held since 1881 by the Rev. Charles Tudor Burgh station on the East Lincolnshire branch of the Great Williams B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. Here is aWes­ Northern railway, in the South Lindsey division of the leyan chapel. The charities amount to £6 yearly, £5 de­ county, , Wold division of Candleshoe rived from Scremby estate and £1 from rent of land in wapentake, Spilsby petty sessional division, union and , and distributed by the rector and church· county court district, rural deanery of Candleshoe No. x, wardens. Scremy Hall, a handsome mansion, pleasantly and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The church situated on a gentle acclivity, is the residence of Frederick of SS. Peter and Paul is a structure of brick in the Crowder esq. Henry Charles Verschoy le J ulius Bracken bury 17th century style, and consists of chancel, nave and a esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The western tower containing 4' bells, cast in 1739-40 : there is soil is sand, loam and clay; subsoil, loam, clay and gravel. a mural monument of marble to Charles Brackenbury esq. The chief crops a!"e wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The and others to the Moody, , Newcomen and other area is 970 acres; rateable value, £1,310; the population families : the stained east window was presented by the Rev. in 1881 was 172. Henry Brackenbury, a late rector, in memory of his wife, GREBBY is a hamlet I mile north-west. William Hoff Mrs. Brackenbury: the church was restored and re-deco- esq. of Grebby Hall, is sole landowner. rated in 1884, at a cost of £6oo, when three stained win- Parish Clerk, Charles Starmer. dows were inserted, and a new organ, oak seats and stone LETTER Box cleared at 5 p.m. Letters through Spilsby, the font introduced : there are 150 sittings. The register dates nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at 8 a.m from the year 1716. The living is a rectory, tithe rent- National School (mixed), for 56 children; average attend- charge £220, gross yearly value £268, including 33 acres of ance, 34; Miss Caroline Heathcote, mistress [Letters to persons marked • should be I Williams Rev. Chas.Tudor B.A.Rectory I Johnson William, farmer addressed Grebby, Spilsby.] *Butler Rd. farm bailiff toW. Hoff esq Parker Jas. farm bailiff toW. Hoff esq Clifton Joseph Cook John, farmer Parker William, shopkeeper Crowder Frederick, Scremby hall Curtis William, farmer Scrimshawe Robert, farm bailiff to *Hoff William, Grebby hall I *East Henry, miller (wind), Grebby Joseph Clifton esq SCRIVELSBY is a parish, 2~ miles south from Horn- 1688, and Eleanor (Watson), his wife, daughter of Lewis, 1st castle, in the South Lindsey division of the county, parts of Baron Rockingham, as well as to other members of the Lindsey, southern division of the wapentake of Gartree, family: here also is a slab inscribed to the Hon. Charles union, petty sessional division and county court Dymoke, Champion at the Coronation of Wm. III. and district, rnral deanery of Horncastle, archdeaconry of Stow Queen Mary, d. 17 Jan. 1702-3, erected by his widow, Jane and diocese of Lincoln. The church of ~t. Benedict is a fine Dymoke, in 1726, and mural monuments of white marble to building of stone, iu the Early English, Decorated and Per- the Hon. LewisDymokeM.P. ChampionattheCoronat.ionsof pendicular styles, consisting of chancel with north aisle of Geo. I. and Geo. II. d. 176o, and the Hon. John Dymoke, two bays, nave of three bays, north aisle and a small western Champion at the Coronation of Geo. Ill. d. 6 March, 1784: tower, with spire, erected in x86o by the late Hon. Sir there are also mutilated brass effigies of a man and his wife, Henry Dymoke, xst and only baronet, and containing one with part of a canopy, c. 1430, and a tablet to Sir Henry bell : the nave and earlier chancel arcades and the chancel Dymoke hart. d. 28 Ap. 1865, whose grave in the church­ arch are Early English; the windows of the nave, Modern yard is marked by a canopied tomb of marble, with inscrip­ Decorated: the chancel retains a piscina: the stained east win- tion to himself and Emma (Pearce), his wife, d. x884, and dow is a memorial to the Rev. John Dymoke, d. 1828, and to an inscribed stone to Mary Anne, widow of the Rev. the Amelia Alice Elphinstone, his wire, d. 1856, and was erected by Hon. John Dymoke, jun.: the church was restored in 1876: their eldest son, and there is a memorial window to Emma, the churchyard, of about 2 acres, contains a memorial cross Lady Dymoke, d. 1884, erected by Capt. Francis H.Hartwell, to Henry Lionel Dymoke esq. d. 1875 : there is a monu· and Emma (Dymoke), his wife: the monuments chiefly corn- ment to a member of the family in church, near memorate the Marmion and Dymoke families, possessors of Horncastle, and another at Faccombe, Hants. The register the manor of Scrivelsby and hereditary Champions of Eng- of Scrivelsby dates from the year 1566 and that of land: beneath the chancel arcade is an altar tomb, with from x6go. The living is a rectory, united to that of Dalderby, brass effigy and inscription, to Sir Robert Dymoke, knight tithe rent-charge £612, net yearly value £s6o, including banneret, ob. 13 Ap. 1545, Champion at the Coronations of 52 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Hon. the Henry VII. and VIII. : at the east end of the aisle is a tomb Queen's Champion, and held since r867 by the Rev. Samuel with the recumbent cross-legged effigy in stone of a knight in Lodge M. A. of Lincoln College, Oxford, Hon. Canon of Lin­ armour, conjectured to represent Philip, last Lord Marmion, coin and rural dean of Horncastle. Scrivelsby Court, the of Scrivelsby and Tamworth, ob. 1292: contemporary with property of the Hon. Francis Seaman Dymoke, the Queen's this is the recumbent effigy of a lady, with a dog at her Champion, who is lord of the manor and sole landowner, ill feet : in the chancel is an inscription on copper to Sir Charles an irregularly-built mansion, partly in the Domestic Gothic Dymoke kt. Champion at the Coronation of James II. ob. c. style, and standing in a park of 360 acres, well wooded and