148 COATES-BY-3TOW. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY'S
soil is stiff clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are Letter Box cleared at 3.15. Letters arrive at g.15 a.m. cereals and turnips. The area is r,o33 acres; rateable from Lincoln, vill. Stow park, & should be addressed value, £8o6 ; population in Igor, 42. "Coates-by-Stow." Ingha.m is the nearest telegraph BLACKTHORN HILL, a fox cover, is 2 mHes south & money order office, about 3 miles distant east. The clhildren a.ttend the Elementary school at Sturlon Hall Thomas, farm bailiff to Sir John Presswood Thomas, farmer \'V illiam Ramsden bart I GREAT COATES (or Great Cows) is a parish and trustees of the late Sir R. F. Sutlton hart. wit'h !residence, small village, bounded on tihe north-east by the Humber in the gift of tilie ·trustees of the Late Sir Riohard Francia and on the south and south-east by the trout stream Sntton hart. and held since 1892 by the Rev. J amea called the Freshney, wilih a station on the Lincoln and Francis Quirk M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford and Cleethorpes branch of the Great Central railway, 2 J.P. Lines, who is also vicar of Aylesby and prebendary miles west from Grimsby by rail and 2! by road and of Lincoln. The Wesleyan chapel was erected in 1881, 157 from London, within the parliamentary borough of at a cost of £4oo, and there is also a Primitive Metho Great Grimsby, and in the North Lindsey division of the dist chapel, an iron structure, built in 1895. The county, parts of Lindsey, Bradley Haverstoe wapentake, Church Institute here wa.s erected in 1907, at a cost Grimsby union, petty sessional division and county conrt of £4oo, by the trustees of the Sutton estate. Great district, and in the rural deanery of Grimsby No. 2, arch Coates was for many centuries one of the seats of the deaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of Rarnardiston family, of Keddington, in Suffolk, some of St. Nicholas is an edifice of stone, of the Transitional, whom are still seated in that county; the moats for Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular periods, con merly surrounding the residence may still be traced in sisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled western a field known as the "Hall Close," to the south-west tower of the 15th century, with eight crocketed pin of the church: in the adjoining field, known as "Eutts nacles and containing 4 bells, recast in 1'807 : there are Close," are remains of the old butts where archery several ancient brasses to the Barnardiston~ or Barnard was once practised. The Earnardistons acquired the ston family, one of which, in the chancel, exhibits a re Great Cotes estate in the reign of Edward II. by presentation of the Resurrection, and below this an in marriage wi11h Margery Wylegby, and it continued in scription to Sir Thomas Barnardiston kt. ob. 1503, and this family uninterruptedly till about the middle of Dame Elizabeth (Newport) his wife; in the same slab is the 17th century, when it passed to the ancestors of another brass, with figures of Sir Thomas, his wife, 8 the late owner, Sir Richard Franci.s Sutton ba.rt. of .-sons and 7 daughters, and two shields of arms : in the Benham Park, Newbury, Eerks (d. 1891), whose trustees ·nave is a third brass, set in a large slab, to Isabella, are now lords of the manor and the principal land daughter of William Kelke, of Barnetby, and wife of owners. The soil is rich alluvial; subsoil, blue drift : Roger Barnardiston, ob. c. 1'420: in the chancel window clay. The crops are wheat, turnips, barley, oats, beab.J and in the east window of the north aisle there are shields and seeds; two-fifths of the land is pasture. The area .of the arms of Barnardiston quartering Vavasour, Kelk(' is 2,668 acres of land, 5 of water and 49r of foreshore;
Page Arthur Henry, Fir close Borrell George, farmer 1 Kettlewell Charles, farmer Paget Mark John, Manor house Church Institute (Rev. Canon Quirk, Riggall Ernest, farmer Quirk Rev. Canon James Fras. M.A., sec) Shelton John, carpenter & wheelwright J.P. Rectory Clayton George Smith, blacksmith Skells Mary E. (Mrs.), cowkeeper & ~tephen Cecil R. Great Coates house Gains borough John, farmer shopkeeper, Post office COMMERCIAL. Hodgson George, cowkeeper Smith Fred, farmer "Bacon Martin, farmer, Ivy house Howlett William, cowkeeper Smith William, farmer Barker William, cowkeeper J ohnson & Son, farmers Tuplin William, cowkeeper
~LITTLE COATE·S is a parish adjoining Grimsby; Loft B. A. of Carpus Christi College, Cambridge, who i! -this village during the past few years has rapidly in also vicar of St. Paul's, Grimsby, and resides at .creased, and building operations are (in 1909) still going Grimsby. Here are some natural springs, called "blow :forward; the river Freshney separates this parish from wells," supplying an abundance of very good water, ,Great Coates ; it is in the North Lindsey division of the which, by means of steam power, is forced to the reser .county, parliamentary borough of Great Grimsby, parts voir at Scartho, belonging to the Grimsby Water WorkJ of Lindsey, Bradley Haverstoe wapentake, Grimsby Company, a distance of about r mile. Sir Wa.lter Gilbey union, petty sessional division and county court district, bart. of Elsenham Hall, Essex, is IOTd of the manor and and in the rural deanery of Grimsby No. 2, archdea principal landowner. The principal farm is in the occu· conry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of pation of Mr. Alfred Davy. Here are the extensive St. Michael is a small edifice of grey stone, chiefly of paper mills of Messrs. Peter Dixon and Son. A small the Perpendicular period, consisting of chancel and nave portion nf the sail is alluvial and the remainder loam; and a turret containing one bell : the chancel arch is subsoil, drift clay, containing water-wOTn pebbles. The the earliest portion of the church: after the erection chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The . .of the church, another bay was added to the nave, the area is 1,044 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable • north wall of which, though upright on the exterior, value, £ ; population in 1901, 83 . . slopes within from the base to the roof : in 1903 the Sexton, Isaac Butter. church was renovated and reseated, and affords 70 sittings. The register dates from the year r726. The Letters through Grimsby, which is the nearest money living is a rectory, net yearly value £87, including 16 order & telegraph office, arrive at a.m acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and 7 held since rgoB by the Rev. Edmund William Boswell The children of this place attend the school at Grimsby COMMERCIAL. Davy Alfred, farmer Hodson Jas.hair drssr.43 Elsenham rd JJailey William Banks, boot maker, 88 Dixon Peter & Son, paper manufac- Hodson Richard P. china dealer, ~ Elsenham road turers, West Marsh paper mills Elsenham road Bates Hy. butcher,· 64 Elsenham rd Garner Frederick, bricklayer, 61 Hoskins Elizabeth (Mrs.), nurse, 4 Bingham Rd. draper, go Elsenham rd Elsenham road Elsenham road Bond Henry, greengro, 47 Gilbeyrd Garner Wm. joiner, 75 Elsenham rd Kirk George Henry, boot repairer, 91 Brooks Jsph. butchr. 115 Elsenham rd Good Ernest, news agent, rq. Elsen- Elsenham road Brown Betsy (Mrs.), fancy draper, 94 ham road Peirson George Waiter, grocer, 40 Gilbey road Graham Ernest William, grocer, 93 Elsenbam road Brown William, pork butcher. 45 Elsenham road Scoffin & Co. coal mers. Stortford d Gilbey road Grice Thomas, grocer, 2 Elsenham rd Scoffin Arthur, furniture remover, Costin Wm. shopkpr. 17 Elsenham rd Hewson Geo.fruiterer, 30 Elsenham rd Stortford street