• Tl"DD ST. MARY. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY'8 'l'YDD ST. MARY is a parish and village, on the Chaq,cellor, and held since 1904 by the Rev. John Long­ road from Long Sutton to Wisbech. and bordering on ley M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The the counties of Norfolk and Cambridge, with a station Mission holl.'le, at Chapelgate, erected in 1895, at a cost 2 miles south from the church, on the Lynn branch of of £7so, is an ~difice of brick, from designs by Mr. t;be Midland and Great Northern joint railway, and is Hakewill, of London, and will seat 154 persons. There 3 sGuth from Long Sutton, 6 north frmn Wisbech, 8 south­ is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in rB59, and a Primitive east from Holbeach, and 4 from Sutton Bridge, in the Methodist chapel €rected in 1903. The charities amount Holland with Boston division of the county, parts of to £r6r ss. ~arly, arising from land, and are distributed Holland, wapentake and petty sessional division of Elloe, in January and .April; the widows' "gown" charity, Holbeach union and county court district, rural deanery known as "Wats{)n's," consists of one-third of the rent of East Elloe, and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. of about 6 acres of land in Sntton St. Edmunds, and is The South Holland drain, which bounds the parish on distributed by the Tector and churchwardens yearly: the north, and the great North Level on the south, both the Wills and Bouverie charitiPs, in the hands of the empty into the river Nene. The church of St. Ma11 rector, are for clothing and educating ten poor girls of is an ancient edifice of brick and stone, in the Decorated the parish. Nicholas Goddard Jackson esq. is lord of and Perpendicular styles, with some remains of about the manor of Dunton and Mr. Richard Kilham of that A.D. 1200, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of of Tilney. The principal landowners are Bartholomew five bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western Young Banks esq. George Thompson esq. Trinity Col­ tower of brick, with stone dressings and a spire, re­ lege, Cambridge, and the Holland County Council. The lieved by 3 tiers of spire lights and containing s bells soil is a light loam; sub~;oil, silt. The chief crops are and a clock presented in 1912 by H. S. Banks esq. : wheat, oats, beans, peas, brown mustard, potatoes and the earliest portion of the church is comprised in the other roots. The area is 4,7oi acres of land, 24 of aisle 4\.rcades of Late Transitional work, but the fabric water, 8 of tidal water and g of foreshore; rateable was almost wholly rebuilt in the Decorated period: the value, £6,376; population in 191 I, 854 in the civil parish clerestory is lighted by five windows on either side, and and 86r in the ecclesiastical parish. on the gable of the nave is a small bell-cote: at the Tydd Gote (or Gowt), a hamlet half f1 mile south, east end of the north aisle is an alabaster slab bearing stands partly in Lincolnshire and partly in Tydd St. the now upright effigy of a knight of the time of Richard Giles, Cambridgeshire. II. ( 1377-99) with the following inscription on its cham­ f-ered edge : " et per l'alme William de Tidde et sa Parish Clerk, Edmund Coulson. femme dame Margaret" ; and in the south aisle is a Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Tydd Gote.-William Bowers, mural tablet of alabaster and marble to Lieut. -Col. sub-postmaster. Letters through Wisbech Samuel Long, d. Au,g. r88r: the church was repewed in Wall Letter Boxes.-Station; Broad Drove; Manor rBzs and reseated in r879: the chancel was restored House corner & Mission house in rB6g and the east window filled with stained glass in rB72: in the chancel is a memorial window to Ever­ Public Elementary Sch{)ols. sun Harrison, of Tolethorpe Hall, placed there in r86s, Mixed, founded by Miss Martha Trafford, of this place, and there are several others: the pulpit and chancel in -1740, & built, with master'!! house, in r857, at a screen ere of oak: the carved oak raredos wa.s the gift cost of £784, & enlarged in r88B, for II9 children; in 1910 of the present rector: the various restorations the endowment amounts to [32 yearly; 8 scholars from 1874 to r8go cost £716: the church now affords 362 are clothed from the Wills & Bouverie charities; John sittings. The register dates from the year rs4o. The Bentley, master living is a re•:!tory, net yearly value £752, including 77 Infants, for 6o children; Mrs. K. Handley, mistress acres of glebe, with 'residence, in the gift of the Lord Railway Station, William Bradley, station master TYDD ST. MARY. Colehouse Fredk. B. frml'. Broadgate Smith William, cottags farmer Cox Mrs. North Level house Cooper John L. fruit grower Spinks Arthur, farmer Longley Rev. John M.A. (rector), Cooper Luke, blacksmith Spinks Daniel, farmer, Parsonage la Coulson Edmund, wheelwright & Spi'nks Wilham, beer retailer Rectory 1 COMMERCIAL. parish clerk Sumner Cooper, beer Tetailer Cragg Ansell1 farmer, White cross I Tburpe Philip, baker Marked thus t farm rso acres or over. Dack Joseph Adam, Five Bells P.H Thorpe Thomas, farmer, Hensons ho Bailey William, smallholder Davis & Merrison, builders Willows Charles, farmer tBanka Harry Smith, farmer Davis William, shopkeeper & potato, turnip & mustard seed Eason Richard R. fruit grower TYDD GOTE. grower, Rectory farm Fairbank Ernest, plumber tBanks Thomas William, farmer, Flint Frank, butcher ' COMMERCIAL. Strawberry hall Green Christopher Elijah, builder Bateman Henry, farmer Bass Frederick, farmer, Church farm Groves Waiter, farmer, Whit{! Cross. Fletcher & Sons, grocers Benton Charles, farmer Harrison Thomas, farmer, South 1 Goodman John Thos. cottage farmer Bethway George, farmPtr, Greendyke Holland bridge .1 Goodman Bobert, smith Betts James, farmer Harwood William, farm bailiff to Hales Bobert, Gote inn Bills George (Mrs.), farmer George Thompson esq Hopkinson Thomas, coal dealer Bliss Isaac, farmer, Lowgate Hickman Harry, farmer & fruit grwr Machin Waiter, White Lion P.H Bowers Matthew, smallholder . tHoyles West, farmer, landowner & Pearson Thoma.s Henry, New inn Bradley Wm. railway station master potato grower, Manor Hill farm Pearson Waiter, baker Brothwell George, farmer, Crossgate t Kilham Richard, farmer & land- Se! by John, ·cottage farmer Burrell John Charles, farmer, South owner, Tysdale house . Shepherd Arthur, baker Holland farm Kilham Bichd. jun. frmr. Dunton hall Smith Ruth, grocer Burrell Thomas. farmer, Crossgate Leeson George, farmer Steel Charles, blacksmith Cave Henry, fruit grower Long Samuel, farmer, Broadgate Thompson J{)hn, boot maker Clarke Fredk. smallhldr.Green drove Nelson James, Star P.H Wattam A.mos, tailor Coates Christopher, farmer, John- Rose Fred, farmer, Cole house 1 Young John, boot repairer son's farm, Fen Sisson John T. Ship inn UFFINGTON is a. parish and village, pleasantly almost entirely rebuilt and the roof renewed in oak, Mated on the river Welland and on the road to Market tbe chancel walls relined ..With ashlar, a new vestry and Deeping, with a station hair a. mile ~outh-east from the organ chamber erected, and ths fabric generally re­ Hall, on the Stamford and Peterborough branch of the floored: the pulpit, a superb work, was the gift of Midland railway, 2 miles east from Stamford, in the Merthyr Guest esq. and the font was presented by the Rutland and Stamford division of the county, parts of late Bight Rev. Edward Trollope D.D. Bishop of Not­ Kesteven, Ness wapentake, Bourne petty sessional divi­ tingham and Archdeacon of Stow (d. 1894): the stained sion, St!Ullford union and county court district, rural east window, inserted in 1882, is a memorial to Sir deanery Qi. Ness and archdeaconry and dioce!!e of Lin­ John Trollope, Baron Kesteven, who died 17th Dec. coln. The church of St. M!chael is & large and fine 1874, and there are various other stained windows: the "building <Jf stone, in the Early English style, consist­ church contains several remarkably handsome and ing of chancel, nave, aisles, private chapel belonging ancient monuments, including one of marble and to the Trollope family, now represented by the Hon. alabaster, with kneeling effigie11 in armour, to Sir Roger Nest& Trollope, south porch and an embattled western Manners, of Uffington, esquire of the body to Queens tower with pinnacles and a crocketed l!pire and contain­ Mary and Elizabeth, ob. '-6o7; and to his younger ing a clock and 6 bells: the tower bears the date 1639, brother, Oliver Manners, who served a~ainst the French and th~ church was elaborately restored in r866, under at Newhaven, and died of the plague in IS63; there is the direction of Ml'. Browning-, when the nave was also a memorial to Dr. Stanton, Dean of Lincoln and .