7 94 BRACEBOROUGH. . (KELLI S

DYKE.

Bettinson John Bobert Freeman John, farmer 1 Seafun Thomas &' Prederick, farmers, COMM~:Rci.u,. GarnerWm.Redm.le,grocer, Post office Dyke fen Ash Richard, farmen Gilbert John Thomas, nurseryman & Sommerfielci John Thomas, miller Ash William, farmer florist (wind) &' baker Askey Henry, farm bait.ff to Richard Green Marianne (Mrs.), shopkeeper Walpole Thomas, far:tner Bettinson esq Knott Elizh. (Mrs.), farmel;", Dyke fen Walpole Williatu, hlachine owner Bnllimore Joseph, Crown inn Knott John, farmer, Dyke fen I Wilc-lx John, carpenter Burrows Ann (Mrs.), farmer Redmile Edwin, farmer, Dyke Wursdall Matthew, farmer, Dyke fen Cooper Edward Joseph, farmer Sands Richard, far:tner-

BRACEBOROUGH is a pretty village and parish, north-east is Braceborough Spa~ the springs of which bounded on the east by the river N ene, with a station, yield daily 1,5oo,ooo gallons;. one of 'the springs is in- 1 mile north from the village, on the Bourne and Essen- closed in a bath-room attached to the house occupied dine branch of the Great Northern railway, 90 from by Mr. Jo.mes William Fenton, in the grounds of which and 6 north-east from Stamford, in the South tihe springs rise. The water is noted for its remarkable Kesteven division of the county, parts of Kesteven, Ness purity and abundance of gaJSeous .constituents, rendering wapentake, Bourne petty sessional division, union and it .eminently suitable for drinking and dietetic purposes: county court district of Stamford, rural deanery of Ness it exerts also a beneficial a.ction-1 used externally, in cer­ and archdeaconry and . The church of tain affections of the 11kin. Shillingthorpe Hall, a. man­ St. Margaret, originally consisting of chancel, nave and sion of 1stone, I mile south.west from the 'ViKage, occupied aisles, w~s remodelled in a debased style, and its propor- by Mrs. Mapleton, is the property of Lord Kesteven J.P. tiuns destroyed, in the last century: in 1858 it was restored who is lord Qf the manor, and with Miso& Willis- a princ:pa: under the direction of Mr. Kirk, architect, and is a build- ~andownerJ The soil is loam. The chief crops are cereals. ing of stone in the Early Decorated style, consisting of The area is 1,681 acres i 1'8teable :value. £,2,700; the apsidal chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower population in 1891 wa.tt I74• with spire, containing a clock and 3 bells: there are four Sexton, Thomas Barsby. stained windows, including a memorial window to Sir Post Office.-Thomas Barsby, sub-postmaster. Letters Francis Willis M.D. and Henrietta, his wife: there are through Stamford by foot, arrive at 8.50 a.m. & dis. 130 sittings. The register dates from the year 1593. patched at 5·5 p.m. The nearest money order & te:e- The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £147• graph office is at Greatford net yearly value £II3, including 18 a~.-res of glebe, with Mixed School, built in 1871, a.t a cost of £200, for 40 residence, in the gift of tihe Lord Chance[or, and he:d children; average attendance; 36; Mrs. Catherine since 1892 by the Rev. James Henry Tomlinson Blunt Francis, mistress M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. About I mile to the Railway Station, Thomas Orosby, •tation master Blunt Rev. James Henry Tomlinson Fenton Jas. Wm. farmer, Spa house Storey William H. farmer M. A. Rectory .tfawkes Newman, bla~ksmith Tarnill Robt. earpenter & wheelwright Mapleton Mrs. Shillingthorpe hall Smith Stephen,shopkeeper&beer retailr Woolley Charles, farmer Willis Miss, Braceborough house Story John, farmer, Spa farm Woolley Hardy, fanner Downs Mary (Mrs.), farmer BRACEBRIDGE is a parish and rapidly increasing and to the County Asylum. Here iu'e Wesleyan Mission and pleasant village on the river Witham, 2 miles south from Methodist Free Church chapels. \Brick and tile mak:ng Lincoln, in the division of the county, is carried un here to a great extent: the Lincoln Brick county of the city of Lincoln, parts of Kesteven, hundred Company Limited, have extensive- works situated at Low­ of Boothby Graffoe, Lincoln petty sessional division, union fields, and have also the Cross O'Oliffe :Brick W·orks, and county court district, rural deaneny of Longoboby and situated on the road. The Lincoln COrporation archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. This parish was took over the gas works in 1884, since which R large gaso­ included in the parEamentary borough of Lincoln under meter, capable of holding a million feet of gas, has been the provisions of the "Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885." erected. .A reservQir has been constructed for the sup)}ly The church of All Saints is a small but ancient edifice of of water to Bracebridge and the- south part of IJincoln, on stone in the Early Norman, Early English and later styles, the heath, near the ·County Asylum, Red Hall, pleas:.mtly consisting af cha...>.cel with vestry, nave of three bays, situated on the high road from T.inooln to Slea.ford, about aisles, transept, south porch and an embattled western zt mil~s south-east from Lincoln, iiJ a mansion of red tower containing one bell: in the south wall of the chancel brick of the period of {ie()rge Il'I. the 'property of Mrs. are double sediha and a piscin'l in good preservation, and Keyworth, and now the residence of George Rawksley esq. in the nave a handsome brass corona prE'sented in 1871 by Red Hall Farm House, a building of silon~ dating from C. P:.-att esq. mayor of Lincoln: there is a. curious black the early part of the last- century, togethe-r with the "Red lettt>r Bible and an oak church chest; the walls of the Hall," adjacent, fortned a part of the property purchased chancel arch are of great thickness and are piercPd by by Feargus O'Connor to divide-in lots amon~ the Chartists, two hagioscopes, one of which on the south side affords and some of the land WBI!I -so portioned lflff, but afterwards a view of the altar from a lepers' window in the south re-sold when the Chartist scheme fell through t it con­ wall of the chancel: fixed in one of the pillars at the side tains a curious old oaken staircas~ ~ Ml'l!. Charles Gask is of the pulpit is an hour-glass stand, now fitted with a the present tenant. 'fhomall Fail'fax est{. iS" lord of the new sand-glass, and there is a good cylindrical Norman manor. The principal landowners are Coningsby Charles font: in the south aisle is a restored altar-tomb of the Sibthorp esq. of Can-wick Hnll, tb Ecclesiastical Cum­ 17th century, ir.scribed to Katherine, second daughter missioners, Mrs. Key-Worth and th& trusteelf of R. Rud­ and co-heir of John Wilson esq. of Sheepwash, and wife gard, and there are many freeholdel"S' who ~row great of - Luddington esq. of :Bracebridge : in the south aisle quantities of vegetable• for th~ supply of ~·he Lincoln mar­ is a memorial window to Harriett Beevor. d. Jan. 26, ket. The soil is sandy loam and clay'; ~blloil, gravelly 1883, presented by Henry Beevor and Elizabeth Elli~on: clay and sand. The crops ILl'& wheat, barley, oatls, turnips in 1888 two stained windows were placed in the north and vegetables. TheJ &rea is 1,482 acres; rateable value, aisle by Mrs. Eleanor Ewbank, in memory of various [9,189; the population in 189'1 was :2,494• which included members of her family: in 1874-5 the church was 745 officers and mma:tes in the Conn11y LUnatie Asylum. thoroughly restored and considerably enlarged at a cost Pari'sh Clerk, .Toseph Head. of £2,500, under the direction of Mr. J. L. Pearson R.A., F.S.A. when a new rtorth aisle, shallow transept and a Post, M. ·O. & T. ()., :r, 'f!!..· 0., Expres5 Delivery, S. B. &:, vestry were built, the walls of the south aisle were also Annuity & Insurance Q;ffice.~Frjlderjck Vernam, sub­ postmaster. Letters through l-inQoln, arrive z a.m. & rebuilt, the singular south doorway re-set1 and the whole structure re-roofed: in 11893 the tower was completely re­ 2 p.m. ; dispatched, ilj2-30 ~ 6r4S p,m stored under the direction of Mr. Hodgson Fowler, archi­ Wall Box, corner of Waddington Jl'Oad, The- Heo.thr cleared tect, of Durham, and other alterations carried out at a 10.30 a.m. & 1·5 p.ni.;. sundays, 7·S p.m cost of £soo : a large number of fragments of coffin lids of A School Board af 5 membenr was f01mM in .x878 w:tb the 13th century, found in -the south wall, have been re­ Boultham, a contributory dist:rict with o -members ; placed, with their ornamental crosses facing outwards: William Barr Dandy,. Bank •t:r.,etp l.inooJn,.derk to the there are 350 sittings. The register dates from th~ year board ; Henry Charles/ J ohnson, J&ttendance officer. 1663. The living is a vicarage, annexed in 1874 to the Board School, bnilti in 18~~ far 500 childl!eu..J average rectory of Boultham, joint average yearly value from. attendance, 123 boys, 98 girls & I~ infants; William tithe rent-charge £r8o, net income £124, includ· John Modern, master; Miss Lauro. Morris, mistress; ing 43 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Miss Florence Roberts, infants' mistress;,. branch, and held since 1863 by the Rev. Charles Christopher South Oliff, built iB x88o, tc; hold i6o, ave'rage attenl!~ Ellison M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and chaplain ance, 63 ~ Mis• Sarah Earp, mistress