Lincolnshire. South Kelsey
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DIRECTORY.) LINCOLNSHIRE. SOUTH KELSEY. 339 Parit;h Clerk, Thompson Weatherill. mile distant, & Oseby the nearest telegraph office, rl Letter Box cleared at 8.40 a.m. k 5 p.m. week days miles distant only. Letters through Grantham, via .Ancaster, arrive The children of this place attend the schools at Haydor at 8.30 a.m. Wilsford is the nearest money order, 1 .t Wilsford COMMERCIAL. Corton George, farmer Nixon John Money, farmer Barrand Thomas, farmer, Manor Duffin George, farmer Sandy George, farmer House farm NORTH XELSEY is an extensive parish on a branch attached, was formed in xBBg at a cost of about [.40o, of the river .Ancholme, with a station, xf miles east, on and is under the control of a Parish Council of 9 the Hull and Lincolnshire branch of the Great Central members. Here is a branch of the Independent railway, 7 miles east-by-north from Kirton-in-Lindsey, 5 1 Order of Reehabites, established in 1902. Lord west from Caistor, 6 south-east from Brigg and x6o 1 Carrington's charity of the value of about £xoo per from London, in the North Liridsey division of the 1 annum, deriYed from rents, is for the benefit of the county, parts of Lindsey, south division of Yarborough ! poor. Major Philip Chetwood Wright, of Brattleby wapentake, Caistor petty sessional division, union a~d 1Hall, w'ho is lord of the manor, and Mr. Frank Hirst, county court distri~t, and in the Caistor rural deanery, of East Hall Farm, are the principal landowners.· The archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The soil is clay; subsoil, sand. The chief crops are wheat, church of St. Nicholas is a building of stone, consisting barley, beans &c. The area is 6,227 acres; rateable of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a western value, £4,554; the population in xgn was Bxg in the tower containing 3 bells: the chancel and nave are Early I cir"il and 813 in the ecclesiastical parish. Decorated: the east window of the north aisle is a me- Sexton George Sturdy morial to Maria, wife of William Frederick Chambers ' · M.D.: the church, with the exception of the tower, was Post, M. 0. & T. Office. John Lidgard, sub-postmaster. restored in r86g at a cost of £x,5oo, and has 240 sittings. Letters arrive from Lincoln at 7.40 a.m.; dispatched_ The register dates from the year x6u1. The living is a at 5·35 p.m. i no delivery of letters on sundays -vicarage, net yearly value £240, including 242 acres of Post Office, North Kelsey Moor.-Thomas Phillipson, sub4 glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of postmaster. Letters arrive from Lincoln at 6.35 a. m.; Lincoln, and held since r8g8 by the Rev. John Leslie dispatched at 6.35 p.m.; no delivery of letters on Nevins Pheasant M. A. of Oxford University. The Mission sundays. North Kelsey, 2 miles distant, is the nearest ?hurch, erec.ted on the Moor in 1873.• at a cost ~f £5oo, money order & telegraph office 1 lS of red. briCk and Ancaster stone m the. Gothic style, I Council School (mixed), built in x8g6, for x6o children; from designs by Mr. H. M. Townsend, architect, of Peter- I av-E'rage attendance 1 37 · Frederick Ralphs master· borough, and consists of chancel, with vestry, nave and .Alfred Foston corr~spondent ' ' -an eastern bell turret containing one bell : an arcade of . ' . three arches separates the chancel and nave: there are Railway StatiOn, Collmgwood Wade, station master 6o sittings. Thi;U'e are Wesleyan and Primitive Metho- Carriers. dist chapels here, the former, built in 1848, was rebuilt Bell & Son, to Brigg, on thurs in 1898 at a cost of £I,20o; the latter was built in J. F. Harrison, to Brigg, on thurs. & sat x882; and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel on the Thomas Topliss, to Market Rasen, tues. ; Brigg, thurs. ; Moor. A Cemetery of 1a. rr. with mortuary chapel & Caistor, sat [Marked thu~ 0 letters are received through Clayton Arthur, farmer, Carrs Hall Samuel, farmer, The Moor South Kelsey.] Cousin Robert, farmer Hannath John,frmr. Smallthorne frm PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Cox Wattam, farmer, Brow hill Harrison John, farmer, The Moor Atkinson John, The Beeches Cram William, grocer Harrison John Frederick, grocer Pheasant Rev. John Leslie Nevins M . .A. Cross Robert, beer retailer Hirst Frank, farmer, East Hall farm Vicarage Cusworth George Wm. cottage farmr *Hooton Frederick, farmer Daniel Thomas, grocer Jackson Robert, farmer COMMERCIAL. Day John Charles, butcher Knapton Thomas Charles, farmer, Atkinson Thomas & George, farmers, Dent John, farmer Capham house The Moor Dent Joseph, shopkeeper Lockwood Henry & John, farmers~ Atkinson Thomas k Son, coal, corn, Dent Robert, boot & shoe dealer The Moor c.ake, manure, lime k slag mer- Dexter Thomas Robert, farmer Lockwood Kelita, farmer, Carrs chants, Railway station & farmers, Dexter William, farmer :Markham Lawrence, farmr.The Moor The Beeches Dixon Thomas, farmer M:ettam George, farmer .Atkinson Fras.Jas. Queen's Head inn Dowie Fredk. Jas. farmer, The Moor Mo:>dy Arthur James, farmer Atkinson Geo.farmer, South Barff fm Drewery Benjamin, farmer, Carrs Newcombe Fredk. farmer, Setcope& Auckland George Henry, farmer Drury George, farmer, Cold harbour Percival Joseph, farmer, Bruff farm Ayscough John, coal dealer Drury William, farmer Porter Robert, farmer Ayscough Stennitt, farmer East Henry k Son, farmers, Carrs Rack William, farmer, Drabbles hill Barley William, farmer East George, farmer, Carrs Rechabites (Independent Order of) Barrick William, miller (steam) Eaton Stephen, farmer, The Moor (R. N. Fauldinj!', hon. sec) Bell k Son, boot makers Empson Chas. Wm. farmer,Eastgate Richardson Mrs. Sophia, farmer Bell John H. farmer Eperson John, farmer, The Moor Rickells Wm. farmer, Church farm iBrocklesby Charles Herbert, farmer Faulding Robert N. farmer,Manor ho Robinson George Robert, farmer Brocklesby Geo. farmer, Glebe farm Fletcher William, farmer, The Moor Rodgers Wm. miller (wind & steam). Bnrkitt Edward, farmer, Sadney Foston .Alfred, tailor, k assistant Shaw William, horse dealer Burnett Robert, farmer, The Moor overseer & clerk to the Parish Skelton George (exors. of), farmers Burton Mary. Jane & Rose (Misses), Council & correspondent to local Snowden Job, blacksmith egg dealers, The Moor school managers Squires Herbert, wheelwright Capes Thos.Wilk!nson,Royal Oak P.B Foulston John Wm. miller (steam), Stepnall Alfred Lord, grocer Cawkwell Thomas, farmer, The Moor agricultural, mechanical & motor Topliss Thomas, carrier Cemetery (Alfred Foston, clerk to engineer, brass founder, cycle Tuxworth Reuben, blacksmith Parish Council) agent & petrol gas light fitter Ward Edward, farmer, Highfield Chamberlin Herbert, farmer *Fussey Bros. farmrs. West Bolmes Wilkinson Hugh, saddler Clark George, farmer, The Moor Fussey Joseph, farmer, Carrs Wilmore John, farmer, Highfield Clark George Benj. farmer,The Moor Gaunt Alfred, farmer Wilson Joseph, cottage farmer Clark Robert, farmer, The Moor Gibbons Jn. Wm. farmer,The Grange *Worrell Arthur, farmer, Carrs SOUTH XELSEY is a large parish and village, about an embattled western tower with pinnacles, dating from 2! miles south-west from Moortown station on the Hull 1250, and containing a clock and 3 bells: the stained east and Lincoln branch of the Great Central railway, si window, erected in x853, was the gift of the late George miles south-west from Caistor and 8 south-east from Skipworth esq.: the church was structurally re-arranged Brigg, in the East Lindsey division of the county, parts in the same year, under the direction of W. Butterfield of Lindsey, north division of Walshcroft wapentake, esq. F.S.A.: within the north wall is the stone effigy of a Caistor union and county court district and petty ses- knight in chain mail and cyclas, or long !lkirted surcoat, l'ional division, and in Caistor mral dea:dery, arch- bearing a shield with the arms of Hansard ; the figure is deaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of the 13th century, and may represent Robert Hansard, of St. Mary, almost entirely Tebuilt in 1795, is a build- who distinguished himself in the Scotti11h wars, in the ing of stone, constructed in part with the materials of reign of Edward I.: in the chancel is a slab with effigies in the church of St. Nicholas, then rem(lved : it consists brass of a knight in full armour and a lady, representing of Decorated chancel, nave ()f four bays, 11outh porch and Sir Richard Hansard, ob. 1428, and Joan (Aske) hi11 wife: LINCS. 22• .