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NORTH WITHAM. Musson Elijah, Plough P.H. & shopkpr CO::IIIMXRCIAL. Davies Rev. David .Stedmau M.A. Thompson .A.rthur, farmer March William, farmer, Hall farm (rector), Rectory Wakefield Geo. Thos. farmer & graz.ier Port~r William, farmer COMMERCIAL. White Thomas Keyworth, farmer Tindale William, farmer Bullimore Benjamin, black~mith White Christopher &; George, farmers. Challand Albert, farmer LOBTHORPE. South lodge Tut·ner Alan is a large village and pa1·ish, of St. Andrew.s. Here are Wesleyan and Congregational pleasant:y sitHated on the I!Outb-weste:rn border of the chapels, and a Church room, built in I8g8 at a cost of county, adjoining Rut.land, aml on the river lVitham, £6zo. There is a. charity of £3o left by Richard Halford which has its ~ource in the village, with a station on th~ esq. formerly lord of the manor, the interest of which Saxby and Bourne branch of the Midland and Great is distributed on St. Thomas' day to such poor person9 Northern joint railw!:ly, .':~ milEs south-west from Corby as attend the parish church, and do not receive para­ station on the main line of the Great ~orthern railway, chial relief. The rents of two fields belonging to the II south from and ro north-by-west from trustees of the South Witham charities, after paying Stamfordj in the South division of the county, small sums due to the clerk and constable respectively, parts of Kesteven, Be~tisloe wapentake, Grantham union are distributed yearly among the most deserving and and county court district, Spittlegate petty sessional neceFsitous inhabitants: the gross rent of the tw~ division, rural deanery of Beltisloe ami archdeaconry and fields is now (1909) £7 JS. The Earl of Dysart is lord . The church of St. John the Baptist of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is is an ancient edifice of stone, originally cruciform, but the loam ; subsoil, clay and stone. The chief crops are chancel, having been suffered to fall to ruin, was many cereals. The area is 1,764 acres; rateable value, £ :o~,416; years since removed; the portion still standing consists population in 1901, 396. of nave, transept and a stone turret containing 2 bells, Parish Clerk, The Rector. but is in a very dilapidated condition : there are several ancient monuments and brasses, the oldest being a small Pm;t, M. O. &; T. Office.-Richard Clark, sub-post- brass to Francis Harrington, ob. 1577: the church was master. Letters through Grantham, arrive at B.so restored in 19oo, when it was new roofed in oak, re- a.m.; dispatched, 4 &; 7·1 5 p.m. week days only_ seated and heated throughout with hot water, at 8 total Parcels accepted up to 5 minutes of dispatch of letters cost of £1,950: there are 156 sittings. The church and Public Elementary School (mixed), built, with master·~ eb:uchyard, under certain modifications, were closed to residence, in :1879• at a cost of £7oo, &; enlarged in interments after 3oth April, IB93· The register dates r8gg at a further oost of £400, for 126. children; from the year 1686. The living is a rectory, net yearly average attendance, 89; Guy R. E. Varcoe, master;. value £,120, arising from 150 acres of land, with resi- James Barnacle, attendance officer dence, in the gift of the Earl of Dysart, and held since Railway Station, Henry Staneger, station master 1Bg6 by the Rev. Thomas Surtees Raine, of the University 1 Carrier. Joseph Bullimore, to Grantham, on tnes. &; sa• Gambrell Samuel Clark Richard, tailor, Post office Parkinso¥ John, carpenter Raine Rev. 'l'hos. Surtees, Rectpry Clark Richard S. cycle .agent Powell William Richard, grocer Tollemache-Tollemache Mrs Coope1' Robt.Cecil &; Alice (Miss),frmrs Sale Thomas William, beer retailer White Mrs Corner Robert, Blue Cow P.H Scarborough John. farmer&; grazieP COMMERCIAL. Craven Edith Mary (Miss), grocer Selby Ben H. timber merchant Adcock David, farmer Craven John, farmer Steel Waiter, butcher Batty Jonathan, farmer, .Angel P.H Fligge John W. boot maker Wildman Betsy (MiS.\1), grazier Bennett Christopher, miller (wind) Horsman George, farmer Williamson F. W. k Co. Limited, coal. Brooms Mary (Mrs.), farmer •Kew John, hawker corn, cake & manure merchants Bnllimore Joseph, police constable, Mayes William, fa1mer Woods Waiter, farmer · cowkeeper &; carrier Mitchelson William, baker WITHCALL is a parish, with a station ou the Louth I Frederick Freshney M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, and Lincoln branch of the Great Northern railway, and and J.P. Lincs. The trustees of the late Nathaniei is 4l miles south-west from Louth and 140 from Clayton esq. J.P., D.L. of Lincoln (d. 18go) are lords. by rail in the division of the county, parts of the manor. The whole of the parish belongs to of Lindsey, '-"'old division of the hundred, Louth petty Nathaniel Clayton Cockburn esq. of Harmston Hall, ll'ssional division, union and county court district, rural and Robert Clayton Swan esq. of Rockcliffe Park, Dar­ deanery of Louth Eske and Ludborongh No. 3, arch- lington. The soil is loam and chalk; subsoil, chalk. deaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips_ of St. Martin, erected in 1882-3, near the site of the The a.rea. is 2,544 acres; rateable value, £1,721; popu­ former church, at a cost of £1,337, defrayed by the late lation in tgoi, 209. N. Clayton .es9.. is a small building of s-tone in the Gothic Letters arrive at . a.m. through Louth. Letter Box. 7 45 style, cons1si:1':g of chancel, nave, south porch and a cleared at .10 p.m. Donington-upon-Bain is the turret contammg one bell: the turret was struck by t 5 d ffi Lo th ~ il d'st t li ht · · b t h · b t d t t neares money or er o ce; u , 4!1 m es 1 an .. g£nmg In 1 9° 8 • .u as since eken ~es me a ~cos is the nearest telegraph office for delivery, but Hal- of 100: the pulpit, of carved oa , 1s a memonal to lin!!t rail t t' · th t f d' t h n1 the H