DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. WlTllKRN". 623 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 SOUTH WITHAM 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 Grantham and ro north-by-west from trustees of the South Witham charities, after paying Stamfordj in the South Kesteven 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 diocese of Lincoln. 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 London Clayton esq. J.P., D.L. of Lincoln (d. 18go) are lords. by rail in the East Lindsey 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<m. and Rev. Annesley Henry Gore, rector I84+-6g, ;" on way s a Ion 18 e. neares . or lilpa c o Y. d. 1877, and was presented by his widow in 1sa 2 : thl're Pubhc Ele~en~ary School (m1xed), w1t'h masters rest- are 1 4o sittings. The register dates from the year dence, ~wlt m 187<) by th~ late N. Clayton esq. & en- 1s76. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £ 358, larged .m :r889, for 8o c~dren; avllTage attendance .. with 23 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of 36 i M1ss L. Adshead, mlStreu the Lord Chancellor, and held sinc11 1'888 by the Rev. Railway Station, Stephen Meanwell, station master Freshney Rev. Frederick M.A., J.P. Rectory I Ward Joseph William, farmer, Withcall house WITHERN with STAIN. WI'IHERN is a parish and large village, on the road rector hsre I-877-1907 : in 1907 a new organ, lectern from Alford to Louth, 2~ miles north from Aby station and communion table and service were presented by and 2§ east-north-east from Authorpe station on the the trustees of the late Augustus .Alphonse Pahud esq. : East Lincolnshire section of the Great Northern railwav,. the chancel was thoroughly restored in r815. and toe 5 nQrth-by-west from .A.lford and Bi south-east from interior renova.ted and reseated in :rB94, at a cost of Louth, in the South Lindsey division of the county, £,200: the church affords sittings for 250 persons. The parts of Lindsey, Wold division of Calceworth hundred, register date!f from the year 1553. and there is a book _\lford petty sessional division, uni<Jn and county court eonta.ining the parish accounts from t64o. The living district of Louth, rural deanery of Calceworth No. 1 is a rectory, net income £363. with 47l acres of glebe­ and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The church and residence, in the gift of Robert Charles de Gre'\" of St. Margaret, rebuilt in :r8:r2, is a modern structure Vyner esq. and held since 1907 by the Rev. Charle"s of brick, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, Noel Swayne M.A. of Keble College, Oxford. Ther~ is aisles, 11onth porch and a western belfry with turret a Wesleyan Methodist chapel here, erected in 1875· In containing one bell: there are mural monuments to H}OB half an acre of land was given by Robert Charles Grantham Hodgson esq. of Louth, his two wives and de Grey Vyner esq. for the churchyard and consecrated several children, and to Lister Fitzwilliam e~q. who in by the Bishop of Lincoln. The Rev. William Jones 1693 presented to the church a communion service rector here from 17o6 to :1725, bequeathed £sa to he Pll!!raved with his 1ums: there is also a memorial to expended in the purchase of land, the income tQ be Elin, wife of the Rev. F. A. Gl9ver M.}t., LL.B. applied for ever to the education of the poor of Witherrr, .