DIREr.TORY.] . METHERINGIIAM. 449 Middleton Wm. carpenter & wheelwt Sleight John, Horn inn; accommoda­ Thomas William, farmer, Mell's farm Millson Amos, builder tion for commercials & cyclists ; Todd Harry, potato mer. & farmer Milbon Thomas, grocer good stabling; potato & carrot mer­ Turner Henry Pask, boot & shoe maker Naylor Ann (Miss), dress maker chant Wakefield Lucy (Mrs.), farmer Nelson John (Mrs.) sen, frmr.Common Spilman Jas. miller (steam & water) W akefield Richard, farmer Nelson William, farmer Stocks Alfred, seed merchant Walker William, joiner & wheelwright Nicholson Stephen, grocer Stocks Henry, tailor & woollen draper Watson Richard, coal dealer Parkin Thomas & Son, plnmben Stocks Stephen (.Mrs.), pork butcher Whatham George, marine store dealer Poppewell Richard, beer retailer Stothard John, farmer Wray Richard, watch maker Readhead Thomas, coal dealer Taylor Joseph, boot & shoe maker Wright Spencer, carrier Scarborough James, farmer Temperance Hall (Aaron William Bristow, sec. ; Edward Lane, treas)

METHERINGHAM is a parish and large impronng J public and parochial purposes. Thiree-qua.rters of an village, with a station called and acre of Iand, left by one Colley, and called " Colley's ou the Great Northern and Great Eastern joint railway Dole," now produces f) yearly, whiCh sum is given to from Spalding to , and is 10 miles north from poor widows. The furl of Londesborough, who is lard , and 9 south-east from Lincoln by rail, in the of the manor, J. H. and .A. 'W. Dean esqrs. and the division of the county, parts of Kesteven, trustees of Sleaford Hospital, called "Carre's Trustees," second division of the wapentake of Langoe, Lincoln who are the impropriators of the Rectory land, are the (South) petty sessional division, Lincoln union and principal landowners. The upper part of the parish iB county court district, rural deanery of Longoboby, and light land, inclosed from the Linoom Heath; the lower archdeaconry and . The church of St. part is reclaimed fen, and is very productive; the centre Wilfrid is a large building of stone in the Norman and of the parish is a heavy loam. The chief crops are Gothic styles of the 13th and r6th centuries, consisting wheat, barley, oats, turnips and potatoes. The area is of chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, south porch, and 5,884 .aores of land and 15 ·of water; rateable value, an embattled western tower, chiefly of Norman date, £7,754; the population in 19or, 1,517· with four pinnacles and containing 5 bells: there are Tanvats is a ,hamlet, 5 miles east, at which is a school, mural tab:ets to Sir Thomas Skipwith bart. serjeant-at­ licensed for church service, and a Wesieyan chapel,. law, ob. June, 1694, and Elizabeth Lathom his wife. ob. ereocted in 18 87. r674, and Sir Thomas Skipwith hart. their son, ob. 1710; Deputy Parish Clerk, Jesse Dawson. all of whom were buried at Upminster, Essex; the Post, M. 0. & T. 0 .• T. M. 0., E. D .• P. P., S. B. & A.~ tablet was erected by Sir George Bridges Skipwith, I. Office.-Robert Joseph Swinton, sub-postmasteT. last hart. died in June, 1756; the other tablet, erected Lettars are Teoceived: through Lincoln at 6.50 a.rn. &. by Mrs. Isabella Pitt, is to Mrs. Lucy Skipwith, I Sleaford 5·45 p.m. ; dispatched: at 6. 45 a.m. to Slea­ daughter of Sir Thomas Skipwith, died 1763 : the old fll'rd, 5.40 & 7.20 p.m. to Lin£oln church was burnt down in 1599 and restored in r5o3, when the clerestm-y and battlements of the nave and Public Elementary Schools. tower were added and new piers furnished to the arcades Village {mixed & infants), erected in 1'840 a.s a reading of the nave: the nave was restored in 1858-9 and the :room & a.fterwMds purchased by the Rt. Hon. H. chtll"Ch resea.ted in r867; in r87o the north aisle wa~ Cha.plin P.C., M.P. & pll'esented to the vicar & church- rebuilt, and druring 1'895-6 a sum of £soo was spent wardens, who 111re sole trustees; it was enlarged in upon a. new organ chamber and chancel; the total cost r883, B>t a. cost of £rso, & will hold 200 children; of all these 'restorations amounting to [1,553: there a.re average attendance, go; Joseph Eean, master; Miss sittings far 450 pe