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' girls wM are and have been for at least·thr.ee ·yeaTs in such and heath; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are wheat, schools·: /,40 in maintaining two exhibitions of f;2o each, barley and oats. The area is 4, ISO acres; rateable value, tenable for four years at any place of education htgher than £4.327; the population in I88r was 435· elementary approved by the governors, ta be awarded to girls BooTHS is a hamlet in this parish, two miles north-east. who are and have been for at least three years in the Potter Parish Clerk, George Atkinson. Hanworth elementary schoo~.i the school does not, however, PosT OFFICE, Charles Salter, receiver.-Letters through xeceive the full benefit of this scheme until the pensions now Lincoln, 7.30 a.m. & through 6. p.m.; dis­ payable to the late masters of the Blue Coot school cease to patched to Sleaford 7·30 a.m. &; through Lincoln at 6 be paid-. The poor have yearly distributed to them the p.m. Branston is the nearest money order & telegraph interest of £59.- amounting to 20s. yearly, apd left in IS26 office and at other times by Ri(:hard Newbee, T. Lyon and W. Tyrwhitt. The manorial rights belong to Christ's Hospital, National School, built about I856, for 8o children; average Lincoln. The principal landowners are Lieut.-Col. Mild­ attendance, 6o; & supported by voluntary contributions ; may Willson Willson J.P.of Rauceby HaH, Mr.H.N. Headland J oseph Bacon, master and Mr. William Briggs. The soil is: gravel, fen land CARRIER TO LINCOLN.-Robinson Saxe, mon. wed. & fri Marked thus • receiVe! their letters through Briggs Joseph, farmer Newton Frederick, farmer Bardney, Briggs William, farmer & landowner *Platt Gill, Ship P.H. & ferry owner Battle John Richards Cooke William, shoe maker Bardney ferry Ealand Robert Fawsitt Manor house Duckmanton John, farmel' Reynolds Charles, Grey Horse P.H White Rev ..William Spranger M.A., J.P. Ealand Robert Fawsitt, fal'mcr & land- Salter Charles, miller (wind), grocer, & f rector & prebend .of Brampton in owner, Manor house post office Lincoln cathedral] ,Headland Henry Newton, farmer & Sands Edmund, wheelwright COMMERCIAL. landowner Taylor John, butcher Atkins Henry, blacksmith Holland Geo. Alfred Mackinder, farmr Toob Ellen (Mrs.), Chequers P.ll Atkinson George, carpenter Lov:elee Holmes, tailor Toob William, farmer Battle John Richards, farmer Lovelee William, draper & grocer Wood John, farmer Briggs John, farmer , QUADRING is a parish. in the Southern division of the is devoted to the education of children, the major portion county, parts of Holland, wapentake of Kirton, Spalding being distributed in gifts to the poor of the parish. union and county court district, rural deanery of North Crawford's charity consists of about 40 acres of land, the Holland Xo. I, and archdeaconry and , 4~ whole of which is expended in clothing and educating poor miles north-west from staiion, I02 from , 8 children in Quadring parish. Henry Smith esq. of Horbling north-west from Spalding and 2 south-east from Donington, is lord of the manor of Wykes, and Cowley's trustees of that situated on the road from Spa1ding to Donington. The of Monks Hall. Edward Nathaniel Conant esq. of 14 church of St. Margaret is a fine edifice, in the Decorated Grosvenor gudens, London, is the principal landowner. style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, pO'rch and a bcauti- The soil is clay and silt ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops fully proportioned tower and spire containin~r 4 bells: there are wheat, oats, beans, peas and potatoes ; the grazing are tablets to the memory of Brestovius and Edward Brown land is extremely good. The area is 4,2m acres; rateable esqrs. dated I68o and I739 respectively: in the north aisle is value, [,8,o4o; the population in r88r was 900. a tablet with the figure of an ecclesiastic, his head upon EAUDYKE is a hamlet, one mile and a half east. a pillow and holding a chalice, and inscribed to Richard PosT 0FF1CE.-John Robinson, receiver. Letters through Perckine, a former vicar, I462: the church possesses a small Spalding, arrive at 6.r5 a.m.; dispatched at 7.Io p.m. but exceedingly fine organ:-- in I86I-2 the church was The nearest money order & telegraph offices are at Doning- partially restored, the chancel being rebuilt, a new porch ton & erected and the interior of the chancel refitted; the work ScHOOLS:- was carried ont under the superi1;1tendence of Mr. Charles A School Board of 5 members was formed in I877; Robrrt Kirk, architect. The register of baptisms and burials dates Doubleday, clerk to the board from the year I583 ; marriages, r6Bt. The living is a dis- Board School, built in 1877, at a cost of £450, for 40 charged vicarage, formerly unitsd to that of , but children, with an average attendance of 35; Miss Annie now separated, net yearly value £250, including 8o acres of Maria Huddleston, mistress glebe with residence, built by the Ecclesiastical Commis- Cowley's & Brown's Free School, erected in the first, sioners, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held since quarter of the eighteenth century, will hold 6o scholars ; r879 by the Rev. Forster Ash win B. .A. of Trinity College, it is supported by the endowment, the advantages of which Dublin. There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist and Wes- are extended to 40 free scholars; 20 pay a small sum of leyan chapels. Thomas Cowley esq. in 1718, left an these ; the average attendance is 45 ; Thomas Shiddle, endowment o[ 44 acres of land to this parish, and this was master supplemented at a later period by a gift of 26 acres, by Crawford's, in Village, Mrs. Sophia Kaye, mistress Edward Brown esq.; a small portion only of the joint devises Crawford's at Eaudyke, Miss Eliza Ames, mistress Ashwin Rev. Forster B • .A. [vicar) j Dickenson William, farmer l\iachin Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Fen Cartwright John l Dowse John, landowner, Eaudyke Marshall James, farmer, Fen Casswell Henry Draper William, jun. farmer, Fen Oazman Charles, farmer, Bank East Edward, farmer, Eaudyke Peak Burrell, farmer, Drovd • COMMERCIAL. Falkner Joseph, farmer, Bank Peak William, farmer, Eaudyke Acland Ebenezer, shoe maker Farrow Ellen (Mrs.), farmer, Bank Rhodes George, Red Cow P.H Allen John, farmer Fovargue John, farmer, Fen Robinson Edward, farmer Arch Frederick, farmer Fovargue William, farmer, Bank Robinson John, shopkeeper Ashley George, farmer, Eaudyke Gladrling John, farmer Robinson Joseph, farmer Baxter George, potato merchant, Green Frederick, miller (wind) Rowe James, farmer Church end Harrison Benjamin, farmer Sewards William, farmer, Church end Baxter Joshua, farmer, Eaudyke Harrison Bt'njamin, jun. beer retailer Sewell Daniel, farmer, Eaudyke Betts James, farmer Harrison Elisha, farmer Slater John, farmer, Fen Boyfield Benjamin, wheelwright Herd William Clay, wheelwright Sly William, farmer, Bank Bristow Charles, farmer, Eaudyke • Hubbard Richard, New inn Smith Bryan, farmer, Eaudyke Bristo-vf Edw.ard, farmer, Bank . 1 , Hugh Charles, farmer, Fen Stanley William, New inn, Eandyke Brookes Austin, farmer, Eaudyke Ingamells Benjamin, farmer, Drove Stanley William, farmer, Fen Burrell Charles, farmer Isitt John, farmer Taylor John, market gardener Caswell Henry, farmer Kaye Samuel, farmer Todd John (Mrs.), farmer Cock Robinson, farmer, Kirk Hill farm Kent George, blacksmith, Eaudyke Vinter Porter, farmer Crane Edward, farmer Law~n Richard, farmer Waltham Benj. blacksmith, Eaudyke Creasey Levi, ~armer Lilee.John, farmer Ward William, farmer, Drove Creasey John George, farmer, Drove Ludlow Charles, blacksmith Willcock Robert, jun. farmer Dawson David, farmer Ludlow Charles, market gardener Williamson Thomas, farmer, Eaudyke Dawson John, farmer, Eaudyke. r Machin Alfred, farmer, Fen Woodhead John, Plough P.H QUARR!NGTON is a parish and small village, in the the Decorated style, consisting of pentagonal chancel, with Southern division of the county. parts of Ke!?teven, Asward- apse nave, aisles and a tower with plain parapet and a dis­ hurn wapentake, Sleaford union, petty sessiob.al division and proportionate spire and containing 2 bells : the chancel was county conrt district, l'llral deanery of Aswardhurn with rebuilt in I862, in place of one erected by Bishop Blom­ Lafford No. 2, :wd archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, one field, rector here t8w-zo, and the north aisle some years mile and a quarter south-west froth Sleaford and its canal. previously: the nave has also been restored: the chancel The church of St. Botolph is a- building of Ancaster stone, of windows are filled with stained glass : the reredos and pave-