[LINCOLN.] SPANBY. 284 [POST OFFICE Walker James, beer retailer, Thomazin lane West Mary Jane (Miss), toy dealer, New road Wallis R. & Sons, locksmiths, bell hangers & gun makers, \Vhite Charle", coach & carriage builder, Bourn road Pinchbeck street White James H. coach builder, Sheep market \Vallis John, cow keeper & clothes dealer, Bourn road \Vhite .John, baker, 2 Crescent Walpole Joseph, Pied Bull, Bourn road \Vhite John, dairyman, West! ode street Ward Charles (1\Irs.), milliner &c. Bourn road White Robert Arnold (Mrs.), boarding & day school for Ward George, shopkeeper, Bourn road young ladies, Albion street Warner Elizabeth ( l\Irs. ), straw bonnet cleaner, Chapel lane White Waiter, coach builder, Pinchbeck ;.treet Warnes \Yilliam Smith, boot & shoe JIIaker, Crescent \Vhitwell Waiter, beer retailer, Commercial road \Varrell Stephen, tailor, Crescent g-ardens Wilcox John, market gardener & fruiterer, Albion strPet ·water Works (Messrs. Banner & Calthrop, clerks), Wilkinson Williarn Cradock, F.R.c.s. surgeon, Church st Pinchbeck road Wil!mott John, hair dresser, perfumer & fancy repository, Watkiuson Henry, bookseller, stationer, printer, hook­ Market place binder, patent medicine vendor, news agent, pianoforte & Wilson Benjamin, shopkeeper & coal mer. Commercial road mu!lic warehouse, dealer in paperhangings, & proprietor Wilson Charles, greengrocer, New road & publisher of the ' , Boston & Spalding Free Wilson John, farmerJ Church lane Press,' Hall street. See advertisement \-Yoodhouse William Creasy, baker, Double street Watson Frances (1\frs.), Hole-in-the-Wall, AbbeyYard W oodrow Alfred, tailor & woollen draper, Bridge street passage Woolley & Andrew, builders, joiners & cabim~t ma. High st Watsun John, pawnbroker, clothier & pianoforte dealer, Wool!Py Morton, saddler & harness maker, Church street Broad street Woolley Samuel, builder, Double street Webster George, farmer, Spalding marsh Worby Louisa (Miss), dress maker, road W ebster Roger, lodging house. Pinchbeck street Worby William, wheelwright, Holbeach road Webster Thomas, farmer, Spalding fen, Pinchbeck west Wright James, plumber, glazier & painter, Albert street \V eldon R. H. manager of Stamford, Spalding & Boston Wright Lucy (Miss), shopkeeper, Little Bank, Market place Wright Thoma8, farmer, Spalding common Wellband Thomas, shopkeeper, London road Yarrad Michael, farmer, Pinchbeck road Wellhank Edward, market gardener, London road Yorke Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Double street Wellby George, farmer, Spalding fen Yorke Thomas, beer retailer & shopkeeper, Double street West John, tobacconist & hair dresser, Sheep market Young Men's Christian Association (William Chambers, White Sarah Ann & Mary Hcarson (Misses), boarding & housekeeper), Chapel lane day school for young ladies, Crescent Young John, shopkeeper, Commercial road

SPAN BY is a parish and small village, distant 3~ miles of St. John's College, Oxford, wl10 resides at Swaton. W. north-east from Falkingham, in the Southern division Cragg, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. of the county, parts of Kesteven, wapentake, Slea- The soil is chiefiy clay; subsoil, chietly clay. The chief ford union and county court district, rural deanery of crops are wheat, barley, and oatS". The area is 1,019 acres, Aveland, archdeaconry and . The church and the population in 1861 was 75. of St. N icholas is a small building, with 1 bell. The register Par-ish Clerk, Speed Lunn. dates from the year 1681. The Jiving is a rectory, annexed -- to the vicarage of Swaton, gross annual value £80, in the Letters through Falkingham, which is the nearest money gift of 1\1 rs. Ram, and held by the Rev. Henry Kna pp, M .A., order office COMMER~I.AL Bellamy William, land agent & sur- Dodsworth John, farmer llellamy Dawson, farmer, & assessor & veyor; office, Castlegate, Hosman Thomas, farmer collector of taxes Bull George, farmer Mitchelson William, farmer

SPILSBY is a small but thriving market town, railway Toynton All Saints, Toynton St. Peter, Ulceby, Wainfleet station, and polling place for the Northern division of the All Saints, Wainfleet St. Mary, Well, Welton-in-the county, head of a union, and county court distriP.t, in tl1e ·Marsh, \V illoughby, and Winthorpe. The P.Ounty court parts of Lindsey, East division of Bolingbroke soke, rural district also comprises the above places; the court is hdd deanery of Bolingbroke, archdeaconry and diocese of Lin- monthly. The Union Workhouse was erected in 18:38: it is coin, distant 17 miles north from Boston, 10 east-south-east a large brick building, situated in the parish of Hundleby, from , 16 south-by-east from Louth, 8 south- and will accommodate 280 persons: the board of guardians west from Alford, 9 north-west from Wainfleet, and 126 meet every alternate Thursday. The Gas ·works in A~hby­ from London. A new line of railway, called the lane were erected in 1854. The church of St. James is a and }o'irsby hranP.h of the Rast Lincolnshire Railway venerable building, in the Perpendicular st)!e of architec­ Company, was opened in 1868. The town is pleasantly turc, and has been thoroughly repaired; it consists of a large situated on an acclivity overlookin!; a vast tract of marsh embattled tower containing 6 bells, a nave, north and south and fen land, extendiHg southward to the Boston Deeps: aisles separated by pier8 and pointed arches, nnd a chancel, it is well built, and consist:~ chiefly of two streets and the on the north side of which is a chap~l containin~ several Market-place, which is intersected in the centre by a row ancitnt monum~nts: on the tombs are some finely sculp­ of houses: at one end is the Town Hall and Corn Market; tured figures of the Willoughby De Eresby family; some of at the other end an ancient market cross, a plain octa~onal these monuments are supposed to have he en removed from shaft, with a flight of steps at the hasement. A Court the old chapel at Eresby Hall, the seat of this family. The House and House of Correction were erected in 1824, at a register dates from the year 1562. The living is a vicarJge, cost of nearly £30,000 : the site occupies about two acres of annual value £100, in the gift of Lord Willoughby lJe land, encompassed hy a brick wall, except the front, which Eresby, and held by the Rev. William Vlako Turner, M.A., is adorned by a handsome portico, supported by Doric of :Magdalen College, Cambridge. A Free Grammar school pillars. Petty sessions are held here every .Monday. General was founded here at the time of the dissolution of the reli­ quarter sessions for the Southern division of the parts of gious houses, but 110 building appears to have belonged to Lindsey are held alternately here and at Louth, viz., it till 1611, when Lord Willoughby De Eresby granted n January and July. Spilsby is the centre of a poor law plot of land for the erection of a school : a convenient school­ union, divided into two districts, ,-iz., Spilshy and A!ford, room has been built, and the head master has a house ad­ each of which has a relievin~· officer. Spibby union joining: it was supported for many years by donations and comprises the following places :-Addletlwrpe, Alford, subscriptions, fr,,m which 32 acres of land have been pur­ Anderby, Ashby-by-Partney, Aswardby, Hilsby, Boling- chased, which now let for about £82 yearly: forty-two chil­ hroke, Bratoft, Brinkhill, Hnrgh-in-the-Marsh, Ca!P.ehy, dren are educated from the funds, viz., 30 boys and 12 girls, Canrllesby, Claxby, Crofr, Cumberworth, Dalby, Driby, for whose instruction the master pays £10 a year to the Eastville, :Farlsthorpe, Firs by, Friskney, Gun by ::-it. Peter, mistress of another school ; the D.\'erage number of scholars Hagnaby, Halton Holegate, Hareby, Harriugton, Hogs- is about 50. A National school for boys and girls wasopeneO. thorpe, Hundleby, Huttoft, Ing-oldmells, Irby-in-the- in 18.J9: it was built and is supported by subscription, .Marsh, Keal East, Keal West, Kirkby East, Langton-by- airled by a Government grant: the avP1"8ge number of Spilsby .Markby, .Mavis Enderby, l'didville, .M:umhy-with- attendance is 36 boys and 108 girls. The Wesll'yam, Chapel; N ortholme, Orby, South 01 m~by, Partney Priruiti \ e Methodists, and Independents have chapels here. Raithby, Rigs by, Saustl1tlrpe, Scremby, Skegu~s .. , Sken~ The Spilsby AgTicultural AssocJation meeting-s are ht>ld at dleby, ~pibhy, Steeping Great and Little, Stickford, the Town Hall. 1he market i~ held every Monday, and is Stickney, Sutterby, button-in-the-Marsh, Thorpe St. Peter, v.ell attended, and supplied with fat and lean stock, pigs,