DIRECTORY.) NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 'MARKHAM .CLlNTON.- 113 EAST MARKHAM is a large, straggling. village and The earliest of the dates in the parish register ·are in parish, close to the great North road, 1 mile north-north- 1561; these records are in good condition, and contain a west from Tuxford station on the main line of the Great memorandum, signed by Nathaniel Kirby, then vicar; Northern railway, 139 miles from London by road and and dated October 30th, 1695, to the effect that King 133 by rail, in the Bassetlaw division of the county, North William III. came from Lincoln through Great Markham Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, Retford on his progress to Welbecke. The living is a vicarage, petty sessional division, union and county court district, with the rectory of West Drayton annexed, joint net rural deanery of Tuxford, archdeaconry of Nottingham yearly value £280, including 147! acres of glebe, with and diocese of Southwell.. The ,church of St. John the I residence, in the gift of the Duke of Newcastle, and held I}aptist is an edifice of stone in the Early English and since 1896 by the Rev. Albert Edmund Briggs Assoc. x.c.L. Perpendicular styles, and consists of chancel, nave of The Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built in 1893, seats about four ~bays with clerestory, aisles, south porch and an 150 persons. Certain lands left in trust by John Atkinson embaltled western tower with -pinnacles, containing a esq. in 1753 now produce a yearly rental of £2~, which is clock and 6 bells, hung in 1637; in 1893 the bells were distributed among t.he poor, and certain other small chari­ re-hung and two new bells were added in 1895: there is ties, amounting in the aggregate to £19 7s. 4d. bequeathed a Jacobean font, with canopy· and an ancient screen: in by various persons for the benefit of the poor, are now in the chancel is a tomb of marble, to Sir John Markham, the hands of the Charity Commissioners. Markham Hall, Puisne Justice of the Common Pleas, July 7th, 1397, who now the residence of Morris Dalton-Holmes esq. is a plain died 31st Dec. 1409 : there is also a fine brass, with inscrip- modern brick mansion, situated near the church, and sur~ tion, in good preservation, to Lady Millicent Mering, wife of rounded by fine plea'lure grounds; it is the property of the William Mering, and previously of .Sir John Markham, trustees of the late Col. John Henry Kirke, who are lords dated 1419, and inscribed stones, to John Kirke, 1710; of the manor. The principal landowners are the Duke of William. Kirke, 1773; . and Edmund Kirke, 1786: the Newca."'tle, the trustees of the late Col. John Henry Kirke stained windows exhibit the armorial bearings of the and Major Markham John Rose. The soil is clay ; sub­ families of Percy, Mering, Longvillers, Cressy and others: soil, gypsum. The chief crops are wheat, barley and there is a·rood turrpt· with stair on the south side, and fruit. The area is 2,753 acres of land and 2 of water; in a ni~he on the south side of the tower, within a cinque- rateable value, £9,300 ; the population in 1901 was 696. foiled canopy, is a standing figure .. in the attitude of Markham Moor is at the west end of the parish, on the prayer, supposed to be of the patron saint: the nave and Great North road, 1! miles from the village and 2! miles chancel roofs have been renewed in oak, on the old lines, west-north-west from Tuxford. the aisles rebuilt and the interior reseated with chairs, Sibthrope Place is a hanilet, 1 mile west. in place of the old seats of 1fl86 : in the south aisle is a Sexton, John Booth. memorial window to Sir John Markham, mentioned above, and to his son, Sir John Markham, Chief Justice of the Post office.-George Clark, sub-postmaster. Letters re­ King's Bench, who died in 1481, erected by some of their ceived from Newark via Tuxford at 7.45 a.m.; dispatched descendants in 1885; there is another, placed in the same at 5 p.m. week days only. Postal Orders are issued year, to Lieut-Col. John Kirke, Royal Sherwood Foresters, and paid here. The nearest money order & telegraph who died in 1826, and to his three sons, John, lieut. 11th office is at Tuxford, 2 miles distant ' Dragoons, d. at Meerut, India, 1825; James, lieut. R.N. d. Wall Letter Boxes: Markham Moor, cleared at 9.5 a.m. & in Jersey, in 1833; and Henry, col. 12th Bengal N.t. d. at 4.10 p.m. and Markham Village cleared at 5 p.m. week Bundelcund, India, in 1858 ; a third window in this aisle ·days only was erected by sub"'cription in 1885, to Eliza (Cartwright), wife of the Rev. John Penrose M.A. of Bracebridge, near An Education Committe for the Schools was formed in Lincoln, and authoress of " Mrs. Markham's Hi'ltory of 1903, under six managers, for the united district of East England," who died January 24th, 1837, and was buried in Markham & A'lkham; Owen William Clark, correspond­ Lincoln Cathedral; she had in early life resided at the Hall ent to the Education Committee with her armt.s: the monuments of the. Williamsons were Public Elementary School (mixed & infant.'i), erected in , restored by the family in 1894 : the church was entirely 1877, for 186 children; · average attendance, 40 boys, restored in 1883-7, at a cost of £2,600, of which sum £1,000 60 girls & 48 infants ; Mrs. Simpkins, infants' mistress was given by the Duke of Newca.stle for the restoration of the chancel, and the ancient screen wa.'l restored by the · Carriers to :- Duke of Newca.'ltle in 1889 at a cost of £50: the porch was Retford-William Bloom, sat. & George Parkin, mon. & sat rebuilt by Mr. and Mrs. Wrench, of Baslow, at a cost of Worksop-George Parkin & George Taylor, wed £120 : there are 250 sittings N ewark George Rose Stockdale, wed PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Chapman George, Queen Inn P.H Manu Fred, shopkpr. Markham Moor Briggs Rev. Albert Edmund A.K.c.L Clark George, builder, joiner, wheel- Moss William, farmer Burt.on Jonathan wright & grocer, Post office Pacey John Thomas, farmer ' .• Cowlishaw Henry Clark Henry Rose, farmer Parker Frank, fruit grower I Credland George Clark Owen William, shopkeeper & Parkin George, carrier & farmer Dalton-Holmes Morris, Markham hall . correspondent to the Education Rose Charles, tailor & newsagent Edlington Edward . Connnittee Scott James, farmer & fruit grower,. Harrison John, Blyth cottage Cowlishaw Henry, jun. fruit grower & Cleveland house Harvev Mrs. Ivy house cle:k to the Parish Council Slack Will~a~ & Geo. farmers, :Manor tnu, Lea John Thomas York housf' Cowlishaw ;Tames, accountant & corn- Stacey William, cottage farmer Mudford Arthur in. Markham Moor ho mission (manures.& seed.:') agent St~and B~~y (Miss), cottage farmer Peet William H . Crawfor.d ,Charles, miller (wmd ~steam) ~tanrulan.d .William, shoe maker Sebright Henry Bowerhayes cottage Cree William, cottage farmer ...,teels William, farmer Woodward wmiam Cave Denman Ro.b~rt, cott~e far~er Stockdale George Rose, farmer & ~er· Fawcett William, spnng knife maker Stockdale Joseph, farmer & thrashing~ COMMERCIAL. Fletcher John, cottage farmer machine owner Bailey John, farmer, Field house Frost John, Old England P.H Stockdale Mary (:1\irs.), cottage farmer Bailey John, farmer Harrison John, boot & shoe maker Talbot George, butcher Barker Mark William, cottage farmer Hawksworth William,. bricklayer Taylor George, cot.tage farmer & carrier & fruit grower Hempsall Cecil, fruit grower Thompson Samuel, farmer & brick & Batty John, Markham Moor inn Hempsall George, Crown P.H tile maker, Breck farm Bloom William, carrier & farmer, Hempsall Isabella (Mrs.), shopkeeper Thompson William, bricklayer, Pond ho Markham Moor Hempsall James, farmer Tonge George, farmer, Cleveland hill Booth George, jun. cottage farmer Hempsall Jane (Mrs.), baker & shopkpr Townrow John Henry, bricklayer Booth Herbert, fruit grower & farmer Hemsley William, farmer Walker Charles T. florist Booth Herbert Edward, grocer Hurst Samuel, sen. fruit grwr. Millfield White George H. butcher & farmer Booth John, farmer ' Hurst Samuel, jun. farmer, College farm White John T. & William, farmers, Booth John, shoe maker Lightfoot Thomas, miller (wind) & Markham Moor Booth John Thomas, Royal Oak,P.H. fruit grower Wilson Theophilus, builder & contractor Sibthorpe hill Littlewood George, farmer, The Green & builders' material dlr. Cleveland view- Booth Nathaniel, bricklayer Littlewood Hannah (Mrs.), frmr. Arrald Wilson Thos. blacksmth. Markham M 'lor Bowman John, fanner Lynn William, cottage farmer Woodward Zachariah, farmer MABKHAM CLINTON (or West Markham) is a 1 cashire, Derbyshire and East Coast railway, 5 south township and parish between the Great North road and 1 from East Retford, in the Bassetlaw division of the county, the river Idle, 2! miles north-west from Tuxford station I South Clay division of Bassetlaw wapentake, Retford on the main line of the Great Northern and on the Lan- petty sessional division, union and county court district NOTTS. 8 .