160 NORTH COTES. LINCOLNSHIRE. (KELLY'S South Grimsby. archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lin~ Durham. Here is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built coln. The church of St. Nicholas, completely restored in in 1837, rebuilt in r864, and holding 150 people. George 1865, at a cost of £1,342, is a plain edifice of stone in the Henry Caton Haigh esq. of Grainsby House, is lord of the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, manor. George Wilkinson esq. Edward Worrall esq. of south porch and an embattled western tower containing a Wing House, near Oakham, Rutland, the Earl of YaP­ clock and 3 bells: all the windows are stained, the east borough P.C. and L. G. Pilkington esq. are the principal window having been erected in 1887 by Thomas Parker landowners. The soil is variable, the most part being esq. in memory <>f his parents: Mr. Parker, who died blue clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat. I Feb. 1899, )eft a sum of £250 for the repair and barley, oats and turnips, and there is very good grazing insurance of the windows to his .family, and for the land. The area is 2,339 acres of land, 9 of water and erection of a memorial to J·oseph Osborne, "who in 1,322 of foreshore; rateable value, £2,876; population peril of death chose the safety of his friend before his m• 19II, 233· own, and was drowned 24 Jan. 1867 :" Miss Plumptre Post Office.-Mrs. Elizabeth Houlden, sub-postmistress. also presented a stained window as a memorial to her father, the Rev. B. B. Plumptre, rector here (r8r8-69); Letters (address, North Cotes) arrive at 5.40 there is also one to John Portass, for 6o years parish a.m. & 7.30 p.m. to callers only; dispatched at 7.25 clerk: the organ, erected in 1912 at a cost of about p.m. ; no delivery on sunday. ~Iarshcbapel, 1! miles £180, is a memorial to the Rev. T. B. Matthews B.A. distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office curate in charge I859-69, and rector 1869-19°7: there THORESBY BRIDGE, on the Louth navigation, is a are 152 sittings. The register dates from the year I66o. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £320, small hamlet in this parish, a mile south-west. including 14 acres of glebe, with residence, in the Public Elementary School (mixed), established Oct. 8, gift of the Duchy of Lancaster, and held since 1907 by 1866, for 6o children; average attendance, 40; Miss the Rev. George Smith Tyack B.A. of Hatfield Hall, Clarice Boddy, head mistress Campion Barkworth, The Grange Cox Rhoda (Mrs.), dress maker Riley Merina (Mrs.), Fleece inn Tyack Rev. George Smith B.A. Evison Fred, farmer Sanderson William, farmer (rector), Rectory Hewson Antho~y, farmer & overseer, Stones Brothers, wheelwrights & Wilkinson George, The Elms Thoresby Br1dge blacksmiths Houlden Elizh. (Mrs.), grocr.Post off Stubbs Foster, well borer COMMERCIAL. Jacklin David, hay & straw dealer Sylvester Thomas, farmer Barr George, tailor Jacklin John Henry, farmer Todd Thomas, farmer Bellamey Thomas, bay & straw dealer Jacklin Joseph, hay & straw dealer Wadland Harriet A. (Mrs.), farmer, Brooks Mary (Mrs.), farmer Medcalf Robert, farmer Thoresby Bridge Campion Charles William, farmer, Morvinson George, farmer Wilkinson George, farmer, The Elms The Grange Portass George, hay & straw dealer POVENHAM ST. BARTHOLOMEW is a village St. Bees, who is also rector of Covenbam St. Mary. and parish adjoining that of Covenham St. Mary, 3! miles Here are chapels for Wesleyan, Primitive and United south-east from Ludborough station on the East Lincoln- Methodists. The Primitive Methodist chapel was built shire section of the Great Northern railway and 6 north- in 1853. At the inclosure 26 acres were allotted as by-east from Louth, in the East Lindsey division of the church land, the rent of which is applied in one county, wapentake of Ludborough, parts of Lindsey, moiety to the trustees of the ecclesiastical charity, and Louth petty sessional division, union and county court in another moiety to the eleemosynary charity, being district, rural deanery of Ludborougb, archdeaconry so awarded by the Charity Commissioners in April, of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The Louth Naviga- 1897. Richard Dawson esq. and Mr. William Sharp tion forms the eastern boundary· of the parish. The are the principal landowners. The soil is clay; sub­ church of St. Bartbolomew, originally cruciform, is a soil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and small edifice of stone and chalk, of the Early English oats. The area is 1,309 acres; rateable value, £1,418; period, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south population in 1911, r88 in the civil parish and 271 in transept and a tower containing 3 bells: the stained the ecclesiastical parish (which includes Covenbam St. east window was presented by John Glover Willows Mary and part of Grainthorpe civil parishes). esq. of Rushton, Kettering, Northants: the octagonal Parish Clerk, William Henry Hurton. font is curiously sculptured with figures of the Virgin and Child, St. J oseph, the Twelve Apostles and Post Office.-Miss Mary Ann Spence, sub-postmistress. various svmbols: in the chancel is an ancient monu- Letters arrive from Louth at 8.45 a.m. & are dis- mental siab, with effigy in brass of Sir John Skipwith patched at 4·55 p.m. ; no sun day delivery. Fulstow, knt. ob. July 15, 1415: five windows were inserted in 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & tele- 1854-5: in 1863 the church was repaired and reseated graph office under the direction of Messrs. Rogers and Marsden, Pillar Box, at Norriss Corner, cleared at 4·50 p.m,. architects : there are 150 sittings. The register dates week days only from the year 1566. The living is a rectory, net This parish participates in the benefits of the Diocesan yearly value £16o, including 6o acres of glebe, with schools established in the adjoining parish of Cloven- residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and ham St. Mary held since 1886 by the Rev. Waiter Bruce Allnutt, of Carrier to Louth. John Metcalf, wed. & sat Allnutt Rev. Waiter Bruce, Rectory Haith &; Sons, faxmers Spence John, grocer & blacksmith, Dawson Richard, Manor house Hewson Edmund S. wheelwright Post affice Hill Robert, cottage farmer Spikin John, cottage farmer COMMERCIAL. Kirk Elisba, farmer Waiters Frank, farmer Blakey Charles, shopkeeper MPtcalf John, carrier Webster Albert, butcher Dawson Frank S. farmer, Manor ho ~orris & Son, faxmers Wilkinson & Berry, farmers Farmery Frederick, Plough inn Ricbardson Thomas, farmer Wilson William, farmer COVENHAM ST. MARY is 8 parish and pleasant another t<>mb inscribed to Miss Mary Courth<>pe Rudd, village, 3l miles south-east from Ludborough station on who died March 31, 1883; the churchyard was plan·ted the East Lincolnshire section of the Great Northern with evergreens in 1865: there are 140 sittings. The railway and 6 north-north-east from Louth, in the East register dates from the year 1597. The living is a Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, Lud- discharged rectOO'y, net yoorly value £100, including borough wapentake, Louth petty sessional division, union about 21 acres of glebe, with residence. enlarged in and county court district. rural deanery of Lud- x884, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, consolidated borough, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. with Covenham St. Bartholomew adjoining, by Order The Louth Navigation runs through the parish. The in Council in 1902, and held since 1904 by t.he Rev. church of St. Mary is an edifice of stone, in the Walter Bruce Allnutt, af St. Bees, W'ho is also reotor Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south of and residea a.t Oovenham St. Bartholomew. The porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 belli: benefice has been endowed with £2oo Royal Bounty, at bhe east end is a l'Ia.mboyant window, now blocked up, of which £us was expended in redeeming the glebe with fiowing tracery of elegant character: there is a fine from land tax. At the inclosure 17 acres of land were Iychnoscope, also built up, and in the north wall of the allotted for the church, and bv an order of the Charity chancel is a sepulchral recess: the octagonal fopt, 8 fine Commissioners in 1868, the church lands so allotted specimen of the Perpendicular period, is ornamented with were sold, and the proceeds arising therefrom invested 11hields, five of which bear emblems of the Crucifixion, ia the name of the official trustees of charitable funds in and the other thrae have crosses: the churchyard is well trust for the said charity : the present trustees under kt>pt, and contains a tomb to John England Rudd, who thiS' scheme consist of the Tector of Covenham St. dittd in Jit':\: at the east end of t.he churchyard :is Mary;. the rector's --churchwarden for the time being; .