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13!!0 SOUTH SCARLE. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. (KELLY'S & Meering; John Edward Holmes, North Collingham, is 1879 at a cost of £8oo, for roo children; average attend- clerk to the board & attendance officer ance, 42 ; William White, master Board School, Besthorpe (mixed); new buildings, situated in the centre of the village, were erected by the Board in CARRUJR TO NEWARK.-George Holmes, wed South Scarle. Saunders AlbertWm.farmer,Post Office Merriman John, grocer Taylor Hy. shopkeeper & parish clerk Peat Henry, Lord Nelson l'.U. & farmer ChildRev. BernardSylvesterB.A.[ curateJ Piggott Richard, young gentlemen's Colton Mr~. Scarle hall Besthorpe. boarding school, The Villa Ditchett Rev. Ily. .Arthur, Vicarage Redgate John Radley Joseph, farmer Allen Da vis, farmer Roe Thomas, farmer Cook John, farmer C011Il1ERCIAL. Roe William, farmer East William, carpenter Belton John, farmer Staveley Henry, brick maker Holmes William, farmer Clements Benjamin, farmer Taylor Henry, grocer Pate William, farmer & landowner Hunt John, butcher "\Vakefield Henry, farmer Sanders Joseph William, farmer Leverton Geo. shoe maker, Post office Wakefield Thomas, farmer SCARRINGTON is a pleasant village, township and Standish B.A. of Queens' College, Cambridge. Here is a parish, It miles north-west from Aslockton station on the small chapel for Wesleyans. A charity of 10s. for the poor Nottingham and Grantham line of the Great Northern rail was left by Mary Armstrong in 1714, ss. to be paid on the way, 3 north-east from Bingham, IJ east-by-north from feast of St. Michael and All Angels and ss. on the feast of Nottingham and 10 south-west from Newark, in the Newark the Virgin Mary. Samuel Richardson csq. of Oxton, is lord division of the county, Bingham wapentake, petty sessional of the manor. The principal landowners are Henry Vincent division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Flower, John Marsh, Robert Vincflnt Fisher, Dan Ebenezer Bingham, archdeaconry of Nottingham and diocese of So nth Whyman and Samuel Richardson esqrs. The soil is strong well. The church of St. John of lleverley is a stone building, clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, south and turnips. The area of the parish is 910 acres ; rateable porch and a western tower with spire containing 3 bells, value, £x,g64; the population in the township in 1881 was one of which is dated 1633 : the east window is a memorial zo8, and of the parish 612. to Thomas Vincent Ludlow (1846), and there is a similar Parish Clerk, John Worley. memorial on the north side of the church to Mrs. Ludlow (r829): thet·e are 200 sittings. The earliest date& of the Letters from Nottingham, through Aslockton, arrive at 8 parish reJister are-burials, IS6q; baptisms, IS?O; and a. m. LETTER Box cleared at 5.30 p. m. The nearest marriages, 1572. The living i~ a vicarage, with the chapelry money order & telegraph office is at Bmgham of Aslockton annexed, net yearly value £298, including 36 National School (mixed), for the parishes of Scarrington & acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Aslockton, built in r867 & holding about 8o children; Chapter of Linwln, and held since r885 by the Rev. J"ohn average attendance, 57; Henry Singleton, master Fisher Robert Vincent, Scarrington ho Bricrley Gcorge, wheelwright & joiner Newton Alfred, blacksmith Flower Henry Vin.cent Harvey William, p1g dealer j Richardson Samuel, farmer Marsh John Holmes John, fanner "\Velbourne W alter, farmer Marsh Mrs. Lucy, The Cottage Lndlow Robert Vincent, farmer Welbourne William, farmer Standish Rev. John B.A. Vicarage Marsh John, farmer I Whyman Dan Ebenezer, farmer Blagg A. C. (Mrs.), farmer SCREVETON is a village and parish near the Roman I the west end to Admiral Sutton (r817): the chancel was Fossway, 4 miles north-west from Aslockton station on the restored in r881 and the nave in 1884, at a total cost of Nottingham and Grantham line of the Great Northern rail- £r.3oo, a vestry being added: there are 140 sittings. The way, 120 from London, 4 north-north-east from Bingham, date of the earliest register is 165o. The living is a rectory, 13 north-east from Nottingham, in the Newark division of net yearly value £r75, derived from 104 acres of glebe, in the county, wapentake, petty sessional division, union Rnd the gift of Mrs. T. Dickinson Hall, of Whatton Manor, and connty court district of Bingham, rural deaneny of Bing- held since r88o by the Rev. William Edward Bury M.A. of ham, archdeaconry of Nottingham and diocese of Southwell. Oriel College, Oxford: the rectory house adjoins the church The church of St. Wilfrid, which stands a short distance and was built in r888. Dr. Robert Thoroton, the Notting south of the village, is a stone building, consisting {)f hamshire historian, was born here. Earl Manvers and chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western Thomas Blackborue Thoroton-Hildyard esq. M.A., D.L., J.P. tower of Norman date, with small pinnacles and containing of Flintham Hall, are lords of the manor and principal land· 3 bells, one of which was given by Richard Hall and is dated owners. The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, clay. The chief 1639: under the tower are the royal arms, with the initials crops are wheat, barley, beans, peas and roots. The area C. R. and the date 1684: the church contains a fine altar of the parish is I,rso acres; rateable value, £r,76o; the tomb of alabaster to Mr. Richard Whalley, ob. 1583, with population in 1881 was 179. his effigy, life size, in armour; at the back of and around Parish Clerk, Pharaoh Shephard. the tomb is a raised screen, also of alabaster, divided into • LETTER Box in the village, cleared at 3.50 p.m. in winter & four compartments; in the first or easternmost is a figure 4.50 in summer daily, except sundays. Letters through of his first wife, with five children; in the next his second Bingham, which is the nearest telegraph office, arrive at wife, with thirteen children; and in the third his third wife, 8.30 a. m. The nearest money order office is at Flintham with seven children; the fourth compartment is filled with A Church Day School (mixed), was opened in 1890; 32 rhyming verses : there is also a mural monument to Mar- children on roll ; average attendance, 28 ; Miss Hilda gareta Peniston Whalley ( r675), as well as to others, mem- Collins, mistress bers of this family; one to Mary, daughter of Sir Richard CARRIERs.-William Thurman to Nottingham, wed. & sat.; Levett, knight, merchant of London (1753), and a tablet at Daniel Bates to Newark wed Bury Rev. Wm.Edwd.M,A..'fhe Rectory Hallam Joseph, farmer Tomlinson Thomas, farmer & butcher Baines Samuel, farmer, New field Harvey John, Hildyard's Arms P.H Thurman William, farmer & carrier Foster Henry, farmer Moody John, farmer Wood Gervase, Royal Oak P.H Gibson Henry, shopkeeper SCROOBY is a parish and village on the Great North expense: there are 200 sittings. The register dates from road, with a station on the main line of the Great Northern the year 1695. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of railway, r46 miles from London, 8 north-by-west from Ret- Sutton-cum-Lound, joint gross yearly value £189, includ ford and I! miles south from Bawtry, in the Bassetlaw ing 139 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of the Duke division of the county, llassetlaw wapentake, Hatfield di,·i- of Portland, and held since 1869 by the Rev. John Fanner sion, Southwellliberty, East Retford petty sessional division, M. A. of University College, Durham, who resides at Sutton union and county court district of Retford, rural deanery cum-Lound. The Wesle~·an Methodists have a place of of Retford, archdeaconry of Nottingham and diocese of worship. Near to the village is the Manor House, which Southwell. The rivers Idle and Ryton bound the parish on was formerly a palace, and a seat of Cardinal Wolsey, the north-east and west sides. The church of St. Wilfred is when Archbishop of York; it is now a farm house; several an ancient embattled building of stone, in the Early English old carved oak beams are still remaining in the house. Tbe and Decorated styles, with a tower, surmounted by four Archbishop of York is lord of the manor. 'fhe principal p;unacles and a lofty octagonal spire and containing 3 bells, landowners are Vi~count Galway and Lord Houghton. The dated 1695: in the year r8r7 the spire w:~.s struck by light- soil is sand; subsoil, gravel. Thearea is t,520 acres; rate ning and received consderable darr:aga, and in 183r was able value, £s,Sr6; the population in 1881 was 196. again struck, but not so much injured : the church was Parish Clerk, Joseph Lee. restored in 1862 by public subscription; Miss Gurly, j PosT O.FFICE.-David Shillito, receiver. Letters received formerly a resident in Bawtry, gaye the pulpit at her own through Bawtry arrive at 7.30 a.rn. ; di--patched at 6.30 .