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don by rail; the Counter Drain station on the Doume Pauncefart-Duncombe bal'li. Sir William Lorenro Parker and Spalding branch is 3! miles north-west from the vH­ bart. of Bl&ekb:rook HoW!e, Fareham, Hantl; the Rev. lage, and near . in this , which is in Canon John Gylby Lonsdale M.A. of The Close, Lich­ the Holland division of the county, parts of , field, and Edward Montague Earle Welby esq. of Norton Ness and Elloe wapentake, Elloe petty sessional division, House, Norton, ·Sheffield. The !!oil is loamy; sub8oil, Spalding union, Bourne county court district, rural clay and silt. The chief crops are rape, seed, whea-t, deanery of West Elloe, and archdeaconry and diocese of barley, oats, pe11.s and beans. The population in 1901 Linco;n. The church of St. Nicholas, erected in 1845, was 1,:a55 ; the area. is 14,g6:a acres of land and 71 of from designs by the late Mr. Kirk, of , is a build­ water, parts being nearly the whole of , ing of stone in a modern style of Florid Gothic, and con­ which is dmined by two powerful engines of Bo and 6o sists of chancel, nave, north a.isle and a northern tower, hor.se power, and is now in a high state of cultliva.tion ; with an octagonal spire relieved by bold dormers and rn·tea.ble value, part·s of Holland, £14,346; parts of crocketed pinnacles and containing one bell : the spire has Kesteven, £7,294; total, £21,64o. been re-pointed and a new lightning conductor fixed at Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. i; A. a cost of £IOo : the base of the tower forms a north & I. Office, Deepin·g St. Nicholas.-Mn. Ma.ry Riggall, porch, £nd there are 300 l!ittingls: the church wae built sub-pos·tmistress. Letters received through Spalding and enflowed from funds bequeathed by William and at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.4o p.m. ; no sunday mail. Nichol:H Clarke Stevenson: extensive alterations were Letters fOT Tongue End & adjacent farms Bl"e received made in xBgi, at a cost of £140, when a new organ was from viA Spalding, & for Stow Gate & :N:r. erected 'lt a cost of £250, subscribed by the parishioners. Whitfield's through . There is a tele­ The register dates from the year 1846. The living is a graph office at Littleworth railway station (G. N. R.) vicarag", net yearly value £188, with residence, in the for di"patch, but no delivery. Wall Lettel" Box, near gift of trustees, and held since 1889 by the Rev. William Bell P.H. cleared 4.20 p.m Matthew Benl!on, of Queen's College, Birmingham. During the year 1899 a new church Sund~y school wa·s Public Elementary Schools:- built at a cost of £130. M'iss!on services are held Middle Township (mixed), built in 1876, fol" 135 chil­ during the summeT months at Tongue End and in the dren; average a·ttendance, 110; William Joseph Green, Public Elementary ~hool. Here is a Primitive Metho­ master; Mis~ Emily Hudstln, infante' mi.S'tress dist chapel, erected in 1867, the site for which was given Tongue End (North Township) (mixed), built in 1876, by the la.te Mr. James Haynes, of Wee.t Deeping Fen; for So children; average attendance. so; John Thomas there is a1so a General chapel at Tongue End. T·he Harwood, masteT principal landowners are Earl Carrington P.C., G.C.M.G., Railway Stations:- the Earl of Lind!'ley, the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, Littleworth, George Chambers, mation master the Marquess of Clanrical'de, Sir Everard Philip Digby Counter Drain, Lionel G. Dennis, station mastel"

DEEPING ST. NICHOLAS. Green William Joseph, registrar of Waltham Joseph, fatmer Benson Rev. Wm. Matthew, Vicarage births & deaths for Deeping St. Ward Jaseph, farmer Nicholas sub-district Watts Robert, farmer COMMERCIAL. Griffin William, farmer Watts Robert Knowles, farmer Atkinson Wm. frmr.Deeping High bnk Holland Jn.Wells,farmr.The Shrubbery Whitfield George, farmer Banks Willi.am, farmer & QTS.Zier Holland Thomu Plowright, farmer, & Wigginton John, Oatsheaf P.H Batterham William, Bell P.H district agent. fOT the Home Brewery, Bishop William H. wheelwright Daybrook, The Limes TONGUE EJ..~. Brittarin John Henry, fll.lmer Jackson George, beer retailer [Letters should be Addressed "Pode Hole '1 Campain :Mary & Suo;annah (:Misses), Keeble Brothers, farmers, instead of Deeping Bt. Nicholas.] farmers Lowe John, farmer, Deepin.g Hig-h bnk Campain Samuel William, jun. farmer Mettam John & Joseph, farmers COMMERCIAl•• Claytoa Robert, farmer · Neal Archer, farmer Andrew Charles, fanner Chapprll Edward, farm bailiff to Neal Peter, farmer Andrew Edward Fa.rrer, butcher J oseph George Calthrop esq Pa.tman Robert. farm bailiff to Rioba:rd Byworth William, farmer Cook Frank, farmer Harrison esq Clifton Henry, farmer Creasor Waiter, farmer, Uffing'l:on fen Perkins Edward, Plough P.H Cook Frank Herbert, fanner Creasc:v Wm. frmr. Wensor Castle frm Pick Thomas, farmer Frier Samuel, farmer 'Criok 'IIbos.La:s:ton,Harrow inn,&btchr Pick Thomas Arthur, farmer Gray Thomas Sneath, farmer Drakard MiCiha.el,farm banliff to Saanuel 1 Porter Frederick, farmer Patchett John, Chequers P.H Kingst.on. esq Preston Albert James, farmer Pennington & Eggleton, farmers 1)uffy George, fa.rm ba.iliff w William, Scarcliffe Tom, blacksmit-h Raby James, shopkeeper Colt{)n esq ISharpe Frederick,farm bmliff to Riohd. Salmon Samuel, farmer Eady Jrtmes, farmer Eastland esq Shillaker Harry, fall"ID.er 'i<:ld:ret Charles, farmer Smith & Co. carpenters & wheel- 'Sly Allan, farmer ~llis & Everard Lim. , lime, reke. wrights Turner John, farmer &c. mers.Railway sta.tn. ; katStamfrd Smith Rd. farmer, Deeping High bnk Turner William, miller (wind), & bakr Freir George, farmer Spratt Geo. farm bailiff toW. Creaser Ward Ed-;vard H. farmer1 Fen •Goooa:e John, f=er & la.ndowner, esq. Uffi.ngt.on fen (postal address, Market Deeping) Deeping High ba.nk Sta·insby Oha.rle8 Fred, beer reta.ile:r Wilkimon Thomas, farmer

WEST DEEPING (or Deeping West) is a parish and ancient stone screen divides the nave and chancel; the •t:ompact and well-built village, on the banks of tbe Wel­ latter has been elaborately decorated in colour by Mr. >and, which is here crossed by a bridge of one arch, and Townsend, aud has a gilt &nd coloured reredos, enriched ,a little south of the Stamford road, I mile east from with mosaics : the west window and all the chancel win­ 'ra!Iington station on the main line of the Great Northern dows are stained : there are 240 sittings. The registeJo Jailway, 2 miles south-west from Market Deeping and dates from the year 1657. The living is a rectory, net; . about 5 east from Stamford, in the Kesteven division of yearly value £32.3., arising from 200 acres of glebe, with .the county, parts of Kesteven, Ness wapentake, :Bourne residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held petty sessional division, Stamford union and county court since 1899 by the Rev. John Carpenter M.A. of SidneJ district, rural deanery of Ness and archdeaconry and Sussex College, Cambridge. A Cemetery of a quarte11 · tliocese of I.incoln. The church of St. Andrew is an of an acre was formed in 1883, at a cost of about £300, ancient edifice of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicu­ and is now under the control of the Parish Council. "ar styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch The charities amount to about £3o a year, left in house and a western tower with crocketed spire and pinnacles property and land, and divided between the school and ·containing 5 bells: in the chancel are sedilia and a piscina, the poor. The manorial rights have been sold; for and the remains of two low side windows : at the east end particulars, see Market Deeping. Myhill Boughton of the south aisle is another piscina, and near it a Addy esq. and Manasseh Joseph Tryon esq. are the hag-ioscope : the octagonal font is a finely executed work, principal landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil, gravel. with panelled sides, exhibiting the arms of the Wake The chief crops are cereals. The area is :r,282 acres of and other families: in 1876 the chancel was restored, at land and 14 of water; rateable value, £:.a,:a31 ; the the cost of the rector, and the nave, tower and spire were population in 1901 was 318 in the civil and 310 in the · substantially repaired, the whole at a cost of £2, Boo, ecclesiastical parish. . .nn:ler the direction of Mr. W. Butterfield, architect: an Deputy Parish Clerk, Thomas Enson. LINCS. 11