Lincolnshire. South Cockerington
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DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. SOUTH COCKERINGTON. 149 Scoffin Jn.Wm. grcr. 91 Elsenham rd Stringer James,shirt & collar dresser, Walmsley David, market gardener Scrimshaw Fredcrick, boot repairer, 38 Elsenham road Water Works (pumping station) 69 Gilbey road Sutton Rd. plumbr. 22 Elsenham rd (George Wood & George Pettifer, Smith Ja!l. H. joiner,122 Elsenham rd Thompson George Henry, tobaccon- engineers in charge) Stacey Herbert, watch maker, 19 ist, 66 Elsenham road West Mary (Mrs.), teacher of music, EI.senham road Vazey Geo. Hy. confr. 1 Elsenham rd 109 Elsenham road NOBTH COATES is a pleasant village and parish, ex- £280, including 14 acres of glebe, with residence, in the tending to the seashore, 3! miles north-east from the North gift of the Duchy of Lancaster, and held since 1907 by Thoresby station on the East Lincolnshire section of the the Rev. George Smith Tyack B.A. of Hatfield Hall, Great Northern railway, 10 south-east-by-south from Durham. Here is a. Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built Grimsby and n north-north-east from Louth, in the East in 1837, rebuilt in 1864, and holding 150 people. George Lindsey division ot the county, parts of Lindsey, Bradley Henry Ca.ton Haigh esq. of Grainsby House, is lord of the Haverstoe wapentake, Grimsby petty sessional division, manor. Henry Parker esq. Edward Worrall esq. of Lonth union and county court district, rural deanery of Wing House, near Oakham, Rutland, the Earl of Yar Grimsby No. 2, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of I.in- borough P.C. and L. G. Pilkington esq. are the principal coln. The church of St. Nicholas, completely restored in landowners. The soil is variable, the most part being 1865, at a cost of £1,342, is a plain edifice of stone in the blue clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, barley, oats and turnips, and there is very good grazing south porch and an embattled western tower containing a land. The area is 2,339 acres of land, 9 of water and clock and 3 bells: all the windows are stained, the east 1,322 of foreshore; rateable value, £2,820; population wind<Jw having been erected in 1887 by Thomas Parker in 1901, 257. esq. in memory ()f his parents: Mr. Parker, who died Post Office.-Mrs. Elizabeth Houlden, sub-postmistress. I Fe·b. 1899, left a sum of £250 for the repair and Letters (address, North Coates) arrive at 5.40 insurance of the windows to his family, and for the a. m. & 7-30 p.m. to callers only; dispatched at 7.25 erection of a memorial to Joseph Os borne, "who in p.m.; no delivery on sunday. Marshchapel, 2 miles peril of death chose the safety of his friend before his distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office own, and was drown!'d 24 Jan. r867 :" Miss Plumptre als<J presented a stained window as a memorial to her THORESBY BRIDGE, on the Louth navigation-, is a father, the Rev. R. B. Plumptre, rector here (r8r8-6g); !'!mall hamlet in thiR parish, a mile south-west. there is also one to John Portass, fur 6o years parish Public Elementary School (mixed), established Oct. 8, clerk. There are 152 sitting-g. The register dates from 1866, for 6o children; average attendance, 47; Miss. the year 166o. The living is a rectory, net yearly value Gertrude E. Spencer, mistress Campion Barkworth, The Grange Haxby George, grazier Portass George, hay & straw dealer· Tyack George Smith B..A.. (rector), Haxby Samuel Henry, farmer Riley Merina (Mrs.), Fleece inn Rectory Hewson .A.nthony, farmer & overseer, Robinson John, farmer COMMERCIAL. Thoresby Bridge Sanderson William, farmer Barr George, tailor Holden .r oseph, farmer Shaw John T. farmer Bellamey Thomas, hay & straw dealer Houlden Elizh. (Mrs.), grocr.Post off Stones Charles, wheelwright & black- Brooks Mary (Mrs.), farmer Jacklin David, hay & straw dealer smith Burgess George, farmer Jacklin John Henry, farmer Stubbs Foster, well borer Ca.mpion Charles William, farmer, Jacklin Joseph, hay & straw dealer Sylvester Thomas, farmer The Grange Medcalf Robert, farmer Todd Thomas, farmer Cox Rhoda (Mrs.), dress maker Morvinson George, farmer Wadland Harriet .A.. (Mrs.), farmer,. Evison Fred, farmer l'ortass Charles, farmer Thoresby Bridge NORTH COCKERINGTON (or Cockerington St. belonging to these parishes and endowed it with • Mary) is a parish and village, 2 miles north-north-west yearly-rent-charge of £20; but these have since been from Grimuldby station on the Louth and East Coast reduced to four; at the inclosure, about 8 acres or branch of the Great Northern railway, and 4 north-east land were allotted for the repairs of the two churches. from Louth, in the East Lindscy division of the county, Simon Conyers Scrope esq. of Danby Hall, Be~.ale. parts of Lindsey, Wold division of the hundred of Louth Yurks, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. Eske, Louth petty sessional division, union and county The soil is loamy and clayey and the subsoil clay. court district, rural deanery of Louth Eske and Lud- The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and beans. borough No. 2, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of The r.rea is 1,749 acr~s; rateable value, £1,716; popu Lincoln. The river Ludd and the Louth navigation lation in rgoi, 202. pass near the western boundary of the parish. The Post Office.-Samuel Capp, sub-postmaster. Lettera church went to decay seveTal centuries ago, and no through Louth arrive at 6.so a.m. ; dispatched at 5. 30 traces of it now remain: the inhabitants use the priory p.m. week days only; no sunday delivery. Eastgate, chapel of St. Mary, in the adjoining parish of Alving- Louth, 4 miles distant, is the nearest money order ham. The register dates fNJm the year 1646. The office & Grimoldby, :3 miles distant, is the nearest living is a vicarage, consolidated with that of Alving- telegraph office ham, joint net yearly value £22o, including 138 acres of glebe, with reRidence, in the gift of the Bishop of Public Elementary School (mixed), for this & the Lincoln, and held since 1879 by the Rev. Benjamin parishes of Alvingham & South Cockerington, erected Cnrtis Th.Assoc.K.C.L. Here are Primitive and Wes- in 1840, for 100 children; average attendance, 92; leyan Meth{)dist chapels. In 1670 Sir J arvis Scrope William Paulson, master founded an almshouse of six tenements fDr poor persons Carrier to Louth.-George Smith, every wed. & sat Curtis Rev. Benjamin Th.Assoc.K.C.L. Brown Charles, shopkeeper Simon.s Arthur, farm bailiff to F. Vicarage Brown George E. cottage farmer Wilkinson esq Capp Samuel, wheelwright, Post office Smith Frederick, cottage farmer COMMERCIAL. Corden George, farmer Smith George, carrier A.dlard Christopher, farmer Dows IsaacTomlinson,frmr. TheCedars Smithson John Padley, farmer A.ppleby Frederick, farmer Fox William M. farmer Smithson William, farmer Blades Arthur, farmer Grundy Charles, blacksmith Spring William, farmer Blades Charles, farmer Hands Samuel & Peter, cottage frmrs Staines Charles, farmer Bocock Frank P. farmer & overseer Hoodlas Fred, cottage farmer Windley John F. beer retailer SOUTH COCKERINGTON (or Cockerington St. : fnl alabaster tomb with semi-recumbent st<me effigy in Leonard) is a parish and village, about I mile north of I armDur of Sir Adrian Scrape kt. ob. Dec. 10, 1623; Grimoldby station on the Louth and East Coast branch of near the tomb is a tablet bearing his arms with sup the Great Northern railway, and 4 east-by-north from porters and an inscription, and the figures of his seven Louth, in the East Lindsey division of the county, parts sons and two daughters in bas relief: in the chancel is of Lindsey, Wold division of Louth Eske hundred, Louth a priest's door, now closed, and a piscina, and in the petty seasional division, union and county court district, . north wall of the nave is a stoup: the church was re rural deanery of Louth Eske and Ludborough No. 2, j' stored and a north porch added in 1873, at a cost of archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of L~ncoln. Monk's about £750, and now seats r2o persons. The register Dyke flows through and supplies the moats in this dates from the year I593· The living is a vicarage, net Yillage. The church of St. Leonard is an ancient build- yearly value £I2o, including I29 -acres of glebe, with ing of atone, of the Late Perpendicular peri<>d, con- residence, in the gift of the BishQp of Linr-..oln, and held aiBting of chancel, nave, north porch and a western since rBg8 by the Rev. .A.rthur Ronald Handyside, of iower containing 3 bells: the interior contains a beauti- I Clare College, Cambridge. The vicarage honse was .