f MORTON-BY"":l } ··DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. t GAINSBOROUGH. 583 here. .Tames Banks Stanhope esq. who is lord of the Letters from Boston, via Revesby. The nearest money manQr, and Mrs. Rawnsley are the principal landowners. order & telegra?h office is at Mareham-le-Fen • 'l'he soil is heavy loam; subsoil, white clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, seeds and turnips. The area is A school for boys & girls, now under the controf of a com­ 830 acres; rateable value, £799; the population in 1881 mittee, was erected in 1856, for the parishes of Moorby, was 98. Wilksby, Claxby Pluckacre &-Wood Enderby, & holds 70 Ey the Act 44. Vict. c. xvii. the Fen allotment wa.s trans­ children, with an·average attendance of 40, & is supported ferred to the new parish of Wildmore. by voluntary contributions, government grant & the Parish Clerk, William Newham. children's pence ; Miss Harriet Tabraham, mistress Smith Rev. Francis [ recj.orJ Cook John Hall, farmer & landowner Newham Wi!liam, blacksmith Burrows James, farmer Fowler John, farmer, Manor farm Veal John, farm bailiff to Richard Cheeseman John, wheelwright & beer Green William, farmer Harrison esq_ retailer • MORTON, near Bourn, is a parish, township and village, I Several.small charities, amounting in all to about £8, are with a station on the Bourn and Sleaford branch of the distributed yearly to the most deserving poor in bread Great Northern railway, in the Southern division of the and fuel. Excellent water is supplied in abundance county, parts of Kesteven, Aveland hundred, Bourn union from an artesian welL The Marquess of Exeter P.C., D.L., &nd county court district, rural deanery of Aveland No. 2, J.P. who is lord of the manor, Colonel William Parker and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, 2! miles north D.L., J.P. of Hanthorpe, and Lord Aveland P.C., D.L., J'.P. from Bourn and 7 south from Falkingbam: it is near the are the principal landowners. The soil is loam and fen; Roman Car dyke, which divides the Fen from the higher subsoil, in the higher portion rock, in the lower silt. The parts of the parish, and on the road from Bourn to Sleaford. chief crops are wheat, oats, beans and peas. The area is The church of· St. John the Baptist is a fine cruciform 3,390 acres; rateable value, £7,678; the population in :x88r building of stone, in the Early English, Decorated and Per- was 950. pendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south HANTHORPE is a hamlet of Morton, about half a mile transept, western porch and a tower contaming 5 bells and west. Hanthorpe House is a handsome and pleasantly a clock: the columns of the nave arcade are Early Eng- situated mansion, the seat of Colonel William Parker lish, the chancel is Decorated, retaining three sedilia and D.L., J.P. piscina; in the north transept is a credence with mutilated Parish Clerk, William Mitchelson. canopy, and in the south transept an aumbry: the west PosT 0FFICE.-AJfrcd Mowson, postmaster. Letters re- porch, with the window above it, are imposing examples of ceived thro-ggh Bourn, arrive at 6.30 a.m.; dispatched Perpendicular work: the church was restored in 186o, at 6.30 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph :and has thirty-two windows, all stained: the restoration, office is at Bourn. WALL LETTER Box at Hanthorpe, which included the substitution of open roofs for fiat ceil- cleared at 6 p. m. week days only ings, was principally due to the liberality of the late W. School (mixed), for 200 children, with an average atten- Parker esq. of Hanthorpe House. The register dates from dance of I34, & has a small endowment of about £8 the year 1549. The living is a vicarage with Hacconby yearly, left by various persons: it is supported, apart :annexed, joint gross yearly value from 219 acres of glebe from the endowment, by Colonel William Parker D.L., .£430 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and l.P. & the parish; Jesse Stow, master; Mrs. Fanny held since 1862 by the Rev. Waiter Stockdale M.A. of l Stow, mistress "Trinity College, Cambridge. There is a Baptist chapel. Railway Station, William Ruck, station master Morton. Freeman Edward, farmer Scotney Edward, wheelwright .Bell John Leonard Gill Cook Faulkner, fartner Smith Edward, butcher Freeman Miss Gray Thomas farmer Smith William, boot & shoe maker .Stockdale Rev. Waiter M.A. fvicar] Hall William, coal merchant & farmer Swift Carolina (Mrs.), grocer & draper Thurlby John Harwood Thomas, farmer WadsleyWm. carpenter & wheelwright COMMEIWIAL. Hewson William, shoe maker Baker Daniel, blacksmith Hind John, farmer Hanthorpe. Baker Joseph P. farmer Holmes Joseph, shoe maker Parker Col. William B.A., D.L., J'.P. Earron Edward, Lord Nelson P,H Kingston Henry~ brick & tile manuf Hanthorpe house Batterham Thomas C. farmer Mehew William, saddler Batterham George, farmer Baxter William, King's Head P.H Mitchelson William, boot & shoe maker Baley Philip, bailiff to Col. William Bradford Wm. shoeing & general smith Mower Henry, tailor Parker D.L., J.P Bugg James, wheelwright MowsonAlfd.grocer,draper,& post office Bradford John, wheelwright Chapman Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper . Revell William, grocer &c Cox Th6mas, farmer Christian John, butcher Rodgers Anthony, farmer Norman Zachra, farmer Clarke William, Five Bells P.H. butcher Rodgers George, butcher Pask Edward, shoe maker & farmer Rodgers John, farmer ScotneyJohn, farmer Dalton William, corn merchant RuckWilliam, station master Ward Robert, fruiterer Eayrl' Alfred, grocer & provision dealer Sandall John, carpenter & joiner Williamson John & Thomas, millers Ea)TS George, farmer 1 Sandall Thomas, carpenter &c (wind) & bakers MORTON -BY -GAINSBOROUGH is a picturesque chapel. Here is a school endowed by Joshua Tyler, who village, township and ecclesiastical parish, formed in r866 died in 1708, for the education ()f 20 poor children: the from the civil parish of Gainsborough: it is in the Northern endowment now produces £45 yearly, which is- equally division of the county, parts of Lindsey, wapentake of Cor- dirided between the National school and the relief of the poor, ringham, petty sessional division, union and county court according to a recent scheme of the Charity commissioners. district of Gainsborough, rural deanery of Corringham, There are other charities left by the late Samuel Sandars archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln, one rnile and esq. and Mrs. Ann Buddicom, amounting to about £40 a half north-by-west from Gainsborough station and 145~ yearly, for the church schools and poor. MortonHouse is sur­ from London. The village is on the east bank of the Trent, rounded by a lawn, is pleasantly situated, and is the on which the Hull and Gainsborongh steamers pass: there residence of Edward Pearson esq. J'.P. The soil is sand and are wharfs, corn mills and maltings. The church of St. warp; subsoil, sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley, Paul (locally in Gainsborough) is a stone fabric in tile I potatoes, turnips, carrots and pasture. The area of the Decorated style, erected in r846, at a-cost of about £2,000: township is 768A. 2R. 33P.; rateable value, £3,268; the it consists of chancel with vestry, nave, with organ in the population of the parish in :x881 was 917 .. chancel, and a square pinnacled tower containing ~ bell : Sexton) Samuel Duckering. there are three memorial stained windows, two of which PosT OFFICE.-Henry Smithson, receiver. LE)tters through were inserted by the wife of the late vicar, by wlwm the Gainsborough, the nearest money order office: letters Qrgan was given: s~ the incumbency of the present delivered 8 a. m. ; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. ; the telegraph vicar, the chancel has been reseated with choir stalls, the office is at Gainsborough ()Id reading desk removed and a. handsome brass lectern has A school-room was built in 1843 by Mrs. Jane Sandars, to been presented by W. H. Sharp, of Morton. The register which a class-room was added in 1871: & in 1875 a dates from 1846. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly detached house for the master was built: cost of school, value £3oo, in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held £200; both were erected by subscription, & in 1882 an since 188o by the Rev. German Wheatc;roft Danks: a corn- infant school was added at a cost of £3oo: the sch(>Ol will modious vicarage house has been erected opposite the hold 250 children & there is an average attendance of 170; church. Here ar~ ,a .Primitive ¥ethodist and a. Wesleyan Hy.Hibbitt, master~ Miss lsabel Barclay, infants' mistress PRIVATB RESIDENTS. Brown Robert r Gleadell William, Manor house Boo Thomus 'I'all~Utt Danks Rev.GermanWheatcroft [vicar], IHarper John Blyth Miss The Vicarage Kelsey Samuel .