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352 LEGSBY. LINCOLNSHIRE. (KELLY'8 oats and turnips. The -area is 2,920 acres; rateable Letter!! for Legsby through Lincoln, arrive about 9 value, £1,946; the population in 1901, 262. a.m. & for Collow by Lincoln, via Wragby. Wall Let BLEA SBY is a hamle~ t mile west ; there is a barrow ter Box, near the church, cleared at 5 p.m. week days near it. There are Methodist and United Methodist only. The nearest money mder & telegraph office is cha.pels. at Hainton, about 3! miles distant Wall Letter Box cleared at 5·45 p.m. week days only COLLOW (or Old Collar) ill a hamlet, consisting of two Public Elemenrt.6ry School (mixed), to hold 6o childiJ'ell; average attendance, 36; Mrs. Leigh-Carte, mistress farms, ~~ miles south-west. Se~on, Alfred Brown. Carriers pass through on tues. to & from Market B.aeen Barker Rev. Edward Waller (vicar) East Charles, CDttage farmer Neave Waiter .A., farmer, Bleasby Ellis Alfred, farmer. Liutle London Pickering Henry, farmer & overseer COMMERCIAL_ Faulkner Thomas, hawker, Bleasby Bands Thomas, cottage farmer !.dams John, farmer, Callow grange Fidlin Thomas Christophei'. farmer & &billS()n Charles, farmer Adams Luther, farmer, Legsby house woodman to R. N. Sutton-Nelthorpe Bobinson Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Blakey Henry, farmel' esq Bleasby Blanchard Charles, shopkeeper Giboons Henry, farmer, Little London Bowson Thomas Frederick, farmer, Brown Alfred, shoe maker & sexron HarriS<Jn Alfred, farmer Bleasby & nurseryman & florist at Burwell John Edward, farmer, Bleasby Kirk Wm. Simon, cottage farmer, West Torrington Chapman Fredk. Hy. farmer, Bleasby Bleasby Smith Joseph, cowkeeper Cook Thomas, farmer Lusby Geo. cottage farmer, Bleasby Whitaker Qharle~t Walt. wheelwright Cundill Alfred, blacksmith Marsh all George, cottager, Bleas by LENTON (or- Lavington) is a parish, township and taught .free : it was endowed in 172r by Mrs. Mary village, 4 miles west from Folkingham, 6 north-east Parnham, whose -remains are interred in the church from Corby station on the main line of the Great yard, but has now been merged in the Ingoldsby aohool Northern railway and 9! S<Juth-east from Grantham, in district. 'Vhe Earl of Ancaster P.C. who is lord of th~ the South Kesteven division o.f the oounty, wapentake manor!! of Lettltm and Osgodby, and the Earl of Dysart, of Beltisloe, Bourne petty sessional division,. parts of who is lord of the manors of Ha.nby and Keisby, a.re the Kesteven, Grantham union and county CDurt district, principal landowners. The populati{)n of Lenton town rural deanery of BeltislDe and archdeaconry and diocese ship in rgo1 wa.s r4r, and of the parish, 257. The area of Lincoln. The church of St. Peter is an ancient build (}f Lenton and Hanby is 1,879 acres; rateable -value. ing of stone, consisting of chancel. nave, S<Juth aisle, £!,368. south porch anQ. a western tower with broach spire con taining 3 bells; the tower was restored in 1897, in com HA.NBY is a hamlet, half a :r;nile north. memoration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her late Majesty KEISBY is a township, 1 mile south-east, with a Queen Victoria: in r879 the church was restored, re pcpulation in xgor of 6g; area, 1,272 acres; rateable roofed and reseated, and the aisles and chancel repaved, value, £574· under the superintendence of Mr. James Fowler, archi tect, of Louth, at a cost of £r,7oo, of which the Earl OSGODBY is a township, ri miles south. Osgodby of Ancaster, then Lord Aveland, gave £7oo and the Earl Hall, an ancient structure in the Elizabethan style, thl'l of DysRrt £3oo: on the north side [}f the chancel is a i property of the Earl of Ancaster, is now occupied as h;rge and handsome tomb to Sir William Armyne hart. faTir.houses. The area is 1,013 acres; rateable value, of Osgodby, ob. r65r, and Mary (Talbot), his second £667; the population in 19or was 49· wife: the silver communion plate is ancient, and was The children of this parish attend the school at the gift of the Armyne family: the east window is a Ingoldsby. memorial to the Rev. Thomas Heathcote M . .A.. vicar The sum of about £II is payable in order to ha here r835-83: in 1895 a reredos was placed in the chan applied to the education of poor children. cel: there are 200 sittings. The register dates from Parish Clerk, William H. Collin. the year 1576. The living is a vicarage, with Hanby, Lenton & Hanby letters are received through Grantltam. Keisby and Ol!godby annexed, net yearly value £4oo, Ingoldsby is the nearest money mder office. Osgodb:y with 10 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the letters through Grantham. Keisby letters through Earl of Ancaster, and held since 1904 by the Rev. Bourne. The nearest telegraph office is at Ropsley George Bass Vessey M.A. of L'niversity College, Oxford. Wall Letter Box, Lenton, cleared at 4 p.m. week days Here was formerly a free school for boys and girls, at onlv• which five poor children of the parish of Lenton were Carrier. Jn. Wm. Wilkinson, to Grantham, tues. & sa.i LENTON. Pick Austin, farmer .u KEISBY. Vessey Rev: George Bas.s M.A. (vicar), W~k~sQn Benjamin, farmer Bell Joseph WatS<Jn, Keisby hons& Vicarage Wilkmson John William, carrier Bell Gerald, farmer COMMERCIAL. Cook William & Arthur,. farmers • Budkin James, farmer Brnmpton Agnes (Mrs.), shopkeeper HANBY. Brnmpton John William, blacksmith Hoyes Hy. Wm. farmer, Hanby lodge OSGODBY. Collin Alfred, carpenter Pick Austin, farmer Bloodworth Edward, farmer- Collin Wm. H.carpenter & parish elk Pollard George, farmer Greenbury William, farmer Grayson William Bobinson, farmer Budkin James, farmer Hubbard Thomas, farmer LEVERTON is a parish, extending to the Wash, and windows of which is cut the name of Henry Peecham and on the road from Boston to Wainfleet, 3! miles south- the date 1597, said tD refer to the author of "The Com. east from Sibsey station on the East Lincolnshire section pleat Gentleman," who died about 1640: the communion of the Great Northern railway and 6 north-east from Dos- plate includes a chalice dated 1569, with the Leverton ton, in th~ Holland division of the cmmty, wapentake of re bus, a lever and a tun: there is also a marble slab to the Skirbeck, petty sessional division of Kirton and Skirbeck, memory of the Dymoke family: the church wn parts of Holland, Boston union and county court district, thoroughly restored and reseated in IBQ2, at a cost ot rural deanery of North Holland No. 2, and archdeaconry £2,754, from designs by Mr. Jam·es Fowler, architect, of and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Helen is a Louth, when the brick clerestory, erected in 1728, wu building of stone in the Late Decorated and Perpen- removed and a new one substituted: there are 36o dicular styles, consisting m chancel, with south chapel sittings. The register dates from the year 156!l. The Ol' sacristy, clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles and a living is a rectory, net yearly value £400, arising from Perpendicular western tower with plain parapet and 246 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the containing 4 bells: the first bell is inscribed, "Thomas Lord Chancellor and A. N. J. Booth esq. alternately, Norris mads me, and the rest of my fellows as you and held since 1907 by the Rev. Bbbert Pickman Nor may see, 1637 :" the font is octagonal and is raised wood, of Turrell's Hall, Oxford. Here is a W esleyall' on a pediment of three steps' two statue niches and chapel, built in x858, and t.here is another at Outga~ a piscina -at the east end of the south aisle indicate erected in 1866. The charities are of about £rs~. its former nse as a. chantry, and on the opposite side annual value. George Fydell Bowley esq. of :Morcott was formerly a corresponding chapel: the entrance to Hall, Uppingham, Butland, who is lmd of the manor, the rood Ioft still exists, and the remains of a fine <Jld Lord Algernon Malcolm Arthur Percy, of Guysc1iff~ screen of carved oak span the chancel arch: the chan- Warwick; Charles Bowser esq. of Holbeach Marsh; the eel retains three Decorated sedilia, and at the back Rev. J. Mason Austen M.A. of Edinburgh Mansions, of the easternmost is a square ha.gioscope opening intD 14 Howick place, London S W; Thomas Bidlington, ol the adjoining chape~ and on the sill of one of the Bos\on; Canon Thomas Scott M ..A .. motor .of Lavenbam,. .