DIRECTORY I J . . 869 Rndd Rev. John B.A. frector] Lowery Mark, farmer Smith James, farmer Atkinson William, market gardener Motley George, farmer SmithJesse,shopkeeper &land measurer, Black bournJohn, blacksmith& machinist Robinson Betsey (Mrs.), farmer & registrar of births, marriages & & shoeing smith Robinson Edward, farmer deaths for the Tetney sub-district Hay Richard, farmer Rowe Edward, wheelwright Snowden Violet, butcher Kent Thomas William, farmer COWBIT is a small village and parish, with a station on j it. The Wash, on the west side of the village, extends 20 the Spalding and March railway, in the southern division of miles from north to south, and is nearly a mile broad: it is the County, Elloe wapentake, parts of Holland, Spalding formed by winter floods from the navigable river Welland, union and county court district, rural deanery of South which flows through it ; it is, in some years, as much a.!l Holland No. I, and archdea.conry and , 3 eight montM under water. Charles Foster Bonner esq.is lord miles south from Spalding and 96 from , on the of the manor. The principal landowners are the Rev. J. T. east side of the Deeping Fen. The church of St. Mary, a Dove M.A. Mrs.Brady,Mrs.Laming and Messrs. D.Dalton and building of stone and brick, rebuilt in 1486, by Prior de Benjamin Atkin. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The chief Maulton of Spalding, is in the Perpendicular style, and crops are wheat, <>ats, beans, roots, potatoes and pa.!!turage. consists of chancel and nave and a square tower contain- The parish contains 4.S90 acres of land, including its fen ing 3 bells: the tower, which is its best feature, has a allotments, and the hamlet of PEAKHILL, one mile farther vaulted roof to the ground storey, and a good doorway: south: rateable value, £3,137; the population of the parish the church has lately been restored. The register dates in 188I was 637. from the year I7oo. The living is a vicarage, yearly Sexton, William Braybrook. value £62s, arising from 300 acres, with residence, PosT OFFICE.-Jonathan Cooling, receiver. Letters through in the gift of feoffees, and held since 1862 by t.he Rev. John Spalding arrive at 7· IS a. m.; dispatched at s. SS p. m. which Thomas Dove M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. Here is is the nearest money order & telegraph office a small Wesleyan chapel, erected about 1842, rebuilt 1861. Endowed School, endowed with lands left by various per- The charities for distribution amount to £40 yearly, which sons, & producing £8o yearly, this income being sum is distributed in cash to the village poor upon St. applied to the support of the schools regulated under a Thomas' day. In the garden of a house, upon the road to scheme by the Court of Chancery. The school holds I30 Peak hill, is a very ancient stone named after St. Guthlac ; scholars, & has an average attendance of So ; · Charle9 it marks the boundary of the possessions of Abbey Mark Hutton, master as is stated by the monkish Latin hexameter inscribed upon Railway Station, Albert Voisey, station master Dove Rev. John Thos. H.A., l.P. [vicar] 'Dalton Daniel, farmer, Peakhill Pearson Thomas, farmer Parker Mrs Davis David, farmer Reynolds John Smith, farmer COMMERCIAL. Elsom Henry, Blue Boar P.H Ridlington & Son, coal merchants, Atkin Benjamin, farmer Elwes Benjamin, jun. farmer Railway station Atkin Tom, farmer Gadsby Henry, farmer, Deeping fen Ridlington Thomas, farmer Baines Thomas, wind miller & baker Hall Thomas, farmer Rosling Charles, farmer Batterham William, farmer Harrison Stephen, Black Lion P.H Scotney John, boot & shoe maker Beeken William, shoe maker Hogg Robert, blacksmith Sketcher Charles, farmer Blay George, New Inn, Deeping fen Jackson Joseph, farmer Smith Robert, farmer, Deeping fen Blow Frederick, farmer King Samuel Heartson, potato dealer Stainsby William, farmer Boyfield Thomas Richard, Dun Cow P.H Lynn James, farmer Suley George, Bell Inn, Peakhill Brady Charles, farmer Mackman Robert, tailor Tyrrell Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Campain Joseph, farmer Maddison Charles, farmer Tyrrell William, farmer Clarke St. Thomas, farmer, Deeping fen Ormond John, farmer Vickers Thomas Henry, farmer Cooling Jonathan, shopkpr. & post office Pacey Phillip, farmer Warrenner Abraham, Bull inn & wheel• Cordley Charles, beer retailer Peake John, butcher wright Crampton James, farmer l Pearson John, farmer CRANWELL is a parish in the Southern division of the tion to the poor, and the parish receives £2o yearly, which county,, wapentake of Flaxwell, parts of , the governors of Thorold's charity may apply in aid of any union, county court district and petty sessional division, schools in Cranwell, conducted as a public elementary rural deanery of Ashwardhurn-with-Lafford No. I, arch- school; this has been done for the last five years, for deaconry and diocese of Lincoln, 4 miles north-west from educating poor children; and £15 a year for apprenticing Sleaford, near the high road to Lincoln. The church of St. poor boys, under the will of Lady Margaret Thorold. Here Andrew is a small but ancient structure, in the Norman and 1 is a spring issuing from the cleft of a rock. Sir John Early English styles, cousisti_ng of chancel, nave, north Thorold hart. D.L., J. P. is lord of the manor, and owns all aisle, south porch ahd a small western turret containing I the land, except one farm and the glebe belonging to St. bell: the font is Early English, having an octangular bowl, 1 John's College, Cambridge. The soil is part light and sandy stem and base': there are stttings in church for about 110 : and part clay ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are the silver chalice dates from the time of Elizabeth and the wheat, barley, ollts and turnips. The area is 2,522 acres; silver paten is dated 1710. The register dates from the year rateable value, £2,302, the population in 1881 was 2o6. 1,56o. The living is a disc;harged vicarage, yearly value Parish Clerk, Thomas Lord. £soo with residence, in the gift of trustees and held since Letters received from Sleaford at IO a. m. & are dispatched 1870, by the Rev. John Thorold M.A. late scholar and at 4 p.m. The nearest money order k telegraph office exhibitioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and surro- is at Sleaford gate for the diocese of Lincoln. Sir W. and Dame A. National School (mixed); capacity, 4S; average attendance, Thorold, in the year I6B2, left £8 2s. yearly for distribu- 25 ; Miss A. Mercer, mistress, schoolhouse Sardeson Misses, The Cottage Banks William, wheelwright Smith Edward, shoe maker & shop Thorold Rev. John M.A. [vicar & surro- Bristow Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper keeper, & sub-postmaster gate], Vicarage Greensmith William, cowkeeper Thurlby John, farmer, Cranwelllodge Banks Alex. B. farmer, Cranwell hall Sardeson Ann (Mrs.), farmer CREETON with . CREETON is a small village, township, and parish, pleasantly parishioners : in the north wall, then rebuilt, the pillars and situated on the river Glen, in the Southern division of the arcade of a formerly existing aisle were discovered, the county, wapentake, parts of Kesteven, Bourn union materials of which had been used in the construction of the and county court district, Beltisloe rural deanery, and arch­ wall, the surface of which, when cleared of whitewash, dis­ deaconry and diocese of Lincoln, about 2 miles north closed traces of painting, consisting of grotesque figures: in from ~ittle Bytham station, 10 north from Stamford and the transept is a low side window : the font is large, but about S west from Bourn. The church of St. Peter, stand­ plain, in the churchyard are about 20 ancient coffin-shaped ing on an eminence, is a small and plain building of stone, tombstones bearing sculptured crosses of different designs, in the late Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting and supposed to indicate the graves of monkl'l of the Cistercian of chancel, nave, south transept and a western tower with Abbey of De Vaudey in the adjoining village of : octagonal broach spire containing 2 bells : the transept there are also here portions of the shaft of a Norman cross, appears to have been originally a chantry chapel, and retains elaborately carved on all four sides, and a stone of Runic a piscina. : the west window is stained : the tower is of three character, both of which had been built into the walls of stages, with a two-light window in each face of the belfry, the church. The register dates from the year I692. and immediately above these, at the base of the spire, as The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £16I, in­ many dormers: near the apex is a sin&le tier of loune cluding 32 acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of lights : the church was newly-roofed, repewed and the Lord Chancellor, and held since 188o by the Rev. thoroughly restored, at a cost of £400, by the rector, Lindsey Neville Knox M.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford. assisted hy contributions from the proprietors and Many of the fields surrounding the village contain remains r... x. :?4