DffiECfORY.] . .. 71 . I wheat, barley, oak and p<>tatoel. Tbe area iit 2,140 nearest money order & tclegraph office, 3 miles distan~ acres; ratea!Xe valuet £:01,440; ths population in J89L nearest money order k telegraph offica . "W1UU .. 13. National School (mi-,.:edh built i~ x871 by R. H. Hussey PosT 0FI"IC11.-John Key, sub-postmaster. Letters esq. and enlarged in 1893 at a cost of over £3oo; arrive from Yi!i Ramsey at 7-45 a.m. &. average attendance, 79; Miss !bell, mistress 3.50 p.m.; dispatched at '8.20 a.m. & 4.30 p.m. Postal C.\.RRIER.~Wm. Henry S~nclair, cart, to Huntingdon~ qrders are issued here, but not paid. .Ha.msey is the· sat. ; to St. Ives, mon. returning same da.ys <:ooksey Rev. John Franci1 K.A.. Fordham Lewis, grocer JMurphin Corneliu;;, wheelwrighl li Vicarage tiaunt .John. beer reliailer · carpenter Evison John l.P. hon•e Iug:e Albert Henry, black~mith Purser William, farmer, Bury fe:'l Kay Peter, Cross Key1 l'.H. & wheelwt Sincla.ir G~orge, farmer . COKKKRCU.L. Key John, draper, Post office Sinclair William Henry, carrier .Qhapman .!m()s, farm bailiff to J. KeY Wllliam, fanner & miller (wind), Taylor J ame&, farmer (small) EviBon esq. l.P Carlton house Thomp:.;on William & Sons, engineen. Collett William, frmr. Townsend farm Kidman Reginald Job, farmer & steam ploughing, cultivating A5 1 Cross George, farmer · county councillor thre11hing engine' proprietora &c. Darwood Ad a (Mn. ), beer retailer King J,ames, shopkeeper Providence place Evison John, chemical manure IDanu• Kin~ Thomas, farmer Thompson G~orge, engineer factunr & farmeT Langley John, fanner, Bury -fen WARBOYS, or WARBOIS (formerly spelt WA.RDEBOIS), Ramiiey, the Duke of Manchester, and John Longland esq. is a village and parish on the London road, with a station .1 large portion of the soil i1t fenny; the high land dis­ about rl miles north-east of the village on the Ramsey tricts are a stiff clay; aub:i!oil, clay. ~The chief crop• ara­ and branch of the Great Eastern railway, potatuw, 111·heat, barley, oot<~, bean.s &c. The area ia 3~ mile~ south-east from Ramsey station on the Holme 8,429 acres of land and 6 -of water : rateable value-, 11nd Ramsey branch of the Great Northern railway, £8,g]o; the population in J89l was 1,661. 1 north-east from Huntingdon and Bo from London, Sexton, Seymonr Hatcher. in the ~orthern division of the county, Hurstingstone PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0.~ E:xprsss Delivery, Parcel bnndred, Ramsey petty sc~sional division, union of bt. Post,· S. D. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Jo1eph Ives, mnnt.y court district of Northampton, rural deanery - Gabbitas, sub-postmaster. Letters aiTive by mail ca.rl of St. Ives, archdeaconry of Hun1:ingdon and diocese · from Huntingdon, delivered at 7 a.m. & a second de·. of Ely. The church of St. Mary Magdalen~ is a hand- livery at 6.15 p.m.;, dispatched at 5.30 a. m. & 6.15, ilome anrl spaciouS edifice of stone in the Early. English p.m. ; sundays, delivered at 7 1,\.Jll.; dispatched !lt 6.15, iltyle, ~:msi-;;ting of chancel and nave and a tower with p.m i!pire, containing a clock and 5 bells: the chancel was PUBLIC OFFICERS:~ re~tored abo.ut 183~ and is separated from the nave by a Inland Revenue Officer, Joseph "'aru Allison Norman arch: the tower is a beautiful specimen of Medical Officer & Public. V!!.Ccinawr, Warboy11 J)istrict,1 modern Early English: the east window, and another in St. IvBS Union, Edwin Middlebrooke L,S.A. the chanct>l, placed in 18g6, are .stained, and there are Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Wa.rboya 11n.b-J monuments by Bacon to John Leman esq. and Mrs. district, St. Ives Union, Ebenezer Wa.tson; deputy, J. Strode: the church affords 640 s.ittings. The registeu \Voolstinholmea cf bapti•m~ date from 1551; marriage;;, 1565, and burials, ScnooLs :- 1556. The living is a rectory, yearly value £360, in- A School Board of 5 members ws!l formed 13th Jnly. cluding 957 acres of glebe, with Tesidence, in the gift of z88o; Henry Copley, Market hill, St. Ives, clerk to and held since 18g6 by the Rev. "\Yilliam Henry Bromley- the board; Ebenezer "\Vatson, attendance officer Way B • .l.. of Exeter College, Oxford. The school building Board (mixed '• built in xBog by public subscription mthe Fen district has attached to it a cJnsecrated burial ·for 300 children; average attendance, 200; William ground. Divine service is held in the school-room every Alderson, master; M:iss Theresa Dawson, infants' mist. Sunday. There is a Baptist chapel in the vjllag!!. In 1887 Endowed (mixed), built with house for the mistress, in a memorial clock tower was erected bv the parishioners at t852, at the cost of the Rev. W. Finch, late rector, for a COtlt of £200. The Rev. Robert Fowler, by will dated 400 children; average attendance, 20, & supported in August 3, 1824> left £2oo, the interest thereof to be dis- part by an endowment of £t,ooo given by the founder; posed of yearly amongst such of the poor of the parish Miss Acta· Stephenson, mistress - as should regularly attend church; the interest is dis- Railway Station, George Ivett Marritt, station_ma$ter tributed in meat on St. Thomas' day. The church CAlnnRRS TO:- 1 estate formerly produced about £4o yearly, but is now HuNTI!'