DIRECTORY.] . • 53 • in memory of the Rev. C. Fiennes Webber, fonnerly sub­ the builder of Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, Lord Treasurer dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, by his widow : during the to Henry VI. hereditary constable of Nottingham Castle, year 1873 the whole interior was thoroughly restored, at a and warden of Sherwood Forest, who died in 1455. The cost of £866, when the old arcade of the chancel aisle was Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manor and principal land­ discovered and the aisle partly rebuilt on its ancient found­ owner. The soil is sandy loam; subsoil, principally gravel. ation : there are 150 sittings. The earliest dates of the The crops are cereals and roots. The area is 1,388 acres register, which is in good condition, are for baptisms, of land and 3.'5 of water ; rateable value, £4,405 ; the 1650; marriages, 1654 ; and burials, 1653. The living population in 1901 was 111. is a rectory, net yearly value £180, arising from 250 acres Post Office.-Sam Richmond, sub-postmaster. Letters of glebe land, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of arrive at Newark at 6.45 a.m. & are dispatched at 6.45 Newcastle, and held since 1872 by the Rev. Henry Fiennes­ p.m. Postal Orders are issued & paid here. The nearest Clinton M.A. of University College, Durham. Cromwell money order & telegraph office is at Sutton-on-Trent, manor formerly belonged to the Earls of Clare, and from 3 miles distant it the illustrious family of Cromwell, who formerly had a This parish is included in the North Muskham School dwelling here, on the site of the present rectory, derived district ; large commodious schools were erected a.t their name, the last of whom was Ralph, 4th baron Cromwell Muskham in 1880

Clinton Rev. Henry Fiennes- M.A. (rec- Cromwell Co-operative Agricultural So- Payling John, fanner tor), Rectory ciety Lim. (E. Deverall, sec) Richmond Sam, farmer, Post office Gilbert J ames, farmer Scrimshaw Jn.fanner&assistant overseer COJO(ERCIAL. Hawdin John William, farmer Seward Charles, farmer Bradley Thomas, farmer, Manor farm Mellors Robert & Henry, farmers Thorlby Henry William, fanner Burton John Henry, blacksmith Naylor George Brownlow, farmer Wellsman George, cattle dealer • is a village and parish, 4 miles of Queens' College, Cambridge, who is also vicar of Ow­ south-south-west from Bingham station and 4 south from thorpe. The Wesleyans have a place of worship here. Radclifie-on-Trent station, both on the Nottingham and Here are limeworks and brickfields. William Fillingham, Grantham branch ·of the Great Northern railway and 9 of Cropwell Butler, in 1779 left £1 10s. to be distributed <~outh-east from Nottingham, in the Newark division of the in bread by the churchwardens and overseers of this t!ounty, southern division of the wapentake of Bingham, parish on the 1st day of January in each year. The union, petty sessional division and county court district of principal landowners are John Wade esq. lord of the manor Bingham, rural deanery of Bingham, archdeaconry of and lay impropriator, Joshua Mann, Lieut.-Col. Hervey Nottingham and diocese of Southwell. The Nottingham Juckes Lloyd Bruce, of Clifton Hall, and Messrs. F. A. and Grantham canal passes through the parish at the west Smith, William Marsland Chorlton and Robert Smith end of the village, where there is a wharf. The church of Richards. The soil is stiff clay ; sub-soil, clay and lime­ St. Giles is a stone building consisting of chancel, nave, stone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and peas. aisles, south porch and a noble embattled western tower, The area of the parish is 1,638 acres of land and 9 of water ; 60 feet in height, containing a clock and 4 bells, cast in the rateable value, £2,591 ; the population in 1901 was 517. year 1618 : the arcading of the nave, consisting of four bays Parish Clerk, Samuel Clarke. on each side, is 12th century work : the nave roof is richly Post, M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. Office.-John Walker, sub­ moulded and has some fine and boldly-carved bosses : the postmaster. Letters arrive from Nottingham at 7.45 ancient oak benches have carved ends : the church plate a.m. & 4.20 p.m. ; sundays, 8.55 a.m. ; dispatched at includes an old silver cup dated 1571 : the chancel was 8 a.m. & 5.25 p.m. ; sundays, 11 p.m. The telegraph restored in 1854 and its roof further repaired in 1873: in office is at Cropwell Butler, 1 mile distant 1894 the church was reseated, and a new pulpit, reading Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1877, for desk and lamps provided : there are 270 sittings, 150 150 children ; average attendance, 105 ; William Parkin, being appropriated. The parish register dates from 1539 master and is in good condition. The living is a vicarage, net Carriers.-Watchorn, at Plungar, & Edward Morrell, at yearly value £260, including 90 acres of glebe, with resi­ Cropwell Bishop, every wed. & sat. William Groves, dence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since wed. fri. & sat. Isaac Simpson, mon. wed. & sat. to 1901 by the Rev. James Hathorn Roworth Wood B.A. Nottingham Starbeck Miss Guy Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper · Sheldon Harry, farmer Thraves Mrs Hampson \Valter, Plough & Harrow P.H Shelton John Thomas, baker Thurlby Michael, The Cottage Hanbury William, Wheatsheaf P.H Smith Henry, wheelwright Wood Rev. James Hathom Roworth Harper Charles, blacksmith Smith Samuel, farmer B.A. Vicarage Heaselden Samuel, farmer Snaith & Co. Limited, plaster & cement J ohnson George, baker manufacturers COMMERCIAL. Knight John, tailor - Squires George, builder Blue Lias Lime Co. Lim. Morrell Edward, carrier Squires Henry, grazier (The), lime, cement & plaster manufrs. Morris Benjamin, farmer Stevenson Henry, Limekiln inn (John Ward, manager); & at Barn- Morris Eliza (Mrs.), cowkeeper Stimpson Oliver, joiner & builder stone, Normanton Hills & East Leake Parkin William, schoolmaster & clerk to Stubbs Samuel Mantle, nurseryman & Brick & Mineral Co. Lim. (The) (Arthur the Parish Council. overseer & assessor farmer Holland, manager) of taxes Tinsley Henry Alwyne, farmer Chorlton Wm.Marsland,frmr.Wolds farm Phillips George Frederick, boat owner Tomlinson John, grazier Clarke Samuel, grazier & coal merchant Wakley Francis, Chequers inn Co-opera.tive Society's Stores Richards Robert Smith. farmer Walker John, shopkeeper, Post office Dawn Samuel, shopkeeper Salvin David, farmer · Wilford Arthur, boot maker ,

OBOPWELL BUTLER is a large village and town­ room with a library of 200 volumes. Henry Smith esq. l.P. ship, near the Grantham canal, 3 miles south from Bing­ resides at the Grove, and is lord of the manor. The prin· ham, 3 east-by-south from Radcliffe station on the Not­ cipal landowners are Earl Manvers, John P. Chaworth­ tingham and Grantham branch of the Great Northern Musters esq. of Annesley Park, Richard and John Marriott railway and 9 from Nottingham, ecclesiastically annexed esqrs. Butler Smith esq. and Henry Smith, jun. esq. The to Tithby, in the Newark division of the county, wapentake, soil is principally clay ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are county comt district, union, petty sessional division and wheat, barley, beans and roots. The area is 1,887 acres rural deanery of Bingham, archdeaconry of Nottingham of land and 3 of water ; rateable value, £2,591 ; the popu­ and diocese of Southwell: its ancient name was Crophill lation in 1901 was 487. Botiller, from a circular hill between it and Cropwell Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B., & A. & L Office. Bishop, and the name of its former possessors, the Botillers -Waiter Shipside, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from or Butlers. The Mission chapel here, formerly the pro­ Nottingham at 7.30 a.m. & 3.45 p.m.; sunday, 8.25 a.m.; perty of Mr. John Parr, now belongs to the parish, having dispatched at 8.35 a.m. & 5.50 p.m. ; sunday, dispatched been purchased and repaired at a cost of £600, and was 11.35 p.m reopened by the Bishop of Southwell, 10 Nov. 1897. Wall Letter Box, near the school, cleared at 8.35 a.m. & There is also a chapel of ease about a mile from the village. 5.55 p.m. ; sunday, 11.35 a.m The Wesleyans and the Primitive Methodists have chapels here. The charities consist of the interest of £300 left by Public Elementary School (mixed), erected for 108 children the late Miss Parr, amounting to £9 yearly, for the edu­ & was enlarged in 1894; average attendance, 80; Joseph cation of poor children of Cropwell Butler, and a bequest Hall, master by William Fillingham esq. late of Cropwell Butler, in Carriers to Nottingham, Michael Thurlby, wed. & sat.. 1779, amounting to £:1 14s. yearly. There is a reading Robert Revell, wed. & sat