DTRECTORY.] . WIT.DMORE. 561 (Letters for the Fen & Fen Houses Cutforth Henry Proctor, cattle dealer Mnrley Samuel, fa1mer, Wigtoft bank should be addressed Swineshead.) Dawson William, jun. threshing ma­ Parker Joseph {Mrs.), cottager, Bank (Letters for Hoffieet Stow, vi& Bicker.) chine owner, Wigtoft bank Phillips Thos.farmer&ca~tle dlr.Bnrtoft Bowser Frederick E Day Mary (Mrs.), cottager Preston Joseph, farmer, Fen Dowse Mrs. J. R. Easthorpe Dennison John Henry, fa1.,.,•mrner, Fen Rayson Thomas, faimer, Asperton Heath Rev. Joseph M.A., J.P. (vicar Dixon Bee, beer retailer, Fen houses Rayson William, farmer & rural dean), Vicarage Dye Alfred, carpenter & builder & clerk Robinson Jn. Thomas, farmer,Asperton Hides John to parish council Robinson Joseph, farmer, Asperton Walton Mrs Elkington Robert, farmer, Burtoft Robinson Nathaniel, grocer & draper COMMERCIAL. Elkington Wimam, Golden Fleece P.H. Sellers Harriet(Mrs. ),farmr.Fen houses .Alien John, district surveyor, overseer & sexton Sharpe Annie E. (Mrs.), farmer, Hof- &; collector of income tax Fletcher Geo. farmer, Easthorpe court fleet Stow Anderson Sl. Golden Ball P.H.Fen hos Green Jesse, Swan P.H Sharpe Henry, cottager :Boss Edward, farmer, Hoftleet Stow Hardy Henry, carpenter Sharpe Waiter, farmer, Hoffieet Stow Bowser Frederick E. farmer &; grazier Hides Jane(Mrs.),farmer & landowner, Sharpe William, brewer, Hoffieet Stow Brown John Harrison, farmer &; land- Asperton Sinclair George, carrier owner, Fen houses Houlden Susan (Miss), dress maker Sleight John, farmer, Fen Eurwn .A.tkin (Mrs.), farmer, Fen Hubbard Chas. cottager, Wigtoft bank Smith Albert Anthony, farmer, Asper- Burton Benington, farmer J ackson Mary (Mrs.), farmer ton house Burton Jas. Anthony, farmer, Far fen Kennerley William, faTmer Smith James Starkey, blacksmith Cartwright Herbert, farmer, .A.sperton Ketton Robert, farmer, Fen Smith William, carrier Cartwright Thomas, farmer King George, farmer, Fen houses Stevenson Thomas, farmer, Fen houses Chessman William Curtis, farmer, Fen Lake John, farmer, Fen Sutton Herbert, farmer, Fen Christian William, farmer &; butcher Lake William, farmer, Fen Twigg Sarah (Miss), dress maker Cocks John Robert, faimer Leaver Edward, farmer, Burtoft Twigg William H. farmer Collins James, farmer, Hoftleet Stow Lord George, farmer, Sutterton road V inter Charles, market gardener; & Cope William, farmer, Hoftleet Stow Macrorie J ames, cottager, Fen houses at Hoffieet Stow Cropley Burrell, farmer, Fishmore end Massey George, farmer, Fen Wanty Dickinson, shoe maker Cropley George, farmer, Wigtoft bank M()ses Richard, farmer, Asperlon Wood George, grocer & baker, Post off is a parish, formed in r88o under the .A.ct Parish Clerk, David Kent. 44 Vict. c. xvii. and comprises the Fen allotments of West Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, S. B. & Ash by, , Mareham-on-the-Hill,, ThimblP­ Annuity & Insurance Office, New York.-Samuel Jarnes by, , and , and Joll, sub-postmaster. Box cleared at 5.40 p.m. week detached parts of Bolingbroke, , . days only. Letters arrive from Lincoln at 8 a.m Roughton, , (parts of). Thornton-le-Fen, Toynwn .A.ll Saints and Wilksby; the Haven :Bank, 2 miles north from station on the ecclesiastical parish comprises the civil parishes of Langri­ Lincoln and Boswn branch of the Great Northern railway, ville, Thornton-le-Fen and Wildmore and parts of the civil and about rl from church, was included in the parishes of Coningsby, Mareham-le-Fen, Revesby and parish of Wildmore Fen, 25th March, 1884. There is a Tumby: it is in the South Lindsey division of the county. '\Vesleyan chapel here. The principal landowners are Mrs. part.s of Lindsey, union, petty sessional division and county Eland and John Curtois Bramley esq. J.P. of the Grange, court district of Horncastle, rural deanery of North Langriville. Holland No. 2, and arch deaconry and . Letters from Lincoln, viA New York, arrive a.t 9.30 a.m. "l'he village of New York is 2! miles east from New York is the nearest money order & telegraph office station on the Lincoln and Boston branch of the Great The children attend the Board schools at Gipsy Drove. Northern railway, u south from Horncastle and 9 north­ west from Boston. Froghall church, erected in 1816 out Thornton-le-Fen & Bundle Houses, Wildmore of the revenues of the Fen Chapel estates, is a small and A School Board of 7 members was formed Jan. ro, r879, plain edifice of red brick, in the Perpendicular stvle, con­ for Wildmore Fen United District, comprising Great sisting of nave only, with an open western belfry con­ Beats, Little Beats, Copping Syke, (detached taining one bell, and has 150 sittings. The register dates part), Fishtoft (detached), Haven Bank, Kirkstead (two from the year 1818. The livingt is a vicarage, net yearly detached parts), Langriville, Martin( detached),Scrivels­ value £320, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of by (two detached parts), 'l'attershall Thorpe (detached), Lincoln, and held since 1877 by the Rev. William Fitz­ Thornton-le-Fen, Toynton St. Peters (two detached Harry Curtis, who resides at Langriville. There is a parts), Wildmore & Woodhall (two detached parts; Wesleyan chapel at New York, and a Primitive Methodist John H. Tooley, Boston, clerk to the board; Harry chapel at Scrnbb Hill. The principallandowner.s are Sir Pickett, attendance officer Henry James Hawley bart. of Brighton, Sussex, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Messrs. WiEiam Sin­ Board Schools (mixed), built in r88o, at a cost of £1,200, clair and Cook Houldershaw. The soil is clay; subsoil, for 168 children; average attendance, 110 ; Henry gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The Despicht, master ; Mrs. Despicht, mistress area is 4,064 acres ; rateable value, £3,995 ; the popu- Carriers.-Charles Shaw, from Sandy Bank to Boston, lation in 1891 was 736 in the , and 1,470 in the j wed. & sat.; James Miller, from New York, wed.&; sat.; ecclesiastical. Henry GeOTge Harrison, Boston, wed. & sat

WILD~:IORE. Harrison Goorge, farmer Parker John William, farmer HaNison Henry George, cottage far- Pa-tchet.t Henry, farmer COMMERCIAL. mer &:, carrie-r Redford William, farm bailiff to G. C. Atkin Thomas, cottage farmer Harrod David, cottage farmer HaNis esq Barnett Henry G. farmer HiUred Elizafbeth (M~s.), beer retlr Scarborough RebB"Cca. (Miss), farmer, Brett William Paul, fa~mer Hodgson J ames, farmer Haven bank Bristow Geo. Chas. farmer, Haven bk Hutton James, farmer Shaw Charles, fMmer &; carrier Cade Barnel, farmer Johnson Geo. & Son, frmrs.Ohapel fm Stevenson Edward, farme-r Cade Charles, cottage farmer J Cl'hnson John, farm bailiff to Stephen Stones Chas. rat catcher, Botney Bay Uark Fliza (Mrs.), gTazier Roberts esq Stublev Alfred, faTIDer & thrashing Coe James, beer retlr. Haven bank .Tohnson Wakelin, cottage farmer & machine proprietor Cooling Charles, farmer shoe maker Traff(}rd John, farmer Dowse Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Kent Caroline (Mrs.), cottage faTIIler Trafford Justice Skelton, carpenter, Dowse John, farmer Kent David, cottage farmer Castle dyke English Saml. farmr. & assist. oversr Kew Fanny (Mrs.), farmer Trafford William, farmer English William, farmer, Haven bank Lamyman Tom, faTIDer Tyler John, cottage frmr. Haven bank Everard Edwin, farmer Lightfoot William, cottage farmet Tyler John, fanner, Frog ibaJJ Eyre Thomas, farm bailiff to Charles Maidens Waiter, farm bailiff to Mr. Tyler Mary .A.nn (Mrs.), cottage farmr Gilliatt esq. Wait farm Samuel Leggat6 Vinter Eusebiu.s B. miller (wind) & Farmery Charles, blacksmith "\fartin John Robert, cottage f::rrmer baker Farrow Edwd. F()ster, frmr. Frog hail ~Iartin Wm. Hy. farmer, Honald ho Vinter Hy. beer retlr. Haven bank Farrow John, farmer Morris Thw. beer ret. &; cottage frmr Vinter R bert, farmer Grant Nelsy William, farmer Organer Geo. Ratcliffe, farmer Wa-tkin John Wm. frmr. Rookery ~~

Hall Mary (Yrs. )1 cottage farmer Ov&ton John, farmer Wha.rf Chal'les William, hawker LINCS. 36