Wildmore and at Horsington and Great West Jacob, Farmer
Parts of Lindse'Y• · Rose Henry, miller, ·baker andlar Swaby Robert, farmer, Moor Waiter William Baker, farmer i h ·mer, Moor Waiter· John, farmer, Manor house Hornca,$tle Stephenson l ohn, farmer, Wildmore and at Horsington and Great West Jacob, farmer. Moo:r fen · Sturton ' THORNTON-LE-FEN. THORNTON-LE-FEN, on the Boston read, o miles S.S.E. of Tattershall, has 210 inhabitants, and about 1425 acres of Wildmore Fen, which was sold by the drainage and enclosure commissioners about 1802,rwhen it-was ma-de a. parochial township by act of parliament. It ·had its name from its largest proprietors, the Thornton family. The Creasey, Hackney, Ireland, Linton, Pepper, Ward and Wilcock families are the chief landowners. The Church, which was built out of the Fen Chapel estates in 1816, is a small brick building, containing 200 sittings. The benefice is a perpetual curaoy, valued at .£100 a year, in the 'gift of the Bishop of Lincoln and the trustees of Fen Chapel estates, and incumbency ~f the Rev. St. George Kerr. There is no school here, but the children of the parish attend one at New York, in the Low Toynton Fen. The '\Vesleyans have a chapel at New York and Bunker's hill, and the Primitive Methodists have one near the '\Vind mill . PosT OFFICE at Mrs. Charlotte Wood's. Letters arrive at 10 a.m., and are despatched at the same time, via Boston. Dogdyke is the nearest Railway Station. Creasey John, farmer Nixon Reuben, farmer & victualler, Surrs John, farmer, Bunker's hill Houghton George, shopkeeper, dra- Union Inn, Bunker's hill Ward John, farmer, Bunker's hill per and butcher, ~unker's hill Pepper John, farmer Ward William, farmer, Bunker's hill freland Ezekiel, farmer Robson John, farm bailiff Wood Mrs Charlotte, postmistress Johnson W.
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