• DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. STAINTON -BY-LANGWORTH. 537
Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1872 on a Oarr:ers from the neighbourhood pass through here site given by Sir Thomas· Beckett, for 8o children; every tues. thurs. & sa.t. en route to Gains borough average Bibtendanoe, 52; Charles Pearson, master Hedges Rev. Thomas Toovey (rector), Cheetham .Alban, pariEh clerk Minnitt Alice (Mrs.), shopkeeper, & Rectory Glew John Tom, farmer, Spring- post office Newbold George Edward thorpe grange Pearson Charles, schoolmaster Green John W. New inn Stephenson Georg-e William, farmer & COMMERCB.L. Kell Char le
STAINBY is a. parish and village, adjoining Leicester- executed by the rector and presented by him to the shire on the west, 6 miles west from Cor by station on / church: there are 120 sittings. The register dates from the main line of the Great Northern railway, 14 north- the year 1653. The living is a rectory, consolidated with west from Stamford and 9 south from Grantham, in the that of Gunby St. Nicholas, joint net yearly value £300, South Kesteven division of the county, parts of Kesteven, including, in the united parishes, 425 acres of glebe, with wapentake of Beltisloe, petty sessional division of Spittle- re-sidence, in the giH of and held since r 877 by the Rev. gate, union and county court district of Grantham, rural Wilfrid Augustus Holden Thorold M.A. of Clare College, deanery of Beltisloe, and archdeaconry and diocese of Cambridge. The Earl of Dysart is lord of the manor Lincoln: this parish is connected with Colsterworth by and principal landowner. There are stone quarries here, a stone and iron bridge over the Witham. The church of owned by the Holwell Iron Oo. The soil is lGam; sub St. Peter is a building of stone, chiefly in the Early soil, red irons-tone and rock. The chief crops are the Decorated style, with some features of the Transition usual cereals and clover. The area is 1,459 acres; rate period, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, able va•lue, [3,145; popu1ation in r9or, 108. vestry and a tower with spire, containing a clock and 4 Parish Clerk, Fr-ederick Bronston. bells and Cambridge chimes: it was thoroughly restored PoS STAINFIELD is a parish, 4 miles north from Bardney Benedictine priory; at the Dissolu~ion there were r6 Junction station on the Lincoln and Boston branch of nuns, and revenues valued lilt £r12 ss. William Wyke the Great Northern railway and 10 east from Lincoln, in ham Tyrwhi!tt-Droke esq. of Shardeloes, Bucks, is lord the East Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, of the manor and sole 1andQwner. The soil is very good ; western division of the wapentake of Wraggoe, Wragby subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and petty se~sional division, Lincoln union and county court oaJts. The area !os 2,098 acres of land and 4 of water; district, rural deanery of Wraggoe, archdeaconry of Stow ratea~ble value, £r, 153; the population in rgor was 156. and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Andrew is an Sacristan, James Norris. edifice of brick with stone dressings, consisting of nave and a bell turret, and contains some curious old ban Post Office. James Norris, sub-postmaster. Letters by ners: it was rebuilt in 17n, and the gallery was taken foot post through Wragby S.O. arrive at 8.25 a.m.; down and the church reseated in 1887: there are r2o dispa,tched at 4 p.m. No delivery on sunday. Postal sittings. The register dates from the year 1714. The OI"de11s are issued & paid here. The ne,ares STAINTON-:BY-LANGWORTH is a small village William Henry Osborne, of Queen's College, Birmingham. and township forming a parish with the township of The Earl of Scarbrough is lord of the manor and sole Newball and the hamlet of Reasby, on the river Lang landowner. The soil is light and gravelly; subsoil, clay. worth, 2 miles north from Langworth station on the Hull 'f:he chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 1,452 and Lincoln branch of the Great Central (M. S. and acres; l'a.teable va1lue of Stainton, £r,36o; the population I~.) railway, :; west from Wragby and 7 north-east from in 1901 was, in the township of Stain:ton, 130, and in the Lincoln, in the East Lindsey division of the county, ecclesiastical parish (which includes the formerly extra pa.l'ts of Lindsey, west division of WrnggxJe w'