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DIBEG'TORY .] LINCOLNSHIRE. GEDNEY. 217 Letters through Louth arrive at 8 a.m. & 4·30 p.m. ford is the nearest money order & telegraph offic&~ Postman collects letters en route at 4·30 p.m. Lud- about 3! miles distant The children of this parish attend Burgh-on-Bain school Kettlewell William, farm bailiff ti> COVVEBCIAL. PRIVATE BESlDENT. W. R. Fieldsend esq Moseley Arthur, Gayton manor Burton Charles, farm foreman to Thompson Wm. blacksmith (postal A. E. Enderby esq. Little Gayton I address, Burgh-on-Bain, Lincoln) GEDNEY is a parish, with a station on the Midland Rev. James Bellamy D.D. are lords of the Abbot's t.nd Great Northern joint railway, 2 miles north-west from manor and the manor of Paw let; the Abbot's manor Long Sutton and 3 east from Holbeach, in the Holland belonged to Crowland Abbey and the abbot had a division of the county, parts of Holland, Elloe wapen mansion near the church. The principal landowners take and petty sessional division, Holbeach union and are the Crown, the Dean and Chapter of Ely, Robert county court district, rural deanery of East Elloe and Bellamy Clifton esq. M.A. of 3 Bardwell road, Oxford. a.rchdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The houses are Messrs. Richard Dring, Charles Christie, Arthur Ernest scattered, some standing upon the high road, and Holbourn, Bartholomew Young Banks and Albert many in the fen and in the marshes of l!his extensive Edward Banks and George Thompson, A. E. Onslow parish, which reaches to the shore of the Wash. The esq. of Bristol, and Mr. James Walsham, of Broadgate,. church of St. Mary Magdalen is a fine and ancient Gedney. The soil is a light loam; subsoil, silt. The edifice of stone in the Early English, Late Decorated chief crops are wheat, beans, peas, mustard, potatoes and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, and roots. The area of the parish is u,6r4 acres of clerestoried nave of six bays, aisles, south porch and land and 59 of water; rateable value, £17,169; the a western tower 86 feet in height to the top of the population in I9II was 1,834 in the civil and 927 in parapet, with a short octagonal spire, and cc:mtaining a the ecclesiastical parish. clock and S bells : in 1912 the bells were rehung at a cost of £250: the lower part of the tower is the CHURCH END, near the church; BRO.A.DGATE, 1 only existing portion of the original church of the mile south; CH APELGATE, i mile east; D.A.WSMERE, Lancet period : the south porch has a parvise, reached 5 north-east; DROVE END, 6 north-east, on the Wash~ by a turret stair, and in the chancel is a low-side win CL.ARK'S HILL, 2 south-west, and G EDNEY DYKE~ dow of Late Perpendicular date: the south door is in r! north-by-east, are hamlets within the parish. Par·ish Sexton, Harry Barton. ~cribed " Pax xti. sit hvic domvi et omnibvs habitantibvs in ea. hie reqvies nostra ; " the double bronze lock has Post & M. 0. Office, Gedney.-Harry Verden Fletcher .. this inscription, "Johannes Pete Avysethe beware sub-postmaster. Letters received through Holbeach; before : " in the south aisle is the broken cross-legged arrive at 6.45 a.m. & 1.10 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.40 effigy of a knight of the 13th century, conjectured by a.m. & 6.5 p.m.; sunday, dispatched 6.45 p.m. Holies to represent Falco D'Oyry: there is also an Fleet is the nearest telegraph office, 1 mile distant alabaster monument of Jacobean date, with kneeling Post & M. 0. Office, Gedney Dyke.-Fred Piggins, sub effigies, to Adlard Welby, ob. 1570, and Casandra postmaster. Letters through Holbeach arrive at 7.20 (A price) his wife, ob. 1590, and other monuments to a.m. & dispatched at 10. Io a.m. & 5·45 p.m. sun five of their children : in the north aisle are some days excepted. Fleet is the nearest telegraph office,. remains . of 14th century stained glass: the chancel 2 miles distant was repaired and decorated by J. B. Millington esq. of Wall Letter Boxes.-Dawsmere, cleared at 9·35 a.m. & Boston, sometime impropriator of the. tithe: the 4·55 p.m. week days only; Black Barn, 6.15 p.m. church was new roofed in 186o by the Ecclesiastical week days only; Church end, 7.15 a.m. & 5.25 p.in.; Commissioners, and separated from the nave by a carved Pnlvertoft hall, 7.40 a.m. & 6.35 p.m oak screen: the south aisle was rebuilt in 1891, at a · Letters for Dawsmere are received through Holbeach cost of £Boo, by the Rev. James Bellamy D.D. president of St. John's College, Oxford, when a very fine early DROVE END, including Dawsmere, was made an eccle- 14th century brass with the effigy of a lady, probably siastioal parish, Oct. 16, 1855· Christ Church, built in of the Boos family, was discovered under the pews; 187o, is 8 small edifice of brick in the Early English the remaining portions of this brass, consisting of an style, consisting of nave with apse, south porch and a inscription and triple canopy and super canopy, adorned small belfry with spire containing one bell: in the chancel with shields of arms and figures of saints, is now lost ; are three stained windows, two of which are memorials to the date is approximately 13.90; by the side of this is the Rev. G. F. H. Foxton M.A. vicar 1871-96: the a 15th century altar tomb: in 1896-8 the church was reredos was erected in 1912 in memory of the Rev. further restored, at a cost of [2,200, of which £ 1,000 J. M. Coates, vicar 18g6-I9II: there are 219 sitting~. was contributed by the Rev. James Bellamy D.D.; the The register of baptisms dates from the year 1856; work was carried out under the direction of Mr. w. D. burials and marriages, 187o. The living is a vicarage, Caroe, architect, and included the repair of the nav£ net yearly value [240, with residence, in the gift or and north aisle roofs and the reflooring and reseating the Crown and the Bishop of Lincoln alternately, and of the interior: there are now 240 sittings. The held since I9II by the Rev. John James Browne. register dates from the year 1ssB. The living is a Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1885. vicarage, net income £6oo, with 14 acres of glebe The area is 5,513 acres; population in 19II, 846. and residence. in the gift of the Crown. and held since Post. M. 0. & T. Office, Drove End.-William Barnes .. 1909 by the Rev. Richard Lawson Gales B.A. of Lincoln sub-postmaster. Letters via Wisbech, thence by foot College, Oxford: the rectorial tithe, amounting to about post from Long Sutton, arrive 8.30 a.m. ; dispatched £1,148 a year, and the rectorial glebe of 105! acres. at 5·45 p.m. No delivery of letters on sundays are now wholly in the hands of the Dean and Chapter of Public Elementary Schools. Ely. Here is also a sinecure rectory, now the property of the Dean and Chapter of Ely. There is a Primitive Metho- Gedney (mixed), built, with master's house, in 1864, at dist chapel, a meeting-house for the Society of Friends a cost of about £soo, f(JI' 150 children; average at- and 8 General Baptist chapel. Samuel S. Mossop esq. is tendance, mo; John W. Wragg, master lord of the manor of Gedney Burlion and Richard Peele Dawsmere (mixed) for 150 children; average attend- Mossop esq. of Brooklet Cottage, Sidmouth, Devon, of ance, 66; Mrs. Annie A. Healey, mistress that of Gedney Welby: the Welbys left land and Dyke (mixed), built in 1875• for 40 children, & was en- houses for the relief of the poor, as also did the Rev. larged in 1896, for 6o; average attendance, 27; Mrs. Augustine Fish, a former vicar of this parish; the Chandler, mistress proceeds are distributed yearly on St. Themas' Day Drove End, built in Igoo. for 160 children ; average at- and Good Friday, and are called "the dole;" the total tendance, 115; Harry Heatey A.C.P. master amount is now about £75· The trustees of the late Railway Station, Frederick Boltz, st'Stion master GEDNEY. Arnold Stephe~ cottage farmer, Chapman Thomas & Herbert, farmers,. Chapelgate Broadgate [Marked thus • should be addressed Wisbech.] Banks George Reuben, farmer, Dyke Clifton Albert (Mrs.), farmer, South Banks Mrs. Laurel house, Dyke Bass Wm. & Geo. cottage farmers Holland bridge Bettinson Edward Burnell, Broadgate Bateman Geo. Fdk. builder, Linden ho Clifton Bertie, fa~rm~er Gales Rev. Richard Lawson B.A. *Beba Richard, farmer, Marsh Clifton George, farmer, Clarke's hill (vicar), Vicarage Bettinson Sl.Thos. frmr.Gedney Dyke Clifton E. Spencer, farmer, Fen Wright Mrs. Richard Kilham, Red ho Bowd Frederick, Chequers P.H Collins Edward, farmer, Dyke COKKEBCIAL. Braybrook Thomas, blacksmith, Dyke Collins John Edward, farmer, Dyke Andrews James, farmer Butters John Wm. farmer, Hall gate *Cook Daniel, farmer, Marsh Arnold Jn. Miller, farmer, Chapelgate Chapman Mowbray, farmr.Broadgate Cooper Alfred, farmer, Fen .