626 WELlON·BY-L1NCOLN. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY'S maintaining scholarships each of not less than £t or \VELTON RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. more than £2 yearly, to be awarded, as nearly as The parishes in ~he di.stlri~ are :-AiS'thorpe, Apley, possible, in equal sharez~ to boys and girls, -whose parents Bardney, Barlings, Brattleby, Broxholme, · Bullingooq. are bon&-fide resident. ill the pa~ish of Welton, and -who Buroon, Oaenby, Oammeringham, Carlton (North) .. are and have been for at least three ,·ears in the local • Oarlton (Soutlh), Cherry Wli-llingha.m, Cold Hanwolltb, -elementary school, and £4o in maintaining yearly Oouistead, Dunholme. Faldingworth, Firsby (East). exhibitions of not less than £10 or more than £2o for Firsby (West), Fiskerton, Frlest.h()rpe, Fu.lnet.by,. girls, and not less than £10 or more than £3o for boys, Goltho, Grange-de-Lings, Greetwell, Hackthorn, Hol_.. tenable for three years at any place of education, higher ton-cum-Beckering, Ingham, Nettleham, Newball" than elementary, approved by the Welton governors, to Normanby-by-Spital, Owmby, Rand, Reepham, Rise.. be awarded to scholara who are awl have been for at holme, Saxby, Saxilby-with-Ingleby, Scampton, least three years in the Welt()n elementary school. A Scothern, Snarford, Snelland, Spridlington, Stainfield, former Countess of. Watwick left £10 yearly to the Stainton-by-Langworth, Sudbrooke, Thorpe·in-the... 'Vicar of Welton for delivering a lecture in the church Fallows, Welton and Wickenby, being the parishes in every Sunday evening. The poor of t·he parish have Lincoln in the Parts of Lindsey. The area is 83,71a about £32 distributed 11mongst them yearly in clot.he8 acres; rateable value in 1912, £87,886; population in or money from Oust's, Camm's and other chaiitie.;. In 191It li,lli 1909 several large glacial boulders of igneous rocks, shewing ice st.rire, were collected by the vicar, and Meetings held on the 1st friday in each month, at the placed on the south-west end of the church. Some offices of Messrs. Danby, Son & Epton, solicitors, 2 remarkable springs in the West Carrs are supposed to Bank street, Lineoln. have given the parish its name. In .1863 a number of Chairman, John Laverack, No:rt~h Oarlt<On early graves were discovered here on a spot now called " Chapel Close," and in 1904 some Roman pottery was Officials. brought to light. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Clerk, William Barr Danby, 2 Bank street, Lincoln others are the owners of the manors (5), and the Misses Treasurer, A. H. Leslie Melville, Union of London & Cust, of Castle Rock, Cowes, Isle of Wight, the trustees Smiths Bank, Lincoln of Mrs. Westall and Thomas Collins esq. are the prin­ Medical Officer of Health, Charles Harrison M.D.St.And., cipal landowners. The soil is loamy ; subsoil, oolite in D.P.H.Camb. 30 Newland, Lincoln the upper, clay in the lower part of the parish. The Di'>trict Surveyor, William Epton, Langworth chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is Sanitary Inspector, Augustus Wm. Medley Gilbert,Weltn 3,910 acres; rateable valqe, £3,692 ; the population in I9II was 6o8. RYL.AND is a ·hamlet, half a mile north-east. Public Elementary School (mixed), rebuilt in 188g, for Post, M. 0., T. & Telephone Call Office (available for 167 children; average attendance, 6o; infants' school, calls· to places within a limited distance).-Fred Noble for 8o children ; average attendance, 39 ; Wilfred Lowis, sub-postmaster. Letters from Lincoln arrive Walker, master & three assistant mistresses at 6.42 a.m, ; dispat~hed at 5.50 p.m. ; no delivery Carrier. James Lyon, to Lincoln, mon. wed. fri. & sat of letters on sunday Downham Mrs. Highmoor Drury James Henry, butcher Rosling Charles, market gardener Hunt Rev.Alfd. M.A. (vicar),Vicarage Fraser George, Black Bull P.H Sellars Hudson, cowkeeper COMMERCIAL. Gilbert August.us Wm. Medley, sani· Sergeant Robert, farmer, The Heath .Applewhite Alfred Henry, draper, tary inspector t() Rural Dist.Council Simpson Arthur Edwd.farmer,Ryland grocer, corn merchant & cycle agent Hall Joseph, farmer, Breck farm Smart William Oliver, market gar· & repairer Hall Waiter, farmer, Welton cliff dener, Ryland Baldwin Arth. market grdnr. ityland Hardwick H<lnry, carpenter Smith Henry, bricklayer Baldwin Stephen, market gudener, Hewitt William, farmer Smith Waldo, relieving officer,North Ryland Hullett Fred, saddler district, & registrar of births & Bates James, farmer Kirk John, farmer. Ryland deaths for Lincoln north-east sub- Bayles Charles, farmer, Welton cliff Lillie James, farmer district & infant life protection Blanshard Adam, farmer Lowis Fred Noble, grocer, & post off visitor Boulton Henry Thomas, bricklayer Naylor Wm. Jeseph, concrete maker Stovin Thomas, contractor for steam Comins Tom, farmer Neave Edward, cowkeeper ploughing, hauling, threshing, saw- Dawber Herbert, tarmer 1:'-~eave George, farmer, Welton cliff ing, grinding &c Deane Samuel Robert L.R.C.S.I., Pears Edward Thomas, farmer Wass Edward, tailor L . .A.H.Dub. surgeon & medical Pearson '\-Villiam, bake!l' Willcox Charles, butcher officer & public vaccinat()r, 12th Pickering Waiter, farmer,Welton cliff Wilson Herbert, farmer district, Lincoln union Robinson William, farmer Wilson Stephen, blacksmith Drake Daniel, market gardnr. Ryland, Rue John &; J osPph, farme.rs, Ryland \V right George, boot maker WELTON-IN-THE-MARSH is a parish and village, K.C.B. purchased a small portion of land in this parish 2 miles north from Burgh station on the East Lincoln- to carry 'OUt a scheme for the supply of pure water. 8hire section of the Great Northern railway, 6 east· The Skegness Water Co. formed in 1905, have a reser· north-east from Spilsby and 5! south from Alford, in voir in this parish at an elevation of from 200 to 250 the South Lindsey division of the county, parts of feet; the line of piping runs through Welton, Orby, Lindsey, 1\'old division of the Candleshoe wapentake, Burgh and Winthorpe, to Skegness. Earl of Ancaster, Spilsby petty sessional division, union and county court who is lord of the manor, Miss K. M. Walls, of Boothby district, rural deanery of Candleshoe and archdeaconry Hall, and Stephen Langton Massingberd esq. of GuRby. and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Martin, re- are the principal landowners. The soil is mostly clay;. erected in 1797, is an edifice of stone and brick, consi!t- subsoil, clay and a little ohalk. The chief crops are ing ()f chancel, nave, western porch and tower with four wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,566 pinnacles containing one bell: in 1891 the church was acres; rateable value, £2,685 ; population in 1:9II, 280 thoroughly restored, at a cost of about £4oo: there are in thP civil and 357 in the ecclesiastical parish (which 200 sittings. The Tegister dates from the year 1558. comprises part of Welton-le-Marsh and Gunby civil The living is a vicarage, C<liJsolida.ted with the rectory parishes). of Gunby St. Peter, joint neot yearly value £230, includ- BOOTHBY is a small hamlet, about a mile east. ing 133 acres of gle~be, with residen~, in the gift of Boothby Hall, the property and residence of Miss K. M. Stephen Massingberd esq. and held since 1907 by the Walls, is pleasantly situated, and in the grounds is a Rev. Joseph J.'lixon Crosthwaite M.A. of Trinity College, small lake. Dublin. ThP.re is a W esleyan Methodist chapel, which Parish Clerk, Charles Spring. was built in 1874· In 1726 Mr. Thomas Ingram left a yearly rent-charge of 10s. which is distributed annually Post Office.~William Brant, sub-postmaster. Letters at Easter in bread among the poor parishioners. The through Burgh, Lincs. arrive at 7.40 a.m. & 5·35 p.m. poor's allotments, awarded at the Inclosure, comprise & dispatched at 7·45 a.m. & 5.40 p.m. week days only. nearly 5 ar:res, which are occupied by 32 labourers, rent Scremby, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order free; this charity is managed by the Parish Council. & telegraph offict Lime is burht here. In consequence of the brackish Public Elementary School (mixed). for 70 children; state of the water at Skegness- the .Earl of Scarbrough average attendance, 42 ; Miss Clara Thorpe, mistreBS Orosthwaite Rev. Joseph Nixon M.A. COMMERCIAL. Bird George, wheelwright (vicar) Alcock J(}seph, shoe make1 Black John William, farmer . Walls Miss K M. Boothby hall Baker Thomas, farmer Brant William, grocer, Post uffice .