30 GHEAT GRANSDEN. . [KELLY'S Society's building, erected in 1872 at the expense of the nock and Rippington, both the property of· W. B. late T. V. Webb esq. consists of large reading room, Fowler esq. 'J.'he principal landowners are W. B. Fowler smoking ~nd recreation rooms, and has a piece of land esq. the Flinders family and Clare College, . adjoining for out-door amusements; the reading room is The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, strong clay. The chief used for meetings and concerts. Charities, amounting crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 3,4°2 to about £I6 yearly, are distributed in fuel. The rent acres; rateable value, £2,359; the population in 1901 of the parish lands of 20 acres I rood 19 poles is was 504. divided, £7 I5s. going to the church, and £2 Ss. for The adjoining village of Little Gransden is in Cam- the benefit of the village. There are five almshouses, bridgeshire. built by the Rev. Barnabas Oley in I679 for poor people in the village. An Agricultural Show and ploughing Post, M. O. & T. Office. Mrs. Ethel M. King, sub- match is held here yearly about the first week in postmistress. Letters arrive from Sandy via Gam- October. Gransden Hall, standing in moated grounds, lingay at 7·45 a.m. & 12·30 p.m.; dispatched at 7·45 in a park of 24 acres, is the residence of Douglas a.m. & 5.40 p.m.; no sunday delivery of letters Crossman esq. J.P. Here are four manors, viz.: the Public Elementary School, built in 1866 at the expense manor of Baldwins, belonging to the Master and Fellows of the late Theodore V. Webb esq. assisted by sub- of Clare College, Cambridge; the manor of Great Grans- scriptions, &; enlarged by him in 1879, for 200 den, which belongs to the Master and Fellows of Em- children; average-attendance, 65; George H. Handley, manuel College, Cambridge, and the manOrs of Man- master; Miss Mary Ann Nunn, assistant mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Christmas Fred, farmer, Rectory & King Ethel M. (Ml's.),grocer, Post off Ch . R f Hayden farms Millard Mary (Mrs.), farmer rlstmas Fred J.P. ectory arm Christmas Harold A. asst. overseer Millard Susan (Mrs.), farmer Croshaw Benjamin, Grotto house Crossman Douglas J.P. Gransden Cook WaIter, painter Mumford Fredk. boot ma. & shopkpr hall; & New Oxford & Cambridge Crane Sophia (Mrs.), beer retailer Reading Room (Geo. H. Handley,sec) & Junior CarIton clubs, SW Croot George, Fox P.H Sanford John Linford, farmer Edmonds Rev. Arthur Jonathan M.A. Dew John, farmer Smith William Peters, grocer Vicarage Dodson Mary Jane (Miss), corn dealr Spencer Samuel, baker Farrow Mrs. J. Brinkley cottage East William, farmer Spry William S. beer retailer Morton Rev. John (Baptist) Fensom Thomas, farmer Stockbridge William, harness maker W . h J h Giles & Son,carpenter & wheelwrights Turne::- Thomas, farmer rIg ton Giles Arthur W. A. Three Horseshoes Wakefield Sanders, farm bailiff to COMMERCIAL. P.ll W. B. Fowler esq :Bartle James, beer retailer Gransden & District Agricultural So- Webb William Jabez, miller (wind) Bollons Joseph, Plough P.H ciety (R. J. Kisby, sec) Whittet Wilmer, butcher Brawn John, farmer Harradine James, baker Wright John, estate carpntr. & joiner Childerley Wm.The Crown &; Cushion Infield Arthur, farmer Wright John, farmer P.H King Charles, tailor HADDON is a small parish and village, near the £450, including 36 acres of glebe, with residence at borders of Northamptonshire and adjoining the Great Chesterton, in the gift of the Marquess of Huntly,· and North Road, 3 miles south-west from Overton station on held since I908 by the Rev. Alan Chaplin M.A. of the London and North Western railway and 6 south-west Trinity College, Cambridge, who resides at Chestertou. from Peterborough, in the Northern division of the The Marquess of Huntly P.C. is lord of the manor and 'County, hundred and petty sessional division of Norman sole landowner. The soil is strong clay; subsoil, clay. Cross, union and county court district of Peterborough, The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and peas. The rural deanery of Yaxley, archdeaconryof and area is 1,224 acres; rateable value, £9I1; the popula­ . The church of St. Mary is a small and tiWI in 1901 was 89. ancient edifice of stone, in the Norman and Early Sexton, George Howard. English styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, Letters arrive from Peterborough at 9 a.m. Letter Box aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower cleared 5.30 p.m. Stilton is the nearest post, money containing 3 bells: the chancel arch is Norman: in order & telegraph office, 3 miles distant 1901 the church was partly restored, at a cost of £1,000: Public Elementary School (mixed), built, with house an oak and stone pulpit was added in 19IO: there are for mistress, in 1872, at the expense of the Marquess 70 sittings. The register dates from the year 1540. of Huntly & the late Hon. George Fitzwilliam; the The living is a rectory, united to that of Chesterton by school will hold 50 children; average attendance, 20; Order in Council of March, 1863, joint net yearly value Mrs. Grace Tett, mistress Birch Frederick Peregrine IEllington William Henry, farmer IRowell Frederick: farmer Tl'ower Lionel Martin George, farmer HAIL WESTON, anciently called "Helowstone " or Post Office.-Mrs. Ann Sarah Page, sub-postmistress. "Halenstone," is a village and parish, on the borders Letters arrive by mail cart from St. Neots at 7.5 & of Bedfordshire and near the Kim, a tributary of the IO.45 a.m.; dispatched at 7.55 p.m. St. Neats, 2 Ouse, and on the road from St. Neots to Kimbolton, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph miles north-west from St. Neots station on the main office . line of the Great Northern railway, 7 south-east from Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1849, for 70 KimboltoD and 9 south-west from Huntingdon, in the children; average attendance, 55; Miss Elizabeth Southern division of the county, hundred and petty Lumley, mistress sessional division of Toseland, union and county court Springs.-Near the village, and on the right bank of, district of St. Neots, rural deanery of St. Neots, arch- but at some distance from, the brook, are three deaconry of Huntingdon and diocese of Ely. The church mineral springs or wells of considerable value, and of St. Nicholas is a small edifice of rubble, brick a.nd once in high repute: they rise within a limited area. wood, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel situated on high ground sloping gently to the brook, and nave under one roof, porch on the south side, and and through strata of the secondary period, but a wooden tower at the west end covered with oak though near each other, differ materially in their ilhingles and containing 3 bells: the church was constituent elements, two being distinctly mineral, thoroughly restored in 1884, at a cost of £I,Ooo, raised and therefore medicinal in character, while the third by voluntary contributions: there are 140 sittings. The I supplies fresh water of remarkable purity. It appears register dates from the year 1558. The living is a I probable that the existence of these wells was known vicarage annexed to the rectory of Southoe, joint net I at a very early period, land in the immediate vicinity yearly value £260, in the gift of and held since 1895 of the springs having furnished large numbers of by the Rev. Richard Moorsom M.A. of Merton College, I Roman remains, some of considerable antiquarian Oxford, who resides at Southoe. The great tithes, com- interest; and it is an ascertained fact that the springs muted at £300 yearly, belong to the Ecclesiastica.l Com-' in question were extensively used for medicinal pur- missioners. Here is a Baptist chapel, founded in 1757, poses as long ago as 1597, during the reign of Queen -with an endowment for the maintena.nce ofthe minister. Elizabeth. Raphael HoIlinshead, the well-known 'The trustees of the late Edward Reynolds esq. who are chronicler of that period, whose histories were pub. lords of the manor, the trustees of the late Mr. John lished in 1577, refers at some length to the wells of Humbley and Mr. Charles Banks are the chief land- Hail Weston, and to the great repute of the waters owners. The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, clay. The yielded by them as remedies for diseases of the skin, principal crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area dimness of sight and other affections. A short poem is 1,590 acres; rateable vl\lue, £I'772; the population by Michael Drayton, "The Holy Wells of Hailweston" in 1901 was 251. describes these springs; and their characters and