DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. BLANKNEY. 55 side of the chancel is a small mortuary chapel and in the and limestone ; subsoil, sand. The chief crops are wheat, tower is an ancient stone coffin of unknown date: there are barley and turnips. The area, including Atterby, is 4,240 200 sittings. The register, including Atterby, dates from acres; rateable value of Bishop Norton, [2,38o, Atterby the year 1598. The living is a vicarage, with that of Atter­ [1,216; the population in I88I was of the parish, 465; of by annexed, tithe rent-charge £5, joint gross yearly value the township, 356. /.,300, including 203 acres of glebe, with residence, in the A'ITERBY is a township I mile north-west; the population gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held since I879 by the in x88I was 109. Rev. Christopher Harrison B. A. of Clare College, Cambridge. Parish Clerk, Tom Marshal!. There is a small Wesleyan chapel and a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in x872. N orton Place, the property of Sir PosT 0FFICE.-Tom Marshall, receiver. Letters through Hugh Arthur Henry Cholmeley bart. n.L., J.P. of Easton Kirton-in-Lindsey R.S.O. which is the nearest money order Park, Grantham, is a handsome mansion of stone, now & telegraph office, arrive at xo. 10 a. m. ; dispatched, 3· 15 occupied by Joseph Ruston esq. J.P. : it is situated about I~ p.m. WALL BoxEs, at Atterby, cleared at 3.20 p.m. & miles south-west from the village, and is surrounded by a Bishop Norton, at 3.10 p.m. Letters for Norton Place well-wooded park of 150 acres, in which is a large sheet of through Market Rasen. Postal orders are issued here but ornamental water, well stocked with fish. The Bishop of not paid Lincoln, who is lord of the manor, Sir Hugh Arthur Henry National School (mixed), bnilt by subscription in I872, for Cholmeley bart. lord of the manor of Crossholme, which 100 children; average attendance, 72 ; Henry Pearson also belongs to this parish, and Edward John Howard esq. master of Nocton, are the principal landowners. The soil is clay CARRIER.-Thos. Cook, to Gainsborough, tues. ; Lincoln, fri Bishop Norton. Germany John, head gamekeeper to Wright Thomas, farmer Harrison Rev. Christopher B.A. [vicar] Joseph Ruston esq. J.P Ruston Joseph J.P. Norton place; & Hall Edward, farmer Atterby. Monks manor, Lincoln Hall George, farmer Drake John, farmer Wright Miss Lidgard J oseph, tailor Everatt William, farmer COMMERCIAL. Marshall Tom, boot ma. & post office Horner William, farmer Bacon Thomas, boot maker Mears Henry, grocer & druggist Kitchen Richard, farmer BellwoodRobt.& Sons, brick mas. &frmrs Moore J oseph, farmer Margrave Joanna (Mrs.), farmer Bellwood Archer, farmer Roe John, shopkeeper Russell William, farmer Clixby George, grocer & draper Walsham Mary (::\'Irs. ), shopkeeper t:lmith Hy.miller (steam & water)& frmr Cook Thomas, farmer & carrier Woodhead Thomas, farmer Thorpe Christopher, farmer Dimbleby William, bricklayer & farmer Woodhead William, blacksmith West Thomas, farmer BITCHFIELD is a village and parish situated on the tance is an old Roman encampment, called " Camp Field." river Glen, 8 miles south-east from Grantham, 3 north from Sir Hugh Arthur Henry Cholmeley hart. D.L., J.P. of Easton Corby station and 11 north-west from Bourn, in the South park, Grantham, is lord of the manor and sole landowner. Kestevern division of the county, parts of Kesteven, wapen­ The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The soil is clay; take of Beltisloe, Spittlegate petty sessional division, Grant­ subsoil, clay and sand. The area is I 1 344 acres; rateable ham 11nion and county court district, rural deanery of value, [I,283; the population in I88I was 167. Beltisloe and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The Parish Clerk, Charles Howitt. chnrch of St. Mary Magdalen is an edifice of stone, in the PosT 0FFICE.-Richard Rimmington, receiver. Letters Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, through Grantham arrive at 9· 15 a. m. ; dispatched at south porch:and-an embattled western tower, with spire, 4.30 p.m. Corby is the nearest money order & telegraph containing 3 bells, and was restored in 1873: there are two office stained windows and an ancient font, on which is a shield A School Board of 7 members was formed November I6, bearing the instruments of the Passion: there are 100 sit­ I875, for the united district of Bitchfield, Bassingthorpe tings. The register dates from the year 1674. The living & Boothby Pagnall; R. Chapman, Corby,clerkto the board is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £I3I, net yearly value£ I46, Board School (mixed), built in I877, at a cost of about [200, including 4 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the for 70 children; average attendance, 54; Joseph Faun­ Bishop of Lincoln, and held since 1883 by the Rev. Martin thorpe, master; Mrs. Fanny Faunthorpe, mistress Francis Short B.A. of Corpns Christi college, Cambridge. CARRIERS:- The vicarage house is a good stone building, erected by the Charles Howitt, to Grantham, tues. & sat Ecclesiastical Commissioners in I87o. Within a short dis- Thomas Pick, from Corby to Grantham, tues. & sat Short Rev. Martin Franc is B. A. [vicar], Coulson John, Crown P.H. & farmer Nichols Jn. & Wm. farmers, graziers &c Vicarage Hilton Thomas, farmer & grazier & RimingtonRichd. carpenter,& post office Bailey Edward, shopkeeper highway surveyor Taylor William, shoe maker Campion Hosea, farmer & grazier Howitt Charles, carrier BI.ANKNEY is a parish, which, though only one mile The living is a rectory, net yearly value £s8o, including in breadth, extends upwards of 1 I miles in length, in the 295 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Right North Kesteven division of the county, second division of the Hon. Henry Chaplin P.C., M.P., D.L., J.P. and held since wapentake of Langoe, parts of Kesteven, Sleafurd union, 1879 by the Rev. John Otter Stephens M.A. of Erase­ petty sessional division and county court district, rural nose College, Oxford. A rectory house was built in I88r, on deanery of Longoboby and archdeaconry and diocese of a site given by the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin. Blankney Lincoln ; the village is ro miles south-east-by-south from Hall, a large and handsome mansion of stone, standing in a Lincoln, 9~ north from Sleaford, and 7 east-by-north from park of 200 acres, is the seat of the Right Hon. Henry Navenby station on the Lincoln and Grantham branch of Chaplin P.c., M.P., D.L., J.P. who is lord of the manor and the Great Northern railway and Jl south from Blankney the principal landowner ; in connection with Blankney Hall station on the Spalding and Doncaster joint extension of the there is a celebrated stud of thoroughbred horses, among Great Northern and Great Eastern railways. The church of which at the present time are two Derby winners,· vi~. St. Oswald is abuilding of stone, in the Gothic style, consist­ Hermit and Galopin ; a subscription pack of foxhounds is ing of chancel, nave, aisles, and an embattled western tower kept in the village, Major Tempest, of Coleby Hall, being with eight pinnacles, and containing 5 bells: the church was master. The soil is various, being clay, fen land and black rebuilt about I82o, and restored in I88o, under the direction moorland; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are wheat, of Messrs. Oarpenter and Iugelow, at a cost of about [3,000, barley, oats and beans. The area is 6,62IA. 3R. lOP. ; rate­ when a north aisle was erected in the Perpendicular style, able value, £71 2I8; the population in I88I was 658. in the place of the former Early English aisle, and the porch, LINWOOD, 3 miles east, is a hamlet. with its ancient archway, rebuilt: the organ was presented by Lady Florence Chaplin, the lectern by the Duchess of Parish Clerk, Thomas Rossington. Sutherland, the reredos, altar cloth and frontal purchased at PosT OFFICE.-James Sharp, sub-postmaster. Letters Saville by the present rector, are sixteenth-century work, through Lincoln, arrive at 8.20 a.m. & through Sleaford and were presented by him to the church: the east window, at 5.20 p.m.; dispatched at 8.10 a.m. to Sleaford & 5.IO together with a monument with statue in white marble, p.m. to Lincoln. Meteringham is the nearest money order executed by Mr. Boehm R.A. are memorials to Lady & telegraph office Florence Chaplin, daughter of George, 3rd Duke of Suther­ National School (mixed), erected in 1848, for 58 children ; land K.G. and wife of the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin P.c., average attendance, 40; William Edward Edwards, M.P. ; she died October xo, 188x : at the entrance to the master ; Miss Martha Rossington, sewing mistress churchyard and opposite the porch is a lych-gate, erected from a design by G. I<'. Bodley esq. A.R. A., F. s. A. : there CARRIER To-Lincoln, Thomas Rossington, wed. & fri, are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1558. returning same day .