DIRECTORY. J . LINCOLNSHIRE. OSBOURNBY. 477 Xennington Stephen f Dales Edward, farmer Parker Darid, farmer .Parke'l' Miss, Stoke house 1 Varnhill George, farmer Parker Thomas, farmer & landowner Welbum Rev. John Edward Brown, Davison John William, farmer Sonlby Edward Wells, farmer Vicarage IFeatherstone 1\IQoSes, farmer Soulby Thomas, farmer Gibbons Robert, wheelwrigh~ Sonlby William, farmer COMMERCIAL. Handsley St. Thomas, farmer Spikin Thomas J oseph, farmer .Ashley George, farmer Holmes James, farmer Stephenson Charles, blacksmith Bark Henry, farmer Hundlebv Herbert B. farmer • Stephenson John Henry, farmer JJarker Charles, fa1mer Hundlebv• Samuel, farmer Tindall George William, farmer .Chapman Benj. shopkeeper, Post off Kennedy Joseph C. farmer Turner Thos. farmr. Whitehouse frm Chester George, farmer Mackrill George, farmer &i landowner Whaler Thomas, farmer Clayton Joseph, farmer Maltby George, gre.zier & landowner Wilson Richard D. Red Lion P.H Clayton Thomas, farmer 1 Needham Brothers, farmers & Woodliffe William, farmer Cocking Charles Vessey & Son, nur- graziers,Manor house; & at Claxby Wray Willie, farmer serymen, seedsmen &i coal mer- ' St. Andrew Young George, farm bailiff to Willie <:hants (address for letters &i tele- Panton Henry, farmer &; landowner Wray esq grams, Burgh station, Burgh, Parker Edmund & Mary Ann (Miss), Lines); & at Burgh farmers NORTH ORMSBY (or Nun Ormsby) is a parish and nuns, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, was founded ~illage, 2! miles south-west from Ludborough station on here in the reign of St-ephen, by William, Earl the East Lincolnshire branch of the Great N()rthern rail- of Albemarle, and Gilbert, son of Bobert de Ormsby, way, and si north-west from Louth, in the East Lindsey and acc()rding to otlher authorities, by Sir Oswald de division of the county, parts of Lindsey, wapentake of Ormsby in the reign of Henry II; at the Dissolution it Ludborough, petty sessional division, union and county was valued at £8o us. 10d. and was granted by Henry court district of Louth, rural deanery of Ludborough, VIII. to Sir Bobert Heneage: the site of the buildings, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The which appear to have been considerable, oan still be verv church of St. Helen is a building of stone, in the Early slightly traced. Lt.-Col. Robert Erasmus Sa.unders, of English style, eonsisting of chancel and nave and a AJton Panc.r86, Dorset, who .is lord of the manor, and western turret containing one bell, and was rebuilt in James Womersley esq. of Pudsey, Yorks, are the prin- 1848 by the late Miss Ansell, from designs by the late cipal landowners. The soil is loamy ; subsoil, chalk. Mr. S. S. Tenlon, architect: there are 100 sittings. The The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area register dates from the year 1741. The living is a is 1,716 acres; rateable value, £1,533; population in vicarage, net yearly value £158, including 25 acres of 19II, 120. glebe, in the gift of Col. Wing O.B. and held since 1906 Letters through Louth arrive at 8.5 a.m. The nearest by the Rev. William Lowndes. A New vicarage house money order &; telegraph office is at Ludborough, IJ was built in 1908. In 1863, six graves, cut {)Ut of miles distant; the natural chalk, and inclosed by pieoes of sands·tone, were found in the churchyard, and are supposed to Letter Box cleared at 4·30 p.m have been of Saxon origin. A priory of Gilbertine The ~hildren of this pl11Ce attend the school at Utterby Lowndes Rev. William (vicar) ICasswell William Martin J.P. farmer,/ Womersley James, farmer,Abbey frm Manor house SOUTH ORMSBY-cum-KETSBY is a parish and ancient Roman encampment, in and about which several pleasant village, delightfully situated on an acclivity of Roman coins, chiefly of the Emperor Oonstantine (A.D. the Wolds 6 miles west from Alford station, on the 306-37), have been found. Ormsby Hall, the property East Lincoinshire section of the Great Northern railway, and residence of Charles Francis Massingberd-Mundy and 8 north-north-west from Spilsby. in the South esq. D.L., J.P. is a spacious brick mansion, pleasantly Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, hundred situated in the centre of a well-wooded park of 120 of Hill, Horncastle petty sessional division, Spilsby union acres, containing several extensive avenues, one of which, and county court district, North Hill rural deanery, call~d the "Lime Tree Walk," forms a natural arched and archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The wall{ of great beauty; there is also a small lake. C. F. church of St. Leonard is a building of sandstone, partly Massingberd-Mundy esq. is lord of the manor and prin· in the Norman style, and consisting of chancel, nave of cipal landowner. The soil is chalky loam; subsoil, five bays. south aisle, north porch, a small chapel (once chalk and sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley, used as a burial place for tJhe Skipwith snd Massing- seeds and turnips. The area is 2,453 acres of land and berd families) and a massive western tower with four 3 of water; rateable value, £2,669; the population in pinnacles containing 5 bells : in the chapel is a 19u was 2II in the civil and in the ecclesiastical parish canopied brass with effigies and inscription to Sir Wm. (which includes Calceby and Driby civil parishes), 234. Skypwyth knt. ob. 1482, Agnes, his wife, one son and KETSBY, three quarters of a mile north-west, is now two daughtel's; here also is a brass of a lady in a a hamlet to Sonbh Ormsby. Ketsby Hall, the property mantle, circa 1420, and several monuments to the of Capt. Dallas-Yorke, is now occupied by a farmer. Massingberd family : the stained east window is a Here was formerly a church dedicated to St. Margaret. memorial to the Rev. Francis Ooorles Massingberd There is a water mill W()fked by the Withern Eau, M.A. rector here from 182s, and Chancellor of Lincoln, perhaps a successor of that mentioned in Domesday. and was placed tby his friends and the parishioners Oapt. Thomas Yorke Dallas-Yorke, of Walmsgate Hall, in 1873: the church was restored and new roofed in Louth, it~ sole propriet~r of the land. 1S72 at a cOStt of over [1,ooo, and has 300 sittings. The Parish Clerk, George H. Honseham. register dates from the year 1s61. The living is a Post Office. Ja.rvis Bella.my, sub-postmaster. Letters rectory, and has annexed to it the rectories of Driby from Alford arrive at 7.20 a.m.; dispatched at S·4S anti Ketsby and the vicarage of Calceby, joint net yearly p.m. Tetford is tlhe nearest money order office &; value £490• including 85 acres of glebe, with residence, Swaby, 2 miles distant, the nearest telegraph office in the gift of C. F. Massmgberd-Mundy esq. and held Public Elsmentlary School (mixed), built in 1858, for 85 since 1911 by the Rev. Henry Reginald Stenart Callander children; average attendance, SI; Edwin Bond, mastr B.A. of Clare College, Cambridge. On the brow of a Oarrier.-George H. Househam, to Alford, toes.; to st~p hill east of the village are the remains of an Horncastle, sat Callander Rev. Hy. Beginald Steuart Calvert Joseph, carpenter Manure Co. & for the Guardian B.A. (rector), Rectory Crow Henry, blacksmith Life li Fire Office Massingberd-Mundy Charles Francis Holmes Bart, farmer, Ketsby North Jas. G. Massingberd Arms P.H D.L.• J.P. Onnsby hall Househam George Henry, carrier &:; Rainthorpe Robert A. farmer, Ketsby Massingberd-Mundy Godfrey Bertram parish clerk South Ormsby Agricultural Associa• D.L., J.P. Ormsby hall Martin .Tohn Thos.farmer,Wood farm tion Ltd. (Asher Monntain,managr) COMMERCIAL. Mountain Asher, farm bailiff & Trevor Waiter Wm. miller (water), Bellamy JBTvis, shopkpr. Post office steward to C. F. Massingberd- Ketsby Bntters Jabez, shoe maker Mnndy esq. agent for Tigar's OS:SOUB.N:SY is a parish and village, on the Old onion and county court district, rural deanery of Ave· Lincoln road, 2! miles south-west from the Aswarby land, and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The 1tation on the Bonme and Sleaford branch of the Great church of SS. Peter and Paul is an ancient building of Northern railway, 3 north from Folkingham, 6 south the Earlier English, Late Decorated and Perpendicular from Sleaford and 109 from Londo~ in the North periods, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisle~ Kesteven division of the county, parts of Kesteven, south porch and a western tower containing a clock and wapentake of A.veland, Sleatord petty sessional division, 3 bells; there are richly canopied sedilia, the agee .