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Marquess of Ripon K.G. who is lord of the manor, and the PosT OFFICE.- John Smalley, sub-postmaster. Letters Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are also the lay impro- arrive from Lincoln at 8 a.m. & are dispatched at 5.30 priators, are the principal landowners. The soil in the p.m.; arrive from at 5.30 p.m. & are dispatched upper part of the parish is light land, inclosed from Lincoln to Sleaford at 8 a. m. The nearest money order & tele- heath ; the lower part is reclaimed fen, while the centre, graph office is at Metheringham. from the Sleaford road to Carr dyke, is a heavy loam; sub- I National School (mixed)1 erected in 1852 & since enlarged, soil, limestone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. for 108 children; average attendance, 105; John Thomas The area is 4,620 acres; rateable value, £4,357; the popu- Corbett, master lation in 1881 was 782. Railway Station, George Johnson, station master Parish Clerk, Joseph Moody. CARRIER TO LINCOLN.-James Kennewell, tues. & fri BourneRev.Stphn.EugeneB.A.Vicarage Danby Samuel, baker & farmer Richardson Charlotte (Mrs.), Butchers• Cartwright Thomas, Dunston pillar Dawson ThomM, cowkeeper Arms P.H Foster William Fox William, farmer, Brook farm Smalley John, draper, beer retailer & Fox William, Brook farm Halkes Thos. builder,contrctr.& wheelwt grocer, & post office Pepper William Ernest Maltby Harry, Red Lion P.H. & farmer Todd Jesse, farmer, Fen Snow Mrs. The ~ycamores Nelson Robert, farmer, White house Trafford Clarke, shopkeeper & thresh- Pearson Jonathan, farmer, Fen ing machine owner COMMERCIAL. Pearson William, farmer, Fen Turner Benjamin, shopkeeper Batty John, shoe maker Pepper William, farmer, Dunston hall Turner Catherine (Mrs.), farmer Brown William, cowkeeper Quincey Martin, White Horse P.H. Turner William, income tax collector Burtt Waiter, coal merchant Southrey ferry [Letters received Wood Richard (Mrs.), farmer Cartwright James, farmer, Pillar farm through Southrey, Lincoln] Wray Thomas, butcher & farmer Clifton Jas. farmer & overseer,Manor fm Robinson George, boot & hurdle maker EAGLE is a village and parish, 8 miles south-west-by- EAGLE HALL, formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish, west from Lincoln by road and 5~ by railway, 2 west-by- 1 mile north-west from Swinderby station, which is within north from 'fhorpe station on the Lincoln branch of the the parish, and contains 1,132 acres of land ; rateable value, Midland railway and 11 north-east from Newark, in the £1,290; the population in 1881 was 69. The land is the division of the county, parts of Kesteven, property of Thomas C. Curtis esq. higher division of the hundred of Boothby Graffoe, petty EAGLE ·woonHousE, formerly extra-parochial, was amal­ sessional division of Lincoln (South), union and county court gamated with Eagle March 25th, 1886, the property of the district of Lincoln, rural deanery of Graffoe and arch­ trustees of the late Mrs. Colton. deaconry and . The church of All Saints The south-east corner of the parish is called EAGLE is a small but ancient structure of brick and stone in the BAHNSDALE. Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and a tower containing 5 bells: the font is Norman, Letters received from Newark by Collingham at 9.30 a. m. but only the lower half now remains: the church, which George Wells, receiver. Dispatched at. 3.25 p.m. The has been for some years in a state of decay, has 120 sittings. nearest money order & telegraph oflices are at Collingham The register dates legibly from the year I588, but there are & Lincoln; also Thorpe station for telegraph one or two pages of entries of much older date. The living A School Board of 7 members was formed May 1, 1877, for is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £s, gross yearly value £ 144, the United District of Eagle, Eagle Hall & Eagle Wood- including 90 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the house; P. Fenton, clerk to the board; H. J. Whitehead, trustees ofT. B. Colton esq. and held since 1875 by the Rev. attendance officer Thomas Kirk M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. The Board School (mixed), erected in 1878, for 100 children; vicarage house is a structure of red brick, erected in I882. average attendance, 66; Waiter Baldock, master Here are two chapels belonging to the Wesleyans and the A bequest of £5 a year was made in 1751 by T. Unyon esq. Wesleyan Reformers. The trustees of the late T. B. Colton for educating six children of this parish. The number esq. who are lords of the manor, the trustees of the late now taught free varies from 20 downwards Michael Colton esq. and Edward Henry Solly esq. are the CARRIERS:- principal landowners. The soil is loamy and moor land ; Ralph Green, to & from Lincoln, daily subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. Robert Pierpoint & Henry Whitelee, to & from Newark on The area is 2,530 acres; rateable value, £2,329, exclusive of wed. ; & to & from Lincoln on fri Eagle Hall; the population in 1881 was 455· William Brown, Newark, wed. & Lincoln, fri Brown John Fenton James, blacksmith Sanderson Jas. baker & miller (wind) Kirk Rev. Thomas M.A. [vicar] Fow Thomas, farmer Sheldou Charles, farmer, Eagle hall Skepper Thomas Freetwell Thos. Engine P.H. & farmer Sibsey James, farmer Thornhill Robert Green Emma (Mrs.), farmer Smith John, farmer COMMERCIAL. Green Robert, farmer & carrier Sm1th Robert, farmer Bennett Jabez, farmer Hardy George, farmer Smith William, tailor Bennett William, farmer, Moor Hebblewhite Wm.beerret.butchr.&frmr Spencer George, farmer & overseer Bingham John, farmer Holmes George, farmer Taylor Henry, boot maker BradleyCaroline(Mrs.)(exors.of),farmrs Hunt John, boot maker Taylor Sarah (Miss), dress maker Brown Brothers, farmers & carriers Liley William, boot maker Taylor William, farmer Burton Frederick, wheelwright Liverton Hy. farmer, Eagle Barnsdale Traves Alfred, joiner Butler George, farmer Mansfield Richard, farmer Traves Edward, farmer Cottingham Waiter, grocer & joiner Marshal! Joseph, farmer WaddingtonEdward, fa.,.,rrmner, Eagle hall DakinsM.A.(Mrs.),farmr.EagleWood ho Osborne Thomas, Struggler P.H Wells George, shopkeeper, & post oflice East George, shopkeeper, Eagle hall Pacey George, blacksmith Wells Robt. fnnr.& survyr. of highways Fenton William Bentley, manufacturer Parker William, farmer Whitaker Mary (Mrs.), farmer of ploughs, harrows, drags, land rolls, Pierpoint Robert, shopkeeper & carrier White bee Henry farmer & carrier scarifiers, potato raisers & every des- Rea-l John, farmer Whitehead James Henry, grocer cription of agricultural implements, Rolin.~ Edward, farmer Yeast George, farmer Acme iron works Rose Matthew, butcher

EAST OFT is a pleasant village, township and parish, F.S.A. at a cost of £5,000, at the sole expense of Lady Strick­ formed Sept. 25, 1855, out of the parishes of Adlingfleet, in land; it consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a. the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Crowle, in Lincolnshire, turret containing~ bells: a new organ was erected in 1884 and is situated on the banks of the old river Don, adjacent at a cost of £180: the east and west windows are stained, to and partly in the Isle of Axholme, 3t miles from Crowle, and there are 250 sittings. The separate register of this 9 south-east from Goole and 4 north-north-east from Crowle parish dates only from the year 1855; the earlier registers station on the South Yorkshire branch of the Manchester, are included in those of Crowle, as relating to Eastoft, Lin­ Sheffield & Lincolnshire railway, partly in the colnshire, and in those of Adlingfleet as relating to Eastoft, division of the county, parts of Lindsey, west divi,ion of Yorkshire. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £1 so, Manley wapentake, petty sessional division of Epworth, with residence, in the gift of Henry Strickland-Constable Thorne union and county court district, and partly in the esq. J.P. of Wassand Hall, and held since 1879 by the Rev. east division of the West Riding of York, Goole county court Edmund Richard Manwaring-White B. A. of Pembroke district, rural deanery of Snaith and archdeaconry and College, Cambridge. There are Primitive Methodist and diOCeSe of York. Eastoft, Yorkshire, and Eastoft, Lincolnshire, Methodist New Connexion chapels here. Eastoft Hall is the are separate civil parishes, although combined ecclesiasti- residence of William Coultman esq. J. P. The principal cally. The church of St. Bartholomew, which stands in landowners are Earl Manvers, who is lord of the manor, Yorkshire, is a. building of stone in the Early English style, Henry Strickland-Constable esq. B.A., J.P. Wassand Hall, erected in 1855, from designs by J. L. Pearson esq. R.A.t the Rev. Thomas Henry Lister M.A. of Pickhurst, Godalming,