DIRECTORY.] . NETTLETON. 587 parishioners had an allotment of 47 acres, in addition· to a 1 Parish Clerk, Robert Bates, junior. small portion of old poor's land: a. workhouse was afterwards PosT & MoNEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank.- erected on part 9f it, and 7 acres added; the building, how- John Dorr, postmaster. Letters from London arrive ever, is now let out in tenements: the land, let in small from by mail cart at 8.45 a.m. & dis- allotments, produces about £us' yearly, of which £r8 is patched at 4-15 p.m. Letters arrive from Lincoln at paid to the schoolmaster, £rs to the mistress, £2 2s. for 2.30 p.m. & dispatched at II.30 a.m.; the telegraph office coals at the school, and about £6 6s. for a yearly distri- is at Leadenham bution of coals amongst the poor; the remainder is carried Parochial School (mixed & infants), built by subscription in to the poor rates. A sick club was established here in rBII; 1816: it will hold roo boys & 120 girls & ihfants; average it has now 9S members, and an invested fund amounting attendance, So boys & roo girls & infants: & is sup- to £sso. Two fairs were originally held, but now ported by subscription; Horatio Stanley Howley, master; only one, on the 17th October, principally for swine. A Miss Mary Ann Barton, mistress pleasure fair is held on the Thursday before Easter, and a Railway Station, Edwiu Dibbin, station master statute for servants in May. The Dean and Chapter of CARRIERS TO:- Lincoln are lords of the manor and principal landowners. GRANTHAM-John Baker, on saturday The soil is clay; subsoil, sand. The chief crops 8re wheat, LINCOLN-Johnson & Steel., daily barley and oats. The area is 2 1 S72 acres ; rateable value, NEWARK-John Baker, on wednesday £4,767; the population in I88r was 9S7· -John Baker & Wm. Massingham,on monday Armstead Joseph Daubney James, farmer Massingham William, shopkeeper Campbell.Andrew DP.an Edward, grocer & boot maker Sick Benefit Club (Rev. John Daubney Robert Dorr John, grocer & postmaster Hays M.A. hon. sec) HaysRev. PrebendaryJohn M. A. Rectory Dring William, farmer Navenby & Wellingore Gas Light & Rollitt Mrs. Susannah Elkington Henry, beer retailer Coke .Co. Lim. (Hy. Bott, manager) Sampson Mrs Godbehere William Wolfeit, Lion & Nelson John, Reindeer P.H Wright Mrs Royal hotel Page George & Son, watch makers Green James, plumber &c Palin George, baker COMMERCIAL. Hales William, farmer Payne Thomas, plumber &c Baker John, carrier Hales William, maltster & farmer Picker John, farmer Barrand Matthew, farmer Harvey Richard, Railway P.H Priestly .Ann (Miss), farmer Bates Robert, farmer, Clint house Haywood William Knight, farmer Rawson -, tailor Bonner Mary .Ann (Mrs.), saddler & Hollinshead Robcrt, farmer RobinsonGeorge, wind miller & butcher harness maker Holmes Joseph, wheelwright Rollitt James, farmer Briggs Arthur, tailor Holmes Joseph, jnn. smith Rollitt John, grocer Brown Josepb, veterinary surgeon Holmes Thomas, machine owner Sands William, farmer BurttWalter,coal & manureulr. Station Harry John, baker Seward Joseph, grocer & draper Campbell Andrew L.R.C.P. Edin. sur- Hoyes Edward, boot & shoe maker Simpson John, shopkeeper geon & medical officer & public vac­ Johnson Edward, carrier Simpson John, tailor cinator, No. 4 district, Lincoln union Johnson John, flour dealer Singleton John, nurseryman Chatterton Frank, farmer Johnson John Edward, coal agent Smith Francis, farmer Clarke George, King's Head p.H Johnson Thomas, hawker Spafford Oswald, farmer Collins William, cooper Johnson William, Chaplin's Arms P.H Staples Josiah, farmer Cooke Robert, farmer Leek James, butcher Thompson Richard, joiner Cowham Joseph, grocer & draper Lidgett Henry, farmer Towers Thomas, dealer NETTLEHAM is a village and parish, in the Mid parish; in 1791, the said £so was spent in repewing and division of the county, parts of Lindsey, Lawress wapen­ making other additions to the church, when the minister take, Lincoln union and county court district, rural deanery and others agreed that the yearly interest £2 ros. should be of Lawress No. r, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lin~ paid out of the church land: John Moss also left £r yearly, coln, 3 miles north-east-by-north from Lincoln and the for the nse of the poor, derived from a charge on land in Witllam, and about 2 west from Reepham station., on the 1723. Nettleham Hall, the residence of S. Frankland Hood Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway. The church esq. J. P. stands on an eminence ; the approach is by a drive of All Saints is an ancient building of stone, in the Perpen­ through massive iron gates, formerly at the entrance of the dicular style, consillting of chancel, nave, aisles and a massive churchyard of St. Peter-at-Arches, Lincoln. The Bishop of western tower containing 6 be Us: a stained wmdow has Lincoln, who is lord of the manor, S. Frankland Hood esq. been placed at the east end by the members of the Hood J.P. S. ffytche esq. J. Swan esq. and William Rudgard esq. family, and there are two memorial windows at the west are the principal landowners. The soil is gravel; subsoil, end: the font was presented by J. L. ffytche esq. of Thorpe limestone. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley.. Hall, in 1849: the church was partly restored in r88r, new The area is 3,338 acres; rateable value, £s,623; the popu­ roofs being put on the aave, north aisle, as well as the chan­ lation in r88r was 958. cel, which was then enlarged, an organ chamber erected, and Parish Clerk. Thomas Pask. an organ introduced. The register dates from the year 1:583. PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. Harriet Yarnall, receiver. Letters The living is a. vicarage, gross yearly value £310, from r66 received through Lincoln, which is the nearest money acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of the Bishop of Lin­ order & telegraph office. Letters arrive at 7.20 a.m. ; coln, and held since .r884 by the Rev. Charles Warren M.A. dispatched at 5·4S p.m of St. John's College, Cambridge: there is a charge on the National School (mixed), built in r856, for 200 children; living for the building· of the vicarage house. The Wesleyans average attendance, rso; & supported by voluntary -con­ and Free Methodists have chapels here. The charities tributions; William Howe, master ; Mrs. Alice Howe, amount to £3 ros. yearly, derived from the bequest of John mistress Aistroppe, who in 1786 left £so to be placed out at interest, CARRIERS TO LINCOLN.-John William Gibson; Samuel and the product to be distributed in bread to the poor of the Sawyer, daily; & Frederick Vickers, fri. & sat HoodSinclairFranklandB.A.,J.P. Nettle. Fields James, farmer Pearson Mary (Mrs.), farmer ham hall Fox John, farmer Rook Isaac, farmer Parker Mrs Hall George, White Hart inn Rowe John Wm. miller (steam & wind) Warren Rev. Charles M.A. [vicar] Hall Ridge Skepper, farmer Sawyer John, Saracen's Head P.lf Whitehead .Archibald Herd Thomas, farmer Shuttleworth RoberL & James; farmers Hill John, builder Sissons & Kirk, farmers COMMERCIAL. Hodson William, shopkeeper Smith Charles, Greyhound inn .Appleton John, farmer & landowner, Judson Thomas, baker & provision dlr Smith Thomas, market gardener The Lodge Kirk John, farmer Vickers John, farmer & butcher "Bailey William, shopkeeper & bricklayer Lusby James, farmer Vickers Mary (Mrs.), Plough P.H~ Berry Samuel, machine owner Mansford .Alfred, grocer & draper butcher & farmer. Bows Thomas, beer retailer Mason John, shoe maker Vickers Robert, tailor & grocer Burkinshaw Joseph John, farmer & Nicholson Jarvis, farmer Vickers William, lime burner & farmer land agent Nicholson Wm. Brown Cow P.li. & frmr Watson Charles, saddler Codling George, tailor Nicholson Richard, shoe maker Wingad Hezekiah, tailor Fanthorpe Charles, beer retailer Parker Robert, farmer Worth William, farmer & landowner Farrow George Edwi~ baker Pask Thomas, wheelwright

NETTLETON is a village and parish, in the Northern Yarborough No. 2, archdeaconry of Stow and di(}(:~ese of division of the county, parts of Lmdsey, south division of Lincoln. The village is very pleasantly situated in a -rnlley, Yarborongh wapentake, petty sessional division; and at the foot of a very bold point of the Wolds, ealled tlnion ~nd county court district, rural deanery of N ettleton Hill, about one mile .11outh from Caistor, 9 mil~