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window is stained, and in 1904 a memorial window was lar1downers. The soil is fine alluvial and clay; subsoil, placed in the south aisle to the Rev, Henry Owen B.A. same. The chief crops are wheat, oats, beans, peas and rector of thi~ parish 1859-87 : there is also a window turnips, but a large portion is rich pasture. The area inserted in rgn by the present rector to his wife and is 1,496 acres of land and 6r of foreshore; rateable another one inserted in rgr6: in the porch is a value, {,2,474; population in rgn, 342. stone with an inscription asking the prayers of thP faithful on behalf of Richard Wright, wlrtl built th~t THORPE is one mile and a half south-west. pl,rch in 1522, his wife and family: the tower bears the Post Office.-William Edward Parker, sub-postmaster. date r6o6. The rt>gister dates from the year r665. The l\Iablethorpe, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money living is a rectory, net yeM"ly value £221, arising from order & telegraph office 230 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. Pillar Boxe'l.- Manor & .Alexandra. terrsce Lomax, and held since 1904 by the Rev. Charles Moon Assoc. K.C.L. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and a Public Elementary School (mixed), erected as a tribute Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1836. The poor to the memory of William Loft esq. in 1856, for 6o have the benefit of a small yearly charity amounting to children ; Miss Challis, mistress [,r 12s. Messrs. William Riggall and Sons, Mr. H. Carriers.-Robinson .Atkinson, to A.lford, tues.; to Hodgson, of Main Bridge, and Richard West are the chief Louth, wed. & (during summer season) sat

Ohallis Mrs. Sale by house 1 Cartwright George, fat mer Biggall Albert G. farmer Hamilton Mrs. Bungalow • Chatterton Forman, pig dealer St>arby Luke, apartments, Fern Dale Mappin Miss, Morton cottage Daft Thomas, aparts. The Laurels SiYel William (Mrs.), private nurs- Moon Rev. Charles Assoc.K.C.L. Dodds Henry, bricklayer ing home, Culme lodge (rector), Rectory Dowse .Art bur, farmer_ Smith Samuel, farmer Robinson Mrs. Providence house . Dowse John R. farmer tStrawson Robt.D. farmer,Rossa frm Rowson Mrs. Rowans :Foster Charles, miller (wind & steam; Stnbbs John William, farmer Sivel William, Culme lodge 1 Foster Richard, cow keeper Thornley John W. tomato grower, Woodiwiss Isaac Newton J.P. Trus- 1 Gray CharlBS, farmer Retreat thorpe hall 1 Gray George, farmer True Misses, apartments COMMERCIAL. Hodgson Hugh, farmer, Main Bridge Wattam John T. & :Farmery Thomas, , Leary .J:oseph, farmer coal merchants Marked thus t farm 150 acres or OTer. Parker William Edwd. grocr.Post off West Richard, farmer, West lodge Barton John George, cowkeeper Biggall William & Sons, farm~rs & Wilkinson Ernest,aparts. HomeLeigh Brooks Geo. rate collectr. Sunnyside landowners, Thorpe Wills on Brothers, joiners

TUMBY is a township iu Kirkby-on-Bain parish, but cipal landowner. The soil is poor light sand; subsoil, for ecclesiastical purposes a part of the township is in­ white sand and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, cluded in the pa~ish of , in the barley, oats and turnips. The area is 3,763 acres of division of the county, south division of Gartree wapen­ land and 13 of water; rateable value, £2,835; popula­ take, parts of Lindsey, Horncastle union, petty sessional tion in Igll, 295- division and county court district, rural deanery of Gar­ Letters through Boston. The nearest money order & tree, archdeaconry of Stow and ; it is telegraph oflices are at , ~~ miles south, & 2 miles north from Coningsbv station, on the Kirkstead Mareham-le-Fen, 2! distant north-east ~ . & branch of the Great Northern rail- Some of the children of Tuml1y attend the school at way, but the greater numoer of the inhabitants are at Coningsby Woodside, where there is also a station on the same Pubiic Elementary School (mixed), Woodside, built in line branch, about 5 miles east from Tattersha11 station, 1878, at a cost of £425, on a site given by the late and 7 south from Horncastle. IIere are extensive woods Sir Henry llawley bart. for 70 children; Mrs. M~ry of oak and larch, covering an area of over r,ooo acres. Hardwick, mistress There is no church: thP inhabitants attend those at The school is controlled by 4 foundation & 2 elected Moorhouses, Kirkby-on-Bain and Coningsby. There is a members, appointed March, 1902; A;rthur Goodrick, Wesleyan chapel at Wood8ide. Sir Henry Cusack Mareham-le-Fen, correspondrnt Wingfield Hawley bart. is lord of the manor and prin- Station master, Tumby Woodside, James Hy. Clayton Ha\\rley Michl. Chas.J.P.Tnmby lawn Hare Brothers, farmen Orton George, cottage farmer Osgarby Herbert, farmer COMMERCI.-1. L. Ha.wlev Michael Charles J.P. steward t'l Sir Henry Cusack Wingfield Parker Albert, farmer, Woodside Marked thus t farm 150 acre~ or OYer. Hawley bart. Tumby lawn Richardson Henry, farmer, Woodside Bannister Wm. farmer, Mareham la tHodgson James, farmer,Toft grange R.o berts Ernest,cottage fmr. W oodside Brooks William. farmer, Woodside (letters through Mareham-le-Fen) Shaw Frederick, farmer, Woodside Brown Thomas, gamekeeper to Sir tHodgson Thomas William, farmer Stennt>tt David, farmer & assistant Hy. Cus.ack Wingfield Hawley hart tHonseham Henry, farmer overseer, W oodsidr Oalthorpe Charles, cottage farmer Househam William, farmer Topper John & William, farmers, (postal address, Kirkby-on-Bain, Hutton Benjamin, farmer, Woocisirlr Mareham lane Lincoln) Hutton Jsph. jun. farmer, Woodside tTrafford George, farmer tcoulton Paddison, farmer, Woodside Kemp John English, farmr. Woodside WallPr Frank, farmer tDowse John, farmer, Woodside Maddison George Spikin, blacksmith, White Henry, farmer Duddles Ann (Mrs.), frmr. Woodside Woodside Wilson lsaac, cottage frmr.Woodside Elkington Annie (Miss). farmer,, tMastin John, farmer, Woodside Wold Arthur, farmer Woodside I ~ortb Frank, farmer, Woodside TUPHOLME, formerly extra-parochial, is a parish, 9 fectory with six lancet windows, and a reading pulpit,' miles west from HorncaS'tle terminal station on a branch still remain: its revenues, at the Dissolution, were es­ of the Great Northern railway, 2 north from the river timated at £um. The Lady .Alwyne Compton~Vyner, of Witham and the Southrey station on the Boston and Tupholme Hall, is lady of the manor and the sole land­ Lincoln bmnch of the Great Northern railway, in the owner. The ~oil is mostly clay; subsoil, blue and yellow Horncastle division of the county, parts of Lindsey, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The Horncastle sake, west division of the wapentake of Wrag- area is 1,796 acres; rateable value, £848; population goe, union, county court district and petty sessional in rgn, 72. division of Horncastle. Here was anciently_ a Premon- Letters through Lincoln, via Bardney station. The stratensian monastery dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, nearest money order & telegraph office is at Bardney, founded in the time of Henry II. by Alan and Gilbert about mile~ distant de Neville and colonised from New house; it was richly 2 endowed and held part of Middle Rasen with the tithes. The children of this parish attend the schools at Bard- Some picturesque ruins, including one side of the re- I ney & Southery •

Marked thus t farm 150 acre~ or oYer. I Clayton Thomas, farmer . Massey John, jun. farmer (letters Compton-Vyner Lady Alwyne, Tup- Lawton & Sons, farmers (letters through Bucknall, Lincoln) holme ball through Bucknall, Lincoln) Rushton Charles, farmer lJeavin Wm. A.. frmr. Low Road farm tSmithson Thomas, farmer,Hall frm TWYFORD, see Oolsterworth. LINCS. 19t