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Smith Tom, Nelthorpe Arms P.H Temperance Hall (Joseph Beacock, Usher George, builder Snmpter Thomas, Sloop inn, Sluice manager), Sluice Waddingham Wm. K. farmer, Field ho Sweetmg Michael, Hope & Anchor P.H. Tripp William, farmer Walker Robert, fanner Sluice UnderwoodAnn(Mrs.),brick & tile mnfr Watson William, bril:k & tile ma. Sluice FERRY CORNER PLOT, formerly extra-parochial, the usual cereals are grown. The area is about 49 acrM; is n w a parish, 5 miles north-west from Boston, one mile rateable value, £n8; population in I88r was 45· west from Langrick station on the Lincoln and Boston PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Maria Donnor, receiver. Letter~ branch of the Great Northern railway and about one mile through Boston, arrive at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 3 & 6.40 &nd a half north from church, in the North p. m. The nearest money order office is at Boston & tele- Kest.even division of the county, parts of Holland, Kirton graph office Langrick Station wapentake, petty sessional division of Kirton and , This place is included in North East United uni n and county court district of Boston. There is a W es- School Board District, formed Jan. 28, I 879 leyan chapel here, built in 1868. Richardson Dring esq. is The children attend the Board school at Hedge Hog Bridge, the principal landowner. The soil and subsoil are clay, and Brothertoft Donnor Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper, & l Barber Charles, farmer J Wortley Thomas, farmer post office Palmer Richard, farmer FILLINGHAM is a parish and pleasant village, char- curate-in-charge since 1884. In the year I36I the living mingly situated at the western declivity of the cliffs, 151 was presented by the college to John de Wycliffe, the great miles from , 10 north-by-west from Lincoln, 10 south- reformer, then one of the fellows of the college. The rectory east from Gainsborough and 7 west from Lee station on the house was restored by the late Sir Gilbert Scott R.A. in I853- Lmcoln and Doncaster loop line of the Great Northern rail- The fairs were long since removed to Spital by Sir Cecil way, in the division of the county, western Wray bart. The village is beautified by a magnificent lake, diviSion of the wapentake of Aslacoe, Lincoln (Lindsey) petty about 40 acres in extent, the head of a feeder of the Till. sessional division, parts of Lindsey, Gainsborough union and Fillingham Castle, an embattled edifice, built by Sir Cecil oounty court district, rural deanery of Aslacoe, archdeaconry Wray bart. in I76o, is the property of and is at present oc­ of Stow and . St. Andrew's church, cupied by Mrs. Portman-Dalton; in the grounds are vestiges previously a structure of the Early English and Early of a Roman camp, where coins, spear-heads and fragments Decorated periods, was partly reconstructed in I777, when of armour have been discovered: the river Ancholme takes the present tower and the greater portion of the fabric wa11 its rise in the park. Mrs. Portman-Dalton, of Sleningford rebuilt, the date being marked on the tower: the building Park, Ripon, Yorkshire, who is lady of the manor, and consists of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, west porch and the rector are the landowners. The soil is mixed ; subsoil, a western tower with four richly carved pinnacles and con- mixed. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, turnips taining a clock and one bell: the earliest existing feature is and pasture. The area is 3,427 acres; rateable value, 1 small semi-circular headed doorway beneath the tower, .{;3,210; the population in 1881 was 307. &'re. 1200: the chancel is entirely modern ; on the north Parish Clerk, Thomas Stobbart. wall is a mural monument of marble, to Jane, daughter of PosT OFFICE.-William Laidlow, receiver. Letters arrive Denzil Hollis, of OriUSby, and wife of Thomas Saunderson : from Lincoln to Ingham, thence by foot messenger & are the churchyard contains a handsome monumental cross, up- delivered about IO a. m. ; dispatched at 3. 30 p.m. on wards of 30 feet in height, in memory of Major Thomas N. week days only. Ingham is the nearest money order & Dalton, 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's Royal Berks) Kirton Lindsey the nearest telegraph office Regiment, killed at the battle of lnkerman, Nov. 5th, 1854: the church was again restored in I866, and has 120 sittings. Parochial School (mixed), erected by the late John Dalton The register dates from the year I66I. The living is a rec- esq. & enlarged in r86o, to hold 6o children; average tory, net yearly value £6IS, including 464 acres of glebe, attendance, 40 ; Thomas Barrett, master with residence, in the gift of the Master and Fellows of CARRIERS TO :- Balliol College, Oxford, and held since I852 by the Rev. GAINSBOROUGH-Joseph Brown, tues. The Ingham car- Wilham James Jenkins M.A. late fellow of that college, riers also pass through every tues. en route to Gainsboro' who resides at South Tottenham, Middlesex ; Rev. William LINCOLN -Charles King & Joseph Brown, every man. wed. Wilton Smith M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, has been & sat Portman-Dalton Scymour Berkeley D.L., Brougharn John, grazier Roberts Benjamin, blacksmith l.P. Fillingham castle Carter George, grazier Roberts Henry, wheelwright Sandars Edward, Manor house Clarke John, steam ploughing owner Sandars Edward, farmer & land owner, SmithRev.Wm.Wilton M.A. [in charge] Clayton John, grocer Manor house COMMERCIAL. Godfrey William, farmer Smith George William, farmer, Rectory Acrill William, far:ner Laidlow George, tailor & draper farm Atkinson Thomas, farmer Laidlow William, shopkeeper Swrr Edward, shoe maker Bell John, builder Laidlow William, jun. farmer Storr Mrs. grazier FIRSBY is a parish and small village, situated on a five acres of land, left by W. Cheales and producing £12 a small stream, with a station at the junction of the year; also Ashlin's charity, bequeathed in I873, producing and branches with the East Lincolnshire branch of £I2 annually, distributed in coal or bread on St. Andrew'!5 the Great Northern railway, I22.f miles from London, 5 east- day. The Rev. Richard George Walls M. A. rector, who i!l south-east from Spilsby, 4 south-west from Burgh and 5 lord of the manor, Charles Thomas Samuel Birch-Reynard­ n rtb-west from Wainfleet, in the South Lindsey division of son esq. D.L. of Holywell Hall, Stamford, and the trustees of the county, parts of Lindsey, Wold division of Canrlleshoe the late John Ashlin are the principal landowners. The soil npentake, Spilsby union, petty sessional division and is rich loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat and <:Ounty court district, rural deanery of Candleshoe No. 2, and beans. The area is I,o63 acres ; rateable value, £2,094 ; the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. population in I88I was 235. Andrew, rebuilt in I856, at a cost of £85o, under the direc- Parish Clerk, William Maltby. tmn of the late Mr. J. E. Street R.A. is an edifice of Lincoln Sexton, John Eyres. stone with Ancaster stone dressings, in the Early English LETTER Box, Railway station, cleared at 4.30 p.m. week style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, south porch and a days only. Letters through Spilsby, the nearest money Western gable containing 2 bells : two of the windows are order of!ice, arrive at 10 a. m ; telegraph otlice at J<"irsby stamed, and there are ISO sittings. The register dates from railway station the year I7I7. The living is a rectory, with the vicarage of annexed, tithe rent-charge (Firsby) £I8S, A School Board of 7 members was formed J\hrch 10, 1876, lflth n acres of glebe, joint gross yearly value £ 342, in the for the united district of Firsby, & Irby-in-the- ~t of and held since 1844 by the Rev. Richard George Marsh; T. Ward, Newtown, Spilsby, clerk to the board \\ails H.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford, who resides at & attendance officer Great Steeping. Dr. William Warburton, Bishop of Glou- The children of this place attend the Board school at Irby- ~r 176o-7g), was recwr here from I730 to I756. There in-the-:.Vlarsh 18 a Wesleyan chapel here. The poor have the interest of Railway Station, John Topliss, station master COMMERCIAL. Kemp Henry John, farmer Maltby John, farmer Blackburn William, farmer Kernp John, cake, corn & wool mer. & Maltby 'Villiam, farmer Cash Herringshaw, wheelwright farmer; & at Boston, Alford & Spilsby Higgall Arthur Stov1 , f rmer Crawr rd George Fredk. Railway hotel Kemp 'Villiam John, land surveyor Searby Henry, farmer & grazier IIropley William, farmer Kime Maria (Mrs.), beer retailer Skelton Peter, shopkeeper unt J hn, farmer Mager John Charles, miller (wind) Taylor William, boot maker & shopkpr LIX. 10*