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..nd chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and Post Office.--Frederick Gibson, sub-postmaster. Letters turnips, with some pasture land. The area is 2,329 arrive via at 7·45 a.m.; are dispatched acres of land and 3 of water; rateable value, £1,956; thereto at 4·45 p.m.; no delivery of letters on sun­ the population in 1901 was 206. days. Post,al O.rders are issued & paid here. The nearest money order & telegraph offices are at Ludford Bloater Hill is one mile south-west. & Tealby, 2 miles distant Parish Clerk, Anthony Willey. Voluntary School, built in I85o, for so children; aver­ agEJ attendance, 40; Miss .Agnes House, mistress Boucherett Miss, Willingham hall Dales George William, cottager Robinson Clark, farmer COMMERCIAL. Dannatt Mark, farmer, Top farm Sylvester Joseph, farmer Drakes .Alfred, farmer, Springbank frm '!)·son Charles & William, farmera .A.shley Richard Martin, joiner & · Gibson Frederick, blacksmith & sub- Vickers Joseph, farmer wheelwright postmaster Willey .A.nthony, cottager Beverley Tbos. farmer, Rookery farm Harrison Luke E. farmer Willey Tom, farmer Brookes John, cottagel" Pickwell Thomas, oottager & shopkpr SOUTH WILLINGHAM is a parish, with a station which is devoted to the repair of the fabric of the a quarter of a mile south from the village, on the Louth church; and a sum of about £4oo in Consols, arising and Lincoln branch of the Great Northern railway, and from the sale of land to a railway company, the in­ is 8 miles south-east from Market Rasen and II south- terest of which is applied to the same purpose. The west from Louth, in the division of the charities amount to 13s. 4d. yearly. Lord Heneage county, parts of Lindsey, eastern division of the wapen- P.C. of Hainton Hall, who is lord of the manor, and take of Wraggoe, petty sessional division of , Trinity College, Cambridge, are the principal land­ Louth union and county court district of Market Rasen, owners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay. The chief rural deanery of Wraggoe, archdeaconry of Stow and crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is . The church of St. Martin is a build- 2,043 acres; rateable value, £2,179; population in 1901, ing of stone in the Early English style, consisting of 280. chancel and nave and embattled western tower with Parish Clerk, William Brumpton. pinnacles, containing a clock and 3 bells: t·he church was Post Office.-Miss Edith Mary Johnson, sub-postmis- rebuilt in 1838 and t1he tower restored in 1839, and in tress. Letters through Lincoln arrive at 7.20 a.m. ; 1885 the interior was thoroughly renovated at a cost of dispatched at 5.25 p.m. ; no delivery on sunday. £593; a new organ was erected in 1892: there are Postal Orders are issued & paid here. The nearest sittings for 160 persons. The register dates from the money order & postal telegraph office is at Hainton, 2 year 17II. The living is a rectory, net yearly value miles distant; telegrams can be sent from the railway £26o, including 271 acres of glebA, with residence, in station & messages received, but not delivered the gift of Lord Heneage P.C. and held since rgoo by School (infants), built in 1834, for 30 children; average the Rev . .A.rthur Temperley M.A. of Sidney Col- attendance, 21 ; Miss R. Barnwell, mistress lege, Cambridge. Here are Wesleyan and Free Metho- Railway Stat.ion, Alfred John Coulson, !':twtion master dist chapels. There is a field of 10 acres, t1he rent of OarTier.-Bertt, to Louth, wed.& .sat. ; MaTket Rasen,tues Temperley Rev . .A.rthur M.A. (rector), Firth George, cottager Pickering Charles, bricklayer Rectory Greenwood Edwin, blacksmith Pickerin.g William George, bricklayer Harrison Bartholomew, miller (wind) Pickwell Mark, cottager COMMERCIAL. HarTU:on Edwd. farmr. Walk Ho. fm Plumtree Joseph, shoe maker Babington Mary (Mislil), dress maker Hildred Levi, cottager Rushby William, cottager Bett Tom, carrier Hunt John William, wheelwright Taylor Levi, cottager Bett William, farmer Johnson Edith Mary (Miss), Post off Thaxratt George Thomas, farmer,The Brumpton J ames, cottager J ohnson Tom Coppmg & Edith Mary Grange Brumpton Willia.m, cottager (Miss), grocers Tharratt William, farmer Cordey John W. cottager Ktmt George, cottager Wallis Thos. coal merchant & farmer Firth Charles, cottager Phillipson Joseph, farmer

WILLINGHAM-BY-STOW, inclosed by Act of vicar of Coates. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Parliament in 1780, is a. pleasant village and parish, on Methodist chapels, and a. Cottage Hospital,· erected in the river Till, 3 miles south-east from Lea station on 188o, at the sole expense of the late Mrs. Reynard, by the Spalding and Doncaster line of the Great Northern whom it has been endowed with £450 yearly, and is and Great Eastern joint railway and 6 south-east from now under the management of trustees and a local com­ Gainsborough, in the division of the mittee of five members; it contains 9 beds. Charles county, parts of Lindsey, wapentake of Well, Gains- Eustace Hutton esq. of Gate Burton Hall, who ill lord borough petty sessional division, union and county court of the manor, Arthur Edward and E. H. Boot and district, rural deanery of Lawress No. 2, archdeaconry George Bingham esqrs. Miss Dealtry, Dymoke E. L. of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church of St. Wells esq. and Denby Bros. are the principal Iandowneril, Helen is an edifice of stone in the Decorated and and there are a number of small holders. The soil is Perpendicular styles·, consi11ting of chancel with organ various, producing excellent general grain crops ; subaoil, chamber, nave, south porch and a western tower wittt clay and sand. The area is 2,307 acres; rateable value, pinnacles, containing 3 bells: the body of the cb.urch £2,471; the population in 1901 was 399· dates from the nth century and the tower from the Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .A.. & I. Office.-:Mrs. Susannah r4th: and there are mural monuments to the Peel and Bell, sub-postmistress. Letters through Gainaboro' Dymoke-Wells families, and a stained east window to received 8.35 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. week day~ the Hawke family: the church was rebuilt in r88o, only. The nearest telegraph office is at Ke:xby, I at a cost of £2,ooo, by the late Mrs. Reynard, in memory mile distant of her husband, the Rev. William Reynard M . .A. a former Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1818, & en- rector: there are 200 sittings. The register dates from larged in rBBo, at a cost of £3oo, for roo children; 1562. The living is a rectory, composition in lieu of average attendance, 87; Mr. & Mrs. King, mailter & tithe £32, net yearly value £331, derived from 305 acres mistress of glebe and residence, in the gift of F. Simpson esq. Carriers. Joseph Roe & George Steeles, to Gains- and held since r882 by the Rev. Octavius .Appleby Gar- borough, tues.; & to Lincoln, fri.; George Charity, wood M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford, who is also mon. & tuet'l Bacon Richard Ca.stell M . .A.Camb., Dunderdale Wm. boot & shoe maker M on tague John, grocer & baker J.P. Willingham house Foottit John, farmer Needham John, farmer Garwood Rev. Oct1l'Vius .Appleby M . .A. Foottit Martin, butcher Parker Sa,rah (Mrs.), farmer Rectory Gray Joseph, fam1er Roberts Jas. wheelwright & carpenter Smith Charles Vincent Harwood Brown, blacksmith Roe J oseph, caTrier Harwood John, farmer Smith Chas. Vincent L. S.A.Lond. phy­ COMMERCIAL. Harwood Reuben, farmer sician & surgeon, medical officer Bell George F. joiner Herring Draper, shopkeeper public vaccinator, Willinghrun dis­ Bell Susannah (Mrs.), !!rcr. Post office Herring Walt.er, blacksmith trict & registrar of birt.h!l & Bingham Geo. farmer & landowner Hewitt Robert H. market gardener deaths, Willingham sub-district, Dawson William, tailor Hooton William, builder, Dale house Gainsborough union