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516 LENTON. . [ KELLY's tower with broach spire containing 3 bells: in 1879. the 11,829 acres; rateable value, [2.489. church was re~tor~d, re-:roofed ~nd re-seated, and the rusles Hanby is a half a mile north with po!Juhtion 1 8 and chancella1d w1th Mmton's tiles by Messrs. Rudd & Son, in 1881 of ' . • of , under the superintendence of Mr. James . 38 ·. . . . Fowler, architect, of Louth; the cost, £ 1,600, was met. by a Ke1~by_ lS a townsh1p, one m1le south-east, "lnth a subscription; Lord Avelaud ga,·e £700 and the Earl of populat10n m 1881 of 62; area, 1,247 acres; rateable value, Dysart £300: in the north of the chancel is a large and £ 1,4°2· handsome tomb to the memory of Sir William and Lady Osgodby is a township, one mile and a half south. Mary Armyne, of Osgodby, who died in the year I6S7: the Osgodby Hall, the property of Lord Aveland, is an ancient silver communion plate is ancient, and was the gift of the structure in the Elizabethan style; what remains of it is Armyne family. The register dates from the year IS76. occupied as farm houses. The area is 1,0<)3 acres; rateable The living is a vicaragl', with the rectory of Hanby value, £1,244; the population in x88x was 6x. annexed, joint yearly value £688, including IS acres of This parish is included in Ingoldsby United District St:hool glebe with residence, in the gift of Lord Aveland, and Board, formed in 1876; the children attend the Hoard School held since 1883 by the Rev. Edward Bradley :a.A. of there. University College, Durham. Here was a free school for Parish Clerk, William H. Collin. boys and girls, now merged in the adjoining board school, Lenton & Hanby letters are received through Grantham. at which five poor children of the parish of Lenton were Falkingham & Corby are the nearest money order offices, taught to read and write, endowed in 1721 by Mrs. Mary Osgodby & Keisby letters through Bourn. The nearest Parnham, whose remains are interred in the chUTchyard. money order & telegraph office is at Falkingham. WALL Lord Aveland, who is lord of the manors bf Lenton LETTER Box cleared 3.30 p.m. week days only and Osgodby, and the Earl of Dysart, who is lord of the CARRIERS:- manor of Hanby and Kei!!by, are the principal landowners. RrJbert Spencer, from Osgodby to Grantham, sat 'fhe population of Lavington township in 1881 was 178, and William P. Brutnell, from Keisby to Grantham, tues. & of the parish 301. The area of Lavington and Hanby is I sat. ; to Bourn, thurs Hanby. Glassup William,. farmer & grazier . sJ AI d f & H b lrl Houghton Freder1ck, farmer & graz1er Lenton. Hoye as. f . rmr. grazr. an y ge Bradley Rev. Edward B.A. [\'icar] I Hoye~ William Henry, farmer_ Osgodby. Bradford James, shopkeeper Rudkirl James, !a~mer & graz~er Blood worth William, machine owner & Collin Wm. H. carpenter & parish clerk Scarborough William, farmer farmer & grazier Critchley John, blacksmith Cooper John, farmer & grazier Lynn Joseph, farmer & grazier Keisby. Exton James, farmer Pick Austin, farrn.er BlankleyHelen( Mrs.),farmer & graz1er Rosling William, farmer & grazier 'Wilkinsort Benjamin, grazier Brutnell Frederick,carrier & shopkeeper SpencerRobt.carrier,gr()('l'.&general dlr LEVER TON is a parish in the Southern division of the A. Booth esq. alternately, and held since 1878 by the Re;. county, wapentake of Skirbeck, parts of Holland, Boston William Wright Mason B.A. of Clare College,- Cambridge. union and county court district, rural deanery of North Here is a Wesleyan chapel. The charities are of abuut£150

Holland No. 2 1 and archdeaconry and , annual value. Miss Bertie-Percy, Colonel Lennard, the 6 miles north-eR.\lt-by-east from Boston, and 3~ east-by- Tennant family, Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Lindsey and the Hev. south from Sibsey station of the East Lincoinsh1re railway, J. H. Old rid are the chief landowners. The soil is silty; on the road to Waintleet and extends to the Wash. The subsoil, strong clay. The chief crops are wheat and church of St. Helen is a building of stone, in the Late potatoes. The area is 2,894 acres of land and 3,710 of Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and consists of chane-"Bl, water; rateable value, £4,123; the population in 1881 was with south chapel or sacristy, clerestoried nave of five bays, 593 in the and 719 in the ecclesiastical, which aisles and low Perpendicular western towP.r, with plain comprises parts of the .civil of Leake and West Fen. parapet, and containing 4 bells; the first bell is inscribed, I By a Local Government provisional order, dated Dece:nber "Thomas Norris made me, and the rest of my fellows as 24th, 188o, and confirmed by the Act 44 Vict. c. xvii. Lever­ you may see, 1637:" over the chancel window is a large ton West Fen allotment was transferred to the new parish ancient cross, having the figure of Christ upon it, in good f of West Fen, and by a Local Government board order, preservatiCln: at the west end of the nave is an octagonal dated December 24th, a detached part of this parish, con­ font, raised on a pediment of three steps: the church was taining 84 persons, was transferred to Leake. thoroughly restored and reseated in 188..2, from plans of Parish Clerk & Sexton, Benjamin Hall. James Fowler, of Louth, when the brick clerestory which PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. l\iary Allen, receiver. Letters arrh·e was erected in 1872 was removed and a new one substituted; from Boston at 6.5 a. m. & arE.\ dispatched at 7.20 p.m. two statue niches and a piscina. at the east end of the south Leake is the nearest money order & telegraph offic~ aisle, indicate its former nse as a chant!')·, and on the National School, established in r873, at a cost of nearly opposite side was a corresponding chapel : the entrance to £8oo, contributed by landowners & occupiers, aided by the rood loft remains, and the remains of a fine old screen grants from government & educational societies : the of can"ed oak span the chancel arch ; the chancel retains Charity Commissioners appropriated half an acre, part of three Decorated sedilia, and at the back of the easternmost tJ:le Leverton poor lands, as a site for the school, & directed is a square hagioscope connected with the adjoining also a yearly payment of £so to the managers of the -chapel, on the door of which lS an escutcheon, and on school out of the rents of the poor estate, as long as it the sill of one of its windows is cut the name of Henry shall be conducted as a public elementary school under a ·Peaham and the date 1S97, said to refer to the well- conscience clause; in consideration of this payment, the known author of "The Compleat Gentleman:" the children of labourers receive a free education ; the school ·<"Ommunion plate includes a chalice dated 1s69, with holds 100 children & has an average attendance of go; ir. "the Leverton rebus, a lever and a tun : there is also a is further supported by voluntary contributions & govern- marble slab to the memory of the Dymoke family. The ment grants; "rilliam Rodger, master; Mrs. Hannah register dates from the year rs62. The living is a rectory, Rodger, mistress _grms yearly value £CJOO, arising from 41s acres of glebe CARRIERS TO BosTON.-Thomas Cook, wed. & sat.; John witfi. a residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor and Christopher Wilkinson, wed. & sat Mason Rev. Wm. Wright B.A. [rector] Dawson George, farmer Smith William, farmer •.;Swain Charles Frederick, Grange Dawson Maria (Mrs. ),farmer, New hall Smith William, carpenter COMMERCIAL. Dawson Samuel, plumber Swain Charles Frederick, farmer IA.blard .John, miller (wind) Dracas Mark, blacksmith ·walker Samuel, shoe maker ~1lgood John, carpenter Fixter Henry, farmer Ward Joseph, farmer, Outgate ~aker Joseph, blacksmith Fixter John, farmer Wedcl Peter, farmer Brown Napoleon, Bell P.H Gilliatt Samuel, farmer Welsh Edwin, farmer Brown Solomon, farmer Hodgson JJhn Timothy, farmer ·wilkinson John Christopher, sh 1e ·Cammack Hannah (Mrs.), farmer Howden Richard, shoe maker maker & carrier •Carrington William, Ostrich P.H Hoyles 'Villiam Henry, farmer,Outgate Willerton Henry, farmer, Outgate ..Clark Charles Codling, farmer Lacey Thomas, farmer, lugs Williams Abel, farmer tClark Richard, farmer, lugs lane Lakin John, farmer Williams Kime, farmer, Outgate 'Clark Richard, farmer Leggett William, farm~r ·williams Lambrick, farmer, Highgate 1Clark Richard, jun. farmer Nicholson Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper Woods Henry, farmer Clark "'illiam, farmer Reeson William, farmer "'oodward Frank, farmer Cook Thomas, carrier Robinson Daniel, farmer Woodward Thomas, shopkeeper

LIMBER (GREAT) is a parish and pleasant village e.a.~t di\·ision of Yarborough wapentake, union and in the ~ orthern division of the county, parts of Lindsey, c mnty court district, rural deanery of Yarborough No. 2,