DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. GLENTHAM. 213 GEDNEY HILL is a. straggling village and parish and beans_ The area is 1,864 acres; assessable value, in the Fens, on the Cambridgeshire borders of the £1,827; the population in rgo1 was 323. county, If miles north from French Drove station on Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act," a the March and Spalding branch of the Great Northern part of Gedney Hill, known as Gedney Marsh, has been and Great Eastern joint railway, ro south from Holbeach, transferred to Gedney. 13 to 14 south-east from Spalding, 14 north-east from Parish Clerk and Sexton, James Page. Peterborough, 10 north-west from Wisbech and g6 from London by rail, Holland division of the county, parts Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & A. &; I. Office.-John of Holland, wapentake and petty sessional division of James Marshal!, sub-postmastBr. Letters delivered Elloe, Holbeach union and county court district, rural from Wisbech about 7 a.m. & dispatched thereto at deanery of East Elloe and archdeaconry and dioces~ of 7.15 p.m. week days only Lincoln. The Old South Eau drain skirts the parish LetteT Boxes.-Fleet Fen, cleared at 6.40 p.m. week on the south. The church of the Holy Trinity, standing days only; Holbeach drove, cleared at 6.35 p.m.; Dug on rising ground, is an ancient edifice of stone, consisting drove, cleared at 6.30 p.m. & Sutton St. Edmunds, of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled cleared at 7-45 p.m. week days only western tower, 52 feet in height, containing a clock anrl 5 bells: the. nave roof is supported by massive octagonal Public Elementary School (mixed), partly supported pillars of oak: in I874-5 the church was thoroughly from lands belonging to the church, supposed to have restored, and the chancel, nave, aisles and porch been given by one of the abbots of Crowland & entirely rebuilt at a cost of £2,048 : a memorial otherwise supported from funds arising from the sales window was also placed in the chancel by his family to of certain parish tenements & parcels of lands, a. the Rev. Thomas Clark, late vicar. his wife Mary Ann and gn1nt & donations; the lands, comprising 211 acres, hia son Edward: during the restoration, the remains of produce £446 9s. ye-arly, of which £so goes to t!he two ancient doorways and an east window of the 14th schools, £r2o to the incumbent, two-thirds of the century were found built up in the chancel walls : the residue is assigned to the poor, & the ~81Ilainder for organ, the gift of the late Miss Charinton, was erected in repairing the 'hi-ghways: the schools were built in 1887 at a cost of £235 : there are 300 sittings. The re­ 1B59-6o, & are capable of holding roo children; average gister dates from the year 1693 ; the entries are illegible aHendance, 75; William Hansed, master; Mis·s previous to this. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Matilda Knowles & Mli!s Marshall, assistant mistresses £225, with 5 acres of glebe and house, in the gift of the Public Elementary School, Fleet Fen (mixed), built in Bishop of Lincoln, Jind held Since 1870 by the Rev. George r871, for roo children; average att-endance, 52;.. Clark B. A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. The General Charles S. Clarke, master; Mrs. F. Clarke, mistress. Baptist chapel, built in 1883, will seat 100 persons. A fair i11 held on the second Monday in June. Mr. William Jarnes Whitsed is the principal landowner, but the greater Carriers to :­ part of the land is in small holdings. The soil, part clay Holbeach-Alfred Thomas, thurs and part fine loam, is very rich and fertile; subsoil, Peterborough-Alford Seaton & Alfred Thomas, sat clay and silt. The chief crops are wheat, oats, potatoes Spalding-Sam Mackman %; .Alfred Thoma.s, tues Clark Rev. Georg~> B.A. (vicar), Freeman Pashler, beer retailer & public vaccinator, Gedney Hill dis­ Vicarage Gorbutt John Edwd. grocer & draper trict, Holbeach union, Longmead Clark MU;s Gott Matthew, beer retailer, French Sooton Alford, farmer & carrier Rice Michael Welldon M.D. Longmead Drove station Seaton Arth. Wm. farmer & coal mer COMMERCIAL. Hemmant Frederick, farmer Seaton David, grocer & draper Marked thus * receive their letters *Hunter David John, farmer Seaton Jesse, Duke's Head P.H through Sutton St. Edmunds. Jones Robert, farmer & wheelwright Seaton Samuel, farmer Alien Thomas, butcher & fanner Knowles Matilda (Miss), farmer Seatun Thomas, farmer Ashton Fanny (Miss), farmr.Fleet Fen La.ngley Meads, farmer Simons John, farmer Benner & Sou, millers (wind) Leadbcater Robert, farmer *Sly Hy.frmr.& grazier,Kingston hall Bridgfoot Edward Alfred, farmer Lincoln Richard, poulterer & beer ret Strickland William, farmer Bridgfoot William Henry farmer Lynn Christmas, farmer Thomas Alfred, carrier Brolfll William, farmer Mackman Sam, carrier Thompson William, farmer Campion Sarah Ann (Mrs.), Cross Mackman W illiam Leonard, farmer Walton William Henry, farmer Keys P.H Mars hall J. J. & Sons, baker~~ Ward Ge01·ge, shopkeeper *Coleman John, Four Horse Shoes Marshall George, farme.r Waterfall Isaac, jun. poulterer P.H. Broadgate Mar shall J n. Jas. farmer, & post office Waterfall John, farmer, Fleet Fen Cooper Robert, blacksmith & farmer Marshall Rohert Doncaster, farmer, Whitsed Alice Eliza (Miss), registrar Coulam Arthur Wm. draper & grocer Fleet Fen of birt-hs & deaths for Gedney Hill Dallaywaters John, jun. wheelwright Noble John, farmer sub-district, Holbeach union & carpenter Peters J n. insurance agent & shopkpr Whitsed William J !IDles. farmer & l:lixon Mary (Mrs.), farmer Reddan William, farmer grazier, The Hall Dra.k.ard Arthur, farmer Reed George, saddler & harness ma Whit well John, farmer Foster William, blacksmith Rice Michael Welldon M.D. & C.M. Williamson William, farmer Foyster William, farmer Edin., M. R. C. S. Eng. medical officer GLENTHAM is a parish and village on the road from Sir Montaguo Aubrey Rowley Cholmeley hart. of Easton Market Rasen to Gainsborough, and separated on the east Park, is the principal landowner. The soil is clay; from Kingerby by the river Ancholme, 8 miles west from subsoil, clay. 'J'Ih.e chief crops are wheat, barley and Market Rasen station on the Hull and Lincoln branch of beans, and muoh land is in pasture. The area is 2,Bor tha Great Central railway, 12 west from Lea station ac.res af land an-d 10 of water; rateable value, £2,505 ; on the Lincoln and Doncaster section of the Great the population in rgox was 3.76. Northern and Great Eastern joint railway and 13 east from Gainsborough, in the West Lindsey division of the BLSHOP BRIDGE is a smal'l hamlet a.t the he-ad county, eastern division of the wapentake of Asla.ckhoe, of the Ancholtme navigation, 2 miles east and partly petty sessional division of Lincoln (Bail &nd Close), in the parishes of Glentham and Kingerby. Here is a parta of Lindsey, Caistor union, Market Rasen county Wesleyan chapel. For list of n&J'lles &ee Kingerby. courl district, rural dea-nery of Aslackhoe, archdeaconry Parish Clerk, William Whattam. of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The Ancholme was Post, M. 0. &; 'I'. Office.-Tum King, sub-postmaster. formerly navigable north~ard to the Humber. The Letters arrive by cycle mail from Lincoln, via Usselby, church of SS. Peter and Paul is an edifice o-f stone in at 7-40 a.m.; dispatched at 5.25 p.m.; no sunday the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, delivery 10nth porch and an embattled westeTil tower contain­ A School Council of 6 mem•bers wa-s formed April, H/<>3, ing 4 bell&: it was repaired in 1855, and has four for the united districts of Glentham & Caenby; Wm. ltained windows= there are 300 sittings. The register Good, correspondent to the Council datee from the year 16go. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £235, including 70 acres of glebe, with Public El6'1Ilentary School (mixed), built in 1877, for 91 -lellidence, in the patronage and peculiar jurisdiction of ohilldren, '& enlarged in 1904, for ror children ; average the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, and held sirice 1894 attendance, Bo ; Roland Ward, master by the Rev-. Frederick Anthony Williams. Here is a , Welleyan chapel and a Primitive Methodist chapel, built Carriers' Ca.rts to :­ ' in x8,.t). Near Glentham is a barrow. John Thomas Gainsborongh-Robert Bowness & John Bilton, tues 'l'w-d ~- of Lincoln, is lord of the manor, and Capt. Lincoln-R. Bowness, fri .