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~~difice of red brick in the Gothic style, consisting of and 7 of foreshore ; rateable value, £r,so3 ; the popula­ l:hancel and smati nave with one bell: there are 70 sit- tion in rgor of the township was 327. lings. D1vine service Is conducted by the Rev. Agnew By Local Government Board Order 19,998, March 25, '\' aJ.lier Giles Giffard M.A. vicar of Messingham. '.L here 1887, a detached part of Messingham parish was added to i.s a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in r•B7o, and a . "\Yesleyan chapel built in r8gr. The Hale 1s a large Post Oftice.-George William Coy, sub-postmaster. ~~JIUmon about roo ucres in extent, on which about 8o Letters through Doncas-ter arrive at 8.35 a.m. & 2.25 1ersons have grazmg rights. l<.:

COlll:MERCIAL, Caukwell William, farm bailiff to R. Kendall James, blacksmith E. Harrison esq Luckwood Arthur, farmer Armstrong ·wm. Allison, frmr. Holly ho Clark Thomas, farmer Lockwoud Joseph, farmer Harlow Wilfred Is; Thotna.s, farmers, Coy George William, shopkeeper, cycle Lockwood Willlam, fanner onion, cauliflower &; celery growers agent & sub-postmaster Mar,g.ha.U Wm. Geo. shopkpr. & carrier & potato merchants, Ings house Coy William, greengrocer J1oudy Richard, farmer Binks Frederick, farm ba1lift to W. & F1etcher Jonathan, fanner Oates Willia.m, farmer T. Barlow esqrs. Poplar house Gillatt George, shoe maker Outrau1 George, a.ssistant overseer Bramhall EveritL, farmer Godfrey John Arthur, farmer & potato Outram Juhn, monumental mason, Brunyee George .Sales, Dog & Gun merchant coal dealer & manure agent hotel, farmer & ferry boat owner Jacklin William, shopkee.per Ross Martin, wheelwright Johnson Thomas John, farmer

WEST BUTTERWICK is a parish, formed May 9, to the chapel. The paris'h ha~ £r6 yearly from the rent 1845, from Owston parish, and a village on the west bank of land, left in the hands of the l'larish Council, which of the , in the , 3 miles south sum is expended in coal and distributed equally to from station on the Great Central (late M. S. every househ~1der in the parish. The trustees of the .and L.) railway, 4~ east-by-north from Epworth and 12 late Alfred Parkin esq. are lords of the manor and Sir north from Gains borough, West LindsPy division of the Berkeley Digby lliorge Sheffield hart. of Normanby Park, county, parts of Lindsey, western division of Manley Is t'he chief landowner. The choief crops are potatve-s, wapentake, Epworth petty sessional division, union and wheat, oats, beans and celery. The soil is deep loam; county court district of Gainsborough, rural deanery of sulbsoil, warp and peat. A large pumping engine is Axholme, archdeaconry of Stow and . stati•med here for draining the land. The area is 2,391 There is a ferry to East Butterwick, which is situated acres of land, 3 of water, 121 of tidal water and 20 of on the opposite side of the Trent. The Trent is navigated foreshore; rateable value, ; population in 1901, by the Hull and Gainsborough !!team packets, which call 627. here occasionally. The church of St. Moary, erected in r84r, is a plain structure of white brick in the Gothic KELFIELD is a hamlet 3 miles south on the west bank styfe, consisting of nave and a western tower, with of the Trent. octagonal S"tair turret, pinnacles and brick spire, and Parish Clerk, George Taylor. containing one bell: in 1879 the interior was refitted Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., S. B. & A. & I. and reseated a;t a cost of about £r6o: there are sitting.s Office. John Thoma~ Soales, sub-postmaster. Let- for 200 per!l'Ons. The separate regiost~r of this parish te~ arrive from Doncaster at 8.25 a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; qates only from the year r845, except that ()f bapt~sms, dispatched at II a.m. & 5.40 p.m. No delivery or