DIRECTORY .J LINCOLN~HIRE. ~PALDIXG. 52i SOTBY is a pari~h and village, 3~ miles south-wes~ I and the late rector has placed in the par~sh chest a copy from East Barkwit.h .station on the Louth and Lincoln of the transcripts in the Archidiaconal Registry, dating­ branch of the Great Northern railway, r6 ea-'lt-north-east from 1556 to 1590. The living is a discharged rectory, from L:ncoln, 5 east from Wragby and 8 north-west net yearly value from 325 acres of glebe £2oo, including from Horncastle, in the East Lindsey division of the 300 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the county, parts of Lindsey, east division of the wapentake Lord Chancellor, and held since 1904 by the Rev. of Wraggoe, Wragby petty sess:onal division, llorncastle Theodore Rivington M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge. union and county court district, rural deanery of Wraggoe, who is also vicar of Market Stain ton. A rectory room archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Linco:n. The church constructed to hold so persons was built in r882, by the of St. Peter is a small building of stone in the Early ReV'. James Dombrain M.A. rector r88o-88, on hi~ EngEsh and Norman styles, consisting of chancel, nave premises, and is used a.s a Sunday school. The Free and an open belfry containing one be:I: the chancel wa·s Methodist chapel was erected and opened in x8g4. Capt­ rebuilt in 1857 in the Early English style, from plan~ Robert Charles de Grey Vyner, of Fairfield, Skrlton, N. by Mr. M. Drury, of Lincoln; and in the course of the Yorks, who is lord of the manor, and the rector are the work some mural paint:ngs- were disclos-ed on the splays sole landowners. The soil is mostly marl ; submil, mar? of the chancel windows, representing Our Lord and St. and white clay. The chief crops are barley, oats, wheat Mary Magdalcnc, "Bclshazzar' s Feast" and "The Last and turnips. The area il'l r ,646 acres; rateable value~ Supper,'' apparently of the 14th century: a large quan- £r,ors; population in rgor, 125. tity of oyst.er shells were also met with: the arch divid- Par:.sh Clerk, John Maltby. ing the nave and chancel is Early Norman, and very Letters by foot post through Wragby R.S.O. arrive at 9 mass~ve: there remains a credence table, piscina and a a.m. Wall Letter Box, at the Rectory, cleared at 4 sepulchral arch, the latter probably covering the tomb p.m. week days only. Baumber, 3 miles distant, is­ of the founder, o.r po-ssibly tbat of Ralph, a vassal of the the nearest money order & telegraph office Bishop of Bayeux, who is mentioned in Domesday as having land in this par~sh: there are roo sitting.s. The The United Parochial .school at Ranby serves also for this. register dates from the year r658; other reg1sters re­ parish & that of Market Sta:nton lating to this parish from r695 to 1779 are at Baumber, Carrier to Horncastle. John Maltby, sat Rivington Rev. Theodore M. A. (rector), Fountain ~rthur, farmer PinningRobert William,Nag's Head P.H Rectory Heaton-True John, laundry Waiter Wm. Hy. farmer, Manor farm Baggaley Jesse, farmer, Moor farm Ma.:.tby John, cottage farmr. & carrier \Veatherhog Jn. blacksmith & shpkpr Dunn Thomas, farmer, Sotby house \ I . SOUTHORPE, formerly extra-parochial, is now a I of Northorpe Hall, who is lord of the manor, W. W. Cole parish, near the river Eau, 2 miles south-west from esq and W . .1. Pickin esq. are the landowners. The soil Northorpe and 2 east from Blyton stations on the main is clay and loam; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief line of the Grimsby and Cleethorpes section of the Great crops are cereals. The area is 467 acres; rateable valuep Central railway, and 7 north-east from Gainsborough, in £goo; the population in Igox was 43· the \Vest Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, Letters arrive from Lincoln & are delivered from Nor- Corringham wapentake, Ga.insborough union, petty ses- thorpe every other day. The nearest money order &. sional division and county court district. The inhabi- telegraph office is at Blyton, 2 miles distant tants use Northorpe church. William Embleton-Fo:x: esq. The children of this place attend the school at Northorpe Clixby r- o"rge, farmer I Peck Henry, farmer I Pye W illiam, farmer SPALDING. SPALDING is a seaport, market and union town and water, which is conducted in pipes from Bourne; the parish, with a station on the East Lincolnshire branch of works are close to the town, on the road to Pinchbeck; the Great Northern railway, 14 miles south from Boston, the capital is £ I3,ooo, raised in shares of £10 each_ 45 south-east from Lincoln, 17 north from Peterborough, The town is lighted with gas from works the property 20 east from Stamford, xo east from Bourne and 93 from of the Urban District Counc1L London, and is head CJf a county court district, in the The parish church of SS. Mary and Nicholas is a. Holland division of the county, wapentake and petty ses­ spacious building, originally Early English, a.nd rebuilt sional division of Elloe, parts of Holland, rural deanery in 1294, but with many alterations in the Decorated and of West Elloe, and archdea.conry and diocese of Lincoln. Perpendicular styles, some later portions being of Post­ Spalding is a member of the port of Boston, and is the Reformation date: the plan is complex and anomalous~ port for Stamford, Market Deeping and Crowland, hav­ but, in its original arrangement, it consisted of chance) ing water communicatiOn with the whole county. The with south aisle, nave with aisles, transept with eastern. river Welland runs through the town, dividing it into and w.;stern a.isles, north porch and an embattled Per­ two portions, the larger of which is on the north bank.: pendicular tower, with pinnacles and spire, attached to. it is navigable fur vessels of 120 tons, by which means a the western bay of the south aisle, and containing a trade in coal, oil-cake and timber is carried on: the clock and 8 bells: to this structure a large rectangular­ course of the river, extending in a comparatively straight chapel. dedicated to SS. Mary and Thomas a Becket, has line for 2 miles, constitutes the remains of highest been added on the south-east, occupying a portion of antiquity about Spalding, for the embankments on each the eastern aisle of the transept, and was in r8g5 thrown ~ide of the arm of the !«la or Wash, beginning from the into the body of the church : the eastern portion of the Marsh Rails, are undoubtedly the work of the Romans. nave aisles was also doubled and a south porch with The Great Northern railway has branch lines from here turret erected : the to.tal length is 157 feet, and the to Peterboro', Bourne and Stamford, Holbeach and Lynn, width, at the transept, which corresponds in this respect and also to March, the East Lincolnshire line giving to the double aisle of the nave, 92 feet 6 inches: there access to Boston, Louth, Grimsby and Hull. The Great are monuments to the J ohnson and other families, andl Eastern and Great Northern joint line hence to Don­ nearly all the windows are stained, several being memo­ caster, passes through Sleaford, Lincoln and Gains­ rials : the church was extensively repaired and restored borough, giving direct communication between the by the late Sir G. G. Scott R.A. in the year x865, at a Eastern Counties :md the north. A branch line of the cost of £w,ooo, and further restored in 1886 at a cost Midland a.nd Great Northern joint railways from Bourne of £goo, including St. Thomas a Becket's or the Lad:1 to Spalding, constructed in r8g3, connects the existing chapel, on the south side, restored by Canon E. Moore lines with the Eastern counties, including the ports of and Theophilus .M. S. Johnson esq.: there are 1,200 Lynn and Sutt.on Bridg-e, thus opening- up direct com­ sittings. The register of baptisms ond burials dates munication with the Midlands. The High Bri~e over from the year 1538 ; marriages, 1550- The living is 111 the Welland was rebuilt in 1838; there are five other perpetual curacy, net yearly value £582, with residence,. bridges, but for foot passengers only. in the gift of trustees, and held since rgoo by the Rev. The town is not incorporated, but was under the con­ Richard Bullock M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford, pre­ trol of a boa.rd of Commissioners under the " Spalding bendary of Lincoln and rural dean of West Elloe. Improvement Act of r853." but under the provisions of The ecc:esiastical parish of St. John the Baptist was the "Local Government Act, r8g4" (56 and 57 Vict. c. formed December r, 1874, from the civil parishes of 73), it is now governed by an Urban District Council of Spalding and Pinchbeck. The church at Hawthorn 15 members, and divided into five wards. An Act was Bank, erected in 1875 by Miss Johnson at a cost of passed in the year xB6o for supplying the town with £r2,ooo, from designs by R. J. 'Withers esq. Adaxa 5--?':# ~PALDI~G. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY's street, Adelphi, London, is a building of stone, in the granite in 1876, and the sheep market with a·sphalte, Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, ais:es, crypt, and permanent iron pens erected.