678 TALLINGTON. ~ [KELLY'B TALLINGTON is a parish, village and station on the from lands and house property left by the Heron family. The Great Northern railway, in the Southern division of the Earl of Lindsey D.L., J.P. who is lord of the manor, the­ county, parts of Kesteven, Ness wapentake, union and Hon. Mr. Cavendish and the vicar are the principal county court district of Stamford, rural deanery of Ness, landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief and archdeaconry and , situated on the crop is wheat. The area is 6go acres; rateable value, £41 581; river Welland, 4 miles east from Stamford and 3 west-by- the population in z88x was 245. south from : the high road from Stamford Parish Clerk, George Burgoin. to Market Deeping passes through the village. The church PosT OFFICE. -Freeman Burgoin, receiver. Letters of St. Lawrence is an ancient cruciform building of Barnock arrive from Stamford at 8.go a.m. ; dispatched at S stone, erected in the twelfth century, and consists of chancel, p.m. The nearest money order offices are at Market nave, aisles, transepts and a tower containing 3 bells, and Deeping & Stamford. The telegraph offi~ is at the rail- there is also an ancient Sanctus bell : the chnrch had for- way station merly a spire, which was destroyed by lightning about .A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1884 ·i George 1790: there are two stained windows. The register dates Henry Dean, of Deeping-St.-James, clerk to the board from the year 16go. The living is a vicarage, net yearly Board (formerly Parochial) School (mixed), originally built value £150 with good residence, in the gift of ths Earl of in 184I; the old school has been converted into a house Lindsey, and held since x861 by the Rev. Frederick Carroll for the mistress & new school buildings erected for 6o M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge. There is a Congrega- children; average attendance, 40 tional chapel. The charities amount to £8o yearly, arising Railway Station, William Henry Jobnson, station master Carroll Rev. Frederick M.A. [vicarJ I Gilbert .Ann (Miss), beer retailer Searson George, farmer COMMERCIAL. Gray John, beer retailer Smith Thomas, farmer Cunnington William, farmer Hassall James, agent to Ellis & Stafford Edward Thompson, farmer Ellis & Everard, coal, oil cake, guano & Everard Thurlby Emma (Mrs.), farmer artificial manure merchants; & at Johnson William Henry, station master Wright Robert, Cavendish Arms P.H. & Stamford; Uffington; Bourn& other Newbon Mary .Ann (Miss), shopkeeper farmer & castrator railway stations Paine John (Mrs.), miller (water) TATHWELL is a parish, in the Northern division of and Danes; and on an eminence, called Bully Hill, about one the county, parts of Lindsey, Wold division of the hundred mile south-east of Tathwell, are six tumuli. Tathwell Hall, of Louth Eske, Louth Eske petty sessional division, Louth the property of Henry Chaplin esq.M.P.,D.L.,J.P. in the occu­ union and county court district, rural deanery of Louth pation of Mr. Richard Botterill, tenant farmer, is a handsome Eske and No. 3, archdeaconry of Stow and building in the Grecian style, erected in x841. standing in diocese of Lincoln, 3 miles south from Louth and I~ miles tastefully arranged and extensive gronnds. Henry Cbaplin south-west from station, on the Lincoln and esq. M.P. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The Louth branch of the Great Northern railway. The church soil is· clay, gravel and limestone; subsoil, clay and chalk. of St. Vedast is a small and unpretending red brick and stone The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and mangold­ building of Norman date, having chancel, nave and a square wurzel. The area is 4,314 acres; rateable value, £5,078; e_mbattled tower with I bell: the church was partially the population in x88x was 422. restored in I 857, by inserting Gothic stone casements instead {)AD WELL and DovENDALE, 1 mile west, are hamlets be­ of the old wooden ones, and in 1882 a vestry was built by longing to the parish of Tathwell. 1:\amuel Allenby esq.J.P. the present vicar : there are several monuments to the who is lord of the manor of Cadwell and chief landowner, Hanby and Chaplin families, and a monument surmounted by reside5l at Cadwell Hall, a pleasantly situated mansion. a cross to Lord William Henry Cavendish Bentinck. The register dates from the year 1633. The living is a vicarage, PosT OFF'ICE.-Charles Skipworth, receiver. Letters tithes commuted at £ 425 with residence, in the gift of the received through Louth at 7.~0 a. m. ; dispatched at 5 p.m. Bishop of Lincoln, and held since I872 by the Rev. William in summer & 4·45 in winter. The nearest money order Gibson Patchell M. A. of Trinity College, Dublin, and diocesan office is at Louth inspector of schools. There is a beautiful sheet of water in Church of School (mixed), built in 18441 for the the valley below the church, well stocked with trout. On an parishes of Tathwell, and Raithby, supported eminence, called Orgarth Hill, are traces of an old encamp- by subscriptions & voluntary rate; holds about I30; ment, said to have been formed in the wars of the English average attendance, go; William Henry Elston, master .A.llenby Samuel J.P. Cadwell hall I Davy John E. farmer, Rookery farm j Pridgeon Frederick, wheelwright Patchell Rev. William Gibson M.A. Johnson John, shopkeeper Robinson John, farmer & grazier, Or- [ vicar], Vicarage Meredith Phillip, farmer, The Grange garth bill Botterill Richard, farmer, The Hall Rawnsley Waiter & John, farmers, The Skipwortb Charles, land surveyor, & Browne G . .A. farmer, Cadwelllodge Cottage post office with . T4'rTERSHALL is a parish and township, in the Mid division I and inscription, to Joan (Stanhope), wife of Sir Humphrey of the county, Southern division of the wapentake of Gar- ! Bourchier, 4th baron Cromwell, I479; there are also three tree, union, petty sessional division and county ' brasses of ecclesiastics, the finest being that of ProvostWarde, court district, parts of Lindsey, rural deanery of Gartree, the first appointed provost of the college, with large effigy and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, 119! miles from in cope and other vestments; next is a brass, with vested , 9 south-by-west from Horncastle, 22 south-east effigy and a rhyming Latin inscription of eight couplets, to from Lincoln and I2 north-north-west from Boston. Tatter- William Moor s.T.P. ·second provost, canon of York, and shall station, on the Great Northern railway, is one mile rector of Leadenham, 1456; the third is a similar effigy, from the town. The church of the Holy Trinity, formerly with inscription, to William Symson, chaplain of Edward Collegiate, is a beautiful cruciform structure of grey stone, Hevyn, 15I9. The register dates from the year r56g. The in the Perpendicular style, erected in connection with the living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £122, in t.be gift of college here: it consists of chaneel, clerestoried nave of ·Earl Fortescue, and held by the Rev. Mortimer Thomas six bays, aisles, north and south porches, lofty transept Latham B.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford, who is also and a. massive embattled western tower with four pin- lecturer of Tattershall, under the Gilson bequest, and sur­ nacles, and containing a clock and 5 bells: the greater rogate. There is a Wesleyan chapel. There are almshouses part of the -ancient stained glass, representing sacred for ten pour families, founded in 1440 by Ralph Cromwell, subjects, figures of saints, besides many shi.elds of arms lord treasurer in the reign of Henry VI. which are endowed borne by the Cromwells, was removed in I754 to the with £30 yearly. The charities for distribution amount church of St. Martin, Stamford Baron; the remainder, to £I2 yearly, derived from money left by Hirst Gibsou collected together, is now in the east window: the esq. in I835· An annual fair for cattle and sheep is held chancel retains three sedilia, a piscina and an aumbry, on the 25th September. Tattershall Castle, as at present and there are also piscinre in both transepts, and in the north existing, was erected about the year 1440, at a cost of porch a stoup: the stone screen was the gift of Robert de 4,000 marks, and was a strong fortress, but much injured Whalley, a member of the college in 1528, and he was during the Parliamentary wars : the principal remains con­ buried beneath ita archway: the pulpit is panelled and sist of the keep, a quadrangular tower of fine brickwork, enriched at the base with fine carved work; there is in the with an area at the base of 89 by 67 feet, and massive walls, choir a very fine but mutilated brass with canopy to Ralph, in part 16 feet thick and sloping inwards: at the angles rise grd Baron Cromwell, lord treasurer to Henry VI.founder of four octangular turrets, tapering gradually upwards, with the College and Castle (1400), and Margaret (Dayncourt) machicolated battlements, reaching a height of n2 feet, his wife, 1454: in the north transept is a slab of Purbeck and two of these have low conical roofs: in the south-east marble, with brass effigy and inscription to Matilda or turret is a staircase of x81 steps, leading to the top of the Maude (Stanhope), wife of Robert, 6th baron Willonghby de fourth storey, where there is all round a covered projecting Eresby, and niece of the above Ralph, Lord Cromwell, 1497: gallery, resting on massive corbetted masonry and em• here also is a canopied brass highly enriched, with effigy battled. Earl Fortescue is lord of the manor and principal