Wildmore and at Horsington and Great West Jacob, Farmer
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Parts of Lindse'Y• · Rose Henry, miller, ·baker andlar Swaby Robert, farmer, Moor Waiter William Baker, farmer i h ·mer, Moor Waiter· John, farmer, Manor house Hornca,$tle Stephenson l ohn, farmer, Wildmore and at Horsington and Great West Jacob, farmer. Moo:r fen · Sturton ' THORNTON-LE-FEN. THORNTON-LE-FEN, on the Boston read, o miles S.S.E. of Tattershall, has 210 inhabitants, and about 1425 acres of Wildmore Fen, which was sold by the drainage and enclosure commissioners about 1802,rwhen it-was ma-de a. parochial township by act of parliament. It ·had its name from its largest proprietors, the Thornton family. The Creasey, Hackney, Ireland, Linton, Pepper, Ward and Wilcock families are the chief landowners. The Church, which was built out of the Fen Chapel estates in 1816, is a small brick building, containing 200 sittings. The benefice is a perpetual curaoy, valued at .£100 a year, in the 'gift of the Bishop of Lincoln and the trustees of Fen Chapel estates, and incumbency ~f the Rev. St. George Kerr. There is no school here, but the children of the parish attend one at New York, in the Low Toynton Fen. The '\Vesleyans have a chapel at New York and Bunker's hill, and the Primitive Methodists have one near the '\Vind mill . PosT OFFICE at Mrs. Charlotte Wood's. Letters arrive at 10 a.m., and are despatched at the same time, via Boston. Dogdyke is the nearest Railway Station. Creasey John, farmer Nixon Reuben, farmer & victualler, Surrs John, farmer, Bunker's hill Houghton George, shopkeeper, dra- Union Inn, Bunker's hill Ward John, farmer, Bunker's hill per and butcher, ~unker's hill Pepper John, farmer Ward William, farmer, Bunker's hill freland Ezekiel, farmer Robson John, farm bailiff Wood Mrs Charlotte, postmistress Johnson W. shoemkr. Bunker's hill Shaw Samuel, land surveyor and Wood Henry, farmer Kew Charles, tailor, Bunker's bill drainage agent Yarborongh Mrs Ann, farmer • • TOYNTON (HIGH.) TOYNTON (HIGH) is a pleasant village and parish, 1~ mile S.E. of Horncastle, and contains 19o inhabitants, including 6B in Wildmore Fen, and 1012 acres of land. James Banks Stanhope, Esq., is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, E. L. Rollaston, Esq., Mrs. Clinton, and the Maddison, Betts, Nundy,ar.d other families. The Church (St. .John Baptist), which consists of nave, chancel, vestry and south porch, is a neat structure, erected on the site of the old church, in 1872, at a cost of about .£1000, from designs by E. Christian, Esq. The benefice is a vicar age. consolidated with that of Mareham-on-the-Hill, jointly valued at £300 per annum, in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester. It is in the incumbency of the Rev. Thomas Snead Hughes, who has here 17A. 2R. 26P. of land, purchased with £600 of Queen Anne's Bounty, and a good residence, erected in 1869, at an expense of £1400, defrayed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, by whom the reotoriallands are now held. Here is a W esleyan chapel, built in 1840. Letters via Horncastle. Letters for Wildmore Fen via Boston. Marked * are in Wildmore Fen, •Dawson William, shopkeeper and Maddison John, farmer, Toynton near Coningsby. and thrashing machine owner house Betts Rbt. farmer; h Holbeck Lodge *Duddles Mrs Charlotte, farmer Nundy Thomas, farmer, Lodge • Blanchard Zachariah, farmer Gentel William, parish clerk Richardson Mrs J ane, farmer *Boucher John, shopkeeper Hughes Rev Thomas Snead, vicar of Robinson John, farmer Boucher William, joiner High Toynton and Mareham-on •Sinclair William, seed, artificial •Butler Mrs Mary, vict. Oat Sheaf the-Hill manure and agricultural imple Cocking Mr John · • Leverton John, miller, shopkeeper ment merchant, .A.rgyle house •Cook Joseph, blacksmith and drain contractor Sorfleet John, blacksmith ; h Horn- Coppin Thomas, sheep dipper Longstaff Edward, farmer castle • . < ' TOYNTON (LO~. TOYNTON (LOW), a small village and parish, in the vale of the small river Waring, 1 mile N.E. of Horncastle, has only 132 inhabitants, and 950 acres of land, nearly all the property of E. Launcelot Rolleston, Esq., the lord of the manor. The Church (St. Peter) is a small ivy-clad structure, consisting of nave and chancel, with a bell turret, and contains a curiously sculptured font, of the 15th century. It was rebuilt in 1811, reseated in 1863, and three stained glass windows inserted in 1870. The tectory; valued in K.B. a.t £11. Is. 'id., and now at £332, is in the gift of the Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, and incumbency of the Rev. Edward Martin Chapman, B.A., who has a good residence, and about 130 acres of glebe. The allotments in Wildmore Fen, belonging to this parish, comprise 63 souls, and .about 300 acres, at New York, near Coningsby, where there is a School, endowed with three oottages, .&<:., whicl\ a.re let for £22 a year. Letters via Horncastle. Letters for Wildmore Fen vid Boston. • Bloodworth George, farmer, overseer Holdershaw Thomas, farmer, Wild- Strawson 'rhos. Smith, t!hopkeeper, . and surveyor more fen Wildmore fen Chapman Rev Edward Martin, B.A. J Turner Isaac, parish clerk Wailer Thomas, farmer . .reotor -.