[LINCOLN.] . 66 (POST OFFICE BUR TON COGGLES is a village and paril.;h, in the from the year 1565. The living is 8 rectory, valued in the Southern division of the county, hundred of , parts King's Books at £16 l2s. 3~d., and now at £650 per annum, of , Grantbam union and county court district, with residence and 116 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the diocese and archdeaconry of Lincoln, rural deanery of Bel­ Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. William Travis tisloe, one mile and a quarter north from the Corby station Sandys, M • .A., of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Here is a on the great Northern Railway, 98~ miles from , 4 Parochial school, supported partially by an endowment, north-east from , 9 north-west from Bourn, called Speight's charity. There are Sa. 3r. 28p. of land and 9~ south-east from . The ancient name belonging to the poor of this , tenanted by Henry of this place was Byrton-le-Coggles, or Byrton-en-les­ Hutchinson, in the hands of Sir M. J. Cholmeley, Bart., Coggles, meaning smooth rounded stones. The church of but the donor is not known. There are some other St. Thomas a Becket is an ancient stone edifice, with a charities of small amount. Sir M. J. Cholmeley, Bart., tower surmounted by a short spire, containing 3 belLs, M.P., is lord of the manor and owner of all the land except entrance porch, chancel, and a nave and aisles, erected res­ the glebe. The soil is clay and loam; subsoil, clay. The pectively in the thirteenth, fourteenth 1 and fifteenth centu­ chief crops are cereals. The area is 2,676 acres, and the ries: the aisles are separated from the nave by stone columns: population in 1861 wa~ 288. it contains some ancient brasses; and two stone statues of ParU!h Clerk, John Dring. knights in chain armour (supposed to have belonged to the family who were founders of the church and ancient lords of Letters are received from Grantham through Colstenvorth the manor), have been dug up and placed in the chancel. which is the nearest money order office There have been recently discovered the remains of two side Parochial School, Miss Anne Alice Waston, mistress altars, a circular staircase, and a lychno slope window, all CARRIERS pass through the village on tuesday & saturday previously bricked up and plastered over, The register dates for Corby & Grantham Sandys Rev. Wm. Travis, M . .o\.[rector] Hawley John, carpenter Nethercliff James, coal dealer Aldwinckle John~ farmer HawleyWilliam, builder&stone mason Palmer Parker, blacksmith Barrand J oscph, farmer Hough ton John, butcher Pick William, shopkeeper Burrows Charlotte (Mrs.), Hare ~ Hutchinson Henry, carpenter Todd Thomas, farmer Hounds inn, & shopkeeper & farmer Kennewell John, farmer Walker Harry, farmer Dring John, tailor & parish clerk :Moore William, farmer Walton Matthew, farmer

BURTON-by-LINCOLN is a small village and houses for ten poor widows, who each receive 3s. 4d. per parish in the Mid division of the county, parts of Lindsey, month; they have also divided amongst them an annuity of hundred of Lawress, Lincoln union and county court dis­ £5. Lord Monson, who is lord of the manor and principal trict, rural deanery of Lawress, arch deaconry of Stow, and landowner, resides at Burton Hall, a splendid mansion, . The church of St. Vincent is a neat I'Jtanding in a finely-wooded park. The soil is loamy; ~ub­ modern building, with square tower and I bell: it contains soil, clay. The chief cropt~ are wheat, barley, and oats. The several memorials to the Randes and Sutton families. 'l'he area is 2,325 acres, and the population in 1861 was \71. register datPs fl·om about the year 1550. The living is a Parish Clerk, Richard Chappell. rectory, annual value £420, with glebe and residence, in the gift of Lord Monson, and held by the Rev. Edmund Roberts Letters by foot post from Lincoln at 8 a.m. & dispatched Larken, M.A., of Trinity College, Oxford. Here are alms- at 5 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Lincoln Monson Lord, Burton hall Cott'am Richard, miller Fatchitt Thomas, blacksmith L8rken Rev.Edmd. Roberts,M.A.Rectry Dawsoa Robert, farmer Middle ton David,agent to Lord Monson COMMERCIAL. Evens John, farmer Ormsby Daniel, shopkeeper Allison Charles C. farmer Farrow J olm, farmer

BURTON -PEDWARDINE is a parish, in the In the year 1860 a National school, a neat white brick and Southern division of the county, wapentake of Aswardhurn, stone building near the church, was erected by Henry part11 of Kesteven, union, petty sessional di.,ision, Edwardes Handley, Esq., the lord of the manor. The and county court district,rural deanery of Aswardhurn-with­ principal landowners are R. G. Millns, Esq., E. Tomlinsou, Lafford, archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, 5 miles south­ Esq., and Retford Hospital. The soil is strong clay. The east-by-east from Sleaford, and 2 from Heckington railway chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, and 11et:ds. The ares station. The old church of St. Andrew fell in 1801, except is 2,580 acres, and the population in 1861 was 135. the north transept; and a small, mean looking building was PariJJh CleTk, Thomas Asher. put up in the following year from part of the old material. The register dates from the year 1765. The living is a vicarage, annual value £318, derived from 260 acres of Letters through Sleaford. The nearest monev order office is glebe, with g-ood residence, in the gift of, and held by, the at Heckington • Rev. Benjamin Snow, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge. National School, Miss Hannah Hedgman, mistrellS Snow Rev. Benjamin, M.A. Vicarage Meeds William, farmer Sharpe Robert, brick maker coMMERCIAl.. Newton William, beer retailer Tomlinson E. farmer Hercock George, farmer Padley William, farmer Young Joseph, farmer Kisby Henry, :Flower Pot Rippon William, farmer

BURTON-upon-STATHER is a considerable shipbuilding, vessels as large as 300 tons being built. In village, formerly a market town, in the Northern division of 1865 a new pier was erected by Messrs. Wray and Son, the the county, parts of Lindsey, north division of .Manley shipbuilders, at which the steamboats to and from Gains­ wapentake, union and county court district, diocese borough, Hull, &c., call daily. One mile south-east from of Lincoln, archdeaconry of Stow, and rural deanery of Man­ Burton is Normanby Hall, a handsome mansion~ the seat lake, distant about 8 miles east-north-east from Crowle, 4 of Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart• .J.r. Samuel Slater, Esq., is north-west from Winterton, 12 north-west from Brigg-, and lord of the manor, and holds a court leet and baron at 22 from Gainsborough, pleasantly situated Of\ the brow of a Easter. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are bold cliff, on the east side of the river Trent. The church wheat and barley, and partly pasture land. 'l he area i.i of St. Andrew, a handsome edifice, !>ituated on a command­ 3,860 acres, and the population in 1861 was 983, including ing eminence, consists. of nave, aisles, and chancel1 partly the hamlets of THEALBY, NORMANBY, and COLEB~. covered with ivy, and has a tower at the west end contain­ BuRTON-STATHER is a small place at the river side. ing 3 bells : the interior contains some ancient arches: in THEALBY is a pleasant hamlet, one mile and a halfeas~ the chancPl are several monuments to the Sheffield family: from the church. the east window is a fine specimen of F.tained glass. The living is a vicarage, annual value £752, united with the Parish Clerk, Thomas Wright. rectory of Flixborough, in the gift of Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart., and held by the Rev. Charles Sheffield, M.A., of PosT 0PFICH.-Thomas N eal Wood, receiver. Letters are Christ Church, Oxford, who is also rural dean. A National received through Brigg, nid Winterton, arrive at 12..30 school was built by Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart., and the p.m. ; dispatched at 2 p.m. The nearest money order rector, in 1846. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists office is at Winterton have each a chapel. Two annual fairs are held here one on National School, Miss Wood, mistress the first Monday after the lst of May, and the other on the CARRIERS TO:- first Monday after New Martinmas-day, and 8 feast is held H ULL-J ohn Chafer, tuesday & friday at Whitsuntide. Brick and tile making is carried on; also WINTBRTO"M John Chafer, wednesday