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subsoil, gravelly. The chief crops ar~ whe.at, barley, dispatched at 9·45 a.m. & 6.40 p.m.; no delivery on ()ats, turnips, seeds and beans. The area is 1,934 sunday. , 3 miles distant, is the nearest money acres; assessable value, £I,J85; population in 19rr, order & telegraph office 296. Letter Box, near the Hall, is cleared at 8.50 a.m. &;_ Parish Clerk, John Thomps<>n. 6.20 p.m. Sexton, John Noble Wildman. Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1848, for 70 PoSit Office.-~Irs. Emma Cheetham, sub-postmistress. children; average attendance, 33; Miss Mary Letters arrive from Spilsby at 6.30 a.m. & 12.5 p.m.; Emerson, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. 1 Chester Waiter, farmer Nalder Alexander Fraser, farmer Burgess Robert Glover, Prospect ho Daulton Jesse, farmer, The Grange, Norton Betsy (Mrs.).Saracen's HeadPB Simpson Rev. Ronald Hugh M.A. cotes Parker Henry, farmer, see Wildman & (rector), Rectory De8forges John, farmer Parker Soulby Mrs. East Keal hall Desforges William, farmer Seymour Joseph,farmer & tax collectr Spence M~s. Marden cottage Ellerby Joseph, cottage farmer Shaw Aaron, cottage farmer Thompson John, The Homestead. Ely John, farmer, & overseer of W. Sherriff Geo. poultry dlr.Ea. T N 7 Spilsby Keal, East Keal cotes Sowden David, cottage farmer Thornewill Charles Olive, The Laurels Goodman George, pou~try dealer Stainton Waiter & George, farmers, COMMERCIAL. Hall John, farmer, East Keal cotes Highfields Bray William, farmer, lane Horry John 1-Villiam (Mrs.), farmer 'l'hompson John, farmer & grazier. llrown William, carpenter Knowles Robert, farmer 1' N 7 Spilsby Cheetham Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Knowles William, pig dealer Walker John, farmer, Fen Post office Lister J ose.ph, farmer, ~la nor farm Whyclle Helen (Miss), laundress Cheetham John Thos. market gardnr Mears Albert, farmer Wildman & Parker, farmers Cheetham William, boot maker ~Iiddleton Harry, cowkeeper Wildman Joseph, baker , anciently called "Oustcal,'' "Wester- thorn Park, is lord of the manor and chief landowner. kele " and "West Kiel,'' is a parish and pleasant village, The soil of the low part <>f this parish is clay, and the 4 miles south-west from Spilsby terminal station on upper part sand and red loam. The crops are on the a branch of the East Lincolnshire section of the Great four-course system. The area is 2,007 acres; assessable Northern railway, in the South Lindsey division of the value, £r,zs6; population in I9II, 284. county, , west division of Bolingbroke Sexton, George Tointon. soke, Spilsby union, petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Bolingbroke and arch- Post Office, West Keal.-William Vickers, sub-post­ deaconry and . The church of St. I master. Letters arrive from Spilsby at 6.50 a.m. & Helen, situated on a bold eminence, is a building of 12· 25 p.m. ~ dispatched at. 9.25 a.m. & 6. r.S P·~·; no green sandstone and brick, in the Perpendicular style, ~unday dehvery. Old Bolmgbroke, ri m1les distant, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of five bays, i .Is the nearest money order & telegraph gffice aisles, south porch and a fine embattled western tower Pillar Letter Box, _Church End, cleared at 8 a.m. & 6.5 with pinnacles containing 6 bells: the tower, being in p.m.; no collectiOn on sundays 1 a decayed state, fell down Sept. 18th, r88r, but has : "' . . since been rebuilt; the work, begun by the late Col. l KEA_L COTE;::; IS a hamlet, P.artly m this. parish a':ld Weston Cracroft- , was completed in r884 by his partly m t~at of East Keal, and IS near a navigable dram, son, Edward' W:eston Cracroft esq. at a cost of £ 2,299 : ab?ut r! miles south fro~ the church and on the. road from the chancel was rebuilt in r867 in the Early Decorated Spllsby to ~os.ton. Here 1s a Wesleyan chapel wit!l Sunday style, and the nave and aisles were reseated in 1865: school, bmlt m I891. there is a staiMd window in the chancel to the memory of Post Office, Keal Cotes.~Mrs. Lavina Shaw, sub-post~ John Jones esq. of West Keal Hall, d. r863, and near the mistress. Letters from Spilsby arrive at 8.5 a. m. & door is a stoup: there are 300 sittings. The register 12.55 p.m.; dispatched at 8.5 a.m. & 6.Io p.m.; no _ dates from the year I625. The living is a rectory, Bet delivery on sunday. , 3 miles distant, is yearly value from 310 acres· of glebe £240, with resi- the nearest money