DIRECTORY.) . • 59 • of the Bishop of Manchester, and held since 1884 by the Sexton, George Markham. Rev. William John Sparrow H.A. of University College, Durham, who resides at Gamston. Lieut.-Col. Henry Letters through Retford, which is the nearest telegraph office, arrive at 8 a.m.; the nearest money order office is Denison R.E., J".P. of Eaton Hall, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clayey and sandy loam ; London road, Retford. Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.3() subsoil, marl and limestone. The land is chiefly arable, p.m. on week days only principally growing wheat and barley. The area is 1,519 Public Elementary School, built by the late H. Bridgeman­ acres of land and 7 of water ; assessable value, £2,961 ; the Simpson esq. for 60 children; average attendance, 50; population in 1901 was 144. Mrs. Whitesmith. mistress Denison Lieut.-Col. Henry R.E., ;r.P. Andersen Charles, farmer Spooner William, farmer Eaton hall Booth John, farmer • Tinker Charles, farmer, Eaton grange COMMERCIAL. Cole William, farmer Wheeldon Robert, farmer Allen Henry 'Villiam, cowkeeper Curtis Edwin & John, fanners EDINGLEY is a pleasant village and parish, near the chapel, erected in 1838, was re-seated and a new porch , on the road between Southwell and Mans- added in 1898, and affords sittings for 80 persons. The field, with a station called Kirklington and Edingley on charities amount to £7 8s. yearly. The Manor House is. the and Newark line of the Midland railway, one an old building, now occupied as a farmhouse. The mile north-west from the village, 8 miles east-south-east Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. The from the latter and 3! west-north-west from the former principal landowners are W. H. Wilson esq. of Hexgrave and 131! from London, in the Newark division of the Park, Col. Edward Strelley Pegge-Burnell, of Winkburn county, petty sessional division, union and liberty of Hall and Lewis Randle Starkey esq. of Norwood Park, Southwell, county court district of Newark, wapentake of Southwell. The land is partly arable and partly pasture, Thurgarton, rural deanery Qf Southwell, archdeaconry of with 8 acres of WQOd and 20 of orchard. The area is 1,755 Nottingham and diocese of Southwell. By Local Govern- acres of land and 4 of water; rateable value, £2,817; the ment Board Order, a detached part of Edingley was trans- population in 1901 was 250. ferred to Oxton. The church of St. Giles is a stone building Osmondthorpe, 1 mile east, a.nd Greaves Lane, half & of very early date, consisting of chancel and nave, and mile west, are hamlets. a turret containing 2 bells, dated 1811: there is a piscina Parish Clerk, George Copeland. and a Norman font : the church has been restored under Post Office.--George Brown, sub-postmaster. Letters the care of Jlodgson Fowler esq. architect. The register arrive from Southwell at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 9 a.m. dates from the year 1581. The living is a vicarage with & 6.30 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office that of Halam annexed, joint net yearly value £300, in- is at Farnsfield, 2 miles distant eluding 47 ac,res of glebe, in the gift of the Bishops of Manchester and Ripon alternately, and held since 1884 by Public Elementary School, partly endowed, built for 3() . the Rev. Robert Frederick Smith M.A. of Lincoln College, children ; average attendance, 21 ; Miss Elizabeth Ann Oxford, who is also minor canon of Southwell Cathedral, Holden, mistress and surrogate, and resides at Southwell. The Wesleyan Railway Station, Albert Ernest Whitworth, station master EDINGLEY. Pogson Thomas, farmer, Spring farm GREAVES LANE. Powell Charles, Reindeer P.H Bamard James, general dealer Nowers Rev. James Edward Laurence Richardson Emma (Mrs.), farmer Beckett Henry, farmer M.A. (curate) Smith John William, market gardener Cope Edward, farmer & market gardener Whitehead Mrs Smith Joseph, fruit grower & market Cougill George, farmer Basilico John, farmer, Osmonthorpe frm gardener Foster George, farmer Brown Mary (Mrs.), farmer Smith Thomas, farmer, Cotton Mill farm Hitchcock George, fruit grower & mar- Copeland George, assessor & collect Walker Thomas, farmer, Manor house ket gardener of taxes & rate collector Ward Samuel, farmer & landowner, Hoggard John, farmer Hallam William, farmer Edingley grange Miller John, farmer Lewin Fredk. fruit grower, Littledale Wardle John, farmer Paling Richard, farmer Lowe George, wheelwright · Whitehead Frank, miller (steam & Tipping Marianne Pursey (Mrs.), farmer Pearson Wm. shopkeeper & beer retailer water), baker & farmer Vickerman Robert L. farmer EDWALTON (or Edwalston) is a village and parish filled by an oak rood screen, presented as a memorial by near the high road from Nottingham to Melton Mowbray, Mr. A. W. Brewill: the chancel is furnished with a with a station on the Nottingham and Melton Mowbray panelled oak altar table, a reredos of alabaster and stone branch of the Midland railway, 3 miles south-east from sedilia: there are llO sittings. The register is in fair Nottingham and 16 north-west-by-north from Melton condition and dates before the year 1550. The living is Mowbray, in the Rushcliffe division of the county, wapen- a vicarage, net yearly value £98, including 75 acres of take of Rushcliffe, Bingham union, Nottingham petty glebe, in the gift of J. P. Chaworth-Musters esq. and held sessional division and county court district, rural deanery since 1902 by the Rev. Arthur Hugh Sutherland B.A. of of South Bingham, archdeaconry of Nottingham and Hatfield Hall, Durham. There is a Public Hall, erected diocese of Southwell. In 1889, by Local Government in 1896. John P. Chaworth-Musters esq. of Annesley Board Order, a detached part of West Bridgford was Park, is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil 1 transferred to this parish. The .church of the Holy Rood, 1 is chiefly clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oal:Bt said to have been erected by one of the murderers of St. I clover and roots. The acreage is 831 ; rateable value, Thomas a Becket as a penance for his crime, is a small £2,936 ; the population in 1901 was 288. building of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular Parish Clerk, Thomas Cook. styles, consisting of chancel, nave, narrow south aisle, Post Office.-Thomas Cook, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive south porch and a brick tower, containing 3 bells : there through Nottingham at 7 a. m. Box cleared at 6.50 p.m. ; is an ancient stone font lined with lead : the church was no post on sunday. Postal Orders are issued & paid internally restored and an organ introduced in 1881, at here. The nearest money order office is at West Bridg- . a cost of over £100, and in 1894 a chancel was erected on ford & telegraph office at Edwalton station, which opens the lines of the ancient chancel, which fell down at the on week days only close of the 17th century : the new structure, built at a cost of The School, held in the Parish Room, and opened in 1900~ over £850, includes a transeptal organ chamber and vestry, will hold about 60 children ; average attendance, 21 ; in the Perpendicular style, from designs by Messrs. Brewill Miss Maud Brooker, mistress and Bailey, architects, of Nottingham: the chancel arch is , Railway station, George William Alien, station master Barnes Arthur, Inglewood Shaw Henry, The Grange Gadd John, farmer & machine owner, Bell J ames, Edwalton house . Shipstone Thomas, Manor house Hill & Lodge farms Brewell Arthur William, The Lodge Sutherland Rev. Arthur Hugh B.A. James Morris, farmer Clark Frederick, Melton house (vicar), The Vicarage Mitchell Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Foster Don, The Limes Thorpe Henry, The Lodge Public Hall (Rev. Arthur Hugh Suther- Green William, One Ash Topham Arthur, The Dell land B.A. hon. sec) Hind Jesse, Edwalton hall Turner Laurence, Oxholme Pycroft Jane (Mrs.), dairy Reddish Ernest, Rydal mount Astell Harry, blacksmith Wild Richard, farmer EDWINSTOWE is a large township, village and ex- station, on the Nottingham and Mansfield branch of the tensive parish, on the river Maun, with a station on the :Midland railway, and 9 south-west from Tuxford, in the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast railway, which is Bassetlaw division of the county, Hatfield division of the also a junction of the Midland railway from Mansfield, 2 wapentake of Bassetlaw, Worksop petty sessional division miles west from , 7 north-east .from Mansfield and county court district, Southwell union, Worksop rural •