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Cottingham George Waiter, miller ~law John Thomas, boot maker Robinson Thomas & Charles,farmers, (wind) Moxham William &J Thomas,farmers, South Carr (postal address, Laugh- Cottingham William Fisher, miller Common ton, Gainsborough) · (wind I; steam) , ~:loxham Francis, poor rate collector Day Robert James, farmer &. Jand- & clerk to the Parish Council . owner, Highfield Nelson William, saddler . Day William, farmer & landowner, Osborne Herbt. Jn. farmr. Moss farm Capes Charles Edward, farmer Church farm Oxley Thomas, farmer, St. Helena Cook Annie (Mrs.), farmer Drayton James, boot maker farm, Kirton road Hill Richard & Son, farmers Drayton John Thomas, greengrocer Raddish John Richard, farmer Kirkland (Rlizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Elwood Frederick, blacksmith Raddish Richard Leaning,potato mer Osborne William Harrison, farmer Eminson Richard &; Sons, farmers, Richards George,. farmer Proudley William & George., farmers Seotterwood Sizer William, wheelwright & breeders of shire horses · · Eminson Thos. Ben.Franklin M.R.O.S. Skinner Emma (Mrs.), farmer Richards Wi~liam & Thomas, farmers Eng., L.S.A. surgeon, & medical Skinner Thomas, farmer officer & public vaccinator, Scotter Slight John & Edward, tailors SUS\YORTB. district, Gainsborough union Slight Edward, registrar of births & COMMERCIAL. Eminson Wm. farmer & landowner deaths for the sub-district of Scot- Emmerson William, farmer ter, Gainsborough district A.rmstrong George Henry, farmer EYeratt John & George, thrashing Smith Thomas, vermin kille-r Bell Franklin, White Horse P.H machine owners Smith Thomas Belton, farmer Drewery Alfred, farmer, Grove hall Everatt Edward, ·ironmonger Snowden Adam, coal dealer Gleadell John Henry, carrier Faunthorpe William, farmer Stutting John (~:lrs. ), shopkeeper Green William, shopkeeper Foster George, farmer, :Mill hill Tindall John, thrashing machine pro· Guilliatt George, farmer Guilliatt Thomas, farmer prietor . Jacklin George, farmer Harsley Alfred, coal dealer Vickars Thomas, farmer Morley William, farmer Harsley William, carrier, &; wagon- Wakelield Geo. E. farmer, Eau house Preston Nicholas, blacksmith ettes & traps for hire Warwick Grant, farmer, Scotterfield Robinson George, farmer, South Ings Howell Arthur Gladwin, farmer \Yright Christr.carpntr.& wheelwright Robinson Robert, farmer King Ebenezer, insurance agent Ross George, pig dealer Lidgett ·Chas. &; Son bakers k confrs COTEHOUSES. Sandars & Oo. maltsters Loughton Alfred, bricklayer1 Harrison William & Sons, farmers Scutt William, farmer Marris Hunt, farmer Marris Hunt, farmer; & at Scqtter

SCOTTON is a parish, township and village on the is a rectory, net yearly value £395• with 97 acres of river Eau, 2! miles north from Northorpe station and 3 glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, miles north-west from Kirton station on the main line and held since 1907 by the Rev. John Powis Hoult L.Th.

of the and section of the Great of Durham Universitv.• Here are Primitive and Wes- Central railway, 9 north-east from Gainsborough and 162 leyan Met'hodist chapels. There is a reading room in the from , and in the · division of the village. This place was successively a seat of the county, parts of Lindscy, wapentake of Corringham, :Xevills, the Bnsst>ys, and a branch of the baronial Gainsborough petty sessional division, union and county house of Sheffield of Butterwick. Mr. John Oxley Fish com·t district, rural deanery of Corringham, archdeaconry is the principal landowner. The soil is loam and of Stow and . The church of St. sand; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are carrots, Genewys is a spacious edifice of stone, in the ~orman, potatoes, barley, turnips and pasture. The area of the Early English and Later styles, consisting of chancd, township is 1,849 acre"; rateable value, £2,982; the nave of three bays, aisle~. south porch and an em­ population in 19II was 212, and of the ecrlesia~tical battled western tower containing a clock and 3 bel~s, parish, 276 (which includes and part of one of which is inscribed to St. John: the church, Scatter civil parishes). originally a fine structure, was beautified by several of In the census returns for 19II, 2,160 acres of land the Nevill family, who were lords of the manor till is given as being common to the township~ of Scotton 1384-5 : it suffered much at the time of the Reforma­ and East Ferry. tion, and again in the reign of Queen Elizabeth • .A.D. Parish Sexton, John Bennett. 1566, when five of its altar- stones were broken up and · used as paving stones: in 1820, by the direction of Arch­ Post Office.-John Bennett, sub-postmaster. Letters deacon Bayley, the portions of the aisles which over­ through Gainsborough arrive at 7.30 a.m.; dis­ lapped the tower were pulled down, a fine rood-sereen patched 7.20 p.m.; no delivery on sunday. Scotter, destrayed, and forty-one shields of arms of the Ne,·ills, 1! miles distant, is the nearest money order & tele­ which, with other glass, had up to that adorned the graph office windows, were carried off and inserted in the windows j of church, of which Dr. Bayley was then 1 EAST J<'EURY, or East Kinnard's Ferry, is a small rector; the materials of the destroyed rood-loft are said ' village pleasantly seated on the east bank of the river to have been used to make a bridge : one doorway and Trent, 5 miles west from Scotton, and on the oppo~ite the tower arch are Norman, and there is a beautiful side of the to . The river is Early English doorway in the north aisle; the principal 1 crossed by ferry boats. The small chapel of Sli. Mary, part of the tower is Early Decorated, the upper stage ; a structure of brick, was rebuilt about 18oo by the being Perpendicular: the font, of Caeu stone and marble, recto-r of Scotton, and is attached to Owston Ferry for and designed by the late G. E. Street esq. R..A.. was ecclesiastical purposes, and served by the clergy of presented by the late Rev. E. F. St. Leger M. .A. rector Owston Ferry. The register of East Ferry is included 1863-82, who also erected a memorial window to his in that of Scotton and Owston Ferry. Here is a Primi­ son Richard, d. 1879: the communion plate, which is tive )lethodist chapel. Francis Hu!ro Lindley ·Meynell partiy of pre-Reformation date, was given by the Rev. esq. of Boar Cross Hall, Staffordshire, is lord of the William Morley, rector 1721-31: in the north ai.-le, manor and the principal landowner. The soil is beneath an arch, is a sepulcltral slab, ·with a legend in loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are potatoes and Norman French, to John de Thevelby; another slab wheat. The area is 483 acres of land, 36 of tidal water bears the shield of Nevill, and a defaced inscription to a and 7 of foreshore; rateable value, £I,I26; the popu­ rnember of that family, lord of Scotton in 1382; a third lation in 19II was qo (this includes the hamlet of slab displays the bust of a priest within a quatrefoil. , 1! miles north, part of which is in East and one other, only fragmentary, has some Lombardic Ferry township). letters:·: iu the s.outh aisle there hagioscope, and Wall Letter Box cleared at . a.m. & . p.m. i~ ~n 9 45 4 45 ~he chancel r~tam~ an aumbry, p1scma and cre?enc~: Letters throu()'h Doncaster m the south a1sle 1s the recumbent effigy of a kmght m "' mail armour with crossed legs, probably of the reign Public ElemenJtary School, built in 1879, at a ooSit of of Euward II. and also a female effigy; a slab with £4oo, for 50. childr~n; average atten~a~ce, 4~; chil- .floria ted cross bears a mutilated inscription to Richard dren. attendmg t~1s school are . e.h~1ble, If duly Sallenby 1400: there are one or two shields on the roof quahfied, as candidates for exh1b1hons connected of the ~hancel, which was restored in 1866: the fine with Kirt.on-in-Lindsey school; Miss Christina Leslie east window is a memorial to the late Rev. Edward Spark, nustress Frederick St Leger M.A. rector, who died in x882: Public Elementary School, East Ferry, built in 1910, there are sittings for 300 persons. The "register, includ- for 36 children; average attendance, . z5; Miss ing E