470 HOPSLEY. . [ KELt.Y'S' Houblon and others own portions of the land. The soil Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Miss Gertmde R. Tucker i1 V'drious; subsoil, limestoae. The chief crops are sub-postmistress. Letters througll. ' wheat, barley, beane, oats and turnip e. The a.rea is Wall Letter Box, Humby 3,061 acres; rateable value, £3,II2; the population of the township of Ropsley in I9II was 510 in the civil, Public Elementary (Endowed) School (mixed & infants), a.nd 591 in the ecclesiastical , which comprises erected in 1874, at a cost of £760, for 147 children, k parts of Ropsley and Humby civil . enlarged in 1894, for go infants, at a cost of upwarda was amalgamated with Great Humby, of £4oo; the school has an endowment of £I2 a year; by Local Government Board Order 2I,oo1, March 24, George Percival, master; Mrs. Percival, mistress 1 B87 ; fur particulars see Somerby. · Carriers.-Simpson & Brothwell, tues. & sat. pass Sexton, Benjamin Parker. through to Grantham Kelly Thomaa Thelwell Couk John Thomas, mason \ vaccinator Ropsley district, Grant-

Outram Rev. Edmund HealT• B . .!.. Dawson Mary .Ann (Miss), grocer I ham union Rectory Dean Edward, pluruber I Lamyman Georse. Fox's Brush P.H Percival George Doughty Levi, boot maker Lamyman Willie, farmer Williamson Edmund, Iligh street Foster William G. farmer Mitchell Wm. Geo. insurance agent Gillison Samuel, juu. · thrashing ma- Moulds WiHiam, joiner COMMERCIAL. chine proprietor & clerk to Parish Parker Benjamin, mason Abbott George Hodson, farmer Council · Rawlings Thos.Hazlewood,harness ma. Abbott John Cave, Peacock P.H Green Wflliam Garton, f~rmer n'~"'bnth~m .Tohn, baker A.doock Thomas, grocer Harrison Thomas, farmer · · .Howbotham William 'rhomas, miller Barnes .!J.bert, blacksmith Hazlewood William, farmer (wind & steam) Bellamy Willie, baker Hodson William, pig dealer Rowell Andrew F. grocer Blankley John, jun. farmer J oyce Edward, farmer Sargeant Henry J. shoe maker Bullock Frank, tailor Kelly Thomas Thelwell M.R.C.S Tomlinson John, farmer Chantry Richard, butcher Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. physician & Tmner John Miller, Green Man P.H Chappell Thomas William, butcher surgeon, & medical officer & publil" Willaws Edwin, joiner

ROTHWELL is a parish and small village, 5~ miles tracted during the Protectorate, before Theophilm, from Bolton and Moortown stations Qn the Hull and Harn~is esq. J.P. The living is a rectory, net yearly l.incoln branch of the Great Central railway, 2~ south­ valul' £300, including about 423 acres of glebe, with east from Caistor, n! south-east from llrigg and 9 residence, in. the gift of the Earl of Yarborough, and north-north-east from Market Rasen, in the Louth held since x8go by the Rev. George John Boissier M.A. division of the county, parts Qf Lindsey, hundred of of Exeter College, Oxford, and prebendary of Lincoln. Bradley Haverstoe, Caistor union, county court dis­ Here is a Wesleyan c'hapel, built in 1843~ and a Primi­ trict and petty sessional division and Caistor rural tive Methodist chapel, built in 1874. The Earl of Yar­ deanery, archdeaconry of Stow and . borough P.C. is lord of the manor and the principal The church of St. Mary Magdalen is a building of landowner. The soil is a wold soil ; sub soil, chalk. The stonp of the Norman period, and was repaired and chief crop~ are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The enlarged in 1849, at a cost of [,goo: it consists ot a.rea is 2, 872 acres ; rateable value, £I ,9oo ; population chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower in 19II, I 88. containing 3 bells: the church plate includes a chalice, Sext{)n, Margrave Dawson. dated 1569: in IB92 the chancel was repaved and fitted with oak stalls, and the bells partly recast and rehung Post Office.-Mis!! Georgina Dawson, sub-postmistress. at a total cost of £275: in r8g6 a marble altar table Lstters through Cai11tor, which is the nearest money was erected : in 1899 a new oak screea was erected at a order & telegraph office, 2' miles distant cost of £285, and in 1901 a new organ was provided at Public Elementary School (mixed), buil~ in 1856 by the a cost of £284, and therP are 140 sittings. The register late Earl of Yarbo'r'ough, & enlarged in 1895, for 90 dates from the year 1562, and includes marriages con- children; "Mn. Randall, mistress Boissier Rev.Prebendary George John]Dawson MargTave, wheelwrig-ht Kirk Mary Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkpr M.A. (rector), Rectory · Dawson William, blacksmith tMilson Herbert,farmer,Rothwell Top COMMERCIAL. Frow Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper tPepper Harry, farmer, The Villa Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over. Hanson Charles, farm bailiff to Rowles Alfred, Blacksmiths' ArmsP.H t At.kinson Thomas & Son, farmers Matthew Addison esq Sanderson Waiter, wheelwright Bla-ckburn: George, farm bailiff to Harriman Frederick, farm bailiff to Trippit William, farmer & overseer, Harold Parkinson _esq. Rothwell ha Matthew Addisvn esq Rothwell grange • ROUGHTON is a parish, 2! miles north-east from C. W. Ha\'"ley bart. -who is lord of the manor, and Woodhall Spa station on the Horncastle branch of the Lady Emma -. J. Hnnlton Hartwell are the principal Great Northern railway, and 4 south from Horncastle, landowners. The soil il!! very varied; subsoil, sand and in the Horncastle division of the county, pa.rts of clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and Lindsey sake, petty sessional division, union and county turnips. The area is I ,o56 acres; rateable value, £867: court district of Horncastle, rural deanery of Gartree. population in I9II, n8 in the and 251 in archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The the ecclesiastical parish (which includes Haltham-on­ church of St. Margaret is an ancient building of local Bain and part of Woodhall Spa civil parishes). stone and brick., in the Early English style, and consi~ts By Local Government Board Order No. 3I,76o, dated of chancel, nave and a low western tower, with a wooden September 29, r894, part of Roughton was transferred bell-cote containing 2 bells : the interior has been re­ ·to the new parish of Woodhall Spa. stored and reseated with open benches, and has about Parish Clerk, Charles Leggitt. . too sittings. The regist~r dates fro._m 1564. The living Letters through Lincoln, via Woodhall Spa, which is is a discharged rectory, united m I74I to that of the nearest money order & telegraph office H!lltham-on-Bain, joint net yearly value £3oo, includ­ Wall Letter Box, cleared week days only ing 383 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Public Elementary School (mixed), for Ronghton, Halt­ and held since 1913 by the Rev; Henry Cecil Marriott ham, Dalderby & Martin, for 92 children; Miss J. M. Spurrier M.A. of Pembroke College, Dxford. Sir H. Hendergon, mistress COMMERCIAL. Hutchinson Thomas, farmer, Moor l'RIVATE RESIDENTS. Johnson Alfred, farmer, Moor Hartwell Lady Emma J. Houlton. Marked thus t farm Ijo acres or over. Leggitt Charles, smallholder Roughton hall Butcher William, farmer Lingard Bert, farmer Spurrier Rev. Henry Cecil Marriott Elvin William, farmer Page -, farmer, Moor M .A. Rectory Griffin Moses, cottage farmer Warrender .Tohn. farmer. Mnnr tHarrison Sml. Evison,frmr. & over!'r tWright John W. farmer, Glebe farm

ROWSTON is a parish and -village. 1 mile north from church of St. Clement ie a building of stone in the Digby station on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Early English and Late Perpendicular styles, and con­ joint railway from Spalding to Donca~ter, 7~ north llists of chancel, with chantry chapel on the north. now from Slea.ford and 12~ south-east from Lincoln, in the used a.s a vestry, clerestoried and embattled nave of Grantham division of t.he county,- parts of Kesteven, four bays, north aisle, south porch and a small western wapentake of Flaxwell, Sleaford petty sessional division, tower with pinnacles and crocketed octagonal spire, and · county court district and union, North Lafford rural containing 2 bells, both cast in 1622: the tables of the di!'Bnery, and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln: The Commandments, the royal ar·ms and those of Mn .

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