DIRKCTORY.J LINCOLNSHIRE. THREEKINGHAM. 457 sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of include interest on £3o, distributed on Good Friday by Candleshoe No. r, and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. the vicar, churchwardens and overseers, together with a The church of St. Peter is a building of sandstone, chiefly of yearly sum of £3, payable by the impropriator; there the Decorated period, with remairrs of Early English work are also two bede-houses, left by an unknown donor. and Perpendicular additions, and consists of chancel, cleres­ Bricks are made here. Col. Charles Birch-Heynardson J.P. toried nave of four bays, aisles, north and south porches and of Holywell Hall, Stamford, is lord of the manor. William a western tower, with four crocketed pinnacles, containing Hopkinson esq. is the chief landowner. The soil is rich 3 bells : a Perpendicular carved oak screen separates the grazing land ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are grass nave and chancel, and there is a richly carved pulpit of the and wheat. The parish contains 2,996 acres of marsh Jacobean period; the roof exhibits rude carvings of grotesque and fen land, including 14 miles of road, also the East fen heads, flowers and other ornaments : the font rests upon a allotment; rateable value, £4,162; the population in 1881 fragment of an altar-stone, and is an Early English work was 566. with an octangular shaft and circular bowl : the chancel By a Local Government Board Provisional Order, dated appears to have had lateral chantry chapels, and the piscina December 24th, 188o, and confirmed by Act 14 Vict. c. xvii. of one of these appears on the external north wall : several a detached part of Hagnaby, with a population of x6, was large stone coffins were discovered during the restoration of transferred to Thorpe St. Peter parish. the nave, and a slab at the west end bears a foliated cross, Parish Clerk, Henry Johnson. the head of which is encircled by a label bearing the legend, "Orate pro anima Ricardi Markeby Capellani :" the east LHTTER Box, Railway station, cleared at 6 p.m. Letters windows of the aisles were inserted by Mr. Hopkinson: the through Wainfleet All Saints R.S.O. arrive at 8a.m. The tower and chancel were restored at the expense of the late nearest money order & telegraph office is at Wainfieet William Hopkinson esq. M.A. of Stamford, and the nave and A School Board of 5 members was formed July I5, I879; aisles restored and reseated in 1866, at a cost of £370; the T. Ward, New town, Spilsby, clerk to the board&attend­ restorations were carried out under the direction of Mr. ance officer James Fowler, of Louth : there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year r637. The living is a vicarage, Board School (mixed), built in 1876, at a cost of £6or, for tithe rent-charge £ 34, net yearly value £ 250, in the gift 8o children; average attendance, 6o; Thomas Robinson, of the Bishop of Peterborough. There are Wesleyan and master Primitive Methodist chapels here. The local charities Railway Station, Burton Emerson, station master. WhitworthRev.Thos. JohnB.A. [curate] Dunkley Richard Hobson, farmer Nelsey William, Three Tuns P.H Emmerson George (Mrs.), farmer Parsons John, farmer COMMERCIAL. Gil!iart John, machine owner Reding William, farmer Baker John, farmer Gutteridge Robert, farmer Scupham John & James, farmers Bradley William, farmer Hopper Ann (Mrs.), farmer Simpson Henry, farmer Carey Isaac, Black Horse P. H Johnson Thomas, farmer, Thorpe dales Simpson Thomas, farmer C!arey John, farmer Johnson ·william, blacksmith Turner Thomas, farmer Clarey Thomas, machine owner Kirk Joshua, farmer Vessey John Henry, farmer Corden William, farmer Lancaster J oseph, farmer "\\' arth Jas. Got hard, brick m a. & farmer Coupland Gnmel Wright, farmer Leachman John Hy. farmer, Thorpe ho "\Vattam Isaac, farmer Conpland Walls Armstrong, farmer, Lowis Edwin, farmer Wattam Thomas, farmer Old Hall Marshal! Thomas, farmer, Fen "'illiamett John Martin, shopkeeper Dowse John, farmer Martin James, farmer Wray Joseph, Queen Victoria P.H WEST THORPE (or THORPE-IN-THE-FALLows), is a rent-charge £326, joint net yearly value £251, with 2 acres parish, watered by the river Till, 8 miles north-north-west of glebe and residence, in the gift of R. H. Otter esq. of from Lincoln, and 3~ east from Stow Park station, on the Aisthorpe, and held since 1875 by the Rev. Thomas William Spalding and Doncaster Joint Extension of the Great Eastern Bury M. A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who resides at and Great Northern railways, in the West Lindsey division Aisthorpe. The Rev. George Roberts B.A. vicar of Norton of the county, wapentake of Lawress, Lincoln (Lindsey) Disney and Robert Fawsitt Ealand esq. of Aisthorpe House, petty sessional division, partll of Lindsey, and Lincoln union are the sole landowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay_ and county court district. The church has long since dis- The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 847 appeared, but the site of the building, the foundations of acres; rateable value, £747; the population in 1881 was 70. which were removed a few years back, may still be traced; LETTER Box cleared at 3.30 p.m. week days only. Letters the inhabitants attend the church at Aisthorpe. The register from Lincoln, via Aisthorpe, arrive at 10.30 a. m. Ingham is included in that of Aisthorpe. The living is a vicarage, is the nearest money order office ; the telegraph office is a~ consolidated with the discharged rectory of Aisthorpe, tithe Stow Park Roberts John, farmer 1 Shelton Henry, farmer, The Grange 1 THREEKINGHAM with STOWE. TlrnEEKIN"GHAM is a parish and small scattered village, in­ end of the chancel is a beautiful early triplet : in the north cluding the hamlet of STOWE, situated at the intersection of aisle of the church are three stone coffins, with lids entire. the Roman roads Ermine Street and the Salter's Way, 2 which were removed from the churchyard about 18o6; one miles north- east from Falkingham, 3 north-west from of these bears the inscription "Hie intumulatur Johannes, Billingborough station on the Bourn and Sleaford branch of quondam dominus de Trekingham," for John de Treking­ the Great Northern railway and 7 south from Sleaford, ham, high sheriff in 1324. The font bears the legend, "Ave in the North Kesteven division of the county, parts of Maria gratia P.D.P. :" and at the end of the nave are two Kesteven, Aveland wapentake, Sleaford peity sessional recumbent effigies, on a low raised slab, of Lambert de division, union and county court district, rural deanery Trekingham and his wife, the former in chain mail and of Aveland No. r, and archdeaconry and diocese of flowing tunic and bearing a shield with the arms of Trek­ Lincoln. This place was at a remote period called ingham, c. 1245-1315: there are 200 sittings. The register "Laundon," and obtained its present name about 87o, dates from the year 1572. The living is a vicarage, tithe when three Danish kings or chieftains, slain by Earl Algar, rent-charge £44, net yearly value £120, including 63 acres with Morcar and Leofric, in a sanguinary attack on the of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Wilson, and held since 1884 by Danish forces on the festival of St. Maurice (Sept. 22), were the Rev. Charles Edward ·walker Foottit B.A. of University buried here. The church of St. Peter is an ancient build­ College, Durham. Here are Baptist and Calvinist chapels. ing in the Transitional, Early English and Decorated styles, Laundon House is the residence of William Alfred Cragg esq. consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western The principal landowners are Mrs. Wilson, who is lady of the tower with spire containing 3 bells : the chancel furnishes a manor, W. Nouaille Rudge esq. D.L. of West View, Shirley, singular example of the admixture of earlier styles, having Southampton, and "\\'m. Alfred Craggesq. The soil is heavy three equal circular-headed windows separate on the out­ loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat and barley. side, but connected in a continuous arcade on the inside ; The area is 2,270 acres; rateable value, £1,812; the popu­ the east end is good Transitional work ; the lower part of lation in 1881 was 143, including Stowe. the tower is not much later; the upper portion and spire Parish Clerk, John Thorpe. present one of the best examples of a heavy broach spire to to be met with; the spire was struck by lightning in 1871, PosT OFFICE.-Miss Susan Pickworth, receiver. Letters but restored in 1872 : the north aisle is Late Decorated, and arrive at 7.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 5· IO p.m. through the font a combination of Early English and Perpendicular; Falkingham, which is the nearest money order & telegraph there is some good ironwork on the south door, and several office singularly carved bench ends of very late date : at the east The children of this place attend the school at Osbournby Threekingham. IFoottit Rev. Charles Edward Walker coMMERCIAL. Cragg William Alfred, Laundon house B.A. [vicar] Abel Zechariah & Jsph. Lambley,joinra .