DIRECTORY.] LINCOl~NSHIRE. SO'GTH KYME. 351 Wormald Arthur, Knaith hall Rand Ilah, farmer Staniland Isaac, farmer Dook George, farmer Robinson Thomas Wray & Arthur, Waterhouse Charles Fredk. farmer Harrison Thos. Hy. Stag's Head P.H farmers, Siding farm Willow~ Richard H. farmer SOUTH XYME is a parish consisting of the townships was anciently a priory of Austin or Black Canons,. of North and , in the division founded in the reign of Hen. II. by Philip de Kyme. of the county, wapentake of .Ashwardhurn, parts of Kes· sheriff of the county in 14 Hen. 11. (n67-8), and one of teven, petty sessional division, union and county the barons present at the Great Council of in court district, North Lafford rural deanery, and arch- n77; the priory was dedicated to St. Mary, and at the deaconry and . South Kyme is 5 miles Dissolution had 10 canonF. and revenues valued at {,1o1. south-west from Dogdyke station on the Boston and The Kymes continued to be lords of this place until Lincoln branch of the Great Northern railway, 10 east- the 14th century, when by virtue of a fine levied in north-east from Sleaford, and 9 south-west-by-south from 8 Edw. Ill. (1334-5), the inheritance was transferred to­ Tattershall. 'fhe river Kyme, called the Kyme Eau, flows Robert de Umfraville, 2nd Earl of Angus, who had married through to the Witham. The church of St. Mary and Lucy de Kyme, sister and heiress of William, last Baron All Saints, the south aisle of which formed part of the Kyme, who died in 1338, when the barony fell into church of the priory, is an ancient and interesting edifice abeyance and so continues; subsequently the manor and of stone in the Norman and Later styles, consisting of estates descended by marriage to the Talboys family. chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, and a small open belfry Barons Talboys, and thereafter to the Dymokes of Scri­ containing one bell, but was greatly altered in 1805, when velsby, by whom it was sold. Miss E. A. C. Oust and a considerable portion of the original fabric was rebuilt: Mrs. A. M. Porcelli-Cust, of Cowes, I. of Wight, are­ the windows on the south are unusually large, and have ladies of the manor and sole landowners. The soil i& well executed tracery: the inner side of the doorway of alluvial; subsoil, sand and clay. The chief crops are. the south porch is pure Norman, the arch being highly wheat and oats, but the largest portion of the parish is enriched: the exterior arch is of plain character, and over pasture. The area is 4,878 acres of land and 14 of it is a niche, inclosing two mutilated figures: the stained water; rateable value, [,5,046; the population in 1901 east window was presented by E. R. C. Cust esq. and was, of the township 444• of the ecclesiastical parish t11ere are two others: the old octagonal stone font has 993 (which includes part of ). been restored and placed on an octagonal base and step Parish Clerk, Henry Skelton. at the west end of the aisle: the brass inscription for- Post &; T. Office.-Robert Hotchen, sub-postmaster. merlf on the tomb of Gilbert, 1st Baron Talboys, of Kyme, Letters arrive from Lincoln at 9.25 a.m. &; 6.40 p.m. ; is now fixed on the north wall, and runs as dispatched at 4.30 p.m. ; no sunday post. Reeking- follows:-" Here lyeth Gylbert Taylboys, lorde Taylboys, ton, 4 miles distant, is the nearest money order office lorde of Kyme, wych maried Elizabeth Blount, one of the The school is under the management of 6 members. dowghters of Ser John Blount, of Kynlet, in the counte 4 foundation &; 2 elected, appointed in 1903; Rev. J. of Shropshir, knight, wych lords Taulboys departed Milner M.A. correspondent fourth of this world the 15th day of Aprill, A. D'ni Public Elementary (mixed), erected in 1843 by the late- M ccccc·xxx, whose solle God pardon. Amen:'' on the Earl Brownlow, for Ioo children; average attendance, we.st wall is a mural monument supported by allegor- 84 ; B. w. Gardiner, master ical figures, representing Death and Time, to Marmiiduke j Carrier. John Taylor Pinion, to Sleaford, mon. & . Dickenson, the son of a former parish clerk, who after Boston, wed having been apprenticed to a tailor at the expense of the parish, travelled to London, where by great care and per- NORTH KYME is a township in the parish of South 1everance he made a fortune, and died 9 Jan. I7II: the Kyme, If miles south from , 5 miles south­ church was restored in I8go at a cost of £1,600, and west from Tattershall station, in the first division of afiords 300 sittings. The register dates from the year Langoe wapentake. The passes through it. 1654· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value The old church of North Kyme was pulled down at the [,19I, including 26 acres of glebe, with residence, in the Reformation: the present church of St. Luke, erected in gift of Miss Cust and Mrs. Porcelli-Cust, and held since , at a cost of [, , , is structure of brick in the 1 a77 1 400 a 1908 by the Rev. John Milner M.A. of Trinity College, Late Gothic style, consif!ting of chancel, nave, south porch Dublin. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in x886. and an open belfry containing one bell: there are 250 Marmaduke Dickenson by his last will " gave to ye sittings: divine service is conducted here by the vicar poore of South Kyme two hundd pounds to be paide of South Kyme. There is also a Wesleyan chapel. In unto ye minister and churchwarden wi·thin twelve the centre of the village stands a medireval stone cross. months of his decease and to be by them laid out in :Bernard Gilbert esq. who is lord of the manor, and a purchase of fen land and ye early income of ye same the trustees of the late Mr. Edward Jackson are the to be by them distributed unto ye poorst sorte of people principal landowners. The soil is black alluvial clay of South Kyme and accounted for unto their Jury upon and gravel; subsoil, blue clay. The chief crops are December ye 21st day for ever." The keep of the wheat, oats, mangold and col& seed, carrots and pots­ ancient castle, probably erected by Robert de Umfra- toes. The area is 3,s54 acres of land and 6 of water; Tille, 2nd Earl of Angus, who died in 1325, is a lofty rateable value, [,4,737; population in 19II, 549· tower of st-one, in good preservation, and forms a con- For ecclesiastical purposes South Kyme ia included in spicuous object in the landscape; the entrance leads North Kyme and . into a chamber with a vaulted and grained roof, in the cen-tre of which appear the atms of Umfraville: this Post Office. Joseph Torey, sub-postmaster. Letters room is lighted cnly by narrow loopholes, and appears arrive from Lincoln at 8.45 a.m. & 5·5C: p.m. ; dis- to have b~n intended as a place of confinement: patched at 5 p.m. ; no delivery- on sunday. Billing- immediately above this is the " chequer cbam ber: " hay is the nearest money order office above this were two other chambers, the situation of the Public Elementary School (mixed), erected by the lord fireplaces of which may be distinctly seen, but the roof of the manor in 1866, at a cost of [,Boo, for no and floors have disappeared: at one angle of the tower, children; average attendance, 6o; Thomas Edward and over the staircase, is an elevation, probably used Smith, master as a look-out, and from this spot a very extensive view The School is under the management of six members i oi the l!urrounding country is obtained: the castle was Rev. J oseph Torey, correspondent pullt-d down between the years of 1720 and 1725. Here Carrier.-William Lockey, to Sleaford, mon SOUTH KYME. Daubney William, cottage farmer Swallow Slater, coal dealer Dodd Charles, farmer, Fen Swallow William, cottage farmer Milner Rev. John M.A. (vicar), Dodd Edward, farmer Twells Henry, farmer, Grange farm Vicarage Holmes John, shoe maker Wainwright John Thomas, farmer Hotchen Robert, miller (wind &; Wells Edward, farmer COliU:RRCIAL. steam), Post office Wii!e George, farmer, Fen Addison Edward, farmer Hunt James. carpenter Wise Rebecca (Mrs.), blacksmith Bound Alfred, gamekeeper to G. P. Key Edward, farmer 1ohnson esq Key Th