90 ELM. ' CA~IBRIDG ESHIRE. (KELL"Y'S hundred, union, petty sessional division and in large quantities. The area is II,366 acres of land and county court district, rural deanery of Wisbech, and in the 36 of water; rateable value, [19,1~; the population in

pecufiar archidiaconal jurisdiction o0f the Bishop rof Ely. 189I was 11 779 in the civil and 7109 in the ecclesiastical The Coldham station of the Great Eastern railway is in thi!! parish. parish. The church of .All Saints is a large building of The following are in this parish: Begdale, I mile south. •tone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, west; Cottons, 2! miles south-east, and Waldersea, 1 nave, aisles, north porch and an embattled west-ern tower di11 trict of about 5,5oo acres, drained by steam power, the with small spire containing 5 bells: the church has been water being pumped into the by a powerful restored and the chancel was renovated internally in 1875 engine on the south brink, about 3 mHes frem Wisbech. by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners: there are 468 sittings, . COLDHAM, including MARCH CHAINi STAGSHOLT, 364. being free. The register dates from the year 1539· and PEAR'l'REE HILL, has been formed into an ecclesi. The living is a vicarage, a.verage tithe rent-charge £367, astical pari!!h, and will be found under the head of" COLD. net yearly value [339, with residence and including 20 HAM." acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop 'Of Ely, and held since 18a3 by the Rev. Frederick Holdship Cox M.A. of FRIDAYBRIDGE has also a. separate heading. Pembroke O:lllege, , and TUral dean of Wisbech. Sexton, William Watson. Here is 111 Primitive Methodist chapel. A reading room is Post, M. 0. & T. U., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, S. B. & maintained in the village during the winter months. The Annuity & Insurance Office.-Rbt.Bull, sub-postmaster. cha.ritiu, amounting to £278 yearly, are distributed in Letters arrive through Wisbech, week days, at 0 a.m. fl~ur, clothing and fuel. The Bishop of Ely is lord of the & 12.30 p.m. ; sundays, 7 a.m. : dispatched, we~k manor. The principal landowners 11re Col. Lewis Vjvian days, Io. 15 a. m. & 8.35 p.m. ; sunday11, 9 p.m Loyd D.L., J.P. of 8 Rutland gate, London S.W. Benjamin Wall Letter Boxes, by church, cleared week days, 9.30 Stockdale esq. of Wood House, Fridaybridge, Samuel a.m. & 8.15 p.m.; sundays, 9 -a.m.; at Oldfield.. house, Stockdale esq. Alexander Peckover esq. F.L.S., F.R.G.S. cleared week days, 9.15 -a.m. 8 p.m.; sundays, 8.45 a.m of Bank House, Wisbech, James Burd'Ock esq. Rev-. Percival Schools:- Fiennes Swann, Edwal'd Hugh J11ckson, Wisbech and Mrs. B.oys' (Endowed), erected in 1859, for n:a children; S. Oatling, Redmoor, Elm. Under the provisions of the average attendance, So; the endowment amo_unts to ''Allotment Act of r882," land in this parish is let out in £10 yearly; children from Emneth, Norfolk, are en· allotments, viz.: on the vicar's glebe, 9 acres 3 roods t1tled to attend this scllool~ JohQ James Houghton, . divided into allotments of 1 Tood each and 27 acres granted master . . , , . . by the trustees of the Elm United ChaTities,let out in un- Girls' (National), erected in 1866, for 130 c\lildren; equal allotments. The s.oil is loamy; the subS{>il ill clay. average attendance, 70; Miss Mary Sainty, mi~trt>,Ss The chief crops are wheat and oOats, with potatoes and fruit Tramway from Wisbech to Elmbridge Catling Mrs. Redmoor Burton Waiter, farm bailiff to Mr. Masham Mary (Mrs.)', market gardnr Cox Rev. Fdk.Holdship M.A.Vicarage Joseph Feast Mason Thomas, boot &; shoe maker Mashin Alfred Claxton George, general dealer Miller Charles, coal dealer Moore Mrs. Grove house Cook Abraham, farmer Morris George William, wheelwright Parker Rev. Herbert Wallis B.A. Oooke Jacob, farmer & blacksmith ( curat. ._.) Dawson Robert, market gardener Morton .Alfred, market gardener Reed Mrs. Lancelot Fox SamnPl, market gardener Nobbs William Beckett, beer retailer Robb William Gathercole John, dairyman & farmer, Porter Laura (Miss), shopkeeper Seotney Miss Begdale farm Racey Thomas Willia.rh, baker · Swann Mrs. Grove house Gathercole Wm.market grdnr.Begdale Racey William Henry, butcher Greeves William, farmer Ream John Fosbrooke, farmer CO?.lMERCIAL. Hill Amos, accountant,land surveyor, Scott Etherington, farmer, 'Begdsle Allen James William, shoe maker registrar of births & deaths for Wal· Scrafield Wm. Godfrey, beer retailer Banham Thos. market gardenr.Begdale so ken sub-district & assistant over- Smith Mary (Mrs.), butcher & shpkpr Banham William, beer retailer seer for Elm & Emneth parishes, 1 Stapleton Frederick C. carpenter Bettinson George, fa1•mer clerk to the charities & organist of Stevenson Arthur, farmer ' Bliss Thomas, farmer parish church Stimson John, farmeT • Bond Joseph Edward, shopkeeper Jewson Wii:iam E. farmer, Begdale Storey Frederiek, beer retailer Booth Timothy, carpenter Johnson Henry, painter & decorator Thompson William Francis, china, Rooth William, farmer Kemp Geurge Alfred, baker glas~ & earthenware dealer Bowett W illiam, farmer Kitchen John Thos. baker &. butcher Walker John, eoal dealer Bull Robert, groc£>r, baker, & post office Leavis John, basket 111akPr Walme!l' Elijah,thrashing mach. o'Wner Bullard Robert, farmer Leggett Aaron, basket m~ker Watts Jesse, tailor Bullard Samuel, farmer, Elm house Lines Arthur George, bricklayer Wilkinson Jn. Wm. builder & contrctr Burdock James, farmer Lines Joseph, bricklayer Wood Fred, brewer Burton Christopher, market gardener.Lynn Thomas market gardener ELSWORTH is a parish on the border inserted, at a cost of £r,ooo, of which £300 was contri· of the county, 6 miles south-by-west from St. Ives station buted by the late Rev. Edward Cheere M.A. of Papwortb on the Great Eastern and Midland railways, about Io Hall, to whose memory a. new·east window is inserted: north-west from Cambridge, and 8 south-east from Hun· the church affords 590 sittings. The register dates from tingdon, in the Western division of the county, hundred 1528 and is in excellent preservation. The living is a rec· of Papworth, petty sessional division of Caxton, union of tory, net yearly value [,233, with residence, and including Caxton and Arrington, county court district of Cambridge, 663 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Duke of Portland, and rural deanery of Bourn and archdeaconry and diocese of held since 1884 by the Rev. Henry Thomas Knox Hutchin· Ely. The church of the Holy Trinity, which belonged to son 1\f.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The Particular Bap· Ramsey Abbey from a very early period until the dissolu- tist chapel here will seat 250 persons. There are alms· tion of the monasteries, is a building of stone in the pure houses for thrPe persons and charities of [,n yearly for Decorated style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave distribution. Capt. Waiter Henry Octavius Duncombe of four bays, aisles, south porch and a low embattled J.P. of Waresley Park, Hunts, is lord of the manor, and' western towet with pinnacles, containing a clock and 4 the rector of the rectorial manor. The principal land· bells, 3 of which bear the following inscriptions :-r, Non owners are Richard Papworth Parsons esq. and Mr. vox sed votum non musica cordeala sed cor. 1628; 3, Cum Samuel Papworth. The soil. of this neighbourhood is moveo admoneo. R.G.I.A. churchwardens. 1616 ; 4, + stiff clay, and the subsoil blue gault, with chalk, stoMS Chri-1topher Graye made me, 1675: the triple sedilia and and flints. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. double piscina are especially good examples of the Decor· The area is 3,839 acres; rateable value, {,2,76]; the ated style, and there is also some excellent Perpendicular population in x8gr was 620. wood work in the chancel, consisting of stalls returned at Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & In~urance Office.- the west end, with poppy heads and "linen fold" panel- Charles Throssell, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from ling; under the book rests of the stalls are little lockers St. Ives (Huntingdonshire) at 7 a.m. : box closes at retaining their original panelled doors, locks and hinges: 6.30 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Caxton on the south side of the chancel is a lepers' window, with National School (mixed), erected in 1856, for 250 children; the original iron staples remaining: over the porch door is a avarage attendance, 106 ; Willia:rp Rogers Billing, sun dial with the inscription" MOX NOX;" and on the east master; Miss Clara Smith, infants' mistress gable is a most beautiful and perfect Decorated cross ; on Carriers.-Samuel Braybrooke, Tom Chandler & William the floor are two slabs with matrices of 15th century Wayman, to St. Ives, mon. ; William Wayman, to St. brasses, and there are traces of others; in the tower is a Ives, fri. ; Tom Chandler, to St. Neots, thurs.; Samuel plain chest: the church was thoroughly restored in 1892, Braybrooke, Tom Chandler & William Wayman, to Cam· the north aisle completely rebuilt and several new windows bridge, sat