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soil, limestone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and i money order & telegraph office is at Metheringham, oalts. The area is 3,358 acre11 of land and 14 of water; : I mile distlant. Telegrams can also be dispatched rateable value, £3,740; population in xgoi, 572. i from the railway station, or received there to be Parish Clerk and Sexton, J oseph Moody. cal1ed for, but are not delivered Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1852 & Post Office. John Smalley, sub-postmaster. Letters since enlarged, for 108 children & again enlarged in arrive from Lincoln at 6.40 a.m. & are dispatched at x8go at a cost of £2oo, for 135 children; average s.so p.m. arrive from at s.so p.m. & are dis­ a'ttendance, 95 ; John Thomas C

EAGLE is a parish and village, 2 miles west from Thorpe i Post Office. John Marshall, sub-postmaster. Letters sta.tion on the Lincoln branQb of the Midland railway, 8 : received from Lincoln at 8.25 a.m.: dispatched at 4-SO south-west from Lincoln by road and s.\ by railway ond II ' p.rn.; no delivery of le-tters on sundays. Po.,;.tal nor-th-east from Newark, in the Nortl_l iKesteven division of Orders are issued &; paid here. The nearest money 1 &; the county, parts of Kesteven, hi.!!'her division of the hun- 1 ovder office is at OoSessional division of Lin- Thorpe-on-the-Hill sootion, z miles distant coin (South), union and county court district of Lin- . Wall Letter Box at Eagle Hall, cleared at 4· 15 p.m. daJy, coin, rural deanery of Graffoe and archdeaconry and diocese 1 except sundays of iLincoln. The church of- Aa Saints is a small but an­ cient rby containing 5 bells: the church, which had been for ~ome station, which is within the parish, and contains x,xs6 years in a state of decay, was thoroughly restored in acres of land; rateable value, £916; the population in 1904, the nave, north aisle and chancel being entirely 1901 was 65. The land, excepting ·about 300 acrelS, is rebuilt: other extensive alrterations were also made, the property of Thomas C. Curtis esq. the total cost amounting to nearly £2,ooo; there are n~ now devote

Kirk Rev. Charles Hubert Claughton Judge Henry, farmer 1 Reynl}lds Parher, farmer Kenny M.A. (vicar), Vicarage Kettleborough Waiter, Engine P.H Hose George, fanner Rowe Robert Locking Thomas, farmer 8a.ddington George, farmer Smith Seth Mars hall John, shopkeeper & shoe Sheldon Bros. farmers, Eagle Hall Well;; Robert maker, Post office Smith George, farmBr Merry William, farmer, Eagle Hall Smith George, farmer, Eagle Barnsdc~l!!' COMMERCIAL. Newsom John, farmer, Eagle Wood­ Smit.h William, chimney sweep Baker John, farmer house Taylor Sarah (Miss), dress maker Belton Arthur, farmer Otter Fredrrick William, farmer Taylor Alice (Mrs.), farmer Bilton Charles, overseer & carrie~ Outram George Richard, butcher & Thompson Charlotte (Mrs.), farn1cr, Case Mary (Mrs.), Struggler P.H fanner, Eag1e Moor Eagle Hall Cook Andrew Jn. farmer, Eagle Hall Parker Brothers, farmer~, Eagle Traves Alfred, joiner & agricultural East George, farmer, Eagle Moor Barnsdale implement manufacturer, Excel,;ior Fenton Williarn Bentley, manu- Parker Thomas, farmer WO~S . facturer of ploughs, harrows, drags, Parkinson Jn. farmer, Eagle Barnsdale Ward \Villi am, farmer land rolls, scarifiers, potato raisers & Pawson William, farmer Well.'! John, carpenter & joiner ey-ery description of agricultural im­ Peach Henry, butcher Whitehead Henry John, grocer & plements, Acn1e iron works Peatfield Catherine (Mrs.), farmer patent medicine vendQl" Gre-en Robert, farmer & carrier Rawding Henry, farmer, Eagle Hall Whitelee Henry, farmer & carrier J ohnson Thomas, farmer Read Brothers, fanners EASTOFT is a pleasant village and parish, formed Sept. S. and L.) railway, 9 south-!'ast from , partly in 25, r855, out of the :parishes of Adlinj!fieet, in the West the division of the oounty, parts of Lind­ Riding of Yorkshire, and Crowle, in , and is on sey, west division of Manley wapentake, petty sessional the banks of the old river Don, adjacent to and partlv in divi5ion of Epworth, Thorne union and oounty court the , with a &tation, one mile north­ district, and partly in the east divi&i