DIRECTORY.) LI~COLNSHIRE. EASTOFT. 169
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 Sleaford 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 Oo 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 Goole, partly in 25, r855, out of the :parishes of Adlinj!fieet, in the West the West Lindsey division of the oounty, parts of Lind Riding of Yorkshire, and Crowle, in Lincolnshire, 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 Isle of Axholme, with a &tation, one mile north district, and partly in the east divi&i