72 GRINGLEY-ON-THE-HILL. NOTTING Hal\Ishire. [KELLY 8 Clark Edward, Farmer, Toplaw Farm Hill Waiter T

$72 GRINGLEY-ON-THE-HILL. NOTTING Hal\Ishire. [KELLY 8 Clark Edward, Farmer, Toplaw Farm Hill Waiter T$

1 72 GRINGLEY-ON-THE-HILL. NOTTING HAl\iSHIRE. [KELLY 8 Clark Edward, farmer, Toplaw farm Hill Waiter T. registrar of births & Richards Stephen, farmer Clifton John, coal dealer, Wharf deaths for Gringley sub-district, East Richardson Edwin, painter &c Coulthread Edmund, Cross Keys P.H Retford union & assistant overseer Saul J ames, saddler Dawson Frederick, butcher Jackson George, farmer Scrafield Joseph, farmer Dixon Harry Knight, grocer & draper Joule Waiter Thomas, farmer Swinbum Mary (Mrs.), dress maker Downs Thomas Sykes, farmer J.ill George, druggist & grocer Tomlinson George Henry, brick maker Drakes William John, fanner, Manor ho Love Charles, blacksmith Wainwright Jn. farmer, Corporation frm Eggleston Robert, wheelwright & frmr Milner James, pig jobber Ward Fred, shoe maker Emmingham Robert, farmer Moody James, blacksmith Wat.'lon Dixon, farmer Fillingham Robert, shoe maker Needham William, pig jobber Whaley Edward, carrier Foster John, fanner & shoe maker Needham William, jun. farmer Whaley John, baker Fotheringham John William, farmer Ogilvie Thomas White M.B., c.M.Aberd. Whitehead George (Mrs.), farmer Golding William, farmer surgeon & medical officer & public Winn Charles, lock keeper Gringley Gas Works (F. Bailey, propr) vaccinator, Gringley district, Retford Winn Thomas, fanner Hartley Thomas, grazier union Wood Fielding, market gardenE:'r Hewitt Joseph, grazier Page Joseph, fanner Wooffitt John, White Hart P.H Hewitt Thomas, wheelwright Pearson George, farmer Wooffitt Williamson, Blue Bell P.H Hill Frederick, builder · Reading Room (Charles Hewitt, sec) GROVE is a parish and pleasant village, 3 miles south-! rectory, net yearly value £150, including 35 acres of glebe, east from Retford station on the main line of the Great in the gift of Edward Evelyn Harcourt-Vernon esq. and held Northern railway, in the Bassetlaw division of the county, since 1893 by the Rev. George Shipton, of Cumbrae College, South Clay division of the Bassetlaw wapentake, East N.B. There are charities of £10 8s. annual value. Here Retford union, Retford county court district and petty are traces of an old Roman encampment. Grove Hall, the sessional division, rural deanery of Retford, archdeaconry seat of Edward Evelyn Harcourt-Vernon esq. D.L., J.P. of Nottingham and diocese of Southwell. The church of lord of the manor and sole landowner, is a mansion of brick, St. Helen, entirely rebuilt in 1882, at a cost of £5,112, seated on an eminence, in park-like grounds of 250 acres, defrayed by the Harcourt-Vemon family, from designs by and commands an extensive view. The soil is a strong clay, Mr. Hodgson Fowler, of Durham, is in the Late Decorated favourable for wheat crops; subsoil, limestone substratum. style and consists of chancel, nave, organ chamber, vestry, The parish contains 1,325 acres; assessable value, £891; south porch and a western tower with spire containing a the population in 1901 was 195. clock and 4 bells : over the porch is a niche containing a Sexton, George Parkin. statue of St. Helen: the east window is a memorial to G. H. Wall Letter Box, cleared at 5.20 p.m. on week days only Vernon esq. father of the Rev. Evelyn Harcourt-Vernon, Letters through Retford, which is the nearest money late rector, and the west window is a memorial to Grace . order & telegraph .office, arrive about 8.10 a.m Harcourt-Vemon, d. 9 March, 1881: there are 130 sittings. Public Elementary School, built in 1897, at a. cost of about • The lych-gate, walls and railings, erected in 1882, are in- £800, by E. Evelyn Harcourt-Vemon esq. will hold 73 eluded in the amount stated above. The register dates from children ; average attendance, 56 ; Miss Helen Steniland, the year 1726, and is in good condition. The living is a mistress Harcourt-Vernon Edward Evelyn D.L., Brown Charles, wood steward to E. E. Reynolds John William, farm bailiff to J.P. Grove hall Harcourt-Vemon esq. & rates collector E. E. Harcourt-Vernon esq. Home Shipton Rev. George, Rectory Park Joseph, farmer, The Gran~e farm COMMERCIAL. Park Tom, fanner, Top house W ekh Thomas, head gardener to E, E. Benson Robert, farmer, Grove moor Parkin George, blacksmith Harcourt-Vernon esq GUNTHORPE, anciently Gunildethorpe and Gulne- people are employed in framework knitting. The principal thorpe, is a small village and township on the Trent, across landowners are Earl Manvers and the Nottingham Corpora which is a bridge, connecting it with East Bridgford, erected tion. But the land is mostly freehold. The soil is clay and in 1875, at a cost of £7,500, raised in £10 shares; it is 1! gravel; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, miles south-east from Lowdham station on the Nottingham beans, turnips and roots. The area is 1,125 acres of land and Lincoln line of the Midland railway and 9 east-north- and 32 of water ; rateable value, £3,027 ; the population in east from Nottingham, in the Newark division of the county, 1901 was 349 .. wapentake of Thurgarton, union of Southwell, parish of By Local Government Board Order No. 40,034, dated Lowdham, Nottingham petty sessional division and county September 12, 1899, part of Gunthorpe civil parish was court district of Newark, rural deanery of Gedling, arch- transferred to Lowdham. deaconry of Nottingham and diocese of Southwell. This Post Office.-Henry Mills, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive was formerly a chapelry, for "in 1088 Roger de Bosli gave from Nottingham at 9 a.m. & at 2.50 p.m. (to callers to the monastery of Blythe the two parts of land belonging only) ; dispatched at 1.50 a.m. & 5.30 p.m. Postal Orders to the Hall in Gunthorpe and all the small tithes." The are issued & paid here. The nearest money order & present chapel, a building of stone, was erected in 1849, telegraph office is at East Bridgford, 2 miles distant and consecrated February 14th, 1850, and consists of chancel and nave, with a western turret and 1 bell and a Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1873, for 55 stained east window: there are sittings for 120. The living children; average attendance, 42; Mrs. Jane Knight, is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Lowdham. The mistress Wesleyans have a small chapel in this village. Most of the Carriers to Nottingham.-George Morris, wed. & sat PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Mason Edmund, market gardener Blackburn Mrs. Alfred James Allwood Samuel, tailor Mason Percy, joiner Campbell Rev.John, Dover Beck house Bames William, shopkeeper Mills Henry, shopkeeper, Post office Clay George Brimson John, lace designer Mills Luke, market garoener Hardy Joseph Cook William, shopkeeper Muddiman Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Kirk Tom, Gunthorpe hall Freeman John Henry, builder Reynolds Henry, fanner, M:arlock ho'I'JSe Newmarch Waiter, Manor house Hancock Joseph, framework knitter Sadler Benjamin John, Anchor inn Serine William Henry Knight Emily (Miss), dress maker Sumner Eliza (Mrs.), wheelwright Smith Wilfred Stanley Knight Hiram, framework knitter Tomlinson Thomas, butcher & farmer Sollory George Henry, East villa Lacey John, shoe maker Ward Arthur John, Unicorn inn Wesson Waiter Lee Samuel, market gardener Wilson Charles William, blacksmith

Williamson John Harrison, The Lodge Martin Jn. Cheetham, frmr. & butcher • , HABBLESTHORPF, see North Leverton. HAI.AM is a parish and village, seated in a hollow, on clock and 2 bells, dated 1722: the east window, with two the high road from Southwell station to Mansfield, 1! miles others are memorials to William Flint esq. of Halam House, west from Southwell station on the Mansfield and N ewark and there is another on the north side of the chancel, of the branch of the Midland railway, and 10 south-east from 15th century: there are tablets to Sophia Frances, mother Mansfield, in the Newark division of the county, wapentake of Sir Richard Sutton, of Norwood Park (1844), and Mary of Thurgarton, liberty, petty sessional division and union Emily, his daughter, wife of Lord A. E. Hill (1850), and to of Southwell, county court district of Newark, rural deanery Thomas Wright, of Upton Hall (1845), as well as inscribed of Southwell, archdeaconry of Nottingham and diocese of flagstones to •• Enry Lascoe," ob.13 June, 1689, and William Southwell. The church of St. Michaelis a building of stone Lascoe gent. (1703), and Ann, his wife (1713): the church in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of was restored during the period 1884--9, at a cost of £1,600, chancel, nave, south aisle (built about 1884), north porch and affords 179 sittings. The register (of parchment) dates and a low western tower with four pinnacles, containing a from 1560'Jfor an entries, but is partly illegible till1600, and