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France and Scotland, which appear at the corners of with the vic3rage of Irby-in-the-Marsh, Sept. 27, 1887, the picture; on the English coast troops appear massed joint net yearly value £350, including 48; acres of glebe beneath the Royal Standard, and a short distance off the and house, in the gift of the Lord Chaneellor, and held little English fleet awaits the Spaniards ; below are six since 1897 by the Rev. Gerald Walker Ridley. Stephen rhyming couplets, and the words "Non nobis Dornine:" Langton Massingberd esq. of Gunby Hall, is lord of th& in the chancel is a piscina, an old tomb and a low side manor and principal landowner, but there are several window: the church, w1th the exception of the tower, small freeholders. The soil is a rich loam and clay;. was completely restored in 18go. as a. memorial to the subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, oats late C. L. Massingberd esq. lord of the manor, a large and barley. The area is 1,832 acres; rateable valns,. portion has been rebuilt, the nave and south aisle new £2,036; population in Igoi, 199. roofed, and the chancel roof restored to its original pitch: Parish Clerk, John Thomas Lowis. several windows have been furnished with tracery and other blocked windows reopened: the whole interior has Letters arrive from Burgh at 8. 20 a.m. ; dispatched al been re-seated, the chancel stalls being of oak: a pulpit 6.2o p.m. The nearest money order office is at Burgh of richly carved oak and a lectern have also been added, & telegraph office railway station, 2 miles the total cost was about £I,6oo: the east window has distant. The delivery is within one mile only &i the been restored in memory of the late Rev. Thomas Scott, office is closed on sundays the well-known commentator, who was born here x6 Feb. Wall Letter Box, near Church, cleared at 8. IS a.m. & 1747: the church affords 190 sittings. The register dates 6.20 p.m. week days only from• the year I685. The living is a rectory, consolidated '.I1he children attend the school at !Thy-in-the-Marsh Ridley Rev. Gerald Walker (rector), Clarke John Willia.m, farmer Pearson Henry, farmer Rectory Doulman John Thomas, farmer Butter Mary (!Mrs.), farmer COMMERCIA I.. East John, farmer ~harp Edmund, farmer & landowner Barke.r John Henry, farmer Holmes Ann 0Mrs.), farmer Smith Robert, carpenter :Earnsdale Charles, farmer Janney Silas, farmer Stephenson George, blacksmith Brackenbury Sam, market gardener Lowis Jn. Thos.farmer &i parish clerk Stubbs Wilson, farmer Burkitt William, farmer Lowis John William, farmer Veal John, farmer Bush Joseph, farmer Patrick John, farmer Veal Wm. Sheen,btchr.frmr.&landowru Bush Wm. (Mrs.), farmer &i landownr Paul Joseph, farmer Watson John, Rising Sun P.H

: is a parish, 6~ miles north-north-west yearly value £r5o, with residence, in the gift of th& from Lincoln, in the division of the county, Rev. Arthur Samuel Wright M . .A.. of Nettleton House, , Lawres wapentake, Lincoln (Bail and , and held since 1896 by the Rev. Henry Arnold Close) petty sessional division, union and county court Eowe M.A. of University College, Oxford, who is also district of Lincoln, rural deanery of Lawres No. 2, arch­ rector of . Brattleby Hall is the residence of deaconry of Stow and . The church Maj. Philip Chetwood Wright B.A., D.L., J.P., F.S.L of St. Cuthbert is a building of stone in the Early Eng­ who is lord of the manor and landowner. The soil is lish style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, and loam ; subsoil, limestone and clay. The chief crops are an embattled western tower with small spire, and con­ wheat, barley, turnips and clover. The area is 1,141 taining 3 bells : the chancel retains an ancient credence : acres ; rateable value, £ r,o78 ; population in Igoi, I48. the reredos of alabaster was erected to the memory of the two elder sons of the late S. W. Wright esq. of Deputy Parish Clerk and Sexton, William Mings. Brattleby Hall: the stained east window is a memorial Post Office. :Mrs. Sarah Mings, sub-postmistress. to Miss Mary Wright and on the south side of the . chancel is another memorial window to Henrietta de Letters through Lmcoln, arrive at 7· 15 a.m.; dia· patched at 6.IO p.m.; no delivery on sundays. lng· Coetlogon: in Igor a stained window was placed in the ham is the nearest money order &i telegraph office, north aisle : the church was rebuilt, with the exception about miles distant of the lower stage of the tower and the arcade, in 1858, 2 under the direction of the late Mr. J. Fowler, architect, Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1871, for of Louth: there are uo sittings. In the churchyard 40 children; average attendance, 25; Miss Gadding- stands an ancient cross. 'fhe register dates from the ton, mistress year 1686. The living is a discharged rectory, net Carriers pass through every day from Ingham to Lincoln

Howe Rev. Henry Arnold M.A.Rectory COMMERCIAL. Emmerson William Matthew, fanner Wright Philip Chetwood B.A., D.L., Burr John, shopkeeper Hall Skepper, farmer, Glebe farm J.P., :F.S.I. (Hon. Ma.j. 3rd Batt. Clarke Charles Carver, joiner Key Joseph, blacksmith (Special Reserve) J.incs Begt.). Emmerson John Thomas, farmer Kirk George, farmer Brattleby hall :-with-DUNS:BY is a parish 2i with residence, in the gift of the Marquess of Bristol and miles west-north-west from station on the Septimus Lowe esq. alternately, and held since IgOO by Spalding, and Doncaster joint extension of the the Rev. Arthur Havelock Sta:ffurth M.A. of St, John'• Great Eastern and Great Northern railways and 5 miles College, Cambridge, who resides at vicarag&. north-north-west from Sleaford, in the The :Marquess of Bristol M.V.O. is lord of the manor division of the county, wapentake of Flaxwell, parts of and principal landowner. The soil is light; subsoil, Kesteven, Sleaford union, petty sessional division and gravel. The chief crops are seeds and roots, wheat and county court district, rural deanery of Lafford No. I, and barley. The area. is 2,682 acres; rateable value, £1,301 ~ archdeaconry and dioce:~e of Lincoln. The church of All population in 190I, 128. Saints, anciently belonging to the priory of Thurgarton, Notts, is an edifice of stone in the Early English style, ST. ANDREW, I!; miles south-west, formerly rebuilt at the beginning of the Igth century, and con­ a parish, but now merely a hamlet, is included in the popu.· sisting of chancel, nave, west porch and an embattled lation. tower, with pinnacles, containing one bell: the nave was Parish Clerk, George Weaver. built entirely at the cost of a tenant of the Marquess of Bristol, who then farmed the land around the church: Letters through Lincoln viA , arrive at 9.20 the chancel was rebuilt in 1855, and in x8g2 the roof was a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is opened out, the church reseated and a new west door at Ruskington > provided: there are 8o sittings. The register dates Wall Letter Box cleared at II.45 a.m. &i 4·45 p.m from the year 1760. The living is a rectory, with the Public Elementary School (mixed), for 40 children; rectory of Dunsby and the vicarage of Anwick annexed, average attendance, 31; Miss Norah M. Gardiner, joint net yearly value £s6o, including go acres of glebe, . mistress COMMERCIAL. Herring John Frederick, farmer &i Pole J esse, farm bailiff to J. IL Coulson Revis Pulleine, farmer, The grazier, The Lodge Hough ton esq Manor (letters through Ru.;;kington) Pilkinton Geo, Thos. frmr. The Grange

: (or Glanford Brigg) is a market and union two wapentakes, viz. Yarborough and Manlake, and is town and head of a petty sessional divisil'!n and county in the rural deanery of Yarborough No. r, archdeaconry court district and a parish on the river Ancholme and of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. Brigg was formerly on the road from Lincoln to Barton and , 163~ only a small fishing hamlet, but is now a thriving town miles from London, r6 south-west from Hull, 23 north with an extensive trade, well paved and lighted with from the city of Lincoln, 16! north-east from Gains­ ga.s from works belonging to the Urban District Oouncil.. borough, xg west from Grimsby, in North Lindsey divi­ and supplied with excellent wate-r obtainoo from St. sion of the county, parts of Lindsey, and extends into Helen's well, about a mile from th-e town: the water •