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Grummitt Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, I King James, farmer, Weston hills Sindall Henry, farmer, Weston marsh Weston hills Laxton Thomas, cottager Snell Elijah Bloomfield, farmer Grummit William,farmer & landowner Mackman Robert, shopkeeper & tailor Thomazin Hennet, wheelwt. & carpntr Grummitt William, jun. farmer Mews William Frederick, farmer Thomazin Jarvis, wheelwt.Weston hills Hall Cornelius, boot & shoe maker Paddison James, Chequers inn I Ward William,farmer,St.Lambertshall Harlock George, blacksmith Pattinson W. farmer Webster Roger, farmer & landowner Harlock James, farmer Perkins William, farmer Welbourn William, farmer Hayes George, miller (wind) & baker Pick George, farmer, Weston hills Westmoreland John, farmer Hutchinson 1\'illiam, shopkeeper Proctor Frederick, farmer Wright William, farmer is a large scattered village and parish, respectively arising from a charge on the great tithes, and .situated on the road from to Spalding, 2 miles a rent-charge on lands called "Haltofts ; " also a rent­ west from Holbeach and 6 east from Spalding, with a charge of £2 12s. left by Erasmus Amy to be distributed station on the Eastern and Midlands railway, in the Holland in bread yearly among the poor. Irby Hall, now a farm­ division of the county, parts of Holland, wapentake and house, was anciently a seat of the knightly family of Irby, petty sessional division of Elloe, Holbeach union and county now represented by Lord Boston. At the foundation of court district, rural deanery of East Elloe, and archdeaconry Croyland Abbey, A. D. 948, the manor of Whaplode was and . The church of St. Mary is a build- given to that monastery. The manors are WhaplodeAbbots, ing of stone in the Norman, Transitional, Earlier English, St. John of Jerusalem, Whaplode Hagbeach, Whaplode Kirk­ Late Decorated and Perpendicular periods, consisting of a fee, Whaplode Knevits, and Whaplode Pipewell, the manorial chancel, clerestoned nave with seven bays, aisles, north rights in all of which have become merged in the freehold. transept, north and south porches and a south-east tower The Crown and Lady Ulrica Thynne are the principal land­ containing a clock and 5 bells: the chancel arch and the owners. There are numerous other smaller proprietors. first four bays of the nave are Norman, the rest of the nave, The soil is light loam and clay; subsoil silt. The chief including the west front, being Transitional: the clerestory crops are wheat, beans, peas and roots. There are 10,224 of the nave west of the tower displays a circular-headed acres, including Whaplode Drove; rateable value, £r8,575; arcading, pierced at intervals by a plain window of like the population in r88x was 2,375, including Whaplode form; the nave has a total length of rro feet, its chief Drove 783, for which see separate heading. feature being the west doorway, which exhibits a fine series Parish Clerk, 1\'illiam Graham. of mouldings in four orders: the tower unusually placed on PosT 0FFICE.-James Osborne, postmaster. Letters from the south side of the easternmost compartment of the south Spalding, arrive at 7.40 a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. aisle, is a lofty and very striking object ; it is four stages in The nearest money order office is at Moulton & telegraph height, of which the three lowest, belonging to the original office at Moulton railway station design, are arcaded: the belfry storey has coupled windows PosT OFFICE, Saracen's Head.-Henry Askew Woods, sub- in each face, and above is an embattled parapet with four postmaster. Letters through Holbeach arrive at 8.30 short pinnacles and vanes; the lower stage of the tower a. m. & 3.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 3·:-lo p.m.; sunday dis- forms a south transept, and in the south aisle is a fine altar patch, 7-45 a.m. Holbeach is the nearest money order tomb of stone, bearing the recumbent effigies of Sir Anthony & telegraph office Irby, ob. 1593, and Alice his wife, ob. r625 ; on the base of A School Hoard of 5 members was formed May 12, 1874; R. the tomb are the figut'es of five children kneeling, and above P. Mossop, Holbeach, clerk to the board; Charles Henry rises a canopy supported on ten columns of the Composite Green, attendance officer (,lrder and adorned with shields of arms : a new pulpit, from ScHOOLS :- a design by Mr. Fowler, was set up in 1854: Roman pottery Board, Saracen's Head (mixed), built in r878, at a cost of has been met with in the churchyard : there are sittings for £ r,64o, for 120 children ; average attendance, 72; 500 persons. The register dates from the ytar 1559. The William Hurst Chouler, master; Mrs. Eliza Slator, in- living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £46o, net yearly value fants' mistress £4oo, including 2 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Board, St. Catharine's (mixed), built in r88r, at a cost of the Lord Chancellor, and held since r883 by the Rev. John £r,o5r, for roo children; average attendance, 69; (va- Collin M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The great cant), master tithes belong to Oakham and Uppingham schools, and were National (mixed), built in 1856, for rso children; average commuted in 1843 for £r,6oo. Here are 1\'esleyan and attendance, xo8; for the free education of a certain num- Primitive Methodist chapels. Almshouses for six poor ber of children, now taught in this school, Elias Wilson, widows were built by an ancestor of Lord Boston : two of by will in 1704, left 2~ acres of land & a cottage; Willia.m these received rod. a week from the charity left by Sir Gibbins, master Anthony Irby. There are also charities of £4 and £2 Railway Station, John Lorraine Brown, station master Alien j!rs Coupland Robt. farmer, Saracen's head Mashford John Wesley, wheelwright, Collin Rev. John llf.A. Vicarage Crawley John, farmer, Manor house Saracen's head Cra.wley John, Manor house Croker Francis, farmer, Millgate Mattock William, Bell P.H Harpham Thomas, jun. Arbour house Croker Fras. jun. farmr. St.Catherine's I Merilion David, shoe ma. Saracen's head COMliiERCIAI.. Croker James, farmer, Snaffers lane Mimmack John (exors. of), farmers, Adams Fountain,farmer,Cragg'sHill ho 1 Cross David, farmer, Bank 1\'haplode bank Alcock Charles Goodwin, wheelwright Culy Blaxley, farmer, Hell end Molesworth Thos. frmr. St. Catherine's Ash by John Thomas, farmer & land- Dawber George, Bell & Howl P.H Molesworth Wm.frmr. Hurdle Tree bnk owner, St. Catherine's Dickinson George, bulb mer. & florist Naylor Lucy (:\'Irs. ), farmer, The Fields .Atkin William, farmer Dickinson John, wheelwright Noble Abraham, farmer Baily Edward, New Saracen's Head P.n Dickinson John George, butcher Noble Jn. Jsph. frmr. Hurdle Tree bank Barker Thomas, farmer, Cranes gate Eason William, farmer, Church gate Nutt Holt, farmer, Cranesgate Hell Luke, hair dresser Fawn John, shopkeeper, St. Catherine's Osborne James, grocer, Post office Higgadike Geo. farmer, Saracen's head Fidler Charles, chimney sweep Pope William, farmer, Cranesgate Higgadike George Henry, poulterer Foreman John, farmer Porter Matthew, farmer Boor Jsph. Wm.jun.farmer,Jekells bank Francis Hy. farmer, Hurdle Tree bank Reed Thomas Depear, farmer Bourn James, baker & land surveyor Freeman John, farmer Rhodes Benjamin, shopkeeper Bowers Joseph, farmer Graham ·william, grocer & draper Robinson George, farmer, Cranesgate Bowman Richard, farmer, Quick lane Gratton John, farmer, 1\'ashway Rose William, farmer, Ravens bank Bray brook Jas. Gibson, farmer, Hop la f Gratton John, jun. farmer, Wash way Rouse Jonas, farmer, Gt. South Holland Hraybrook James, farmer & bricklayer 1 Green Henry, farmer, Mill lane Rouse Nias,farmer,Great South Holland Hroome Alfred Henry, shopkeeper Green John, farmer, Millgate Salmon Samuel, farmer, Moulton lane Brown Bruce Lorraine, bee farmer, GreenThos.farmer,Little South Holland Sharman John, farmer Sicester house Green Thomas, jun. farmer, Millgate Shepherd John Dixon, farmer Bnffham John, beer retailer Griggs Samuel, butcher Slator Henry, farmer, Washway Burberow William, farmer Harpham Freeman & Cule)', farmers Slator MabelPratt,blacksmitb,Washway Butler Edmund, farmer Harrison Richard, farmer & grazier, Sleight Joseph, farmer, Irby hall Cade Jsph. Lamb & Flag P.n. & farmer Double Roof house Smith Jeremiah,farmr.HurdleTree bnk Carter Chas.Fredk.farmer,Saddle drove Harrison William (exors. of), farmers Smith Theophilus,miller(wind & steam) Chappell 1\'alter Henry, farmer Hart George, shopkpr. Saracen's head & baker Christian Nathaniel, farmer Hilliam William, farmer, Cranes gate Speed James Newton, farmer, Millgate Coates Frederick, farmer Hunt William,shopkpr. Saracen'shead Speed John Newton, blacksmith Coddington Wm.frmr.HurdleTree bank Jackson Waiter, farmer Stevenson Robert, farmer, Hill house Collins William, farmer, Fen King Charles, bricklayer Soulden John, farmer, Millgate Cope George, farmer King Thomas, farmer, Fox heading Turn bull John, Dun Horse P.H. Whap- Cope John, shopkeeper, Saracen's head Macharness George, beer retailer, lode bank Coupland William, farmel' Fen Saracen's head Yellam Absalom, baker & farmer