DIRECTORY. J . BILLlNGH.AY. 69 Hodgkinson .Arthur Wm. High street Orampton Geo. blacksmith, High st Lloyds Bank IJmited (sub-branch to Hodgkinson Charle1 Grosvenor Oreasey William Rufus, chemist & Bourne) (opens fri. 1.30 to 4 p.m.), Hodgkinson Thomas, Victoria street sub-postmaster, High street High street; draw on head office, Houghton Mrs. Buckminster villa Davis & Son, cattle spice manufactrs. 72 Lombard street, E 0 Johnson Edward, Victoria street road Lowth Charles, Grapes inn Longsta:ff Mrs. High street Dawson Edward, carrier McCann Tolly, feather purifier & McCann Tolly Uawson Thomas, insur. agent, Fen rd down quilt & bedding manufacturer, Morley Miss, Station road Day Mark, poulterer, Vine street The Feather Factory of the Fens Nelson Miss, Bay house Dods William, coal merchant (Joseph Marshall John .Sellars, hair dresser, Parsons Davis, Birthorpe road Major, manager), Station yard High street Sharp Mrs. Victoria street Dudley George, fruiterer, High st Parker Elijah, grocer, High street Smith Misses, Buckminster villa Duffin William, farmer, Fen Parsons Davis, cattle food manufac- Watta William Clarke, West view Everitt .Albert, painter, High street turer, Birthorpe road Winckley Rev. Charles Richd. Thorold Fisher John, beer retailer Payne Harry, sheep dipper M.A. (vicar), 'fhe Vicarage Freeman, Hardy & Willis J.imited, Pearce Emily Hall (Mrs.), stationer &i W oolley Miss, The Old Hall boot dealers, High street registrar of births & deaths & vac- CO.lUIERCI.AL. Freeman John, farmer, Low street cination officer for the Aslackby sub- Early closing day, Thursday. Gibson J. & Co.coal office,Station yd district, Bourne union, High street Alien William Edwin, blacksmith, Glenn William, carpenter & joiner, Pickworth Ellen (Miss), dress maker, High street Victoria bridge High street Barclay & Company Ltd. bankers (sub- Goodacre E.& Sons, watch mas.Vine st Pod am Thomas, carrier, Low street branch to Bourne), High st.; open Goodacre Tryphena (Mrs.), saddler, Schofield Stevens, boot dlr. Vine st fri. 1 to 4 p.m.; draw on head Vine street Searson George, bill poster,The Hurn office, 54 Lombard st. London EO Goy Joseph, tailor, Bridge street Sharpe Annie (Miss), teacher of Beeton Dennis, carrier Gunn William, shopkeeper, High st music, High street Benton & Son, grocers, High street Haddon Joseph, farmer, Grosvenor sq Sheffield Joseph M.R.C.V.S. veteri- & Gas Co. Hall William, egg mer. Brewery lane nary surgeon, Station road Limited (Benjamin Smith, sec.; Handley Tom, Fortescue Arms hotel, Sinclair William & Son Ltd. coal, William Birch, manager; J. E. High street oil cake & manure merchants(Robt. Harrison, collector), Vine street Hare Charles, joiner, road Eyre, manager), New York, Lin- Billingborough Public Hall (George Hare Robert, farmer, Station road coln & Station yard, Billingboro' Wright, keeper) Hare William, farmer, Ivy house Smith Edward,George & Dragon P.H Birch Wm. gasworks mgr. Vine st Harrison Henry Christopher, miller Smith Fred, grocer, Birthorpe road Blackburn Edwin, cycle agent, Vine st (steam), High street Smith Wm. boot maker, High street Blasson Thomas M.R.C.S.Eng.,L.S.A Harvey John Henry, station master Stennett Herbert, farmer surgeon, & medical officer & public Hodgkinson Arthur Wm. auctioneer Sturman Wm. rat catcher, Cowgate vaccinator Billingborough district, &; assistant overseer & clerk to the Taylor & Sons, joiners, Chapel street- . Bourne union Parish Council, High street Thompson Robert, grocer, High st Bobbitt A. & Son, bakers, High street Holland Jane (Mrs.), shopkpr. High st Truswell Joseph, farmer Bristow Frank, chimney swpr. Back la Holland Thomas, butcher, Vine street TurpinEliza(Miss),dress ma.Burton rd Burrows George Henry, poultry Hotter George &; Son, builders, Bir- Wadsley Robert, architect, Station --t dealer, High street thorpe road Walker Gertrude lMiss), nurse, Vic- Chapman Joseph Edward, Crown Houghton Arabella (Mrs.), mineral toria street hotel, High street water manufacturer, Brewery lane Ward Eliza Hall (Miss), deputy regis- Chilton George, farmer Houghton George, baker, High street trar of births & deaths for Aslackby Clarke Arthnr, draper, High street Howitt Robt.stone mason,Bir·thorpe rd sub-district of Bourne union, High st· Collishaw George, ironmonger,High st Hunt Edgar, boot maker,Church lanP Ward George, New inn, Vine street Coulson Mary (Mrs.), hawker, High st Huskisson Annie J. (Mrs.), shopkpr. Wilson Arthur, builder, Chapel street Crabtree Frank, Five Bells P.H. Vine High street Wilson Eliza Emily (Miss), draper, street Kirk Edward, fishmonger, High st milliner, mantles & costume&,. Cragg Edward Hy. J.P., M.D.Brux., Kirk Fredk. hair rlre!l'~l'l', High street hosier & ladies' outfitter, High st L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.O.S.Eng. phy- Kirk John William Allanbey, farmer Wilson Jn. S. cottage frmr. High st sician &. surgeon, & county coroner Kirton Hugh, butcher, High street Wilson William Henry,grocer,High st ( Division), The Old Hall :BILLINGHAY is a village,. township and parish, 4 shell-laden limestone of the drift period. The chief mile!l south-west from Tattershall station on the Lincoln crops are wheat, oats, cole seed, mangolds and carrots. and Boston branch of the Great Northern railway and ro The area is 3,666 acres of land and 5 of water ; rateable north-east from Sleaford, in the division value, [4,077 ; the population in 1911 was-of the of the county, parts of Kesteven, first division of the township, 1,288, and of the ecclesiastical parish, 1,965 wapentake of Langoe, Sleaford union, petty sessional divi­ (which includes parts of and Dogdyke and sion and county court district, North Lafford rural Walcot civil parishes). deanery and archdeaconry and . A DOGDYKE, a township of Billinghay, will be found. small stream, called the Skirth, sometimes navigable, and under a separate bead. dividing North Kyme from Billinghay, passes through the Sexton, Abraham Creasey. parish, which is also traverl!ed by the old Roman Car Pest. M. 0. & T. Office.-Charles Edward Atchinson, dyke. The church of St. Michael is a large £>difice of sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Lincoln at 8' oolitic stone, in the Early Perpendicular and Decorated a.m. & 12.20 & 5·35 p.m. ; dispatched at ro.Io a.m. styles, consisting of chancel, with organ chamber and & 5.25 p.m. for Lincoln; delivery at North Kyme, vestry (added in 1895 at the cost of £ro4), nave, aisles, 5·55 p.m.; South Kyme, 6.4o, Lincoln & local letters; south porch and a western tower, with pinnacles and no delivery of letters on sunday spire, containing a cloc\ and 3 bells: the aisles are separ­ Letter Box, Billinghay :Bridge, cleared at 10.20 a.m. & ated from the nave by arcades of plain Pointed arches, 5.30 p.m. week days only with clustered columns on the south side and octagonal Police Station, Charles Taylor~ inspector, & I constable columns on the north side and the east window is stained : Public Elementary School (girls' & infants'), erected in in 18Bo a memorial pulpit with a prayer desk, costing 1884, at a cost of £I,Ioo, & will hold 206 children; about [40, was erected by friends of the Rev. Edward average attendance, 165 ; Miss Lupton, girls' mistress ; Charl£>s Frederick Jenkins :M.A. vicar 1832-80: the north Miss Marriott, infants' mistress. The school is con­ aisle was rebuilt and the church thoroughly restored and trolled by six managers. E. Hickling, correspondent reseated in 1856, and the chancel has also been restored: Public Elementary School (mixedJ, built in r868. at a there are 300 sittings. The registE.>r dates from the year cost of £6so, for 158 children; average sttendance, 1627. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the 90; F. Haskew .A.C.P. master. The school is con­ chapelry of Walcot annexed, net yearly value [257. trolled by four foundation & two elected managers, with 252 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Earl appointed May 1st, 1903; Rev. W. 0. Ambrose M A. Fitzwilliam K.C.V.O. and held since- 1908 by the Rev. Billinghay vicarage, correspondent William Cole Ambrose ·M.A. of Clare Collegey Cam­ bridge. Here are Wesleyan, Baptist and Primitive Carriers to:- Methodist chapels. A fire engine is kept here. Charles Boston-Thomas Sharp, jun. wed. & Sleaford, mon Dawson Bowling esq. of Abingdon, Bucks, is lord of the Lincoln Joseph Wray, fri. &; Sleaford mon. returning manor. W. A. Cragg esq. of Threekingham House, same day~ near , is the principal landowner, and there Scopwick Station Charles Sharp, fri. &; Sleaford, on mon are many small freeholders. The soil is black alluvial, Tattershall Station-Frank Dobson, to meet the Boston clay and gra;el; subsoil, gravel and blue clay, with Market train e•ery wed