D11ECTOIY.j . . 27 COMMERCIAL. Knowles Henry, beer retailer & grocer Wilkinson Caroline (Miss), dress maker Ancaster Stone Co.(JohnGray,manager) N ewcombe Frank, surgeon, & medical Winter David, Red Lion P.H. & beer retlr Barnet Henry, baker officer & public vaccinator, Ancaster Wood John, farmer Bellamy Herbert James, farmer, Wil- district, union & Wilsford Woolerton Thos. Royle, grocer & draper loughby Heath farm district, union Black bourn W illiam, carpenter Newton E. & Sons, coal mers. Rail way stn Sudbrook. CaterArthur,Butchers'Arms P.H.& frmr Newton Ellen (Mrs.), Railway P.H Brown Jane (Mrs.), Post office Charles William, shopkeeper Rickett Charlotte (Miss), dress maker Gadsby John, shoe maker Clarkston James, shopkeeper Rickett Mary Ann (Miss), dress maker Jackson John, shopkeeper Cragg Joho, builder & contractor Robinson Samuel, shopkeeper Johnson John, farmer Day Mary (:Mrs.), flour dealer Rudkin Joseph,farmer, WestWilloughby Lancaster George, Masons' Arms P.H Dodd John, shopkeeper Sills Robert, wheelwright Newton Bros. farmers, Glebe farm Harmston Ann (Mrs.), dress maker Sumner Emily (Mrs.), butcher Newton George Thomas, farmer Hart James, harness maker Teat William, farmer ScoffieldLevi,agricultural implemnt.ma Hoyes James, farm bailiff to Austin Thorpe l'hilip, blacksmith Smith Henry, farmer Hick esq. West Willoughby Ward William Edward, Angel P.H. Taylor Letitia (Miss), shopkeeper Inley Denis, shoe maker farmer & butcher Ward John, farmer ANDERBY is a parish and village, bounded on the east gross yearly value £soo, with residence, in the gift of by the North Sea, and about r~ miles east from Mumby Magdalene College, Cambridge, and held since I865 by the Road station on the Louth and East coast branch of the Rev. John Bond M.A. formerly fellow and lecturer of that Great Northern railway, 5~ miles east from Alford, 5 from college, rural dean of Calcewaith No. 2, prebendary of Willoughby and 14 north-east from , in the South Lincoln and J.P. for the county. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, Lindsey division of the county, parts of Lindsey, Marsh built in 1839. The Governors of Bethlehem Hospital, Lon· division of Calceworth hundred, Alford petty sessional di- don, are lords of the manor, and John Needham Robinson vision, union and county court district of Spilsby, rural esq. is the principal landowner. The chief crops are wheat, deanery of Calcewaith No. 2, and archdeaconry and diocese oats and beans. The soil is mostly clay ; subsoil, blue clay of Lincoln. The church of St. Andrew, which stands on a with a little marl. The area is r,362 acres of land; rateable slight eminence, is a structure of brick, consisting of chancel value, £r,8o2; the population in r88r was 279. and nave, south porch and a western tower containing r bell: Parish Clerk, Thomas Shaw. the whole building is closely mantled with ivy : the nave PosT OFFICE.-John Ward, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive was restored and reseated and a new porch erected in r887, from Alford at 8 a.rn. ; dispatched, 4.25 winter; 5.25 by subscription, and in the same year a new chancel was summer. The nearest telegraph office is at Mumby Road built at the expense of the rector and friends : there are station, & Hogsthorp is the nearest money order office. three stained windows in the chancel, one of which is a Postal orders are issued here, but not paid memorial window inserted by the rector; there are 140 National School (mixed), erected in r856, for 70 children; sittings. The register dates from the year r565. The living average attendance, PB ; Miss Julie Thompson, mistress is a rectory, consolidated in 1733 with Cumberworth, joint CARRIER TO ALFORD.-John Johnson, tues. & fri Bond Rev. John M.A., J.P. [rector, rural Brown Charles Thomas, farmer RobinsonJohn Needham & Son, manure dean & prebendary of Lincoln],Rectry Budibent William, farmer, Manor house & horse & cattle spice manufacturers, Robinson John Needham, Bank house Dinnis Thomas, farmer brick makers &c Harness "\\'illson, farmer Robinson John Henry, farmer COMMERCIAL. Johnson George, blacksmith & farmer Stephenson Jane Byron (Mrs.), farmer Anderson Samuel, farmer Johnson John, blacksmith & landowner Bemrose William, joiner Johnson John, carrier Stephenson Robert, farmer & land- Blades George, farmer Spurr George, farmer owner, Anderby bank Briggs Charles, farmer Robinson John Needham, landowner & Ward John, druggist&grocer,Postoffice Briggs Robert, farmer farmer, Bank house ANWICK is a parish 4! miles north-east from Sleaford, sittings. The register dates from the year I573· The 9 from Tattershall and 2 south-east from Ruskinton station living is a discharged vicarage, united to the rectories of on the Spalding and Doncaster joint line of the Great Brauncewell and Dunsby, tithe rent-charge (Brauncewell) Northern and Great Eastern railways, in the £720, with 9 acres of glebe, and tithe rent-charge (Anwick) division of the county, wapentake of Flaxwell, parts of Kest- £93, with 8r acres of glebe, joint net yearly value £846, even, Sleaford union, petty sessional division and county with residence, in the gift of the Marquess of Bristol and court district, rural deanery of Aswardhurn with Lafford Septimus Lowe esq. alternately, and held since r875 by the No. 1 and archdeaconry and . The Slea- Rev. Haskett Smith M.A. late scholar of Christ's College, ford canal intersects the parish. The church of St. Edith is Cambridge; the Rev. Arthur Havelock Staffurth M. A. of St. a low building of stone, in the late Decorated style, consist- John's College, Cambridge, has been curate in charge since ing of chancel, nave, aisles, a large south porch and a r887. The vicarage house is a handsome edifice, entirely western embattled tower, with pinnacles and broach spire, covered with ivy; the grounds are large and well laid containing 3 bells: in many of the windows are fragments out. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. Jolley's charity of £3 of stained glass : the chancel is a mere fragment of the r2s. yearly, left in r684 by William J olley of An wick, is eriginal, its eastern bay having wholly disappeared : the for fuel. The Marquess of Bristol is lord of the manor roofs, covered with lead, are all singularly low in pitch, and and principal landowner. The soil is of strong clay. The give the church a strangely mean appearance : the south chief crops are wheat, beans, barley, turnips and seeds. The porch is disproportionately large, an effect increased by area is 2,or9 acres; rateable value, r,927; the population in double buttresses at each angle, and a gable rising consider- I88r was 348. ably above the roof of the aisle : the west tower is of three Parish Clerk, Joseph Faulkner. stages with double buttresses at the angles, terminating in PosT 0FFICE.-Frederick Jackson, postmaster. Letters crocketed weatherings: the spire, which is octagonal, has through Sleaford, arrive at 9.30 a.m.; dispatched 4 p.m.; three tiers of louvre lights : the church was restored in r859, the nearest money order & telegraph office is at Rusking· under the direction of Mr. Kirk, and during the progress of ton, which is 2 miles distant the work a coloured group of the Virgin and Child and three Church of School (mixed), erected in r873, for too small shafts of late Norman work were discovered on opening children; average attendance, so; Frank Halliwell, mastr a doorway which formerly led to the rood loft : there are 300 CARRIER.-John Cliff, to Sleaford, on man Smith Rev. Haskett M.A. [vicar J Faulkner Herbert, tailor King Thomas, boot & shoe maker Staffurth Rev. Arthur H. M.A. [curate Gillins Joseph, farmer Lamyman Amos, farmer, Fen in charge] Goodman Joseph, farmer, Fen Lamyman Hilton, farmer, Fen Grist Benjamin, farm bailiff to Frank Lamyman William, fanner, Fen COMMERCIAL. I Miller Pogson esq Lee Henjamin, farmer Andrew William, farmer, The Grange Jackson Elijah & Fredk. shopkeepers, Pogson Samuel, farmer Bembridge Henry, farmer, Fen farmers, & post office Rushby Charles, blacksmith llarke Joseph Wright, Lord Nelson P.H Jackson William, farmer, Fen Smith Benjamin, fanner, :Fen ("Jiff John, carrier King George, Greyhound P.H Walker Henjamin John, blacksmith APLEY is a parish 2i miles south-west from of Lincoln. The church of St. Andrew went to decay many station on the Louth and Lincoln branch of the Great years ago, but the churchyard is still used as a burial-place Northern railway and ro north-east from Lincoln, in the for this and the adjoining parish of Stainfield : it was en­ division of the county, parts of Lindsey, larged in r871 and a mortuary chapel built: the church at western division of the wapentake of Wraggoe, Wragby petty Stainfield now serves for both parishes. The register dates sessional division, Lincoln union and county court di:;trict, from the year 1561. The living is a vicarage, annexed to rural deanery of Wraggoe7 archdeaconry of Stow and diocese that of Stainfield, joint gross yearly value £100, including