DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. HAXEY. 293 archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. The church The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. of St. Margaret is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early The area of the parish is 1,201 acres; rateable value, English style, consisting of chancel, nave and a western £I ,246 ; population in 1901, 69. turret containing 2 bells, one of which is of pre­ BEESBY, or Beasby, is a manor and the property of Reformation date and bears the inscription " A ve George Henry Caton Haigh esq. of Grainsby. The foun­ Maria: " the font is Norman, and there is a monument dations of the ancient church of St. John the Baptist, to> one of the Pilkington family: the church was re­ surrounded by its now disused burial ground, still paired in I846, and afford's sittings for 6o persons. The remajn. The register of Beesby is incorporated with registers are only legible from the year I597• but the that of Hawerby. earlier portions have been verified as fa.r back as 1520. The living is a rectory, net yearly value .{,215, including Letters through Great Grimsby arrive at 8.55 a.m. The 46 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the nearest money order & telegraph office is at North Bishop of Manchester, and held since 1go8 by the Rev. Thorcsby, 2 miles distant. Letters are collected by the Samuel Joseph Bastow M.A., B.C.L. of Durham Uni­ letter carrier from Waltham '("ersity. Hawerby Hall, the property of Mrs. Morcom, Letter Box, Hawerby Cross roads (sign post), cleared lady of the manor and chief landowner, and now oc­ 4·45 p.m cupied by Francis Sowerby esq. is a beautiful mansion of brick, erected about 1781 and enlarged and improved The children of this parish attend the school at East in IB+o. The soil is clay and chalk; subsoil, chalk. Ravendale, 2 miles distant H.A.WERBY. I BEESBY. Ba.stow Rev. Samuel Joseph M.A., Sowerby Francis, Hawerby hall Day Herbert, farmer B.C.L. (rector), Rectory J Stamford Joseph, farmer HAXEY is a large parish, with a station on the held annually on the 6th July unless this date falls on a .Axholme Joint railway, 3 miles south from Epworth, 8 Sunday; .John T. Preston, secretary. The trustees of north-wes-t from Gainsborough, 9 north-e·a.st from the lata Alfrnd Parkin are lords of the manor. The Bawtry, I62 by road and I53 by rail from London, in property in this parish is in the hands of small freeholders. the Isle of Axholme, West Lindsey division of the county, The soil is warp, clay and sandy ; subsoil, sand and peat. parts of Lindsey, west division of the Manley wapentake, The chief cropa are potatoes, celery, wheat, barley, Epworth petJty sessional division, union and county court beans, oats and roots. The area. is 8,548 acres of land, district of Gainsborough and in th~ rurnl deanery ot 39 of water; rateable valua, £II,55I; the population Axholme, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. of Haxey in 1901 was 2,044 (which includes the han_!,).ets) Ha.xey was formerly the oopital of the Isle of Axholme. in the civil and 2,020 in the ecclesiastical parish. The Ferry warping Drain runs through the parish, and By Local Government Board Order I9,493• dated March the Trent, 3 miles east, is navigated by the Hull and 25, 1886, a detached part of West Butterwick, known as. Gainsborough steamers ; Owston Ferry is the nearest Turbury, was added to 'Haxey, and by Order I6,5g8 .. landing place. The church of St. Nicholas is- an edifice March 24, I884, Kelsey Closes was transferred from of stone in the Norman, Early English and Perpen­ Epworth. dicular styles, consisting of chancel with chantry, clerestoried nave, aisles, north and south p12rches and a WESTWOODSIDE, IDLESTOP, PELFINTAX, PARK, western tower of three stages, with embattled parapet UPPERTHORPE, BCRNHA.M, EA.STLOUND and nnd eight crocketed pinnacles, and containing a clock GRAIZELOUND or CRAISELOUND are aJ.so hamlets in with chimes and 7 bells, rehung in I903 : in the chantry this parish. i• a table tomb, with the recumbent effigy of a priest, Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & A. & I. Office, Haxey.­ in a fine state of preservation, but wit·hout inscription: Edwin Graveson, sub-r.ostmaster. London & other in the nave is a brass to the Rev. Richard Herring, 40 letters are received through Doncaster at 6.50 a.m. & ye!lrs vicar of this parish, buried March 3oth, 1712, and 3 p.m. ; sundays, IO -a.m. ; dispatched at 10 a.m. & to his wife, and another to the Rev. William Wright, d. 7.20 p.rn. week days; 3·5 p.m. sundays. The Letter Aug. 28th, I839, and to his wife : the church was ex­ Box is closed at 7.20 p.m. This office is opened for teillllivmy repaired in I853-4, and in I 874 the chancel was telegraphic purposes from 8 till 10 a.m. on sunday. restored and reseated with open benches : the east Railway Station Telegraph Office, with general delivery window is stained: the roof is a beautiful specimen of within I mile only open timber work, dating frmn the rsth century: the Wall Letter Boxes.-Railway station, cleared 10.20 &, oak screen separating th~ nave from the tower, the 7·55 p.lll. week days only; Eastlound, 6.50 p.m. week. pulpit of Caen stone, the communion table and one of days only; Graizelound, I0.1o a. m. & 7.40 p.m. week. the stalls were all executed by the Rev. John J·ohnstone days only; & one near the Duke William hotel, cleared M ..A.. 27 years vicar here, I B6r-87 : in I903 the nave was 1o.a.n1. & 7.10 p.m.; snndays, 2-45 p.m resea.ted in Austrian oak, and mher improvements Manor Bailiff for Haxey & district, George Curtis effected, at a total cost of £1,450: them are 450 sittings. Public Elementary Schools :- The register dates from bhe year 1559. The living is a .Boys', built in 1873, & endowed by various individualS" vicarage, net yearly value £450, including m6 acres of with an aggregate of £go yearly, & will hold 8o chil­ glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Ohan­ dren ; average attendance, 6o ; a. master's residence cellor, and held since 1905 by the Rev. Philip Houghton was erected in I726, by Roberl Taylor, & rebuilt in M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Here is a Wes­ 1826 by the trustees; John Thomas Preston, master leyan chapel, built in IBIS, a United Methodist chapel, Girls' & Infants', rebuilt in 1861, for 120 children; aver.....­ built in rB55, and a. Primitive Methodist chapel. The age attendance, 77; Miss K. J. Kayton, mistress Bt>ading Room, formerly the infants' school, was built in Polica Station, William Lincoln, constable 1876. There are almshouses for seven poor widows be­ Haxey Town Railway Station (A.J . .a.), William Janson, longing to the parish, built and bequeathed in 1723 by station maM!er Jaue Farmery. The Midsummer charity, producing Haxey Junction Railway Station (N.E.R.), Robert Deigh­ £8 yearly, is for the repair of the almshouses. The . ton, station master poor's estate consists of cottages and land, amounting Ha.xey (for Epworth) (G.N. & G.E.), Harry H. Street, to about £7o yearly, which, togs.ther with a bequest station master made by Mrs. Catherine Shore of upwards of £Ioo a Omnibus to Station, Alfred Wright, meets trains daily year and £3 under tihe will of Vincent Brown, is Carriers t(} :- annually distributed amongst the poor in clothing and Crowle Charles Brown, fri money: there is also a charity at Graizelound left by Doncaster-William Steadman, sat George Harris, part of which is for the benefit of local Gain;;borough-Charles Browu, tues preachen belonging to the United Methodist Church, Thome Charles Brown, \ved and the remainder is distributed to the poor in flour. On the 6th of January (Twelth day) the. villagers B URNHAM is a hamlet, consisting of High and Low amuse themselves with an ancient game called "Throw­ Burnham, 2 miles north. Here is a Primitive Methorlist ing the hood." In 1741 a great portion of the village chapel, bnilt in 1872, and a Wesleyan chapel, built in wu destroyed by fire: in 1802 a s-tatue of black oak, 1848, but now disused. rix feet high, representing a warrior with a bow and Post Office, Low Bur:-~.ham.-Ernest Storey, ~mb-post­ Mlinj!" over his shoulder and an arrow in his right master. London & other letters a-rrive from Doncaster hand, was discovered in this parish several feet below at 7·5 a. m.; sundays at 9· ~o a.m.; & are dispatched the amrface of the ground ; this ancient relic has, at 7.15 p.m.; sundays, 3-I5 p.m. '.rhe nearest money however, been destroyed. There a;re three ancient order & telegraph office is at Epworth, 2 miles distant 11tones in different parts of the village, which mark th& p1.1Lc@ the markets and fair were held and where EAS'fLOUND is a pleasant hamlet, haH a mile east BDd also the stocks formerly stood. .Athletic sports are has a. Primitive Methodist chapel, built in r862. .