Introductory Preambles About King's Cliffe From

INTRODUCTORY PREAMBLES ABOUT KING’S CLIFFE FROM TRADE DIRECTORIES 1953 back to 1847

DOLBY’S 1953 KING'S CLIFFE Peterborough Population 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 fr om Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough.

UNKNOWN DIRECTORY 1952 (No history)

DOLBY’S 1950 KING'S CLIFFE Peterborough Population 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough.

DOLBY’S 1941 KING'S CLIFFE Peterborough Population 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough.

KELLY’S 1940 The highlighted section of the foreword below was taken from the 1936 Directory as this page was not available; this changes very little from year to year, but there are alterations later in the foreword N.B. This is the first directory containing any number of telephone numbers : H.Blunt (transcriber)

KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish with a station on the Peterborough and Rugby section of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, 88 miles from London, and 8 north-north-west from Oundle, and 7 miles from Stamford, in the Peterborough division of the county, hundred of Willybrook, Oundle petty sessional division and union, Thrapston and Oundle county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The village has a public water supply. The church of All Saints, built at the end of the 12 th century is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and a central tower with spire containing a clock, placed in 1898 and 6 bells; the bells were restored in 1915; many of the bench ends, as well as the pulpit, are constructed from ancient wood-work, brought together with the font of 1558 and some of the ancient stained glass from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning, architect, of Stamford, and the exterior in 1898 at a cost of £500. The stained east window was inserted to the memory of the late Ven. Henry Kaye Bonney, rector here from 1810 and some time archdeacon of Lincoln, and there is also a stained window, erected in 1906 by Mrs. Howes in the memory of her husband, and another in commemoration of the accession of H.M. King George V. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £220 with 459 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough and held in plurality with the parish of Blatherwycke since 1939 by the Rev. George D.K. Clowes, who resides at Blatherwycke. the rectory garden are two arches brought from Fotheringhay; the base of a cross, with a modern shaft, the old stone clock weight, and a fishpond called Pyckell. There are Congregational and Methodist chapels. A cemetery of one acre was opened May 1 st 1911, at a cost of £400; it is under the control of the Parish Council. The fair formerly held on October 29 th is now discontinued. A War memorial hall was opened by Lady Violet Brassey in 1919; the building was given by Lt.-Col. David Watson Powell D.S.O. in memory of his late brother, Capt. T. G Powell; the total cost was £2,000. The Conservative Club and reading rooms and billiard rooms are in Park street.. There is a large parish library, consisting principally of valuable theological works, left by the Rev. William Law for the use of this and neighbouring parishes. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is carried on in the village. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be invested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : the total stock, £490, produces £14. 14s. yearly : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year for the education of eight poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School. Mrs. Bonney, wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, sometime rector of King’s Cliffe and archdeacon of Lincoln, left by will in 1844 £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club : this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband and now produces annually about £13, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed in 1865 £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’ day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslackton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 433A. 1R. 18p. with a master’s house and school, left in 1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. who was born here in 1686, and is best known as the author of “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life” and other works; he established here a kind of religious community, and dying 9 th April, 1761, was buried in the churchyard, where there is a monument to him. Under a scheme of Charity Commissioners, issued in Aug. 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £40 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions. The income of the charity, now between £600 and £700 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens, each of whom has 7s. per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel. The Cornforth Homes on School Hill, erected in 1891-2, were built and endowed by Mrs. Catherine Cornforth, of Birmingham, but a native of King’s Cliffe; they consist of six almshouses, three for men and three for women, the occupants each receiving 8s. and 7s. per week respectively; the charity is managed by a committee at whose discretion those not in receipt of old age pension, may receive a higher benefit; Messrs. Kelham & Sons, solicitors, of Stamford, are hon. secretaries and treasurers. A palace, occupied by King John when hunting in Rockingham Forest, once stood on the south side of the churchyard adjoining a place called “the Hall Yard”, near which lies a huge slab enclosing the fossilised remains of an animal, possibly a pterodactyl. In pursuance of an ancient local custom the church bells here are rung five times a day during the year; this custom is said to have been continued from the times of King John, when the King’s retainers were called from the forest to their meals by the ringing of the church bells. A curfew is also rung at 8 o’clock during the winter. The Marquess of Exeter C.M.G. (lord lieut) the lord of the manor and principal landowner. Electricity is available. Water is supplied by the Thrapston and Oundle Rural District Council. The soil is very heavy ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas. The area is 3,744 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value £4,718; the population in 1931 was 879 in the ecclesiastical and in 1921 was 884 in the civil parish. West Hay, 1 mile north, formerly extra-parochial, was in 1869 annexed to Kings Cliffe Post, M.O.T. & T.E.D. Office. Letters through Peterborough. Police Station, School hill Fire Brigade, engine house, Hall yard. ______Railway Station (L.M. & S.Rly.) Carrier. – William H.Salt, to Stamford, fri. & Peterborough, wed. & sat.

Conveyance. – William H. Salt runs an omnibus service to Stamford on fri. & Peterborough, Wed. & sat.

LEAYTON’S 1937 KING'S CLIFFE Peterborough Pop. 884

KELLY’S 1936 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish with a station on the Peterborough and Rugby section of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, 88 miles from London, and 8 north-north-west from Oundle, and 7 miles from Stamford, in the Peterborough division of the county, hundred of Willybrook, Oundle petty sessional division and union, Thrapston and Oundle county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The village has a public water supply. The church of All Saints, built at the end of the 12 th century is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and a central tower with spire containing a clock, placed in 1898 and 6 bells; the bells were restored in 1915; many of the bench ends, as well as the pulpit, are constructed from ancient wood-work, brought together with the font of 1558 and some of the ancient stained glass from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning, architect, of Stamford, and the exterior in 1898 at a cost of £500. The stained east window was inserted to the memory of the late Ven. Henry Kaye Bonney, rector here from 1810 and some time archdeacon of Lincoln, and there is also a stained window, erected in 1906 by Mrs. Howes in the memory of her husband, and another in commemoration of the accession of H.M. King George V. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £314 with 459 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough and held in plurality with the parish of Blatherewicke since 1932 by the Rev. Cuthbert James, who resides at Blatherwycke. the rectory garden are two arches brought from Fotheringhay; the base of a cross, with a modern shaft, the old stone clock weight, and a fishpond called Pyckell. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. A cemetery of one acre was opened May 1 st 1911, at a cost of £400; it is under the control of the Parish Council. The fair formerly held on October 29 th is now discontinued. A War memorial hall was opened by Lady Violet Brassey in 1919; the building was given by Lt.-Col. David Watson Powell D.S.O. in memory of his late brother, Capt. T. G Powell; the total cost was £2,000. The Conservative Club and reading rooms and billiard rooms are in Park street, and have about 50 members. There is a large parish library, consisting principally of valuable theological works, left by the Rev. William Law for the use of this and neighbouring parishes. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is carried on in the village. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be invested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : the total stock, £490, produces £14. 14s. yearly : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year for the education of eight poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School. Mrs. Bonney, wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, sometime rector of King’s Cliffe and archdeacon of Lincoln, left by will in 1844 £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club : this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband and now produces annually about £13, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed in 1865 £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’ day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslackton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 433A. 1R. 18p. with a master’s house and school, left in 1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. who was born here in 1686, and is best known as the author of “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life” and other works; he established here a kind of religious community, and dying 9 th April, 1761, was buried in the churchyard, where there is a monument to him. Under a scheme of Charity Commissioners, issued in Aug. 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £40 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions. The income of the charity, now between £600 and £700 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens, each of whom has 7s. per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel.

DOLBY’S 1931 KING'S CLIFFE Peterborough Population 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough.

DOLBY’S 1930 KING'S CLIFFE Peterborough Population 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough.

DOLBY’S 1929 KING'S CLIFFE Peterborough Population 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough.

KELLY’S 1928 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish with a station on the Peterborough and Rugby section of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, 88 miles from London, and 8 north-north-west from Oundle, and 7 miles from Stamford, in the Peterborough division of the county, hundred of Willybrook, Oundle petty sessional division and union, Thrapston and Oundle county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The village has a public water supply. The church of All Saints, built at the end of the 12 th century is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and a central tower with spire containing a clock, placed in 1898 and 5 bells; the bells were restored in 1915; many of the bench ends, as well as the pulpit, are constructed from ancient wood-work, brought together with the font of 1558 and some of the ancient stained glass from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning, architect, of Stamford, and the exterior in 1898 at a cost of £500. The stained east window was inserted to the memory of the late Ven. Henry Kaye Bonney, rector here from 1810 and some time archdeacon of Lincoln, and there is also a stained window, erected in 1906 by Mrs. Howes in the memory of her husband, and another in commemoration of the accession of H.M. King George V. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £270 with 459 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough and held since 1918 by the Rev. William Purdon Blakeney, of Cairns College, Cambridge. In the rectory garden are two arches brought from Fotheringhay; the base of a cross, with a modern shaft, the old stone clock weight, and a fishpond called Pyckell. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. A cemetery of one acre was opened May 1 st 1911, at a cost of £400; it is under the control of the Parish Council. The fair formerly held on October 29 th is now discontinued. A War memorial hall was opened by Lady Violet Brassey in 1919; the building was given by Lt.-Col. David Watson Powell D.S.O. in memory of his late brother, Capt. T. G Powell; the total cost was £2,000. The Conservative Club and reading rooms and billiard rooms are in Park street, and have about 50 members. There is a large parish library, consisting principally of valuable theological works, left by the Rev. William Law for the use of this and neighbouring parishes. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is carried on in the village. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be invested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : the total stock, £490, produces £14. 14s. yearly : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year for the education of eight poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School. Mrs. Bonney, wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, sometime rector of King’s Cliffe and archdeacon of Lincoln, left by will in 1844 £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club : this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband and now produces annually about £13, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed in 1865 £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’ day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslackton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 433A. 1R. 18p. with a master’s house and school, left in 1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. who was born here in 1686, and is best known as the author of “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life” and other works; he established here a kind of religious community, and dying 9 th April, 1761, was buried in the churchyard, where there is a monument to him. Under a scheme of Charity Commissioners, issued in August 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £40 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions. The income of the charity, now between £600 and £700 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens, each of whom has 7s. per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel.

Post, M.O.T. & T.E.D. Office – Albert Robinson Bailey, sub-postmaster. Letters through Peterborough. Police Station, School hill Fire Brigade, engine house, Hall yard.

PUBLIC OFFICERS.

Tax Collector, J.A.Ellis , Park street Town Crier, Frederick Blake

Railway Station (L.M. & S. Rly.) Carrier – George Roberts, to Stamford, fri

PETERBOROUGH 1927-28 KING’S CLIFFE 14 miles from Peterborough. Railway station King's Cliffe L.N.S. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, Population, 1921 : 974 (males 504). Acres 3,749 Postmaster, A.R.Bailey ; deliveries, 7.30 and 12.30; despatches 2.30 and 7. Date of Feast : August Bank Holiday Week. Parish Church (All Saints) : - 11 and 6 ; Minister in charge, Rev.W.P.Blakeney churchwarden, Col. Burns-Lindow and J. Gregory Congregational Church - Rev. A.E.Grinstead Wesleyan - Oundle Circuit District Councillors, Lieut.-Col. H.S. Hodgkin and J. Kingston Parish Council - F. Edgson, , chairman ;J. Kingston, vice-chairman J.R.Adams, D.D.Roberts, J.V.Green, A.R. Bailey, C.Bollans, H.Dixon, S.W.Fenn, C.F.Law, A.Brown; J.A. Ellis, clerk Schools (Endowed - Mixed 110, Head master G.R. Love; Infants 50, Headmistress Mrs. A.R.Bailey Correspondent, F. Edgson Bowling Club : President Sir Leonard Brassey, Bart. M.P. Captain, W. Fitzhugh, vice-captain, W. Ingle, hon.sec. J.A. Ellis Cricket Club: Captain, E.A.Turner ; sub-captain, A.Walker; Hon.secretary, H.Green Tennis Club: Secretary, Miss L. Ingle; Treasurer, Miss Chapman Football. - United Football Club; Secretary Mr. F. Giddings Women's Institute: Secretary, Miss Elsam, treasurer, Mrs. Love Kings Cliffe School Foundation :This comprises endowments of Rev.Wm.Law(1727), Richard Wildbore(1688) and Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson (1744). Annual income about £500 for upkeep of schools and £40 annually for scholarships; also almshouses for eight widows. Cornforth Homes Charity (established 1890) provides six almshouses with maintenance for three men and three women Village Hall : J. Elliott, secretary Fire Brigade : President W. Edgson; captain, F. Portess; vice-captain, W. Fitzhugh; secretary H.E.Dixon Land Tax Commissioners : Lieut.-Col. H.S.Hodgkin and F. Edgson

DOLBY’S 1926 KING'S CLIFFE Peterborough Population 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough.

PETERBOROUGH 1925-26 KING'S CLIFFE 14 miles from Peterborough. Railway station King's Cliffe L.N.S. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, Population, 1921 : 974 (males 504). Acres 3,749 Postmaster, A.R.Bailey ; deliveries, 7.30 and 12.30; despatches 2.30 and 7. Date of Feast : August Bank Holiday Week. Pari sh Church (All Saints) : - 11 and 6 ; Rector, Rev. J.W.Marsh; churchwardens, L. Dixon and H.J.Fryer Congregational Church - Rev. A.E.Grinstead Wesleyan - Oundle Circuit District Councillors, Rev. J.W.Marsh and R. Adams; Overseers, J. Chapman, F. Edgson and L.Dixon Assistant Overseer, J.A. Ellis. Parish Council - L.Dixon, chairman ; L. Dixon, F. Edgson, vice-chairman J. Kingston, J.R.Adams, D.D.Roberts, J. Elliott, J.V.Green, A.R. Bailey, G.R.Love, C.Bollans, H.Dixon Schools (Endowed - Mixed 140, Head master G.R. Love; Infants 60, Headmistress Mrs. A.R.Bailey Bowling Club : Captain, Mr. Mackenzie, Vice Captain, Mr. J.A. Ellis, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. W. Dean Parish Council : Chairman, Mr. L.Dixon, Vice-Chairman, Mr. F. Edgson; Messrs. J. Kingston, J. Elliott, A.R.Bailey, J.V.Green, C. Bollans, D. Roberts, R. Adams, H.E.Dixon, G.R.Love and J.A. Ellis (Clerk) Cricket Club: Captain, Mr. G.R.Love; Hon.Secretary, Mr. H.E.Dixon, Hon. Treasurer, Dr. J.J. Ross Mackenzie Tennis Club: Captain, Mr. C. Harper, Secretary, Miss L. Ingle; Treasurer, Miss Chapman Football. - United Football Club; Secretary Mr. F. Giddings, Albion Football Club: Secretary, Mr. T. Smith Women's Institute: Secretary, Mrs. Peele, Treasurer, Mrs. Love Kings Cliffe School Foundation : This comprises endowments of Rev. Wm. Law(1727), Richard Wildbore (1688) and Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson (1744). Annual income about £500 for upkeep of schools and £40 annually for scholarships; also almshouses for eight widows. Cornforth Homes Charity (established 1890) provides six almshouses with maintenance for three men and three women

DOLBY’S 1924 KING'S CLIFFE Wansford Population 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough.

KELLY’S 1924 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish with a station on the Peterborough and Rugby section of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, 88 miles from London, and 8 north-north-west from Oundle, and 7 miles from Stamford, in the Peterborough division of the county, hundred of Willybrook, Oundle petty sessional division and union, Thrapston and Oundle county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The village has a public water supply. The church of All Saints, built at the end of the 12 th century is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and a central tower with spire containing a clock, placed in 1898 and 5 bells; the bells were restored in 1915; many of the bench ends, as well as the pulpit, are constructed from ancient wood-work, brought together with the font of 1558 and some of the ancient stained glass from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning, architect, of Stamford, and the exterior in 1898 at a cost of £500. The stained east window was inserted to the memory of the late Ven. Henry Kaye Bonney, rector here from 1810 and some time archdeacon of Lincoln, and there is also a stained window, erected in 1906 by Mrs. Howes in the memory of her husband, and another in commemoration of the accession of H.M. King George V. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £270 with 459 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough and held since 1918 by the Rev. James William Marsh B.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. In the rectory garden are two arches brought from Fotheringhay; the base of a cross, with a modern shaft, the old stone clock weight, and a fishpond called Pyckell. Here are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. A cemetery of one acre was opened May 1 st 1911, at a cost of £400; it is under the control of the Parish Council. The fair formerly held on October 29 th is now discontinued. A War memorial hall was opened by Lady Violet Brassey in 1919; the building was given by Major David Watson Powell D.S.O. in memory of his late brother, Capt. T. G Powell; the total cost was £2,000. The Conservative Club and reading rooms and billiard rooms are in Park street, and have about 50 members. There is a large parish library, consisting principally of valuable theological works, left by the Rev. William Law for the use of this and neighbouring parishes. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is carried on in the village. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be invested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : the total stock, £490, produces £14. 14s. yearly : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year for the education of eight poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School. Mrs. Bonney, wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, sometime rector of King’s Cliffe and archdeacon of Lincoln, left by will in 1844 £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club : this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband and now produces annually about £13, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed in 1865 £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’ day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslackton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 433A. 1R. 18p. with a master’s house and school, left in 1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. who was born here in 1686, and is best known as the author of “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life” and other works; he established here a kind of religious community, and dying 9 th April, 1761, was buried in the churchyard, where there is a monument to him. Under a scheme of Charity Commissioners, issued in August 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £40 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions. The income of the charity, now between £600 and £700 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens, each of whom has 7s. per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel. The Cornforth Homes on School Hill, erected in 1891-2, were built and endowed by Mrs. Catherine Cornforth, of Birmingham, but a native of King’s Cliffe; they consist of six almshouses, three for men and three for women, the occupants each receiving 8s. and 7s. per week respectively; the charity is managed by a committee appointed by Mrs. Cornforth during her life; R.M. English esq. solicitor, of Stamford, is hon. secretary and treasurer. A palace, occupied by King John when hunting in Rockingham Forest, once stood on the south side of the churchyard adjoining a place called “the Hall Yard”, near which lies a huge slab enclosing the fossilised remains of an animal, possibly a pterodactyl. In pursuance of an ancient local custom the church bells here are rung five times a day during the year; this custom is said to have been continued from the times of King John, when the King’s retainers were called from the forest to their meals by the ringing of the church bells. A curfew is also rung at 8 o’clock during the winter. The Marquess of Exeter C.M.G. is the lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is very heavy ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas. The area is 3,744 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value £4,718; the population in 1911 was 1027 in the ecclesiastical and in 1921 was 974 in the civil parish. West Hay, 1 mile north, formerly extra-parochial, was in 1869 annexed to Kings Cliffe Parish Clerk, Charles H. Chapman

POST, M.O.T. & T.E.D. Office – Albert Robinson Bailey, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through Peterborough. Police Station, School hill, Sergt. Harry C.O. Jones, resident sergeant. Fire Brigade, comprising engineer, sub-engineer & 10 men; Alfred George Dann,, engineer; Henry E. Dixon, sec; engine house, Hall yard. The brigade is supported by voluntary subscriptions.

PUBLIC OFFICERS.

Assistant Overseer & Rate & Tax Collector, J.A.Ellis , Park street Town Crier, Frederick Blake

PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

PETERBOROUGH 1922 KING'S CLIFFE 14 miles from Peterborough. Railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, Date of Feast : August Bank Holiday Week Postmaster, A.R.Bailey ; deliveries, 7.30 and 12.30; despatches 2.30 and 7. Parish Church - 11 and 6 ; Rector, Rev. J.W.Marsh; churchwardens, L. Dixon and H.J.Fryer Congregational Church - Rev. A.E.Grinstead Wesleyan - Oundle Circuit District Councillors, Rev. J.W.Marsh and R. Adams; Overseers, J. Chapman and F. Edgson Assistant Overseer, J.A. Ellis. Parish Council - Rev. J.W. Marsh, chairman ; L. Dixon, vice-chairman ; J. Chapman F. Edgson, J. Elliot, J.V.Green, A.R.Bailey, G.R.Love, C. Bollans, H. Dixon and F. Blake Schools (Endowed - Mixed 140, Head master G.R. Love; Infants 60, Headmistress Mrs. A.R.Bailey

DOLBY’S 1921 KING'S CLIFFE Wansford Population 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough.

KELLY’S 1920 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish with a station on the Peterborough and Rugby section of the London and North Western railway, 88 miles from London, and 8 north-north-west from Oundle, and 7 miles from Stamford, in the Peterborough division of the county, hundred of Willybrook, Oundle petty sessional division and union, Thrapston and Oundle county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The village has a public water supply. The church of All Saints, built at the end of the 12 th century is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and a central tower with spire containing a clock, placed in 1898 and 5 bells; the bells were restored in 1915; many of the bench ends, as well as the pulpit, are constructed from ancient wood-work, brought together with the font of 1558 and some of the ancient stained glass from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning, architect, of Stamford, and the exterior in 1898 at a cost of £500. The stained east window was inserted to the memory of the late Ven. Henry Kaye Bonney, rector here from 1810 and some time archdeacon of Lincoln, and there is also a stained window erected in 1906 by Mrs. Howes in the memory of her husband, and another in commemoration of the accession of H.M. King George V. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £277 with 463 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough and held since 1918 by the Rev. James William Marsh B.S. of Jesus College, Cambridge. In the rectory garden are two arches brought from Fotheringhay; the base of a cross, with a modern shaft, the old stone clock weight, and a fishpond called Pyckell. Here are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. A cemetery of one acre was opened May 1 st 1911, at a cost of £400; it is under the control of the Parish Council. The fair formerly held on October 29 th is now discontinued. A War memorial hall was opened by Lady Violet Brassey in 1919; the building was given by Major David Watson Powell D.S.O. in memory of his late brother, Capt. T. G Powell; the total cost was £2,000. The Conservative Club and reading rooms and billiard rooms are in Park street, and have about 50 members. There is a large parish library, consisting principally of valuable theological works, left by the Rev. William Law for the use of this and neighbouring parishes. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is carried on in the village. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be invested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : the total stock, £490, produces £14. 14s. yearly : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year for the education of eight poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School. Mrs. Bonney, wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, sometime rector of King’s Cliffe and archdeacon of Lincoln, left by will in 1844 £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club : this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband and now produces annually about £13, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed in 1865 £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’ day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslackton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 433A. 1R. 18p. with a master’s house and school, left in 1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. who was born here in 1686, and is best known as the author of “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life” and other works; he established here a kind of religious community, and dying 9 th April, 1761, was buried in the churchyard, where there is a monument to him. Under a scheme of Charity Commissioners, issued in August 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £40 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions. The income of the charity, now between £600 and £700 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens, each of whom has 7s. per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel. The Cornforth Homes on School Hill, erected in 1891-2, were built and endowed by Mrs. Catherine Cornforth, of Birmingham, but a native of King’s Cliffe; they consist of six almshouses, three for men and three for women, the occupants each receiving 8s. and 7s. per week respectively; the charity is managed by a committee appointed by Mrs. Cornforth during her life; R.M. English esq. solicitor, of Stamford, is hon. secretary and treasurer. A palace, occupied by King John when hunting in Rockingham Forest, once stood on the south side of the churchyard adjoining a place called “the Hall Yard”, near which lies a huge slab enclosing the fossilised remains of an animal, possibly a pterodactyl. In pursuance of an ancient local custom the church bells here are rung five times a day during the year; this custom is said to have been continued from the times of King John, when the King’s retainers were called from the forest to their meals by the ringing of the church bells. A curfew is also rung at 8 o’clock during the winter. The Marquess of Exeter C.M.G. is the lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is very heavy ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas. The area is 3,744 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value £4,305; the population in 1911 was 1086 in the civil parish and 1,027 in the ecclesiastical parish. West Hay, 1 mile north, formerly extra-parochial, was in 1869 annexed to Kings Cliffe Parish Clerk, Frederick Blake

POST, M.O. & T.Office – Albert Robinson Bailey, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive by rail from Peterborough. Money order & telegraph offices are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., the latter on Sunday from 8.30 to 10 a.m. only. Police Station, School hill, Sergt. William Fitzhugh, resident sergeant. Fire Brigade, comprising engineer, sub-engineer & 10 men; Alfred George Dann, engineer; John Lyman, sec; engine house, Hall yard. The brigade is supported by voluntary subscriptions.

PUBLIC OFFICERS.

Assistant Overseer & Rate & Tax Collector, J.A.Ellis , Park street Town Crier, Frederick Blake PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Law & Hutchinson’s School, (boys & girls), Park street, originally a large private residence, but converted into a school premises in 1873 & enlarged in 1905, for 160 boys & girls ; Richard George Love, head master. Infant School, built in 1873, for 72 children; Mrs. Annie Bailey, mistress; the schools are in part supported by the endowments above mentioned. ______

Railway Station, William Dean, station master Carrier to Stamford – John Roberts, to Stamford, fri.

DOLBY’S 1918 KING'S CLIFFE Wansford Population under 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough.

DOLBY’S 1916 KING'S CLIFFE Wansford Population under 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough. Church :- Dedicated to All Saints. Architecture, Norman Rector :- Rev. H.A. Orlebar, M.A. Congregational Church :- Secretary Mr. F. Edgson School Managers :- Chairman Rev. H. Orlebar, Members Messrs. F. Edgson, W. Brooks, J. Ellis an L.H.Dixon Parish Council:- Chairman Mr. E.J.Hawkes Treasurer Mr. T. Sandall, Stamford Councillors Messrs. W.Brooks,J. Chapman, L.Dixon, A.R. Bailey, F.G.Preston, J. Emerton, J.V.Green, J.Kingston, F.Edgson, E.J..Hawkes and L. Elliott The King's Cliffe School Foundation comprises the endowment of Mrs.Eliz. Hutcheson (1744) the Revd. Wm. Law (1727 and 1751), and Richard Wildbore (1688). Original income of about £750 : present income about £550 annually. Governors : Chairman the Ven. Archdeacon Moore Vice-Chairman H.S. O'Brien Esq., J.P., E.P.Monckton Esq., The Marquis of Exeter H.Capron Esq., J.P., Rev. H.A.Orlebar, Messrs. A. Howes, Mr. F. Edgson.J. Kingston C.Wrey and W. Brooks. Clerk Mr. V. Stapleton. The income, after providing for the maintenance of eight almshouses and almspeople is applied wholly to educational purpose. The Cornforth Homes Charity founded in 1891 by Mrs. Catherine Cornforth provides for the maintenance of six almshouses and almspeople. Committee of Management : The Rector of Parish, Guardians of the Poor, Overseers of the Poor, and R.M.English Esq., of Stamford. Overseers :- Messrs. F. Edgson, J. Chapman and L.H.Dixon Assistant Overseer :- Mr.J. Ellis Fire Brigade Captain Mr. L.Dixon Sub- Captain Mr. T.F.Richardson Engineer Mr. A.G.Dann Sub Engineer Mr. J.V. Green Secretary Mr. J.Lyman 12 Firemen Companies 1st and 2nd number serving in His Majesty's Forces - 70 Feast :- Sunday following the 25th July Public Room :- The Schoolroom. Application for hire to be made to the Governors. Post Office - Deliveries 7 a.m. and 10.30 a.m. Despatches 2.15 and 6.25 a.m.. Telegraph 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Money Orders and Savings Bank 7 a.m. to 8 p.m Public Telephone

KELLY’S 1914 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish with a station on the Peterborough and Rugby section of the London and North Western railway, 88 miles from London, and 8 north-north-west from Oundle, and 7 miles from Stamford, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Willybrook, Oundle petty sessional division and union, Thrapston and Oundle county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The village has a public water supply. The church of All Saints, built at the end of the 12 th century is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and a central tower with spire containing a clock, placed in 1898 and 5 bells; the bells are now (1914) being restored; many of the bench ends, as well as the pulpit, are constructed from ancient wood-work, brought together with the font of 1558 and some of the ancient stained glass from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning, architect, of Stamford, and the exterior in 1898 at a cost of £500. The stained east window was inserted to the memory of the late Ven. Henry Kaye Bonney, rector here from 1810 and some time archdeacon of Lincoln, and there is also a stained window erected in 1906 by Mrs. Howes in the memory of her husband, and another in commemoration of the accession of H.M. King George V. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £277 with 463 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough and held since 1905 by the Rev. Henry Amherst Orlebar. In the rectory garden are two arches brought from Fotheringhay; the base of a cross, with a modern shaft, the old stone clock weight, and a fishpond called Pyckell. Here are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. A cemetery of one acre was opened May 1 st 1911, at a cost of £400; it is under the control of the Parish Council. The fair formerly held on October 29 th is now discontinued. The Conservative Club and reading rooms and billiard rooms are in Park street, and have about 50 members. There is a large parish library, consisting principally of valuable theological works, left by the Rev. William Law for the use of this and neighbouring parishes. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is carried on in the village. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be invested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : the total stock, £490, produces £14. 14s. yearly : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year for the education of eight poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School. Mrs. Bonney, wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, sometime rector of King’s Cliffe and archdeacon of Lincoln, left by will in 1844 £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club : this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband and now produces annually about £13, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed in 1865 £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’ day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslackton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 433A. 1R. 18p. with a master’s house and school, left in 1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. who was born here in 1686, and is best known as the author of “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life” and other works; he established here a kind of religious community, and dying 9 th April, 1761, was buried in the churchyard, where there is a monument to him. Under a scheme of Charity Commissioners, issued in August 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £40 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions. The income of the charity, now between £600 and £700 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens, each of whom has 7s. per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel.

PUBLIC OFFICERS. Assistant Overseer & Rate & Tax Collector, J.A.Ellis , Park street Town Crier, Frederick Blake

PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

School Attendance Officer & Clerk to the District Sub-Committees, Thomas Boyer, West street Law & Hutchinson’s School, (boys & girls), Park street, originally a large private residence, but converted into a school premises in 1873 & enlarged in 1905, for 160 boys & girls ; E. Edward Sibley, head master. Infant School, built in 1873, for 72 children; Mrs. Annie Bailey, mistress; the schools are in part supported by the endowments above mentioned. ______

Railway Station, William Dean, station master Carrier to Stamford. – John Roberts, to Stamford, fri.

PETERBOROUGH 1912 (No history)

DOLBY’S 1910 KING'S CLIFFE Wansford Population under 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough. Church :- Dedicated to All Saints. Architecture, Norman Rector :- Rev. H.A. Orlebar, M.A. Congregational Church :- Secretary Mr. F. Edgson School Managers :- Chairman Rev. H. Orlebar, Members Messrs. G. Miles, F. Edgson, W. Brooks, J. Ellis Parish Council:- Chairman Mr. George Miles Treasurer Mr. T. Sandall, Stamford Councillors Messrs. J.T.Bailey, W. Brooks,J. Chapman, L.Dixon, J. Elliott, F. Edgson, J.Lyman, A.R.BaileyF. Preston The King's Cliffe School Foundation comprises the endowment of Mrs.Eliz. Hutcheson (1744) the Revd. Wm. Law (1727 and 1751), and Richard Wildbore (1688). Original income of about £750 : present income about £550 annually. Governors : E.P. Monckton Esq, J.P., Chairman Rev. Canon Moore, Vice-Chairman, The Marquis of Exeter, H.S. O'Brien J.P., H. Capron Esq., J.P,,Rev. H.A.Orlebar, Mr. G. Miles, Mr. A. Weigall, Mr. A. Howes and Mr. F. Edgson Clerk Mr. V. Stapleton. The income, after providing for the maintenance of eight almshouses and almspeople is applied wholly to educational purpose. The Cornforth Homes Charity founded in 1891 by Mrs. Catherine Cornforth provides for the maintenance of six almshouses and almspeople. Committee of Management : The Rector of Parish, Guardians of the Poor, Overseers of the Poor, and R.M.English Esq., of Stamford. Overseers :- Messrs. F. Edgson, J. Chapman and J.T.Bailey Assistant Overseer :- Mr.J. Ellis Fire Brigade Captain Mr. G. Miles Sub- Captain Mr. John Thomas Bailey Engineer Mr. J.E.Hawkes Sub Engineer Mr. J.V. Green Secretary Mr. H.E.Dixon 22 Firemen Companies 1st and 2nd Feast :- Sunday following the 25th July Public Room :- The Schoolroom. Application for hire to be made to the Governors. Post Office - Deliveries 7 a.m. and 10.30 a.m. Despatches 2.15 and 6.25 a.m.. Telegraph 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Money Orders and Savings Bank 7 a.m. to 8 p.m

KELLY’S 1910 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish with a station on the Peterborough and Rugby section of the London and North Western railway, 88 miles from London, and 8 north-north-west from Oundle, and 7 miles from Stamford, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Willybrook, Oundle petty sessional division, union, Thrapston and Oundle county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The church of All Saints is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and a central tower with spire containing a clock, placed in 1898 and 5 bells; many of the bench ends, as well as the pulpit, are constructed from ancient wood-work, brought as well as some of the ancient stained glass from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning, architect, of Stamford, and the exterior in 1898 at a cost of £500. The stained east window was inserted to the memory of the late Ven. Henry Kaye Bonney, rector here from 1810 and some time archdeacon of Lincoln, and there is also a stained window erected in 1906 by Mrs. Howes in the memory of her husband. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £277 with 463 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough and held since 1905 by the Rev. Henry Amherst Orlebar. In the rectory garden are two arches brought from Fotheringhay; the base of a cross, with a modern shaft, the old stone clock weight, and a fishpond called Pyckell. Here are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. The fair formerly held on October 29 th is now discontinued. The Conservative Club and reading rooms are in Park street, and have about 40 members. There is a large parish library, consisting principally of valuable theological works, left by the Rev. William Law for the use of this and neighbouring parishes. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is extensively carried on in the village. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be invested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : the total stock, £490, produces £14. 14s. yearly : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year for the education of eight poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School. Mrs. Bonney, wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, sometime rector of King’s Cliffe and archdeacon of Lincoln, left by will in 1844 £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club : this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband and now produces annually about £13, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed in 1865 £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’ day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslackton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 433A. 1R. 18p. with a master’s house and school, left in 1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. who was born here in 1686, and is best known as the author of “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life” and other works; he established here a kind of religious community, and dying 9 th April, 1761, was buried in the churchyard, where there is a monument to him. Under a scheme of Charity Commissioners, issued in August 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £40 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions. The income of the charity, now between £600 and £700 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens, each of whom has 7s. per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel.

The Cornforth Homes on School Hill, erected in 1891-2, were built and endowed by Mrs. Catherine Cornforth, of Birmingham, but a native of King’s Cliffe; they consist of six almshouses, three for men and three for women, the occupants each receiving 8s. and 7s. per week respectively; the charity is managed by a committee appointed by Mrs. Cornforth during her life; R.M. English esq. solicitor, of Stamford, is hon. secretary and treasurer. A palace, occupied by King John when hunting in Rockingham Forest, once stood on the south side of the churchyard adjoining a place called “the Hall Yard”, near which lies a huge slab enclosing the fossilised remains of an animal, possibly a pterodactyl. In pursuance of an ancient local custom the church bells here are rung five times a day during winter and four times a day during summer; this custom is said to have been continued from the times of King John, when the King’s retainers were called from the forest to their meals by the ringing of the church bells. The Marquess of Exeter is the lord of the manor, is the principal landowner. The soil is very heavy ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas. The area is 3,744 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value £4,959; the population in 1901 was 983. West Hay, 1 mile north, formerly extra-parochial, was in 1869 annexed to Kings Cliffe Parish Clerk, William Dixon POST, M.O. & T.Office – Albert Robinson Bailey, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive by mail cart from Wansford at 6.05 a.m. & by rail from Peterborough at 10.10 a.m. dispatched at 2.15 & 6.30 p.m. sundays arrive 6.5 a.m. ; dispatched 6.30. p.m. Money order & telegraph offices are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., the latter on Sunday from 8 to 10 a.m. only. Police Station, School hill, Ebenezer Lord, resident sergeant. Fire Brigade, comprising engineer, sub-engineer & 20 men; Edward Hawkes, engineer; John Lyman, sec; engine house, Hall yard. The brigade is supported by voluntary subscriptions. PUBLIC OFFICERS. Assistant Overseer & Rate & Tax Collector, J.A.Ellis , Park street Certifying Factory Surgeon, Public Vaccinator & Medical Officer, King’s Cliffe, Oundle union, Ernest F.C.Dowding, M.B.C.S. Eng., L.B.C.P. Lond., Park street. Town Crier, William Dixon PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Law & Hutchinson’s School, Park street, originally a large private residence, but converted into a school premises in 1873 & enlarged in 1905, for 160 boys & girls ; average attendance, 136 mixed. E. Edward Sibley, head master. Infant School, built in 1873, for 72 children; average attendance 65; Mrs. Annie Bailey, mistress; the schools are in part supported by the endowments above mentioned. ______

Railway Station, William Dean, station master Carrier to Stamford. – John Roberts, to Stamford, fri : Thomas Wadd, to Stamford, mon ; to Oundle, thurs. & Peterborough sat.

DOLBY’S 1909 KING'SCLIFFE Wansford Population under 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough. Church :- Dedicated to All Saints. Architecture, Norman Rector :- Rev. H.A. Orlebar, M.A. School Managers :- Chairman Rev. H. Orlebar, Members Messrs. G. Miles, F. Edgson, W. Brooks, J. Ellis Parish Council:- Chairman Mr. George Miles Treasurer Mr. T. Sandall, Stamford Clerk Mr. H. Bailey Councillors Messrs. J.T.Bailey, W. Brookes,J. Chapman, L.Dixon, J. Ellis J.Elliott, F. Edgson, C.G.Lawrence, J. Lyman The King's Cliffe School Foundation comprises the endowment of Mrs.Eliz. Hutcheson (1744) the Revd. Wm. Law (1727 and 1751), and Richard Wildbore (1688). Original income of about £750 : present income about £550 annually. Governors : E.P. Monckton Esq, J.P., Chairman Rev. Canon Moore, Vice-Chairman, The Marquis of Exeter, H.S. O'Brien J.P., H. Capron Esq., J.P. Rev. H.A.Orlebar, Mr. G. Miles, Mr. A. Weigall, Mr. A. Howes and Mr. F. Edgson Clerk Mr. V. Stapleton. The income, after providing for the maintenance of eight almshouses and almspeople is applied wholly to educational purpose. The Cornforth Homes Charity founded in 1891 by Mrs. Catherine Cornforth provides for the maintenance of six almshouses and almspeople, the Poor, and R.M.English Esq., of Stamford. Overseers :- Messrs. C.G.Lawrence and F. Edgson Assistant Overseer :- Mr. T.H.Bailey Fire Brigade Captain Mr. G. Miles Sub- Captain Mr. John Thomas Bailey Engineer Mr. J.E.Hawkes Sub Engineer Mr. J.V. Green Secretary Mr. H.E.Dixon 22 Firemen Companies 1st and 2nd Feast :- Sunday following the 25th July Public Room :- The Schoolroom. Application for hire to be made to the Rector Post Office - Deliveries 7 a.m. and 10.30 a.m. Despatches 2.15 and 6.25 a.m.. Telegraph 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Money Orders and Savings Bank 8 a.m. to 8 p.m

KELLY’S 1906 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish with a station on the Peterborough and Market Harborough section of the London and North Western railway, 88 miles from London, and 8 north-north-west from Oundle, and 7 miles from Stamford, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Willybrook, Oundle petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The church of All Saints is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and a central tower with spire containing a clock, placed in 1898 and 5 bells; many of the bench ends, as well as the pulpit, are constructed from ancient wood-work, brought as well as some of the ancient stained glass from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning, architect, of Stamford, and the exterior in 1898 at a cost of £500. The stained east window was inserted to the memory of the late Ven. Henry Kaye Bonney, rector here from 1810 and some time archdeacon of Lincoln. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £277 with 463 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of H. L.C. Brassey esq., and held since 1905 by the Rev. Henry Amherst Orlebar. Thomas. In the rectory garden are two arches brought from Fotheringhay; the base of a cross, with a modern shaft, the old stone clock weight, and a fishpond called Pyckell. Here are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. The fair formerly held on October 29 th is now discontinued. The Conservative Club and reading rooms are in Park street, and have about 40 members. There is a large parish library, consisting principally of valuable theological works, left by the Rev. William Law for the use of this and neighbouring parishes. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is extensively carried on in the village. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be invested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : the total stock, £490, produces £14. 14s. yearly : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year for the education of eight poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School. Mrs. Bonney, wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, sometime rector of King’s Cliffe and archdeacon of Lincoln, left by will in 1844 £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club : this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband and now produces annually about £13, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed in 1865 £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’ day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslackton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 433A. 1R. 18p. with a master’s house and school, left in 1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. who was born here in 1686, and is best known as the author of “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life” and other works; he established here a kind of religious community, and dying 9 th April, 1761, was buried in the churchyard, where there is a monument to him. Under a scheme of Charity Commissioners, issued in August 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £40 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions. The income of the charity, now between £600 and £700 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens, each of whom has 7s. per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel.

The Cornforth Homes on School Hill, erected in 1891-2, were built and endowed by Mrs. Catherine Cornforth, of Birmingham, but a native of King’s Cliffe; they consist of six almshouses, three for men and three for women, the occupants each receiving 8s. and 7s. per week respectively; the charity is managed by a committee appointed by Mrs. Cornforth during her life; R.M. English esq. solicitor, of Stamford, is hon. secretary and treasurer. A palace, occupied by King John when hunting in Rockingham Forest, once stood on the south side of the churchyard adjoining a place called “the Hall Yard”, near which lies a huge slab enclosing the fossilised remains of an animal, possibly a pterodactyl. In pursuance of an ancient local custom the church bells here are rung five times a day during winter and four times a day during summer; this custom is said to have been continued from the times of King John, when the King’s retainers were called from the forest to their meals by the ringing of the church bells. The Marquess of Exeter who is the lord of the manor, H.C.L.Brassey esq., of Apethorpe Hall, Wansford, Charles Green Lawrence Law esq., and Arthur Howes and J.E. Macfarlin esqrs., are the principal landowners. The soil is very heavy ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas. The area is 3,744 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value £4,682; the population in 1901 was 983. West Hay, 1 mile north, formerly extra-parochial, was in 1869 annexed to Kings Cliffe Parish Clerk, William Dixon POST, M.O. & T.O., T.M.O., E.D., P.P., S.B. & A. & I.Office. – Albert Robinson Bailey, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive by mail cart from Wansford S.O. at 6.05 a.m. & by rail from Peterborough at 10.10 a.m. dispatched at 2.25 & 6.30 p.m. sundays arrive 6.5 a.m. ; dispatched 6.30. p.m. Money order & telegraph offices are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., the latter on Sunday from 8 to 10 a.m. only. Police Station, School hill, William Slaughter, resident sergeant. Fire Brigade, comprising engineer, sub-engineer & 20 men; Edward Hawkes, engineer; Elijah Dixon, sec; Engine house, Hall yard. The brigade is supported by voluntary subscriptions. PUBLIC OFFICERS:- Assistant Overseer & Rate & Tax Collector, Thomas Henry Bailey, West street Certifying Factory Surgeon, Public Vaccinator & Medical Officer, King’s Cliffe, Oundle union, Thomas White Lewis M.D., L.R.C.S.I., The Fisheries, Park street. Town Crier, John Nicholls, Pig lane Law & Hutchinson’s School, Park street, originally a large private residence, but converted into a school premises in 1873 & enlarged in 1905, for 160 boys & girls ; average attendance, 136 mixed. E. Edward Sibley, head master. Infant School, built in 1873, for 72 children; average attendance 65; Mrs. Annie Bailey, mistress; the schools are in part supported by the endowments above mentioned. Railway Station, William Dean, station master Carrier to Stamford. – John Roberts, fri. returning same day

BENNETT’S BUSINESS DIRECTORY 1906 KING’S CLIFFE CHURCH :- The parish church is an ancient Cruciform building in the Gothic Style The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough and is held by the Rev. J. Orlebar CLERK TO COUNCIL :- H. Bailey COUNTY COURT :- Held every alternate month in Oundle Registrar :- Gurney Coombes POSTAL :- A money order and telegraph office under Peterboro', open daily 8.0 a.m. to 8.0 p.m. Sundays 8.-. am. to 10.0 a.m. Deliveries 7.0. a.m. and 10.20 a.m. POPULATION :- 995. RAILWAYS :- The station is on the Peterboro' and Seaton section of the London and North Western, and Great Northern joint lines REGISTRAR OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS :- B.H. Mash SITUATION :- In the Northern parliamentary division of Northants 12 ½ miles W. of Peterboro' TRADE :- Agriculture, wood turning and the manufacture of wooden ware

PETERBOROUGH DIRECTORY 1907 (No history)

DOLBY’S 1906 KING'S CLIFFE Wansford Population under 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe L.N.W. ¼ mile 7 miles from Stamford, 7 from Oundle, 10 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough. Feast : Sunday following the 25th July Parish Council:- Chairman Mr. George Miles Treasurer Mr. T. Sandall Capital & Counties Bank, Stamford Clerk Mr. T.H.Bailey Councillors Dr. Lewis, Messrs. G. Miles, W. Dainty, F. Edgson, J.T.Bailey, W. Brookes, L.Dixon, F. Edgson, L. Blake, J. Chapman and T.F.Richardson School Managers Chairman Rev. H. Orlebar, Members Dr. Lewis, Messrs. G. Miles, G.K. Papillon A.Howes and F. Edgson The King's Cliffe School Foundation comprises the endowment of Mrs.Eliz. Hutcheson (1744) the Revd. Wm. Law (1727 and 1751), and Richard Wildbore (1688). Original income of about £750 : present income about £550 annually. Governors : E.P. Monckton Esq, J.P., Chairman Rev. Canon Moore, Vice-Chairman, The Marquis of Exeter, H.S. O'Brien J.P. Rev. H.A.Orlebar, Mr. G. Miles, Dr. Lewis, Mr. G.K. Papillon, Mr. A. Howes and Mr. F. Edgson Clerk Mr. V. Stapleton. The income, after providing for the maintenance of eight almshouses and almspeople is applied wholly to educational purpose. The Cornforth Homes Charity founded in 1891 by Mrs. Catherine Cornforth provides for the maintenance of six almshouses and almspeople. Committee of Management : The Rector of Parish, Guardians of the Poor, Overseers of the Poor, and R.M.English Esq., of Stamford. Fire Brigade Captain Mr. G. Miles Sub- Captain Mr. John Thomas Bailey Engineer Mr. J.E.Hawkes Sub Engineer Mr. J.T.Dixon Secretary Mr. H.E.Dixon 22 Firemen Companies 1st and 2nd Post Office - Deliveries 7 a.m. and 10.15 a.m. Despatches 2.15 and 6.25 a.m.. Telegraph 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. to10 a.m. Money Orders and Savings Bank 8 a.m. to 8 p.m T.W.Royce, rural postman Overseers - Messrs. J. Chapman, L. Dixon and F. Edgson Assistant Overseer - Mr. T.H.Bailey

DOLBY’S 1905 KINGS CLIFFE Wansford Population 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe 7 miles from Stamford, 7 ½ from Oundle, 12 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough. FEAST : Sunday following the 25th July PARISH COUNCIL Chairman Mr. George Miles Treasurer Mr. T. Sandall Clerk Mr. R. Knights, Councillors Messrs. G. Miles J.Thos. Bailey, F. Edgson, J. Chapman, J. Elliot and L. Dixon SCHOOL MANAGERS Chairman Mr. G. Miles, Members Messrs G.Miles, John Thos, Bailey, F. Edgson, J. Elliot Captain Mr. G. Miles Sub- Captain Mr. John Thomas Bailey Engineer Mr. J.E.Hawkes Sub Engineer Mr. J.T.Dixon Secretary Mr. H.E.Dixon 22 Firemen Companies 1st and 2nd POST OFFICE - Deliveries 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. Despatches 2.25 and 6.30 a.m.. Box closes for despatch to all parts 2.15 p.m. and 6.25 p.m. TELEGRAPH 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. to10 a.m. MONEY ORDERS and Savings Bank 8 a.m. to 8 p.m T.W.Royce, rural postman OVERSEERS - Messrs. J.T.Bailey, J. Chapman and F. Edgson ASSISTANT OVERSEER - Mr. T.H.Bailey

EXTRACT FROM GAZETEER 1904 Entry about King's Cliffe from THE GAZETEER OF THE BRITISH ISLES, published by George Newnes Ltd, 1904 (Copy in possession of Pam Johnson) (Edited by J G Bartholomew, FRSE, FRGS, (Editor of The Survey Atlas of England and Wales and The Atlas of Scotland etc.) “King’s Cliffe or Cliffe Regis, parish and village with railway station, L & NWR, 12 miles west of Peterborough: 3,749 acres; population 983; Post Office, Telegraph Office called Kingscliffe.

This Gazeteer contains a set of survey maps of England showing such things as statistics for disease and death, military and naval commands, the siting of lighthouses (not at KC!) and many other interesting statistics. Certainly worth studying .for information at county level . [STS 24 March 2005]

DOLBY’S 1904 KING'S CLIFFE Wansford Population 1,000 Nearest railway station King's Cliffe 7 miles from Stamford, 7 ½ from Oundle, 12 miles Uppingham, 14 from Oakham, 14 from Peterborough. FEAST : Sunday following the 25th July PARISH COUNCIL Chairman Mr. George Miles Treasurer Mr. T. Sandall Clerk Mr. R. Knights, Councillors Messrs. G. Miles J.Thos. Bailey, F. Edgson, J. Chapman, J. Elliot and L. Dixon SCHOOL MANAGERS Chairman Mr. G. Miles, Members Messrs G.Miles, John Thos, Bailey, F. Edgson, J. Elliot Inspector J.L. Blake FIRE BRIGADE Captain Mr. G. Miles Sub- Captain Mr. John Thomas Bailey Engineer Mr. J.E.Hawkes Sub Engineer Mr. J.T.Dixon Secretary Mr. H.E.Dixon 22 Firemen Companies 1st and 2nd POST OFFICE - Deliveries 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Despatches 2.25 and 6.30 a.m.. Box closes for despatches to all parts 2.15 p.m. and 6.25 p.m. TELEGRAPH 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. to10 a.m. MONEY ORDERS and Savings Bank 8 a.m. to 8 p.m T.W.Royce, rural postman OVERSEERS - Messrs. J.T.Bailey, J. Chapman and F. Edgson ASSISTANT OVERSEER - Mr. T.H.Bailey

KELLY’S 1903 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish with a station on the Peterborough and Market Harborough section of the London and North Western railway, 88 miles from London, and 8 north-north-west from Oundle, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Willybrook, Oundle petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The church of All Saints is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and a central tower with spire containing a clock, placed in 1898 and 5 bells; many of the ends bench ends, as well as the pulpit, constructed from ancient wood-work, and some of the ancient stained glass were brought from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning, architect, of Stamford, and the exterior in 1898 at a cost of £500. The stained east window was inserted to the memory of the late Ven. Henry Kaye Bonney, rector here from 1810 and some time archdeacon of Lincoln. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £320 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Westmoreland and held since 1901 by the Rev. Thomas Francis Ford Williams M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. In the rectory garden are two arches brought from Fotheringhay; the base of a cross, with a modern shaft, the old stone clock weight, and a fishpond called Pyckell. Here are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. The fair formerly held on October 29 th is now discontinued. The Conservative Club and reading rooms are in Park street, and have about 40 members. There is a large parish library, consisting principally of valuable theological works, left by the Rev. William Law for the use of this and neighbouring parishes. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is extensively carried on in the village. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be vested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : the total stock, £400, produces £14. 14s. yearly : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year for the education of eight poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School: Mrs. Bonney, wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, sometime rector of King’s Cliffe and archdeacon of Lincoln, left by will in 1844 £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club : this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband and now produces annually about £13, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed in 1865 £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’ day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslackton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 433A. 1R. 18p. with a master’s house and school, left in 1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. who was born here in 1686, and is best known as the author of “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life” and other works; he established here a kind of religious community, and dying 9 th April, 1761, was buried in the churchyard, where there is a monument to him. Under a scheme of Charity Commissioners, issued in August 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £40 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions. The income of the charity, now between £600 and £700 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens, each of whom has 7s. per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel.

The Cornforth Homes on School Hill, erected in 1891-2, were built and endowed by Mrs. Catherine Cornforth, of Birmingham, but a native of King’s Cliffe; they consist of six almshouses, three for men and three for women, the occupants each receiving 8s. and 7s. per week respectively; the charity is managed by a committee appointed by Mrs. Cornforth during her life; R.M. English esq. solicitor, of Stamford, is hon. secretary and treasurer. A palace, occupied by King John when hunting in Rockingham Forest, once stood on the south side of the churchyard adjoining a place called “the Hall Yard”, near which lies a huge slab enclosing the fossilised remains of an animal, possibly a pterodactyl. In pursuance of an ancient local custom the church bells here are rung five times a day during winter and four times a day during summer; this custom is said to have been continued from the times of King John, when the King’s retainers were called from the forest to their meals by the ringing of the church bells. The Marquess of Exeter who is the lord of the manor, the Earl of Westmorland J.P., T.J. Law, J.G.Howes and J.E. Macfarlin esqrs., are the principal landowners. The soil is very heavy ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas. The area is 3,744 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value £4,690; the population in 1901 was 983. WEST HAY, 1 mile north, formerly extra-parochial, was in 1869 annexed to Kings Cliffe Parish Clerk, William Dixon POST, M.O. & T.O., T.M.O., E.D., P.P., S.B. &A. & I.O. – John Thomas Bailey, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive by mail cart from Wansford R.S.O. at 6 a.m. and by rail from Peterborough at 10.10 a.m. dispatched at 2.30 & 6.30 p.m. Money order & telegraph offices are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., the latter on Sunday from 8 to 10 a.m. only. Police Station, School hill, Sergt. Cross, resident sergt. Fire Brigade, comprising engineer, sub-engineer & 20 men; Edward Hawkes, engineer; Elijah Dixon, sec; Engine house, Hall yard. The brigade is supported by voluntary subscriptions. PUBLIC OFFICES:- Assistant Overseer & Rate & Tax Collector, Thomas Henry Bailey, West street Certifying Factory Surgeon, Thomas White Lewis M.D., L.R.C.S.I., The Fisheries, Park street. Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, King’s Cliffe District, Oundle Union, Thomas Pink, Park street. Town Crier, John Nicholls, Pig lane A School Board of 5 members was formed Dec. 21. 1874 : Robert Knight, New street, Oundle, clerk to the board; John Lucas Blake, attendance & inquiry officer. Law & Hutchinson’s School, Park street, originally a large private residence, but converted into a school premises in 1873 & enlarged in 1881, for 100 boys, 100 girls & 60 infants; average attendance, 110 mixed & 90 infants; George Herbert Priestley, head master; Miss Annie Peake, mistress; the schools are in part supported by the endowments above mentioned. Railway Station, William Dean, station master Carrier to Stamford. – John Roberts, Fri. returning same day

MURRAY’S HAND-BOOK, NORTHANTS & RUTLAND. 1901 Kings Cliffe Includes: “There was here a small royal hunting-lodge, and adjoining was Cliffe Park, an enclosed portion of Rockingham forest, of which the keepership was granted by the Crown to the Cecils. The Church of All Saints (restored 1863) contains work and stained glass from Fotheringhay.

“William Law, died 1761, the author of the well known “Serious Call to a Holy Life”, was born and buried here.

“In the Rectory garden are three arches brought from the old castle of Fotheringhay, also the base of the old village cross with a modern shaft.

“In the Parish is a chalybeate spring of similar properties to that of Tunbridge Wells.”

POTTER’S ALMANACK (No history)

POTTER’S LIST OF CARRIER 1901 TO AND FROM STAMFORD Apethorpe Fitzjohn Red Lion Friday " Knight Boat " Ailsworth Palmer Boat Friday Ashton Grooby Boat Friday Bainton Grooby Anchor Friday " Andrews Anchor Friday Barnack Andrews Anchor Friday Baston Dawson Roe Buck Monday & Friday Barrowden Bates Millstone Monday & Friday Barrow Munday Red Lion Monday & Friday Monday & Burley Hibbitt Red Lion Friday Barholm Dawson Roe Buck Monday & Friday Blatherwycke Swan Boat Friday Bourne Tipler Half Moon Friday Bulwick Swan Boat Friday Benefield Swan Boat Friday Bytham Castle Steel Red Lion Monday & Friday Bytham Little Steel Red Lion Monday & Friday Careby Steel Red Lion Friday Collyweston Hill Anchor Friday Collyweston Sharpe Anchor Daily Caster Palmer Boat Daily Caster Bland Boat Daily Casterton Great Hibbitt Red Lion Monday & Friday Casterton Great Munday Red Lion Monday & Friday Casterton Great Mills Millstone Monday & Friday Cottesmore Munday Red Lion Monday & Friday Cottesmore Exton Millstone Monday & Friday Deeping Market Millbourn Red Lion Friday Deeping St. James Teet Roe Buck Friday Deene Swan Boat Friday Duddington Sharpe Boat Daily Easton Springthorpe Boat Irregular Easton Sharpe Anchor Daily Easton Swan Boat Friday Easton Knight Boat Friday Easton Hill Anchor Friday Edithweston Price Millstone Friday Empingham Hibbitt Red Lion Monday & Friday Empingham Mills Millstone Monday & Friday Exton Munday Red Lion Monday & Friday Exton Hibbitt Red Lion Monday & Friday Elton Bland Boat Friday Glaston Gilbert Roe Buck Monday & Friday Glaston Dawson Roe Buck Monday & Friday Greetham Greensmith Millstone Monday & Friday Greetham Exton Millstone Monday & Friday Glinton Millbourn Red Lion Friday Greatford Tipler Half Moon Friday Holywell Steel Red Lion Monday & Friday Ketton Gilbert Roe Buck Monday & Friday Ketton Bates Millstone Monday & Friday Ketton Dawson Roe Buck Monday & Friday Ketton Price Millstone Friday King's Cliffe Roberts Boat Friday King's Cliffe Knight Boat Friday Luffenham North Price Millstone Friday Luffenham South Gilbert Roe Buck Monday & Friday Luffenham South Bates Millstone Monday & Friday Luffenham South Dawson Roe Buck Monday & Friday Lyddington Dawson Roe Buck Monday & Friday Market Overton Munday Red Lion Monday & Friday Morcott Gilbert Roe Buck Monday & Friday Morcott Dawson Roe Buck Monday & Friday Nassington Bland Boat Friday Nassington Crowson Red Lion Friday Oakham Hibbitt Red Lion Monday & Friday Oakham Exton Millstone Monday & Friday Preston Dawson Roe Buck Monday & Friday Pilsgate Andrews Anchor Monday & Friday Pickworth Healam Millstone Friday Ryhall Naylor Half Moon Friday Stretton Young Star and Garter Friday Spalding Deeping Carriers Star and Garter Friday Southorpe Andrews Anchor Daily Stibbington Palmer Boat Friday Stibbington Bland Boat Friday Stibbington Crowson Red Lion Friday Tixover Sharpe Anchor Daily Toft Baker Stag & Pheasant Friday Thistleton Holt Green Man Friday Thurlby Tipler Half Moon Friday Tickencote Mills Millstone Friday Thornhaugh Palmer Boat Friday Tinwell Gilbert Roe Buck Monday & Friday Tinwell Dawson Roe Buck Monday & Friday Tinwell Bates Millstone Monday & Friday Tallington Milbourn Red Lion Friday Uppingham Dawson Roe Buck Monday & Friday Uppingham Gilbert Roe Buck Monday & Friday Ufford Andrews Anchor Daily Ufford Watson 20, Water Street Daily Uffington Dawson Roe Buck Monday & Friday Uffington Tipler Half Moon Friday Uffington Milbourn Red Lion Friday Witham Holt Green Man Friday Wilsthorpe Tipler Half Moon Friday Wood Newton Fitzjohn Red Lion Friday Wansford Palmer Boat Friday Wansford Bland Boat Friday Wansford Crowson Red Lion Friday Walton Milbourn Red Lion Friday Whittering Palmer Boat Friday Yarwell Palmer Boat Friday Yarwell Crowson Red Lion Friday

DOLBY’S 1900 KING'S CLIFFE Wansford Nearest railway station King's Cliffe 7 miles from Stamford, 12 miles Uppingham, 14 from Peterboro', 7 ½ miles from Oundle

PARISH COUNCIL Chairman Mr. George Miles Treasurer ditto Clerk Mr John James Bailey Councillors Messrs John Thomas Bailey, R. Brown, W. Brooks, W. Dainty Libius Dixon, F. Edgson, W.H.Fane, V. Green, C.G.L. Law and Dr. Lewis SCHOOL BOARD Chairman Mr. George Miles Vice-Chairman Mr. V. Green Members Messrs. John Thomas Bailey, Fredk. Edgson, Ventross Green C.G.Law, J.L.Blake, Inspector Feast, Last week in July or first week in August FIRE BRIGADE Mr. G. Miles Captain " John Thomas Bailey, Sub-Captain " E. J. Hawkes, Engineer " J.T. Dixon, Sub-Engineer " C.G.L.Law, Treasurer " H.E. Dixon, Secretary 22 Firemen Companies 1st and 2nd

POST OFFICE - First delivery of letters 7 a.m., second delivery 10.20 a.m. Box closes for dispatch to all parts 2.25 p.m. and 6.25 p.m. TELEGRAPH 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. to10 a.m. MONDAY ORDERS and Savings Bank 8 a.m. to 8 p.m T.W.Royce, rural postman

DOLBY’S 1898 Wansford District Kings Cliffe 7 miles from Stamford, 12 from Uppingham POST OFFICE, First delivery of letters 7 a.m., second delivery 10.10 a.m. Box closes for dispatch to all parts 2.25 p.m. and 6.25 p.m. TELEGRAPH 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. MONEY ORDERS and Savings Bank 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. T. W. ROYCE, rural postman

KELLY’S 1898 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish with a station on the Peterborough and Market Harborough section of the London and North Western railway, 88 miles from London, and 8 north-north-west from Oundle, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Willybrook, Oundle petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The church of All Saints is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and a central tower with spire containing a clock, placed in 1898 and 5 bells; many of the ends bench ends, as well as the pulpit, constructed from ancient wood-work, and some of the ancient stained glass were brought from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning, architect, of Stamford, and the exterior in 1898 at a cost of £500. The stained east window was inserted to the memory of the late Ven. Henry Kaye Bonney, rector here from 1810 and some time archdeacon of Lincoln. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, net yearly value about £292 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Westmoreland and held since 1896 by the Rev. John Nunn Blackler Woodroffe M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. In the rectory garden are three arches brought from Fotheringhay; the base of a cross, with a modern shaft, the old stone clock weight, and a fishpond called Pyckell. Here are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. The fair formerly held on October 29 th is now discontinued. The Conservative Club and reading rooms are in Park street, and have about 40 members. There is a large parish library, consisting principally of valuable theological works, left by the Rev. William Law for the use of this and neighbouring parishes. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is extensively carried on in the village. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be vested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : the total stock, £400, produces £14. 14s. yearly : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year for the education of eight poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School: Mrs. Bonney, wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, sometime rector of King’s Cliffe and archdeacon of Lincoln, left by will in 1844 £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club : this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband and now produces annually about £13, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed in 1865 £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’ day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslackton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 433A. 1R. with a master’s house and school, left in 1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. who was born here in 1686, and is best known as the author of “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life” and other works; he established here a kind of religious community, and dying 9 th April, 1761, was buried in the churchyard, where there is a monument to him. Under a scheme of Charity Commissioners, issued in August 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £40 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions. The income of the charity, now between £600 and £700 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens, each of whom has 7s. per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel.

PUBLIC OFFICES:- Assistant Overseer & Rate & Tax Collector, John James Bailey, West street Certifying Factory Surgeon, Thomas White Lewis M.D., L.R.C.S.I., The Fisheries, Park street. Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, King’s Cliffe District, Oundle Union, Thomas Pink, Park street. Registrar of Marriages for King’s Cliffe District, Oundle Union, Charles Stanyon, Henry Elijah Dixon, West street A School Board of 5 members was formed Dec. 21. 1874 : W. Richardson, Oundle, clerk to the board; John Lucas Blake, attendance & inquiry officer. Law & Hutchinson’s School, Park street, originally a large private residence, but converted into a school premises in 1873 & enlarged in 1881, for 100 boys, 100 girls & 60 infants; average attendance, 75 boys, 65 girls & 60 infants; William Brookes, head master; Mrs. Elizabeth Brookes, mistress; the schools are supported by the endowments above mentioned & otherwise by government grant. RAILWAY STATION, William Dean, station master CARRIER TO STAMFORD. – John Roberts, fri. returning same day

KELLY’S 1894 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish with a station on the Peterborough and Market Harborough section of the London and North Western railway, 88 miles from London, and 8 miles north-north-west from Oundle, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Willybrook, Oundle petty sessional division, union and county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (second portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The church of All Saints is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and an embattled central tower with spire containing 5 bells; the interior is seated with open oak benches, many of the ends of which, as well as the pulpit, constructed under the direction of the late Archdeacon Bonney from ancient wood-work, were brought from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning, architect, of Stamford; in 1865 an organ was erected. The stained east window was inserted to the memory of the late Ven. Henry Kaye Bonney, rector here from 1810 and some time archdeacon of Lincoln. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, net yearly value about £700 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Westmoreland J.P. and held since 1863 by the Rev. Edward Du Pré, B.A., of Queen’s College, Cambridge. The Rev. Edward Reginald Freestone Gould M.A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, has been curate-in-charge since 1892. Here are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels. The fair formerly held on October 29 th is now discontinued. The Liberal Association has a reading room in West street, established in 1878, and supplied with the daily and other papers; there are now 30 members. The Conservative Club and reading rooms are in Park street, and have about 40 members. There is also a general reading room and library in West street. There is a large parish library, consisting principally of valuable theological works, left by the Rev. William Law for the use of the parishioners. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is extensively carried on in this parish. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be vested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : the total stock, £400, produces £14. 14s. yearly : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year for the education of eight poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School: Mrs. Bonney, wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, sometime rector of King’s Cliffe and archdeacon of Lincoln, left by will in 1844 £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club : this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband and now produces annually about £13, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed in 1865 £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’ day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslockton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 49A. 12P. with a master’s house and school, left in 1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens, never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. who was born here in 1686, and is best known as the author of “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life” and other works; he established here a kind of religious community, and dying 9 th April, 1761, was buried in the churchyard, where there is a monument to him. Under a scheme of Charity Commissioners, issued in August 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £40 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions. The income of the charity, now between £600 and £700 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens, each of whom has 7s. Per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel.

The Cornforth Homes on School Hill, erected in 1891-2, were built and endowed by Mrs. Catherine Cornforth, of Birmingham, but a native of King’s Cliffe; they consist of six almshouses, three for men and three for women, the occupants each receiving 8s. and 7s. per week respectively; the charity is managed by a committee appointed by Mrs. Cornforth during her life; R.M. English esq. solicitor, of Stamford, is hon. secretary and treasurer. A palace, occupied by King John when hunting in Rockingham Forest, once stood on the south side of the churchyard adjoining a place called “the Hall Yard”. In pursuance of an ancient local custom the church bells here are rung five times a day during winter and four times a day during summer; this custom is said to have been continued from the times of King John, when the King’s retainers were called from the forest to their meals by the ringing of the church bells. The Marquess of Exeter P.C. who is the lord of the manor, the Earl of Westmorland J.P., T.J. Law esq., J.G.Howes esq. and J.E. Macfarlin esq., and the rector are the principal landowners. The soil is very heavy ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas. The area is 3,650 acres, rateable value £4,489; the population in 1891 was 1,082. WEST HAY, 1 mile north, formerly extra-parochial, was in 1869 annexed to Kings Cliffe Parish Clerk, William Dixon POST, M.O. & T.M.O., Express Delivery, Parcel Post, S.B. Annuity & Insurance Office – John Thomas Bailey, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive by mail cart from Wansford R.S.O. at 6 a.m. & by rail from Peterborough at 10.10 a.m. & 3 p.m.; dispatched at 2.30 & 6.30 p.m. Money order & telegraph office are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. the latter on Sundays from 8 to 10 a.m. only. Police Station, School hill, Sergt. Stanley, resident sergt. Fire Brigade, comprising engineer, sub-engineer & 20 men; Edward Hawkes, engineer; Elijah Dixon, sec; Engine house, Hall yard. The brigade is supported by voluntary subscriptions. PUBLIC OFFICES:- Assistant Overseer & Rate & Tax Collector, John James Bailey, West street Certifying Factory Surgeon, Thomas White Lewis M.D., L.R.C.S.I., The Fisheries, Park street. Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, King’s Cliffe District, Oundle Union, Thomas Pink, Park st. Registrar of Marriages for King’s Cliffe District, Oundle Union, Charles Stanyon. Town Crier, John Nicholls, Pig lane A School Board of 5 members was formed Dec. 21. 1874 : William Richardson, New street, Oundle, clerk to the board; John Lucas Blake, attendance & inquiry officer. Law & Hutchinson’s School, Park street, originally a large private residence, but converted into a school premises in 1873 & enlarged in 1881, for 100 boys, 100 girls & 60 infants; average attendance, 75 boys, 65 girls & 60 infants; William Brookes, head master; Mrs. Elizabeth Brookes, mistress; the schools are in part supported by the endowments above mentioned Railway Station, William Dean, station master CARRIER TO STAMFORD. – John Roberts, fri. returning same day

POTTERS 1894 (No history)

POTTERS 1893 (No history)

UNKNOWN REGISTER 1892 (Typewritten) KINGS CLIFFE Kings Cliffe is a village 12 miles from Peterborough, in the Hundred of Willybrook, the Union and County Court of Oundle, and the Diocese of Peterborough. Population 1190. Post town Wansford. All Saints Church, the Rev. Edward Du Pré Rector. There are also Wesleyan, Methodist, Baptist and Independent Methodist Chapels. Post Office, deliveries at 7am. And 2-45.p.m. J. Thos. Bailey, postmaster, Endowed Schools (mixed) Railway Station on the L. & N.W. and G.N. Railways, John, Humpreys, Station master.

KINGS COMPANION TO THE ALMANACS 1891 King's Cliffe Wansford THE KING'S CLIFFE HIGHWAYS BOARD Formed under the "Highways Acts," hold their Meetings at the Talbot Hotel, Oundle every month The following is the List of Parishes included in the District, with the name of the Waywarden of each Parish:-

KELLY’S 1890 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish and polling place for the Northern division of the county, 88 miles from London, and 8 miles north-north-west from Oundle, with a station on the Peterborough and Market Harborough section of the London and North Western railway in the hundred of Willybrook, Oundle petty sessional division union and county court district, rural deanery of Oundle (second, archdeaconry of Oakham, and diocese of Peterborough, the Wansford and Seaton branch of the portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The church of All Saints is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and an embattled central tower containing 5 bells; the interior is seated with open oak benches, many of the ends of which, as well as the pulpit, constructed under the direction of the late Archdeacon Bonney from ancient wood-work, were brought from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning of Stamford; in 1865 an organ was erected. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, yearly value about £400 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Westmoreland C.B. and held since 1863 by the Rev. Edward Du Pré, M.A., of Queen’s College, Cambridge. Here are Congregational and Wesleyans chapels. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be vested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : the total stock, £400, produces £14. 14s. yearly : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year for the education of eight of the poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School: Mrs. Bonney, wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, sometime rector of King’s Cliffe and archdeacon of Lincoln, left by will £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club : this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband and now produces annually £13, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed in 1865 £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’ day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslockton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 49A. 12P. with a master’s house and school, left in1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens, never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. Under a scheme of Charity Commissioners, August 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £40 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions; The income of the charity, now between £600 and £700 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens, each of whom has 7s. Per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel. The local Liberal Association has a reading room here, established in 1878, and supplied with the daily and other papers; it now has 35 members. A palace, occupied by King John when hunting in Rockingham Forest, once stood on the south side of the churchyard adjoining a place called “the Hall Yard”. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is extensively carried on in this parish. The Marquess of Exeter F.C. who is the lord of the manor , and the rector, the Earl of Westmorland C.B. T.J. Law esq., J.G.Howes esq. and J.E. Macfarlin esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is very heavy ; subsoil, gravel and rock. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas. The area is 3,650 acres, rateable value £4,473; the population in 1881 was 1,278.

KINGS 1886 & 1889 & 1891 KING'S CLIFFE POST OFFICE The first delivery of Letters commences at Seven a.m. and the second at 2.45.p.m. Box closes for despatch of Mail Bags to all parts at 6.25.p.m. Money Orders are issued and paid from Nine a.m. to Six.p.m.

KELLY’S 1885 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish and polling place for the Northern division of the county, in the hundred of Willybrook, Oundle union and county court district, rural deanery of Oundle second, archdeaconry of Oakham, and diocese of Peterborough, 88 miles from London, and 8 miles north-north-west from Oundle, the Wansford and Seaton branch of the same line, North Western railway, has a station in Park Street. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The Willow brook, which is expanded into a beautiful lake of 5 acres at the bottom of the rectory grounds, is a tributary of the Nene. The church of All Saints is a cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transept, north and south porches and an embattled central tower containing 5 bells; the interior is seated with open oak benches, many of the ends of which, as well as the pulpit, constructed under the direction of the late Archdeacon Bonney from ancient wood- work, were brought from Fotheringhay : the church was restored in 1863, under the direction for Mr. Edward Browning of Stamford; in 1865 an organ was erected. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £900 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Westmoreland, and held since 1863 by the Rev. Edward Du Pré, M.A., of Queen’s College, Cambridge. There are Congregational and Wesleyans chapels. Charities - John Thorpe esq., in 1668 left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hester Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be invested in Government securities: and Mrs. Ann de Rippe in 1806 left the interest of £100 for the same purpose : Richard Wildbore left on October 19, 1688, a rent- charge of £5 a year for the education of eight of the poor boys of this place, now taught at the National School: Mrs. Bonney, late wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, rector of King’s Cliffe and Archdeacon of Lincoln, left £490, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club, this sum, in accordance with her will, was invested by her husband in £3 per Cent Consols. Less legacy duty of£49, and now produces annually £13.12s.4d, which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school. The Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in bank £3 per Cent Consols in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds” which produced £674. 9s. 9d. net : the interest of this sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’s day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them at their discretion for the benefit of the National school and of the Sunday school of King’s Cliffe: this charity produces £19. 10s. annually. Law and Hutchinson’s charity consists in part of certain freehold lands at Northorp, Lincolnshire, and Aslockton, Notts, with lands at other places, amounting in all to 49A. 12P. with a master’s house and school, left in1745 by Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson esq. for the education and clothing of 18 (subsequently 22) poor boys; the maintenance of four almshouses for as many aged widows or maidens, never having received parish relief, and whose private income should not exceed £5 a year, and for apprenticing; the remaining portion of the charity consists of 80 acres of freehold land at Northorp aforementioned, and a school with mistress’s house, for the clothing and education of 14 (subsequently 22) poor girls, together with two almshouses for widows or maidens as in Hutchinson’s charity, left in 1727 by the Rev. W. Law. M.A. Under a scheme issued by the Charity Commissioners in August 1878, an entire change was made in the administration of this charity : the clothing of 44 children being discontinued, and a sum of over £100 yearly appropriated for scholarships and exhibitions; under the same scheme a new room for an upper department was built and opened in 1881 for about 50 scholars; in which a higher education is given. Deserving scholars are promoted to this department from the elementary schools and may hold scholarships which entirely exempt them from the payment of school fees. Grants are made to children on leaving the schools ; and provision is also made for scholarships, which may be held at the Oundle Grammar school, or some other place of higher education. The income of the charity, now over £1,000 yearly, is expended in accordance with the new scheme, save and except the yearly maintenance of eight poor widows or maidens each of whom has 7s. per week and house and 40s. yearly for fuel. The local Liberal Association has a reading room here, established in 1878, and supplied with the daily and other papers; it now has 40 members. A palace, occupied by King John when hunting in Rockingham Forest, once stood on the south side of the churchyard adjoining a place called “the Hall Yard”. In this parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Wood turning and carving and the manufacture of butter prints is carried on in this parish. The Marquess of Exeter F.C. M.A. D.L. J.P. who is the lord of the manor , and the rector, the Earl of Westmorland C.B. D.L. J.P. T.J.Law esq., J.G.Howes esq. and the trustees of Thomas E,. Fox esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is very heavy ; subsoil, gravel and rock. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas. The area is 3,643A. 3R. 32P., rateable value £5,674; the population in 1881 was 1,278. WESTHAY, 1 mile north, formerly extra-parochial, was in 1869 annexed to King’s Cliffe. Parish Clerk, Gamble Dixon POST & MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Bank. – John Thomas Bailey, receiver. Letters arrive by mail cart from Wansford at 6 a.m. & 3 p.m. ; dispatched at 6.45 p.m. Money order office open from 9 to 6 daily. Telegraph office is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. & on Sundays from 8 to 10 a.m. only INSURANCE AGENTS :- Liverpool & London & Globe, J. T. Bailey, West street Northern, Lucas Wade Police Station, School hill, William Hustler, resident sergt. Volunteer Fire Brigade, comprising superintendant & 20 men; John Wragby, supt; Engine house, Hall yard A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1874; W. Richardson, Oundle, clerk to the board; George Bollans, attendance & enquiry officer. Law & Hutchinson’s School (mixed), Park street, built in 1873, for 230 children ; average, 200; William Brookes, head master : Mrs. Elizabeth Brookes, mistress : the schools are supported by the endowments above mentioned & otherwise by government grant Railway Station, Thomas Spiers, station master CARRIER TO STAMFORD. – Frank Kingston, fri. returning same day; Frank Kingston, tues. & fri. returning same days; William Lucas, fri

C N WRIGHT'S 1884 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE and sometimes called Cliffe Regis) is a large parish and village, a polling place for the northern division of the county, in the hundred of Willybrook, Oundle union and County Court district, rural deanery of Oundle No. 2, and archdeaconry of Oakham, 8 miles N.N.W. from Oundle, 6 miles from Elton station on the Northampton and Peterborough branch of the L. and N.W. railway, and has a station on the Wansford and Seaton branch of the same of railway. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the east bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. All Saints’ Church is of mixed styles, having been built at different periods. It consists of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, and tower surmounted by a spire. It contains open oak seats, and a carved oak pulpit put in by Archdeacon Bonney. It is paved with encaustic tiles. The church was restored in 1863, and a new organ erected in 1865 by Walker & Sons, of London. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, of gross yearly value of £800 with residence (which has been considerably enlarged by the present rector) in the gift of the Earl of Westmoreland. The National, Law and Hutchinson’s schools have been combined and a school-house erected in Park Street. The school was enlarged in 1881. There are Independents, Wesleyans and Calvinist Chapels. The charities include John Thorpe’s left in 1668 of three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the residents of these houses Mrs. Esther Gibbon, in 1790, bequeathed £300 to be invested in Government securities, and Mrs. Ann de Rippe left £100 in 1804 for the same purpose : Richard Wildbore on October 19, 1688, left a rent-charge of £5 a year to teach eight of the poorest boys in King’s Cliffe: Elizabeth, widow of Archibald Hutchinson, in 1745, 80 acres freehold at Northorpe, in the county Lincoln and 195a. 3r. 22p. at Aslockton in Notts, also Hartake Hill, Buxton Close, part of Hall Hill schools and a close of lawn allotment at King’s Cliffe, 49a. Or. 12P. with a master’s house and school for the education and full clothing of 18 (now 22) boys of King’s Cliffe, and four almshouses for ancient and poor widows or maidens who have never received parish relief and have not more than £5 a year of their own. Every boy who has studied out his full time is apprenticed out to some trade and receives a gift of £5. The Rev. Wm. Law M.A. in 1727, left 80 acres freehold at Northorp in Lincolnshire, also a school and master’s house for the education and full clothing of 14 (now 22) poor girls and two almshouses for poor maidens or widows who have not more than £5 of their own. This charity is under the care of seven of the neighbouring clergy and gentlemen as trustees with the rector of King’s Cliffe : Mrs. Bonney, late wife of the Ven. Archdeacon Bonney, rector of King’s Cliffe left £490, to be invested by her husband in 3 per cent, consolidated bank annuities, for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club The Rev. John Law Elveham, bequeathed £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in bank stock at 3 per cent in the names of the official trustees of charitable funds the interest of which £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’s day by the minister and churchwardens in clothing to the poor. Miss Louisa Perry, under will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to be invested by trustees for the benefits of the National school and Sunday school of King’s Cliffe. . In this parish is a chalybeate spring, similar to that at Tunbridge Wells . The principal trade of the place is the manufacture of wood turnery goods. The principal landowners are the Marquis of Exeter (lord of the manor), the Earl of Westmoreland, the Rector, T.J.Law, J.G.Howes and John E. Fox. Area is 3650a. 3r. 8p ; rateable value £5535. 18s. 9d. ; and the population in 1881 was 1,275. WEST HAY formerly extra-parochial was annexed to King’s Cliffe in 1869. ALL SAINTS CHURCH – Services, Sunday 11 and 6. Communion first Sunday in the month. Rector Rev. E. Du Pr ė; Wardens Messrs. T.J.Law and W. Brooks : Organist , Wm. Brooks ; Clerk, Gamble Dixon. Hymns A. and M. CHAPELS – CONGREGATIONAL : Sunday, 10.30 and 6. Rev. C. Lloyd : Deacon, Charles Stanyon. WESLEYAN : Sunday 2-30 & 6. Steward, Jph. Slingsby, - CALVINIST : Sunday, 10-45 and 6. Preacher, Mr. Wm. Green ; Trustee Mr. John Royce POST, MONEY-ORDER AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE AND SAVINGS BANK . – John Thomas Bailey, sub-postmaster. Letters through Wansford delivered 7.a.m. ; box cleared at 6.40 p.m. Office open from 9 till 6, Saturday till 8.pm.. on Sundays from 8 – 10 am for telegraph business only.

KELLY’S 1877 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish and polling place for the Northern division of the county, in the hundred of Willybrook, Oundle union and county court district, rural deanery of Weldon second, archdeaconry of Oakham, and diocese of Peterborough, 88 miles from London, and 8 miles north-north-west from Oundle, 6 miles from Elton station on the Northampton and Peterborough branch of the North Western railway ; the Wansford and Seaton branch of the same line of railway, now in the course of construction, will when complete have a station in Park Street. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham Forest. The church of All Saints was restored in 1863; it is a cruciform stone building, with tower springing from the centre, and has been built at different periods : open oak seats have been substituted for pews; many of the bench ends are ancient : the pulpit, of carved oak, was put together by the late Archdeacon Bonney out of ancient wood-work : it has been fixed on a Ketton stone base; the paving is Ketton stone, with encaustic tiles interspersed. The architect was Edward Browning, Esq., of Stamford; an organ was erected in 1863 : the church has recently been fitted with a hot air apparatus.. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, yearly value £885 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Westmoreland, and held by the Rev. Edward Du Pré, M.A., of Queen’s College, Cambridge: Rev. John Edward Else M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, is curate in sole charge. The Nation and Law and Hutchinson’s schools have been combined and a school-house has been erected in Park Street; the average attendance is 100 boys and 96 girls. There are places of worship for Independents, Wesleyans and Baptists. There are the following charities :- John Thorp. Esq 1668, left three houses in Park street for poor women ; to the inhabitants of these houses Mrs. Hestor Gibbon, 1790, bequeathed £300 to be vested in Government securities, also Mrs. Ann de Rippe, 1804, the interest of £100 for the same purpose : Richard Wildbore left, October 19, 1688, a rent-charge of £5 a year to teach eight of the poorest boys in King’s Cliffe, now taught in the National school : Elizabeth Hutchinson, widow of Archibald Hutchinson, esq. 1745, 10 acres freehold at Northorp, county Lincoln, 195A. 9s. 22p. freehold at Aslockton, county Notts, also Hartake Hill, Buxton, close, part of Hall Hill schools and close and lawn allotment at King’s Cliffe, in all 49A. 12P. with a master’s house and school for the education and full clothing of 18 (now 22) poor boys of King’s Cliffe, and four almshouses for four ancient and poor widows (or maidens) who have never received parish relief an have not more than £5 a year of their own, and every boy who has stayed out his full time is apprenticed to some trade and receives a gift of £5 : The Rev. W. Law M.A. 1727, left also 80 acres freehold at Northorp, county Lincoln, a school mistress’s house and school for the education and full clothing of 14 (now22) poor girls of King’s Cliffe and two almshouses for maidens or widows who have not more than £5 of their own ; this charity is under the care of seven of the neighbouring clergy and gentlemen as trustees and also the rector of King’s Cliffe : Mrs. Bonney, late wife of the Ven. H.K. Bonney, rector of King’s Cliffe and arch deacon of Lincoln, left £490 for the benefit of the Sunday school and clothing club ; the above sum was invested by her husband according to her will in the £3 per Cent./Consolidated Bank Annuals £454.1s.1d after paying legacy duty of £49 and produces annually £13.12s.4d. which is equally divided between the clothing clubs and Sunday school : the Rev. John Law, of Elveham, Hants, bequeathed £700 in trust to his executors to be invested in Bank Stock £3 per Cent. Consols in the names of the “Official Trustees of Charitable Funds”, which produced £674 9s. 9d. in clothing, the interest of which sum viz. £20. 4s. 8d. is distributed on St. Thomas’s day annually by the minister and churchwardens to the most needy and deserving poor : Miss Louisa Perry, under her will dated December 19, 1808, bequeathed the sum of £600 to her trustees to be invested by them in their uncontrolled discretion as is most conducive to the benefits of the National school and of the Sunday school in King’s Cliffe; this charity produces £19 10s. annually. A palace stood on the south side of the churchyard, adjoining a place called the Hall-yard : the palace was occupied by King John, when hunting in Rockingham forest. In this parish is a chalybeate spring, similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. . The principal trade is the manufacture of wood turnery goods. The Marquis of Exeter, who is lord of the manor, and the rector, the Earl of Westmoreland, T.J.Law. esq. J.G.Howes, esq. And the trustees of Thomas E. Fox are the principal landowners. The soil is very heavy; subsoil, gravel and rock. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas. The area is 3643A. 3R. 32P ; rateable value £6,980 ; and the population in 1871 was 1,259. WEST HAY was formerly extra-parochial and in 1869 was annexed to King’s Cliffe. Parish Clerk, Gamble Dixon

POST, MONEY-ORDER, TELEGRAPH OFFICE and Savings Bank . – John Thomas Bailey, receiver. Letters arrive by mail cart from Wansford at 7.a.m. ; despatched at 6.45 p.m. Money order office open from 9 to 6 daily. Telegraph office is open form 8.a.m. to 8.p.m. & on Sundays from 8 – 10 a.m. only. INSURANCE AGENTS :-

Midland Counties, E. Dixon, West Street Sovereign Life, H. Knight

PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS Inland Revenue Office, Cross Keys Inn, George Raven, officer Police Station, Park st. John Bennett, resident sergeant Law & Hutchinson’s School, William Brooks, Headmaster Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks, mistress

CARRIERS TO :- OUNDLE – Redhead, monday & friday PETERBOROUGH – W. Lucas, saturday STAMFORD – George Kingston, friday returning same day George Kingston, monday & friday returning same day William Lucas, tuesday & friday

WHELAN’S 1874 The boundaries of King’s Cliffe, or Cliff Regis, are formed by Apethorpe on the east, Southwick on the South, Blatherwick on the west, and Colly Weston and Duddington on the north. It includes two places called Spa Lodge and Westhay, and contains 3642 acres; its population in 1801 was 876 ; in 1831, 1173 ; in 1841, 1278 ; in 1851, 1407 ; in 1861, 1388 ; in 1871, 1259 souls. The rateable value of the parish is £6512, and the gross estimated rental, £7652. The principal proprietors of the soil, which varies from a strong to a light red soil, are the Marquis of Exeter (lord of the manor, Earl of Westmoreland, Mr. Thomas James Law, Mrs. Addy, and Thomas Embleton Fox, Esq., Manor. – At the time of the Conqueror’s survey, Clive, which contained 1 hide and two virgates, was in the hands of the crown, and with a mill of the yearly rent of 12d., 4 acres of meadow, and a wood 1 mile long and half a mile broad, was rated at £ 10. In the preceding reign it was the freehold of Earl Algar, and valued at £ 7. In the reign of Henry II, this lordship contained 1 ½ hide and half a virgate. Henry III settled it on Alionmore, his consort, and in the ninth of Edward II (1315) it was in the hands of Margery, Queen of England. In the second of Edward IV (1462), a great part of the town was burned down, and the tenants had a remission of two years’ rent. The lordship long continued in the hands of the Crown, and was leased to the Earls of Exeter, who collected the farm rents, but the Marquis of Exeter is the present lord. The Village of King’s Cliffe, which is pretty large, and consists of three long streets, is situated on an eminence about seven and a half miles N.N.W. of Oundle. This was formerly the chief town of the east bailiwick of Rockingham forest ; it had a charter for a weekly market, on Tuesday, which is now fallen into disuse ; and there was also an early grant for a three days’ fair, beginning on St. Luke’s eve. A royal residence, or hunting seat, stood at the south side of the churchyard, near the place called Hall Yard ; and from coals having been discovered amongst the ruins, it is supposed the mansion burned down, in 1462, at the great conflagration. There were large fish-pools or ponds attached to the mansion, which were supplied by the rivulet which now crosses Bridge street. “In old historians” writes Bridges, “mention is made of a battle fought at King’s Clive, about the year 778. Adelbald and Heardbert, commanders under Ethelred, King of the Northumbrians, rising in rebellion against him slew here Aldulph, son of Bosa, who was general of his army.” In this parish is a chalybeate spring, similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. The principal trade of the place is the manufacture of wood turners’ goods. The new line of railway from Seaton to Wansford will have a station here, in Park Street. The Church, dedicated to All Saints, is cruciform, in the Early English, Perpendicular, and Decorated styles, and consists of nave, chancel, and side aisles, north and south transepts, north and south porches, and a square tower, surmounted by a spire, and containing five bells. It was thoroughly restored by voluntary subscription in 1863, at a cost of £1400. The new sittings are open, and of carved oak. The pulpit was restored and placed on a new base of Ketton stone, and the cancel newly floored and furnished with carved oak stalls. When the ceiling which covered the chancel was removed, a handsome roof of open woodwork was discovered ; the font, which is ancient, and bearing figures of the evangelists, was removed from the north transept to the west end of the nave and placed on a stem and four small shafts of ketton stone. A new east window of stained glass, to the memory of Archdeacon Bonney, late rector of the parish was erected at the cost of his sister, Mrs. Nevison ; and a new organ was placed in the north transept in 1865. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s book at £13. 16s. 3d., and is now worth £800 per annum, in the gift of the Earl of Westmoreland and incumbency of the Rev. Edward Dupre, M.A. The Rectory-House, which stands in the centre of the village, is a commodious residence with handsomely arranged grounds, having a lake at the bottom which is supplied from the Nene ; it was enlarged by the present rector in 1863. The Independent Chapel, West Street, erected in 1846, will seat about 200 persons. The Calvinist Chapel, West Street, was erected in 1840, and the Wesleyan Chapel, Bridge Street, was built in 1823. The Endowed Schools, Park street, were removed in 1873 to the present building, formerly a private house, which was purchased for £750, and admirably fitted up at a further cost of about £1400. They consist of two separate rooms for boys and girls, capable of holding 100 each, with class-rooms and two houses for the teachers. They are now (1874) about to come under Government inspection, and the present average attendance is – boys, 70; girls, 40. There are 22 boys instructed, clothed, and apprenticed from Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson’s charity, bequeathed in 1744 ; and 22 girls are instructed and clothed out of the Rev. William Law’s request in 1747. These charities consist of a farm at Aslockton Abbey, in Nottinghamshire, a farm at Northorpe in Lincolnshire, and land in this parish, together with accumulated funds vested in the three per cent. consols, the whole realising at present from £600 to £ 700 per annum, out of which the master and mistress receive £150 yearly, and the ex-master receives a pension of £25 per annum, with a house, &c., and eight widows, from the age of sixty, are provided for in every way. In 1699, Richard Wildbore left a rent-charge of £5 per annum to the school of this parish. The British School is also well attended. The other charities of the parish are :- The interest of £100 left by Ann de Rippe, about the year 1688; John Thorpe, Esq., in 1688, gave three houses or tenements in Park street, to be inhabited free by three poor women, which are kept in repair by the parish. Rev. John Law of Elveham, Hants, in1869 left £700 3 per cent consols, the interest to be expended in warm clothing to the deserving poor of the parish at the discretion of the rector and church-wardens, on St. Thomas’s day. Mrs. Louisa Perry, in 1869, left £600 3 per cent. consols, the interest to be applied to the Sunday schools. Mrs Bonney, wife of the late Archdeacon Bonney, left £454.1s. 1d. 3 per cent. consols, the interest to be applied to the clothing club and Church Sunday school . Biography – The Rev. Wm. Law, a celebrated polemical and nonjuring divine, was born here in 1686, and died in 1761. He is well known as the author of “The Serious Call”, “The Spirit of Prayer,” “ The Spirit of Love” and “The Ways to Divine Knowledge.” He is more remarkable as the translator of the works of that extraordinary German mystic, Jacob Bohme or Behman. Gas Works were established here in 1860 by a company of shareholders, at a cost of £1900, raised in £5 shares. There are twenty-one public and four private lamps. Gas is supplied to consumers at 7s. 6d. per 1000 cubic feet. Mr. Edward Owen is lessee. WEST-HAY, Formerly extra parochial, is 1½ mile N.W. by N. of Cliffe, and is the property of the Marquis of Exeter. MORE or MOREHAY, commonly called Spa Lodge , was also an extra-parochial district, about one mile west of Cliffe, and the property of the Earl of Westmoreland. Post, Money-Order, Telegraph Office and Savings Bank. – John Thomas Bailey, postmaster. Letters arrive from Wansford at 7.a.m. and 4. p.m and are despatched at 7. p.m. On Sunday they arrive at 7.a.m. and are despatched at 7.p.m.

CARRIERS 1873 & 74 (No history)

KELLY’S 1869 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish and polling place for the Northern division of the county, in the hundred of Willybrook, Oundle union and county court district, rural deanery of Oundle, archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, 88 miles north-north-west from London, and 9 miles north-north-west from Oundle. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East bailiwick of Rockingham forest. The church of All Saints was restored in 1863; it is a cruciform stone building, with tower springing from the centre, and has been built at different periods : open oak seats have been substituted for pews; many of the bench ends are ancient : the pulpit, of carved oak, was put together by the late Archdeacon Bonney out of ancient wood-work : it has been fixed on a Ketton stone base; the paving is Ketton stone, with encaustic tiles interspersed. The architect was Edward Browning, Esq., of Stamford. The register dates from the year 1590. The living is a rectory, annual value £700 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Westmoreland, and held by the Rev. Edward Du Pré, M.A., of Queen’s Collect, Cambridge. There is a school for 20 boys and girls, which receives £5 per annum from Wildbore’s Charity, for the free education of 8 poor boys; the number here educated is about 70 : It is supported by the rector. There are three dissenting places of worship. The charities consist of a Free school for the education and clothing of 22 boys and 22 girls : the sum of £20 is yearly used for the apprenticing of 6 boys to any trade out of the parish : the boys’ school was founded by Mrs. Hutchinson in 1745; and the girls’ school by the Rev. William Law in 1727 : there are also almshouses for 7 poor widows, each receiving seven shillings per week and coals, a separate house being provided for each : there are also three almshouse in Park street, called Thorpe’s Charity, for widows, usually nominated by the rector, each receiving 1s. 6p. per week. The parish had a charter for a market, which has fallen into disuse; and there was also an early grant of a fair, which was renewed in 1604. A palace stood on the south side of the churchyard, adjoining a place called the Hall-yard : the palace was occupied by King John, when hunting in Rockingham forest. In this parish is a chalybeate spring, similar to that at Tonbridge Wells. The principal trade is the manufacture of wood turnery goods. The Marquis of Exeter, who is lord of the manor, and the Rev. E. Du Pré are the principal land-owners. The soil is very heavy; subsoil, gravel and rock. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas. The area is 4,460 acres and the population in 1861 was 1,360.

SPA LODGE AND WEST HAY, formerly extra-parochial, together form a parish, with a population of 1861 of 28. The area is included with King’s Cliffe.

Parish Clerk, Gamble Dixon

POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Post Office Savings Bank – Robert Holmes, receiver. Letters arrive by mail cart from Wansford at 7.am. ; dispatched at 6.45.pm. Money order office open from 9 to 6 daily.

PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS:-

Inland Revenue Office, Cross Keys inn, George Raven, officer. Police Station, Park street, John Bennett, resident sergeant. Gas Works, Edward Owen, manager

SCHOOLS:- National (boys & girls) John Lucas Blake, master; Mrs. Blake, mistress. Law & Hutchinson’s Charity (boys & girls) Henry Broughton, master; Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wade, mistress

CARRIERS TO:- PETERBOROUGH – W.Lucas, Saturday STAMFORD – Benjamin Bullimore, Friday, returning same day; Alice Kingston, Monday & Friday, returning same day; William Lucas, Tuesday & Friday, returning same day; Laudin James. Tuesday & Friday.

COMMERCIAL 1866 KINGS CLIFFE is a parish in the hundred of Willybrooke, Oundle union, county court district rural deanery and archdeaconry of Northampton. The church of All Saints was restored in 1863 : the living is a rectory, annual value 525 l. , with residences, in the patronage of the Earl of Westmoreland the Rev. Edward du Pre, M.A. is the rector. In this parish is a chalybeate spring : there are also almshouses for nine poor widows, and four dissenting places of worship. The Marquis of Exeter is lord of the manor. The population in 1861 was 1,360; acreage 4,460 Parish Clerk – Gamble Dixon Post and Money Order Office and Post Office Savings Bank – Robert Holmes, receiver. Letters through Wansford.

OUNDLE ALMANAC (KING’S) 1866 (No history)

KELLY’S 1864 KING’S CLIFFE (anciently called CLIVE) is a parish in the hundred of Willybrook, Oundle union, county court district and rural deanery of Oundle, archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, 88 miles north- north-west from London, and 8 miles north-north-west from Oundle. The church of All Saints was restored in 1863; it is a cruciform stone building, with tower springing from the centre, built at different periods : open oak seats have been substituted for pews; many of the bench ends are ancient : the pulpit, of carved oak, was put together by the late Archdeacon Bonney out of ancient wood-work : it has been fixed on a Ketton stone base; the paving is Ketton stone, with encaustic tiles interspersed. The architect was Edward Browning, Esq., of Stamford, and the contractors Messrs. Bradshaw and Perkins. The living is a rectory, annual value £525 with residence, in the patronage of the Earl of Westmoreland; the Rev. Edward Du Pré, M.A., is the incumbent. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East Bailliwick of Rockingham Forest; it had a charter for a market, which has fallen into disuse and there was an early grant of a fair, which was renewed in 1604. A palace stood on the south side of the church yard, adjoining a place called the Hall yard. In this parish is a chalybeate spring, similar to that at Tonbridge Wells. The charities consist of a Free school for 20 boys, founded by Mrs. Hutchinson in 1745; and another for 20 girls’ school by the Rev. William Law in 1727 : there are also almshouses for 9 poor widows, a National school for 20 boys and four dissenting places of worship. The principal trade is the manufacture of wood turnery goods. The Marquis of Exeter, who is lord of the manor. The population in 1861 was 1,360.

Parish Clerk, Gamble Dixon

POST OFFICE & POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK – Robert Holmes, receiver. Letters arrive by messenger from Wansford at 7.am. ; dispatched at 7.pm. Money orders are granted and paid at this office. INSURANCE AGENT. – Eagle, Rev. G. Amos Inland Revenue Office, Cross Keys inn, George Raven, officer PUBLIC SCHOOLS:- National (boys), Henry Knight, master Law & Hutchinson’s Charity (boys & girls) Henry Broughton, master; Miss Marie Wood, mistress CARRIERS TO:- OUNDLE – James Belton, Thursday, returning same day; Alice Kingston, Thursday, returning same day. STAMFORD – Benjamin Bullimore, Monday & Friday, returning same day; Alice Kingston, Monday & Friday, returning same day; James Belton, Friday, returning same day.

OUNDLE ALMANACK 1862 (No history)

LOYAL ALMANAC 1892 (Vox Stellarum ) For the Year of Human Redemption 1862 By: Frances Moore, Physician, London Printed for the Company of Stationers

Insert : A. Kings (late Todd's) Useful & Interesting companion to the Almanac of 1862 : Oundle. Printed by A.King New Street

POSTING HOUSES IN OUNDLE Swan Commercial Inn, H. Lotam, Market Place Talbot Commercial Inn, William Wright, New Street Dolphin Commercial Inn, C. Swann, North Street

Kings Cliffe Entry : Thomas Law, farmer, King's Cliffe William Walker, Farmer & currier, Kings Cliffe

Oundle Magistrate : Ven. Archdeacon Bonney, Kings Cliffe Oundle Poor Law Union :- Kings Cliffe Medical Officer : Mr. Dain

UNKNOWN DIRECTORY 1862 (No history)

SLATERS 1862 KING’S CLIFFE formerly called Clive, is an extensive parish in the hundred of Willibrooke, 88 miles N.N.W. from London and 30 N.E. from Northampton. The village is a considerable one, formed of three long streets, and has recently been fitted-up with gas. The chief trade of the place is the manufacture of woodware. The church of All Saints is an ancient structure, surmounted by a steeple of early English architecture, which stands at the east end of the building : the pulpit, desks and open seats are of ancient carved oak and are said to have been brought from the church of Fotheringhay when the choir of that edifice was taken down. The living is a rectory, in the giving of the Earl of Westmoreland : the Venerable Archdeacon Bonney is the rector. There are places of worship for Methodists, Calvinists, and Independents. There is an endowed school for 22 girls, founded by the Rev. William Law in 1727 and for 22 boys, by Mrs. Hutcheson in 1745 and also a national and a British school, and almshouses for nine poor widows. In the parish is a chalybeate spring similar to that at Tunbridge Wells. Population b the parliamentary returns for 1851, 1,407.

POST OFFICE : Robert Holmes, Postmaster. Letters from all parts arrive ( from WANSFORD) at seven morning, and are despatched thereto at a quarter before seven evening. Money order are granted and paid at this office

MELVILLE’S 1861 POST OFFICE:- Robert Holmes, receiver. Letters arrive by messenger from Wansford at ½ past 7.am., are despatched at ½ past 7.pm; box closes at 7.pm.. PLACES OF WORSHIP:- Church, Ven. H. K. Bonney, D.D. Rector Independent Chapel, Rev. George Amos, minister. Calvinist Chapel, Rev. Richard Iresome, minister Wesleyan Chapel, ministers various Roman Catholic Chapel, Rev. William Hayes, priest PUBLIC SCHOOLS:- National (for boys) Thomas Dixon, master Charity (for boys & girls), Henry Broughton, master; Mrs. Maria Wood, mistress Excise Office, Cross Keys Inn, George Wardell, officer CARRIERS:- OUNDLE : Miss Jane Masons cart Thursday returning same day STAMFORD : Benjamin Bullimore’s cart Wed. & Fri. returning same day. William Brown’s cart, Mon. & Fri. returning same day. Jane Masons cart Wed. & Fri. returning same day. James Belton, Fri. returning same day

KELLY’S 1854 KINGS CLIFFE, anciently called Clive, a parish to the Hundred of Willibrooke and Oundle Poor-Law Union, 88 miles north-north west from London and 8 miles north-north west from Oundle; contained in 1851, 1,407 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the King’s Books at £525., in the archdeaconry of Northampton, dioceses at Peterborough, and in the patronage of the Earl of Westmorland; the Ven. H.K. Bonney, D.D. archdeacon of Lincoln, is the incumbent; The Rev. Alexander Grant Hildyard, M.A., curate. The church, dedicated to all Saints, is an ancient structure, with aisles and transepts, surmounted by a steeple of early English character; the pulpit, desk and open seats are of ancients carved oak, brought from the collegiate church of Fotheringhay. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East Bailliwick of Rockingham forest; it had a charter for a market, which is now fallen into disuse; and there was also an early grant of a fair, now held on the 29 th October and for three days, which grant was renewed in 1604. A palace stood on the south side of the church-yard, adjoining a place called the Hall yard. In this parish is a chalybeate spring, similar to that at Tonbridge Wells. The charities consist of a Free school for 20 boys, founded by Mrs. Hutcheson in 1745; and another for 20 girls, founded by the Rev. William Law in 1727; there are also almshouses for nine poor widows, a National school for 20 boys and four Dissenting places of worship. The Hundred court for the recovery of small debts, is held at the Cross Keys inn. The principal trade of Cliffe is the manufacture of wood turnery goods. The Marquis of Exeter is lord of the manor. POST OFFICE:- Robert Holmes, receiver. Letters arrive by messenger from Wansford at ½ past 7.am., are despatched at ½ past 7.pm; box closes at 7.pm.. PLACES OF WORSHIP:- Church, Ven. H. K. Bonney, D.D. Rector Independent Chapel, Rev. George Amos, minister. Calvinist Chapel, Rev. Richard Iresome, minister Wesleyan Chapel, ministers various Roman Catholic Chapel, Rev. William Hayes, priest PUBLIC SCHOOLS:- National (for boys) Thomas Dixon, master Charity (for boys & girls), Henry Broughton, master; Mrs. Maria Wood, mistress Excise Office, Cross Keys Inn, George Wardell, officer CARRIERS:- OUNDLE : Miss Jane Masons cart Thursday returning same day STAMFORD : Benjamin Bullimore’s cart Wed. & Fri. returning same day. William Brown’s cart, Mon. & Fri. returning same day. Jane Masons cart Wed. & Fri. returning same day. James Belton, Fri. returning same day

BAGLEY’S (STAMFORD) 1850 (No history)

KELLY’S 1847 KINGS CLIFFE, anciently called Clive, a parish to the Hundred of Willibrooke and Oundle Poor-Law Union, 88 miles north-north west from London and 8 miles north-north west from Oundle; contained in 1851, 1,407 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the King’s Books at £525., in the archdeaconry of Northampton, dioceses at Peterborough, and in the patronage of the Earl of Westmorland; the Ven. H.K. Bonney, D.D. archdeacon of Lincoln, is the incumbent; The Rev. Alexander Grant Hildyard, M.A., curate. The church, dedicated to all Saints, is an ancient structure, with aisles and transepts, surmounted by a steeple of early English character; the pulpit, desk and open seats are of ancients carved oak, brought from the collegiate church of Fotheringhay. Cliffe was formerly the chief town of the East Bailliwick of Rockingham forest; it had a charter for a market, which is now fallen into disuse; and there was also an early grant of a fair, now held on the 29 th October and for three days, which grant was renewed in 1604. A palace stood on the south side of the church-yard, adjoining a place called the Hall yard. In this parish is a chalybeate spring, similar to that at Tonbridge Wells. The charities consist of a Free school for 20 boys, founded by Mrs. Hutcheson in 1745; and another for 20 girls, founded by the Rev. William Law in 1727; there are also almshouses for nine poor widows, a National school for 20 boys and four Dissenting places of worship. The Hundred court for the recovery of small debts, is held at the Cross Keys inn. The principal trade of Cliffe is the manufacture of wood turnery goods. The Marquis of Exeter is lord of the manor.

POST OFFICE:- Robert Holmes, receiver. Letters arrive by messenger from Wansford at ½ past 7.am., are despatched at ½ past 7.pm; box closes at 7.pm.. PLACES OF WORSHIP:- Church, Ven. H. K. Bonney, D.D. Rector Independent Chapel, Rev. George Amos, minister. Calvinist Chapel, Rev. Richard Iresome, minister Wesleyan Chapel, ministers various Roman Catholic Chapel, Rev. William Hayes, priest PUBLIC SCHOOLS:- National (for boys) Thomas Dixon, master Charity (for boys & girls), Henry Broughton, master; Mrs. Maria Wood, mistress Excise Office, Cross Keys Inn, George Wardell, officer CARRIERS:- OUNDLE : Miss Jane Masons cart Thursday returning same day STAMFORD : Benjamin Bullimore’s cart Wed. & Fri. returning same day. William Brown’s cart, Mon. & Fri. returning same day. Jane Masons cart Wed. & Fri. returning same day. James Belton, Fri. returning same day

PLACES OF WORSHIP & THEIR MINISTERS:- All Saints Church, Ven. Archdeacon Bonney, rector : Rev. Edward Well, curate Calvinist Chapel : Ministers various Independent Chapel, Rev. George Amos, minister. Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

CARRIERS:- To OUNDLE : James Belton, from his house, and Alice Kingston, Thursday. To STAMFORD : James Belton, from his house, Tuesday and Friday, and Alice Kingston and Benjamin Ballamore, Monday and Friday