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of glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Londesborough, and held Sexton, Thomas Goforth. aince 1881 by the Rev. Robert Charles George O'Callaghan Letters through by foot post arrive at 8.30 a.m. ; K.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who is also vicar of and & are collected for dispatch at 10 a.m. Dritlield is the

resides at Hut ton Cranswick. The tithe, amounting to£ 301 nearest money order & telegraph office i.8 impropriated. The Earl of Londesborough is lord of the A School Hoard, consisting of 5 members, was formed in manor and the chief landowner, The soil is loamy, clayey 1876 ; John Wrigglcsworth, clerk to the board and gravelly; the subsoil is clay. The chief crops are Board School (mixed), erected on land given by the Earl of wheat, barley and oats. The acreage is 2,750; rateable Londesborough, in 1877, for 40 children; average atten. value, [:a,B47; the population in 1891 was 182. dance, II ; Mrs Lydia Shepherdson, mistress COMMERCIAL. GoodlassChas.Arthur,farmer,Golden hl Kirby Richd. Topham, farmer, Bell mls HentleyWm.Schofield,farmr.Skerne hill Goodlass Harriet (Mrs.), farmer, Cop- Lovell William, Eagle P.H Cass Anthony, water bailiff per hall Moeey George, farmer, North side Croft Thomas, farmer, Skerne Leys Hance William, woodman to the Earl Robinson John, farmer, Elm Tree farm Dee Charles, farmer, Manor house of Londesborough Spence William, farmer; Cleaves hill Dickson Fred, farmer, Ricklepits Hodgson John, fellmonger Stephenson Peter, shoe maker Escritt Annie Eliza (Miss), dress maker Kirby R. T. & Co. millers (water & Wrigglesworth John, clerk to the school .Fisher Thomas, wheelwright steam), Bell mills board SKIDBY is a township, parish and village, near the Hull the Baptists hold services in rooms in the village. The and road, 1} miles east from Little Weightou sta­ Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, are lords tion on the Hull, Barnsley and West Riding junction railway, of the manor and principal landowners. The soil is loam ; 3 west from Cottingham station on the Hull and Beverley subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats,

section of the North Eastern railway and about 4 south The area is 11 179 acres; rateable value, £r,B78; the popu­ lrom Beverley; it is in the ·Howdenshire division of the lation in 188r was 362. Riding, Hunsley Beacon division of Harthill wapentake, SKIDBY CARR, with a population in x881 of 57, was, by a. South Hunsley Beacon petty sessional division, Beverley Local Government order, dated December 5th, 1879, amal. union and county court district, rural deanery of Kingston­ gamated with Cottingham. upon-Hull, archdeaconry of the East Riding and diocese of Parish Clerk, 1George Cargill. York. The church of St. Michaelis an ancient structure of brick, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western PosT OFFICE.-George Cargill, postmaster. Letters through embattled tower with pinnacles, containing one bell : the Hull, arrive at 9·45 a. m. ; & are dispatched at 5 p.m. tower was:built in 1836: there are 200 sittings. The register The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Cot. dates from the year 1536. The living is a vicarage, average tingham tithe rent-charge £rs, gross yearly value £243, with resi­ School, erected in J845, for 120 children; average attendance, dence, in the gift of the Bishop of Chester, and held since 75; & has an endowment of f. ro from Marshall's charity; 1891 by the Rev. Christopher Cay LL.B. of Emmanuel Thomas Taylor, master College, Cambridge. There is a Wesleyan chapel here and CARRIER 11'0 HULL.-Johnson Ducker, tues. & fri

oCay Rev. Christopher LL. B. [vicar], Ducker Johnson, shopkeeper & market' Ridsdale Samuel, blacksmith The Vicarage gardener Scott Matthew, beer retailer Harrison Mrs Ducker William, market gardener Silburn James, market gardener Harris X orriSon Levitt,market gardener Stamford Fredk. farmer, Manor farm COMMERCIAL. Harrison Isaac, farmer Stephenson George, market gardener Baker John, shopkeeper Harrison John, market gardener & sheep net maker Cargill George, grocer & postmaster Harrison William, Ha.lf.Moon P.H Swaby Jarues, market gardener Craggy John, farmer Hewitt John, shopkeeper Thompson Joseph Green, miller (wind) Cressey John, market gardener Hutchinson Edwin, boot & shoe maker Voase Octavius, farmer Cressey William, boot & shoe maker Hutchinson John, market gardener Waslin Henry, tailor Docker John Johnson, carrier, market Kirk Richard, farmer Wright Alfred, tailor gardener & farmer Ridsdale & Watson, wheelwrights

SKIPSEA is a township, parish and village, on the high 1 Parish Clerk, John Simpson. road from to , about three-quarters of PosT 0FFICE.-John Houghton, receiver. Letters through a mile from the sea coast, 7 miles south-east from Burton Hull to Seaton, thence by cart, arrive at g.25 a.m. ; dis- Agnes station on the Hull and Bridlington section of the patched at 3.20 p.m. Beeford is the nearest money order North Eastern railway, 5 north from Hornsea terminal office & Hornsea the nearest telegraph office. Postal .station of the Hull and Hornsea branch of the same railway orders are issued here, but not paid and ~~ ~outh from ~ri_d~ington, in the Holderness di\ision of Wesleyan School (mixed), erected in 1873, for 170 children ; the R•dmg, north dtVlSIOn of Holderness wapentake, North average attendance go. John Henry Cheeseright master Holdemess petty sessional division, Bridlington union ' ' ' and county court district, rural deanery of Hornsea, arch- CoNVRYANCE.-Shawcross' omn1bus to Hornsea., from Bee- deaconry of the East Riding and diocese of York. The ford, passes through on tues.; William Warkup, to church of All Saints is a building of stone in the Gothic s~ le Hridlington, on sat. 10 a. m (Jf the 13th and 15th centuries, the exterior being chiefly CAR.HIERS.---George Statters, to Hull. tues. ; to Driffield, Perpendicular ; it consists of chancel, clerestoried nave,aisles, thurs. ; N oah H.ussell, to Driffield, thurs. & Bridlington, vestry on the north side, south porch and a western tower wed. & sat. ; Richard Rudiforth, Hornsea, tues. ; Driffield, .containing 3 bells : the font was presented by the late Arch- thurs. & Beverley, sat. ; William Warkup, Hull, tues. ; deacon Long and the Litany stool by Mr. James J<'nwler, of Bridlington, sat Louth, the archit~ct of the restoration : the church was restored in 1865-66 at a cost of £x,6oo, and affords 400 :Bonwick is a small township in parish, con­ :aittings. The regiater dates from the year 1720. The sisting of two farms, 2 miles south from 8kipsea and about livmg is a vicarage, gross yearly value £3oo, includi~g 15 12 south-by-east from Bridlington, in the Skirlaugh union, .acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Archbishop Edmund Dawson esq. is sole landowner. The soil is clayey