292 HATTON. . [KELLY'S county court district,. rural deanery of Wraggoe, is heavy clayey loam; subsoil, blue clay The -chief archdeaconry of Stow and . The church crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is of St. Stephen, built in 1870, is an edifice of red brick 1,846 acres; rateable value, £1,038; population in rgo1, witp stone facings, in the Early English style, consist- 156. ing of chancel, nave, ·south porch and a small spire Parislh Clerk, Theophilus William Freeman. containing one bell: there are 150 sittings. The re- Letter Box cleared at 5 p.m. Letters through Lincoln., gister dates from the year 1552. ·There are also entries via , arrive at 9.30 a.m. Wragby, 3! miles relating '00 this pal'ish from r6g5 to 1799 in the registers distant, is the nearest money ol'd'er & telegraph office of . T·he living is a rectory, net yearly value Public Elementary School (mixed), partly supported bJ £145, including 12 acres of glebe, with residence, in C. C. Sibthorp esq. & an old endowment of £6 yearly; the gift of C. C. Sibthorp esq. and held since 1891 by the school will hold 70 children; average attendance, the Rev. William Thomas Beaty-Pownall M. A. of so; Mrs. Waiter, mistress Merton College, Oxford. Ooningsby Charles Sibthorp Carrier to .-Overton, from , esq. of Sudbrooke Holme, is sole landowner. 'fhe soil passes through on sat Beaty-Pownall Rev. William Thomas Cook Jacob, carpenter & farmer Mawer John, farmer ~LA. Rectory Coote David, Midge inn Mawer Percy, farmer COMMERCIAL. Dove & Son, blacksmiths Scott Frederick, farmer Bell Richard, farmer Freeman Theophilus Wm. cowkeeper, Scott William, farmer, Dovecote farm Black George, gamekeeper to C. C. & parish clerk Waiter Charles Edward, overseer k Sibthorp esq Gurnhill Henry, shoe maker rate collector, School house Bradley J oseph, farmer Harrison Thoma.s J oseph, farmer W alter Martin J. farmer, Old Hall frm HA UGH is a parish, 3 miles west from Alford station on {6o, including 36 acres of glebe, in the gift of Charles the East Lincolnshire section of the Great Northern rail- Horsfall Bill esq. of Tetbury, Glos. and held since way, in the South Lindsey division of the county, parts 1894 by the Rev. Walter Gilbert Peacock B.A. of Balliol of Lindsey, Marsh division of the hundred of Calce- College, Oxford, who is also rector of IDceby with worth, petty sessional division of Alford, union of Louth, Fordington, and resides at Ulceby. Here was formerly county court district of , rural deanery of a spacious mansion, erected in the reign of Henry VII. Calcewaith No. I and archdeaconry and diocese of and for many years the seat of the Haugh family, Lincoln. The church of St. Leonard, restored in 1873, and subsequently that of Bolle, of whom was Sir John is a small but ancient structure of stone and chalk, Bolle, above mentioned: he was born in 156o, and consisting of chancel and nave and a wooden belfry served as a captain under the Earl of Essex in the containing one bell: there are several ancient monu- operations against Cadiz and subsequently in Ireland, ments a.nd a font eA early date : in the chancel is a and was made governor of Kinsale: the building iB now piscina, and a monum~mt to Sir John Bolle knt. of a farmhouse, with an embattled course along the front Thorpe Hall, ob. •16o6, and Elizabeth (Waters) his wife, between the upper and lower storeys. Robert William with their family; it consists of a bracketed base, sup- Bill esq. is lord of the manor and' sole landowner. ThB parting an arch, flanked by pilasters, within which are soil is light; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, kneeling effigies of both and of their eight children, and barley, clover and turnips. The area is 585 acres; rate­ above is a. cornice, with quartered shields of arms; there able value, £55I ; population in I90I, 42. is aJs_o anot~er monument to Charles Bolle and members Letters through Alford arrive at 7.30 a.m. & are col- ·Of h1s . fam1ly, dated r59o: on the fio?r are several lected for dispatch at 6_ 35 p.m. Alford, 3 miles memormls to merr..·oers ?f _t:he Haugh fan;nly, of the rsth distant is the nearest mane , order & telegraph office century: there are 33 s1ttmgs. The reg1ster dates from ' ) the year 1762. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value The children of this parish attend the school at Aby Eve William Bowmar, farmer, Haugh manor RA UGHAM is a parish, close to the road from Louth to ham, who is also vicar of Tathwell. Here was formerly Spilsby, 3 miles south-west from statwn on the an alien priory, a oell to the Benedictine abbey of St. "East Lincolnshire section of the Great Northern railway Mary San Sever, in France, founded in the roth century cand about 4 south from Louth, in the by Hugh de .A.brincis, rst Earl of Chester; but in the -division of the county, parts of Lindsey, W old division reign of Richard II. it was settled upon the Carthusian of the hundred of Louth Eske, Louth union and county priory of St. Anne, near C()IVentry, and at the Dissolu­ ·court district, Louth Eske petty sessional division, and tion it was valued at twelve marks yearly (£8 IS. 4d.). in the rural deanery of Louth Eske and The Right Hon. Henry Chaplin P.C., M.P. of Stafford No. 3, archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Lincoln. House, St. James's, ·s W, is lord of the manor The church of All Saints, restored in r84o at a cost of and sole landowner. The soil i& cla.y, gravel and chalk; about £2,500, is an edifice of stone and brick in the subsoil, chalk and clay. The chief crops are wheat, Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch barley and oats. The area is r,go8 acres, of whi(!h 450 and a western t'()wer, wjth pinnacles and crocketed ar~ woodland; rateable value, £1,787; population in spire, containing a clock and 2 bells : the chancel has 1901, 130. a stained window: there are 8o sittings. The register Sexton, Thomas Allison. of baptisms dates from the year 1771 ; marriages, 1756; Letter Box cleared 4.40 p.m. week days only burials, 1776. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Letters through Louth arrive at 8 a.m. The nearest £145, including 30 acres of glebe, wHh residence, in money order office is at Legbourne & telegraph office 'the gift of Eric Chaplin esq. and held' since rgo6 by the at Tathwell, abont I mile distant Rev. James Foster B.A., D.C.L. of Hatfield Hall, Dur- The children of this parish attend Tathwell school "Evc Allan James, farmer I Parr Cyril Charles, farmer, The Vicarage

RAVERHOLME PRIORY, the seat of Edith, founded in II39 by Alexander, 3Td Bi!~>hop of Lincoln Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham, is an ancient and Lord Chancellor, with 50 monks and 100 nuns, of mansion, but has been much modernized, and is now the order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham: Thomas-a­ a handsome structure of stone in the Tudor style, sur­ Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in n64 took nfnge rounded by an extensive and well-wooded park, stocked for some time in the hermitage belonging to the Priory, with deer, and comprising 350 acres of land, partly in after which he returned to his own manor of Eastry, the parish of Ewerby: it was formerly extra-parochial, in Kent. At the Dissolution the revenue of the monas­ but is now a parish, 4 miles north-east-by-east from tery was estimated at £7o. There are sufficient remains and 2 south-east from Ruskington station on to interest an antiquary. The area is 307 acres of land the Spalding and Doncaster extension of the Great and 5 of water; rateable value, [472; population in Northern and