DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. SUTION ST• .lAMES. 589 Owen William Haddon, brick maker Smith Philip, chemist, High street Walkinton Edwin, corresponden' to Rudkin Frederick, watch maker, I Smith Susannah (Mrs.), butcher, the Education Committee Victoria terrace High street West Charles, joiner & builder Seager Richard, apartments, High st Stephenson Darius, Grange hotel White Alfred, blacksmith Sempers Henry, grocer Sutton-on-Sea Conservative Club Whiting George Henry, fried fish Simons Bros. coal & slag merchant«~ (J. S. Grover, sec) dealer, High street Simons & Ingamells, auctioneers, Sutton-on-Sea Golf Club Limited (A. Willey Demaris (Mrs. ),farmr.&aparts valuers, house & estate agents, in- Ingamells, hon. sec) Willey Silas, farmer surance agents & agents for Capital Sutton-on-Sea & District Waterworks Willows Jessie (Mrs.), apartments, 4 A; Counties Bank (T N 6); & at Co. Limited, High street Victoria terrace Willoughby & Boston (TN 97); Swaby Selina (Mrs.), apartments Wilyman W. & Co. boot tnakers attend Spilsby market, mondays; Talbot Martha Emily (Miss), Beach Wilyman Albert, shopkeeper Alford, tuesdays; Burgh,thursdays hotel. T N 10 \Vilyman John, apaxtmenta Simons John Thos. farmer, Hall frm Thomas David, stationer, Post office Wilyman William, cowkeeper .Smedley Mary (Miss), apartments Thompson F. M. & Son Limited, Young George Herbert, motor Smith W. H. & Son, news agents, builders; & at Louth engineer, High street Railway station & Promenade Walker Henry & Co.tailors & drapers, Young John (Mrs.), draper Smith Henry, general engineer High street; & at Alford SUTTON ST. EDMUND is a straggling village, and 663 in the ecclesiastical parish (which includes barolet and ecclesiastical parish, formed from Long Sutton part of Little Sutton civil parish). eivil parish, and 4 miles north from French Drove lnkerson Fen is about 4 miles south from the church. station on the Spalding and March branch of the Great Northern and Great Eastern joint railway, 14 south-east Parish Clerk, Thomas Lambert. from Spalding, 9 south from Holbeach, 10 south-west Post & M. 0. Office.-Matthew Lamb, sub-postmaster. from Long Sutton and 10 west N-om Wisbech, in the Letters through Wisbech arrive at 6.35 a.m. & 6.45 Holland division of the county, parts of Holland, Elloe p.m. (callers only); dispatched at 6-45 p.m.; no wapentake, Holbeach union and county court district, delivery of letters on sundays. This office is closed petty sessional division of Elloe, rural deanery of East every day between the hours of IO a.m. & 2 p.m. Elloe and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The PxcE:>pt wednesday, when It is open from 8 a.m. to I church of St. Edmund, rebuilt in I798, is a small edifice p.m. Parson Drove, 4 miles distant, is the nearest of brick and stone, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south telPgraph office porch and a tower, with t11tl'ret, containing one bell: in the chancel is a memorial window to Mr. Isaac Whitsed, and Post & M. 0. Office, SouthPau Bank.-Mrs. M. Allister, three ot-hea- stained windows have been put in since sub-postmistress. Letters through Wisbech arrive at 1872. The register dates from the year 1706. The living 5.20 & 11.45 a.m.; dispatched at 7·40 p.m.; no is a vicarage, net yearly value, mostly from land, sundav• deliverv.• This office is also closed between about {,270, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of the hours of 12 noon & 4 p.m. The nearest telegraph Long Sutton, who is impropriator of the rectorial tithes, office is at Parson Drove, 4 miles distant and held since 1903 by the Rev. Herbert Conway Holland Wall Letter Boxes.-Southeau Bank, cleared at 7.30 !vLA. of Worcester College, Oxford. There is a General p.m.; Broadgate, 7.20 p.m.; Guanockgate, cleared at Baptist chapel, and one for United Methodists, ea-ected in 6.45 p.m 1870. The poor's lands produce [100 yearly. This parish is rlivided by gates or roads known as " Luttongate,'' Public Elementary Schools ~' Hallgate," " Broadgate " and " Guanockgate" ; these The Schools are under the control of 6 managers, ap· intersect the parish from north to south, and are traversed pointed July I, 1903; Samuel Mossop, Holbeach, cor­ at their extremities and in the centre by oross roads: the respondent parish extends from 4 to I2 miles south of the "Old South Holland Drain." The New Cut in part separates Sutton St. Edmund (mixed), built in 1896, at a cost of the parish from Cambridgeshire. Nicholas Goddard Jack­ £x,oso, for 100 children; averai"e attendance, 55; son esq. of Duddington, Northants. is lord of the manor. Waiter Stanley Farr, master The principal landowners are the Kilham family, of Tydd Southeau Bank (mixed), built in I898, at a cost of St. :Mary, George Frederick Curtois Howard esq. of Long £1,ooo, for 70 children; avPrage attendance, 40; Mrs. Sntton, the Pearson family and the trustees of Mr. W. Petheram, mistress B. Blunt, of Whittlpsey. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crop~ are wheat and peas; there is also a Clrrier to:- t'nnsiderable quantity of rich and fertile grazing land. · The area is 5,610 acres of land and 12 of water; rate- Wisbech-William Scrimshaw, thurs. & sat able value, £9,056; population in 1911, 652 in the civil Spalding-William Scrimshaw, tues Holland Rev. Herbert Conway M.A. Cross John Jonas, Bed Cow P.H Liquorice Abraham, farmer, Inker- (vicar), Vicarage Crouch George, farmer, Hallgate son Fen Flowers John, shopkpr. Southeau bank Nickerson James, farmer COMMERCIAL. Grounds Chas. farmer, Kingston hall Popple Harry, beer ret. Southeau bank Allen John, shoe maker, Bank Grounds Horace, farmer, Common Scrimshaw William Roper, carrier, .A.shton James, farmer, Broadgate Hnne;; James, farmer Guanockgate Eerridge Waiter, Old Mother Bedcap Hemmant Jn. Wm. frmr. Guanockgte Seaton Jesse, farmer, Luttongate P.H Hodson Henry, blacksmith Smith George, farmer Betts James, farmer Holland William, farmer Smith Thomas Henry, farmer Eoor Benj. (Mrs.), fMrmmr. Luttongate Hurling Frederick, farmer Starbuck Mary (Mrs.) & Edward M. Boor J oseph, farmer lseley James, farmer, Common farmers, Guanockgate Hrett Charles Frederick, farmer Johnson John Thomas, farmer, Starbuck Frank, farmer, Hallgate Brett John Henry~ farmer Inkerson grange Tansley John, farmer 'Bridgefoot William, farmer .Jones John, farmer, Luttongate Taylor John, jun. clerk to the Parish "Brittain William, builder Kilham Richard, farmer Council Bunn Benjamin, farmer, Luttongate Lamb John, farmer, Broadgate TroughtonBenj.Four Horse ShoesP.H Cobb Charles, farmer Lamb Matilda (Mrs.), grocer Ward John, farmer, Common ('ooke Abraham, farmer, Broadgate Lambert Thomas, wheelwright Watson Joseph, builder Cooke Harry, farmer Lincoln Alfred,. White House P.H. Whitsed Jas. farmer & poor rate collr ('ooper Alfred, farmer Southean bank Wright John, fanner Cooper John, builder Wright Harry, farmer, Broadgate • SUTTON ST. JAMES is a village and parish,' 4 atyl&: to thiiJ was added, in the 15th century, a plain bu' miles south-west from Long Sutton l"ailway station on massive brick tower (now stuccoed), eontaining ~ bells, the Lyon branch of the Midland and Great Northern joint and a chancel of stone, lined with brick, with a vestry oa Tailwav, 6 south-east from Holbeach and Q north from the north side: during the Protect«-ate this structure Wisbech, Holland division of the county, parts of Holland, was destroyed, with the exception of the tower and wapentake and petty sessional division of Elloe, Holbeach chancel, leaving an intermediate space of 22 yards; ser. union and county court district, and in the rural deanery vices were subsequently keld in the existing chancel of East Elloe and arcbdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. ontil 1879, when it was rebuilt, at a cost of [, I,26o, undel' The Soutoh Holland drain passes through the parish The the direction {)f "Mr. Bassett-Smith, architect ; the ead original church of Sutton St. James, built about I3oo, and north walls being taken down and an apsidal chancel con!isted of a nave and aisle or aisles in the Decorated of good ashlar stone and a Perpendicular north aisle of .