DII~ECTORY.] . STICKNEY. 575 age garden; it is_ vested. in the vicar and churchwardens. Post Office.-Fred Thornley, sub-postmaster. Lett61'1 and will seat roo persons. The chuities amount alto"~ t4rough Boston arrive at 8.Io a.m. -&:; (for callers) 5·I5 gether to about £xs yearly, •nd are applied to the p.m.; ,dispatched at 7.50 a.m. & 5-I5 p.m.; no relief of the poor and education; the trustees are the delivery on sunday; closed at I p.m. tuesdays. Stick­ vicar and churchw8l"dens for th& time being, and two ney, ll miles distant, is the nearest money OJ:der & others elected tri-annually by the Parish Council. Mrs. telegraph office Pocklington-Coltman, of Hagnaby Priory, is lady of the Wall Letter Box, in School wall, cleared at 5.20 p.m. manor, and the Earl of A.ncaster and C. and W. Linton week days only esqrs. are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy., Wall Letter Box, at The Mill, cleared at 5.25 p.m. with a little sand; subsoil, loam and clay. The chief week days only crops are wheat, beans and potatoes. The area is 2,321 Council School (formerly National) (mixed), erected in acres of land and xo of water; assessable value, £I,48o; I846; a new school was erected in 1909 by the Lindsey the population in I9II was 443 m the civil and 357 in County Coundl, on a new site, for 102 children ; the ecclesiastical parish. average attendance, 90; Thomas William Brewis, mast Sexton, Parish Clerk and Village Constable, Thomas Carriers. JOhn Henry Fairweather, to Boston, wed. Martin. thurs. &; sat & to , mon.; Mrs. Isaiah Ashlin, to Boston, wed. & sat. ~ to Spilsby, mon Bowser William Charles, East Fen Crow Frederick, cowkeeper Martin Thomas Elvidge, wheelwrighi Jones Rev. Orton Arnndel (vicar), Dales William, farmer Melt~m John, cottage farmer Vicarage Davy George, cottage farmer Newton Fred, cottage farmer Dennis William T. farmer, Glebe farm Paulet Peter, cottage farmer COMMEBCllL~ Dodds Joseph Fowler, farmer Paulet William, cottage farmer Ashlin Isaiah (Mrs.), carrier, Hag- Dracai!s Wm.jun.butchr.Hagnaby Lock Penson Martin, cottage farmer naby Lock Dracass William Andrew, shopkeeper, Rushby Charles, cowkeeper Baker George, farmer Hagnaby Lock Semper James, cottage farmer Barker John, farmer Ely Benj. Robt. cott. frmr. East Fen Sexty William, farmer Blackbourn John, Red Lion P.H Ely Henry, farm bailiff to E. M. Sharpe Charles, Mttage farmer Blackburn George, farmer esq. of Shaw Willows, miller (wind), baker Bond John, farmer, East Fen Fairweather John Henry~ ~arrier & general merchant, The Mill Borrill J oseph, cottage farmer Fletcher Charles, farmer Sherriff Joseph, coal dealer Bowser William, farmer Goodwin Alfred, farmer Sherriff Tom, fa.Jmer Brown Wheatman, blacksmith Hipkin & Son, grocers & drapers Smith Chas. Wm.frmr.Silver Pit frm Bycroft Betsy Ann (lliss), cowkeeper Hipkin Isaac, grocer Smith John Thomas, beer retailer Bycroft Seth, farmer Holmes Frederick, farmer Thompson Philip, farmer Cartwright Franklin, butcher Holmes John, farmer Thornley Fred, grocer, Post office Cartwright Mary (Mrs.), farmer Holmes :Mark Meanwell, farmer,Stick- Woods John Thomas, farmer Catchpole To~ Robert, builder ford house Wright Ann (Mrs.), cottage farmer Chapman Frank, joiner Marshall Allen, farmer Zealand Enos, cowkeeper Chatterton ·John William, farmer Martin Harry, cottage farmer . STICKNEY is a parish and large village, pleasantly interest of £400 to the charity, which furnishes an situated on the borders of the East and West Fens, and income of 4s. per week· each; Steeping's charity of £24 on the road from Spilsby to Boston, 4 miles west from is for the poor; Joitson's, of 4s. 2d. yearly, is distri­ Eastville station and 5 north from station, both buted on Good Friday; the other gifts are : Brewster's on the East Lincolnshire section of the Great Northern of I3s. 4d. yearly; Salter's of I os. ; Hardy's of 61. 8d. railway, 8t north from Boston and 8 south-west from and Bishop's of 26s. 8d. Edward Weston Cracroft esq. Spilsby; there will be a station here on the line which of Hackthorn Hall, who is lord of the manor, the rector, is now (I9I3) in course of constrnction from Kirkstead Magdalene College, Cambridge, and the trustees of the to . The parish is in the South Lindsey divi- Rev. H. Portington are the principal landowners, but sion of the county, parts of Lindsey, west division of the land is much divided. The soil is rich loam and Bolingbroke soke, Spilsby county court district, union sand; subsoil, clay and loam. The chief crops are and petty sessional division, rural deanery of Boling- wheat, oats and barley, but a considerable portion is broke and arcbdeaconry and : it has good grazing land. The area is 2,092 acres of land and navigation to Boston. The church of St. Luke is a 14 of water; assessable value, £I,837; the population building of stone in the Early English style, consisting in I9II was 596. of chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south Sexton, George Everitt Garner. porch and a massive tower containing 5 bells: in 1853 a new chancel was erected from designs by the late Post, M. 0. & T. Office. John Herbert Coulson, sub- Mr. W. Butterfield, architect, and in r855 the rest of postmaster. Letters through Boston, arrive at 6.10 the church was restored under his direction : the church a.m. & I ·40 p.m. ; dispatched at ro. IS a.m. & 6.50 was lighted in 1884 by the members of the Mayday p.m.; sundays, 6.Io p.m club, in memory of the Rev. Canon George Coltman Endowed School, founded under the will of William M.A. rector I835-83: the porch was rebuilt in 1887• Lovell, of Stickney, yeoman, dated I9th December, almost on the old plan, from designs by W. and C. A. I678, who left 47t acres of land in Winthorpe for the Bassett-Smith, architects, of , when the tower purchase of a site & the building of a. school, for the was also partly pulled down and temporarily roofed instruction of "y