DIRKOTORY.] . OLD LEAKE. 367 Railway Station, a fine building of Ancaster stone, on Clll'rier.-G. Tasker, to Lincoln mon. & fri. (put up the north of the village; Albert C. Colam, station at the "Queen"); to Newark wed. (put up a$ master " White Horse ") Blackwood Alexander, The Gables Bnrtt Waiter & Son, coal, coke & Leadenham Estate Office (Alexander Burrows Richard B agricultural merchants ; head office, Blackwood, agent for Capt. J, S. Close Thompson, Manor house Reeve J.P) Knight Rev. Prancis Henry Greville Challans John William, farmer, Low- Le.adenham Ironstone Mines (George M.A. (rector), The Rectory fields (letters received through Dove, proprietor) Mitchell-Innes Capt. Cecil , Newark) Maidment Frank, head gamekeeper Morley Robert Newcomb, The Hall Chapman Charles, cottage farmer to Capt. J. S. Reeve Reeve Capt. John Sherard J.P. Lead- Chapman George, wheelwright Morley Robert Newcomb, farmer, enham house Close & Milnes, farmers, Manor house The Hall Rumbold. Mrs Crosby Georgina C. (Mrs.), grocer Mucklow Andley, grocer Dove George, ironstone mine Nichols William Joseph, gardener to COMMERCIAL. Edwards Edward, tailor the Rev. F. H. G. Knight M.A Baines George, butcher Edwards M06es, overseer & clerk to North Joseph, stone mason Barker George, estate joiner to Capt. the Parish Council .Singleton William, estate joiner to J. S. Reeve J.P Ellis Richard, carpenter Capt. J. S. Reeve J.P Beaton .Alexander, gardener to Capt. Gilbert George Henry, cottage farmer Squires Charles Edwin, miller (wind J. S. Reeve Hall George Robert, George hotel & steam), Lowfields (receive letters Beckett William, thrashing machine James John, agricultural implement through Brant Broughton, Newark} proprietor maker, blacksmith & cycle repairer Squires Waiter, baker Blackwood .Alexander, land agent to Jolley Joseph Howard, saddler Tasker G. carrier Capt. J. S. Reeve J.P Kelley John, plumber & glazier Theaker John, cowkeeper Banner Joseph Iliffe,saddler & harness Kelley Lizzie (Mrs.), cowkeeper Waddington Joseph & William, far- maker Kelley Thomas, jobbing gardener mers, Hillside house Burrows Richard Blankley, farmer Lawson William Carter, shoe maker West George James, beer retailer NEW LEAKE is a formed in I894 by and 22 of water; assessable value, [2,084; the popu­ Local Government Board Order No. 3I,8og, from the lation in I9II was 489. ancient parish of Leake, and is for ecclesiastical pur- Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Mary Maria Handley. poses included in Eastville. It is & quarter of 8 mile sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Boston at 7·5 from Eastville station, on the East Lincolnshire section a.m. ; dispatched at 6 p.m. ; no snnday collections or of the Great Northern railway, and about 5 south from delivery . , in the South Lindsey division of the county, Letter Box, Lode Bank, cleared at S·IS p.m parts of Lindsey, east division of the soke of Baling- broke, Boston county court district and petty sessional Council School, erected in I8go, for I30 children; aver- division, Spilsby union. There is a Wesleyan chapel, age attendance, go; George Stanley Taylor, master;. erected in I838, and a Primitive Methodist chapel at ~liss Rose Elkington, infants' mistress Lade Bank. The governors of Oakham School are the Carriers.-Scoot Brothers, to Boston, wed. & sat. & to. principal landowners. The area is 3,5I5 acres of land Spilsby, mon NEW LE.AKE. Gratt()n D. F. & Sons, agricultural Kemp William, farmer, Leake Fen . implement agents Lancaster Henry, farmel' (letters via. Hodge Rev. Christopher Geo. (viCar Handley Mary M aria (:Mrs.), grocer, Stickney) of East Eastville), Vicarage Post office Laws on J ames, farmer (letters via. Taylor George Stanley Harrison John Thos. eottage farmer, Stickney) East Fen Lee William, Oatsheaf P.H COYMEHCIAL. Harrison John Thomas, farmer, Norris David, harness maker Allewell John Thomas, farmer Thorpe bank Plaskett Isabella (Mrs.) & William. Barber George, farmer, Fen Hundleby John,engineer & machinist, farmers, Bellwater Barker Edley, farmer & cattle breedr maker of "Champion" straw ele- Reeson John Geo. farmer & onrseer Bowser Ernest William, farmer vators, agricultural implements Shaw Robert,Duke of Wellington P.H. Clements Thomas, farm bailiff to B. &c. & inventor of "Hundleby" (letters through Stickney) J. Slator esq potato picker & collector; steam Skinner Tom, shoe maker Coote Geo.Thos. jun. Wheatsheaf P.H engines, boilers & machinery of Smith Herbert Newborn, grocer Garrill Moses, farmer all kinds thoroughly repaired, Toyne Brothers, farmers Gosling Sarah (Mrs.), farmer bought or sold Waite John, Windmill P.H Grant John, farmer Kemp Charles, Dog & Duck inn OLD LEAKE i! a scattered parislb, about 2! m.iJes the other a woman with the harpsichord: in the from the sea coa.st, with a stabion near the Hobh<>le church is a curious octagonal poor-box bound, with Drain, 3 mil~ nol'lbh.-west from the chuToh, on the iron : the font is also octagonal: the nave roof was re­ East Lincolnshire section of the Great Northern railway, stored in I863 and the chancel in I873-5, at a cost of 7 miles north-east from Boston and usi from [r,4oo: at the entrance to the churchyard, which in by rail, in the Holland division of the county, wapentake I8g6 was enlarged by I! acres, is a lych-gate: there of Skirbeck, parts of Holland, petty sessional division of are 573 sittings. The register dates from the year Kirton and Skirbeck, Boston union and county court 1575. The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly district, and in the East Holland rural deanery, and value [270, with residence, in the gift of the archdeaconry and . By Local Govern- Governors of Oakham and Uppingham schools, and held ment Board Order No. 3I,8og, Old Leake was, in I894, since I9IO by the Rev. Waiter Spurrier Brindley, of constituted a parish from the ancient parish of Leake, St. Peter's College, Cambridge. Christ Church, the remainder being included in New Leake parish. Common Side, a chapel of ease to St. Mary's, from The Hobhole Drain passes throug-h the parish. The which it is about 2 miles north, was erected in I875, church of St. Mary is a building of stone, chiefly in at a cost of about £I,200, and is an edifice of white the Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, brick with stone dressings, in the Early English style, with some remains of Norman work, and consists of consisting of nave, north porch and a stone turret chancel, clerestoried nave of six bays, nave, aisles, north containing one bell: the chapel has an open-timbered and south porches and a low embattled western tower of roof of good design: there are 250 sittings. There are La.te Perpendicular work, ea-eoted betw6811 I490 and two Wesleyan chapels, one at Common Side, erected 1547, a.t a cost of [359, and containing 6 bells: the in I8I5, and enlarged in I87I, the other at the sont.h nave aTf·&d66 inclu.de four Norman piers, two at each end ol the parish, and one for Primitive Methodists end: it retains a rudely-worked piscina and sedilia, at Fold Hill, built in 1839; a Sunday school was built and on the north side an aumbry 1 the east end of the in I871. Charities: Edward Hunston esq. who died south aisle has a statue bracket: at the south-east here in 1655, left certain lands for the benefit of angle of the nave is an octagonal turret, with spire- decayed gentlemen of the county, which in I655 were like crocketed roof, and a newel stair anciently con- let at £so yearly and in I854 for £6oo. The charities ducting to the rood loft: the clerestory, lighted by for distribution now amount to about £ISO, and are six windows on each side, is Perpendicular: near the distributed annually under a new scheme by the tower is a recumbent effigy in alabaster of a knight in Oharity Commissioners. Geor{!"e Fydell Rowley esq. armour. supposed to represent one of the Leake family, of Priory Hill, St. Neots, who is lord of the manor. and in the wall are two projecting stones, richly Henry Candwell esq. Mrs. Wright and Hnnston's carved~ one representing a man playing the bagpipes. Charity trustees are the principal landowners, but there