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Gott Genrge, farmer Mitchell John Thomas, wheelwright Ro3e John, farmer Hall George, farmer, Bell end & joiner; estimates given for re- I R~se William, Plough P.H Ha·rri:,;on Ernest Henry, butcher pairing & painting waggons, carts I S3.ndtrs William, st>n. farmer Harrison Herbert Joseph, farmer & traps; well seasoned material & Sanders William, inn. blacksm.ith Harrison Richard, farmer ~ood work guaranteed, Cranes gate, ISea ton Frederick Albert, farmer Hilliam Edwin, farmer Bell end Taylor William, farmer Laming Charles, farmer Neal Waiter Joseph, farmer, Fleet fen Walker William, farmer Laud Robert, farmer Newton Susan (Mrs.), farmer Wilkinson David, farmer Pattern Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Wilkinson Frederick, farmer HQI.DINGHAM, see . , about 8 miles north-west from Bos­ The following school is governed by a separate eoru• ton, is an ecclesiastical parish, formed Nov. 7• r865, from mittee; H. Snaith, New street, Boston, correspondent the Fen portions of the parishes of , Ki1 ton, AmbeThill (mixed), built in r882, at a cost of £goo, and ., in the Holland division of the fur 137 children; average attendance, 94; George county, parts of North Holland, wapentake of Kirton, Marsh, master petty sessional division of North Holland, Boston union and county court district, rural deanery of North Holland Frederick South- No. r, and archdeaconry and ; it is Carriers to Boston.-Thomas Twells, intersected by several drains. The pari!!h church in well & George Mitley, wed. & sat Fosdyke Fen, close to the North Forty Foot drain, was erected in 1812 by Act of Parliament, as a chapel of ease , a gravel field of 30 acres and extrn­ to Fosdyke. and is an edifice of brick in the Perpendicular parochial, is the name given to a new , style, consisting of chancel and nave only and a western almost exclusively in the ecclesiastical parish of Holland turret containing one bell: there are 240 sittings. The Fen, in Boston union and county court district, 7 miles register dates from 1812, and includes the eleven towns west frow Boston. By a Local Government Board Order, of Holland. St. John the Baptist's church, in Algarkirk dated December 2oth, 188o, Algarkirk Fen Allotment, Fen, consecrated in r867, and serving as a chapel of with 213 inhabitants, SuttertDn Fen .Allotment, with ease to Holland Fen parish church, was erect.ed at a 394, and a detached part of , without houses or cost of £4,500 by the late Rev. Prebendary Basil B8ridge, inhabitants, were formed into Amber Hill civil pa.rish, rector of Algarkirk, 1823-80, from designs by Mr. E. I There is a Wesleyan chapel here, erected in 1846 and Browning, architect, of Stamford, and is a structure rebuilt in 1877, and a Primitive Methodist chapeL of red brick, reljeved within by coloured brick work, built i~ 189~- The soil is clay; subsoil, clay and silt, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, south porch and a The c_h1ef crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The western bell cote containing 2 bells: there are 300 sit- area IS 5,409 acres of land_ an?- 30 of water; rateable tings. The register dates from the year 1s64 . The value, £5,688; the populatwn m 1901 was 546. living is a vicarage, net yearly value £185, including 33 acreos of gle-be, in the gift of the rector of Algarkirk, Post Office. John Thomas Zealand, sub-postmaster. and held since 1902 by the Rev. Hector McTurk M.A. Letters through Boston ; no delivery of letters on @nn­ dny. The nearest money order office is Swineshead & of Oorpu.s Chri~ti CoHege, Cambridge, who resides at Holland Fen Vicarage, in Kirton Fen. The principal telegraph office , 5 miles distant. .!. delivery landowners are William Turner Sinwnds, Henry Howard of letters takes place from Hubbert's Bridge pos~ esq. of Spalding; John Emeris esq. Miss Oust and Mrs. office at 8.30 for Sutterton & AJgarkirk Droves Porcelli-Cust, of Cowes, Isle of Wight, the Mercers' Letter Box cleared at 12 noon Company cf , and the Oundle Hospital Trustees; there are several smaller owners. The soil is chiefly PELHAMS LAND, formerly extra-parochial, is now a clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, civil parish, close to the west bank of the bea•s and turnips. The population in 1901 of Holland and near Holland Fen church, 10 miles nort.h-west from Fen ecclesiastical parish was 68o. Boston and 4 north-by-west from Langrick station, in thl' Post Office, Barley Sheaf.-Thoma.s William Oook, sub­ Holland division of the county, parts of North Holland, postmaster. Letters arrive from Lincoln at ro a.m. ; Kirton wapentake, Boston union and coWJty court dis- dispatched at 3.50 p.m.; no delivery on sunday. 1 trict and North Holland petty sessional division. The Bridge is the nearest money order office & principal landowners are Messrs. J oseph William ~se Langrick, 3 miles distant, the> nearest telegraph office and William Ward. The soil is clayey, and well !roited Wall Letter Box, near Fosdyke Fen ohuroh, cleared at for the growth of all the cereals. The area, induding 4· p. da~ 15 m. week only Chapel Hill, is 1 ,o82 UJCres of land and 22 of water~ Public Elementary Schools :- rateable value, £1,391; population in 1901, 74- Under the control af 6 managers; J. H. Tooley, 6 Bridge stree~, Bosto?, corresJ?on~ent By a Looal Government Boa:rd Order, date-d December Hedgehog Bridge (mixed), built m 18Bo by the North- 24th, z8Bo, detached parrb:! of Swineshead, containing 117 Ea.st Holland Fen school board, at a cost of between 1 inhabitants, were tnmsferred to Pel:hams Land civil £7oo & £Boo, for 95 children; average attendance, parish. 54; Mrs. Elizabeth _.\_ East, mistress Barley Sheaf (mixed), built in 1882 by the same board, Letters from Lincoln, vill. Dogdyke, arrive at 9-SD a.m. at a cost of about £750, fQI' 95 children ; avflrage Tattershall Bridge is the nearest money order &; tlie- attendance, 67; Thomas Jotchnm, master 1 graph office. Letter Box cleared at 4.15 p.m ALGARKIRK FEN, AMBER HILL. KIRTON FEN. tLane Thom!llS, fa.rmer {All letters should be a.ddre8sed Amber Hill, [Marked thus~ should be sddressed Dogdyke, Martin Frank, land, agent, valuer k Boston.] Lincoln.] hrmer, farm [Marked thus t sho11ld be addressed Lang- (postal address, Boston) COMMERCIAL. rick, Boston.] *Parker Mark blacksmith [Marked thus t should be o.fldressed Amber +R Th ' f All good Samuel, fanner Hill, Boston. J + ansome omas, arm er Atkin John, farmer . *McTurk Rev. Hector M.A. (vicar)' *Rreson Geo_rge,. farm foreman to Barnes John, farmer, assistant over- Holland Fen vicarage • Harper Sm1th t>sq f!Ber & intmrance agent Martin Frank (postal address, Hub- ,;Robinson John Thomas, Castle P.H Ba.rrowcliff qeorge. blacksmith berts Bridge Boston) t Sharp Thomas (exors. of), brewerl Basker John, Ha.rrow P.H co'MMERC1AL. (William North, manager), Witbam Craft Ja.mes, farmer *Allitt William & Jo~epb fanners · brewery Doddson George, farmer *Brand Oliver Ernest, 'wheelwright 1 *Smith Arthur Willia.m, farmer Ea!!gate John, Three Hundreds farm tCatlin Andrew farmer *Taylor Overton, farmer Gadd Benjamin, jun. farmer Catlin Harry, j~n. farmer •Tomlinson Robert, farmer Gadd James, farmer *Cook Josepb, farmer · *Upton Samuel, farmer Maddison John (Mrs.), farmer *Geor~ William, farmer SUTTERTON FEN, AMBER HILL Manton Alfred, farmer tGreetham Richard, farmer • Mastin Charles, farmer *Hall J ames, farmer [All letters should he o.ddressed Amber Hill. Ma.stin Farndon, farmer •nand llatty, farmer Boston.J Pocklington Josepb, farmer & overseer *Hides George Henry (Mr~;~.), farmer COMMERCllL. Pocklington Lncy (Mrs.), farmer *Rilton John, farmer Atkinson Thomas, farmer Sharpe Waiter, farmer tHutchinson George, farmer Bristow Henry, carpenter Southwell Frederick, carrier tKing Thomas. farmer Dodson William, farmer