512 SKIDBROOK. . [KELLY'S Hundred Rolls of Edward I. and in 1359, in the reign of a life-saving rocket apparatus, provided by the Board of Edward Ill. furnished two ships and 49 men for the Trade. In . the neighbourhood are many overfiowing invasion of Brittany. The tidal and IJavigable haven of ~Springs of excellent water, and uff the coast is a valuable SalUleet. formed by the Withern Eau and Grayfleet, has oyster bed. There are several small landowners. of late years been much improved. .A few smacks bring Parish Clerk, Thomas Borrill. coal here from Yorkshire for the supply of the neigh­ bouring district. The market was discontinued many Post Office.-Joseph A.dlard, sub-postmaster. Letten years ago, but a fair for stock (chiefly cart foals, of through North Somercotes, Lines, arrive at 7·45 a.m. which a large number are bred in the immediate dis­ & 1.5 p.m. ; dispatched at H-35 a.m. & 6.25 p.m. The trict) is still held on the 3rd of October. In the centre nearest money order office is at Saltfl.eetby & tel~ of the village is a stone pump, erected as a memorial to graph office at North Somercotes, 3 miles distant Frederick Alien Freshney, of South Somercotes, who Officer in charge of Coast Guard, J oseph Davis died here in May, 1906, from wounds received in the Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in r86r, for South African war. The Wesleyan chapel was enlarged 100 children ; average attendance, 55; Miss Lanra C. in 1867, and there is a. United Methodist chapel, built Carliell, mistress; Miss Louisa Gould, assist. mistrell8 in 185_5'. Divine service is held in the school room el"ery 8unday evening in the winter months at 6.30 Carriers to Louth.-Thomas Borrill & Samuel Parrish, p.m. Here is a coast guard station for four men, with wed. & sat. & J oseph Burkett, wed SKIDBROOK. Michael Benjamin, farmer Borrill Thomas, carlfier Blea.sdale Rev. William Gradwell M.A. Phillips lsaac, farmer Brockelbank Locking, blacksmith Vicarage Pridgeon William, farmer & overseer Burkett J oseph, shopkeeper Sinderson John, farmer Button Joseph, cottage iarmer COMMERCIAL. Thompson George, cottage farmer Button Thomas, farmer

Adlard Charles, jun. farmer I White Reuben, cottage fanner Crows on John, farmer Adlard George, cottage farmer Wilkinson Edward Taylor, farmer Da.vis J oseph, officer in charge of Adlard Joseph Wm. cottage farmer . Wilson Fred, cottage- farmer coastguard station Adlard Thoma~ Weldon, farmer 'Wilson George, cottage farmer Gould Louisa Jane (Miss), registrar Adlard Thomas W. jun. farmer Wilson William, farmer of births & deaths for the Salttleet Brockelbank Edward T. cottage frmr , sub-district, Louth union Brown W illiam, cottage farmer SALTFLEET. Grundy !<'red, shopkeeper Dobbs George, cottage farmer l"reshney Miss Michael William Parker, New inn Dolby George, farmer COMMERCIAL. Parrish Samuel, The Crown inn Howden John, farmer Adams John, coal merchant Rollison Beech, ia.rmer Kettlewell William, farmer Adlard Joseph, shopkeeper, Post office Taylor John ll. miller (wind) Merrikin Samuel, farmer 1 Bartholomew Jim Knott, carpenter Tidswell William. farmer

:SKILLINGTON is a parish and village, picturesquely The register dates from the year 1542. The living is a situated on the south-west border of the county, 4~ vicarage,. Ill et yearly value £104, wjth 65 acres of glebe miles south-west from Ponton station on the main line and residence, in the gift of Christopher Turnor ~sq. of the Great Northern railway, and 8 eouth from Grau­ and held since 1894 by the Rev. Charles William Henry -tham, in the division of the county, parts Reynolds. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1847· of Kesteven, Beltisloe wapentake, Spittlegate petty ses- The Earl of Dysart and Sir Montague A. R. Cholmeley 1:lional division, Grantham union and county court dis­ hart. of EastGn Park, who are lords of the manor, and trict, rural deanery of Beltisloe, and archdeaconry and ChristophBr Hatton Turnor esq. of Panton Hall, are the diocese of Lincom. The church of St. J ames is a build­ principal landowners. The soil is creach; subsoil, clay. ing of stone, chiefly in the Early English style, w1th The chief crops are -wheat, turnips and barley. The oSome Saxon or Early Norman work 11.t the north-east area is 2,240 acres; rateable value, £1,862; population angle of the nave, and Decorated insertions; it consists in rgor, 354· .of chancel, clerestoried nave of two bays, south transept, Parish Clerk, vacant . .aisles, south porch and a tower of three stages with an <1ctagonal broach spire containing 5 bells : in the tran­ Post, M. 0. & T. Office. James Hoyden Goodacre, sub­ ~ept is a sedile and a double piscina : there is alw a postmaster. Letters from Grantham arrive at 7·40 piscina and an aumbry in the chancel: fixed in the r..ort.h a.m. & 6.45 p.m.; dispatched at s.ro p.m.; no delivery wall of the chancel are two sepulchral slabs of the 14th on sunday -century, with fine floriated crosses: in the south aisle is a stained window to the Rev. Charles Hudson, vicar of Public Elementary School (mixed), for 120 children, this parish, who perished on the Matterhorn in r865: enlarged in 1894; average attendance, 6o; Charles .on the s~me side in the chancel is a smaller window William Bass, master; Mrs. E. G. Bass, mistress; .commemorating the same event : in the north wall of Miss Violet Mullard, infants' mistress the chancel is a double lancet window, and at the east Carriers to Grantham.-Mrs. Hannah Roberts & Arthur ~nd a large aumbry: there are sittings for 205 persons. Wilson, every sat .Askew John Goodacre Jas. Boyden, grocer, Post off Ro berts Hannah (Mrs. ),frmr.& carrier Bedford Mrs King John William, baker Selby Thomas, blacksmith Reynolds Rev. Charles William Hy. · Kitchen George (exors. of), farmers Southwood James John, farmer (vicar), Vicarage Morley Louis Fredarick, machine Tyler Jane (Mrs.), farmer Jlell John Wm. wheelwright & joiner owner & overseer Waddington William Thomas, farmer llurchnall Wm.Hy. Cross Swords P.H Newton Frederick Aubrey, farmer Weston William, farmer & grazier 'Christian. Thomas Arthur, faTmer & Newton Robert Chri!;Otian, farmer, Wilson Arthur, beer retailer & carrier gra:1aer Manor House farm : is a parish and small village, in t.he ' the gift of the trustees of the late S. F. Nicholb esq. -valley of the river Brant, 2 miles west from and held since 1902 by the Rev. Thomas Wi11iam $ation on the Grantham and Lincoln branch of the Dolphin, of Exeter College, Oxford, who is also vicar {}rent Northern railway and 9 south-by-west from Lin- of and resides at Carlton-le-Moorland. The Lrusti*l& cl -coln, in the division of the county, parts the late S. F. Nicholls esq. are lords of the manor and oQf Kesteven, higher division of the wapentake of Booth by the principal landowners. The soil is sandy loam; aub­ 'Graffoe, Lincoln (South) petty sessional division, Lincoln soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. union and county court district, rural deanery of Graffoe Thl' area is 658 acres; rateable value, [,562; the popu­ and archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln. The church lation in 1901 was 30. bas been in ruins many years, and nothing now remains -.except a few scattered stones, but a portion of the Letters through Lincoln arrive at 8.15 a.m. Navenby tmrial;ground is still used: divine service is conducted is the nearest money order & telegraph office at the house of Mr. Edward Woolfitt by the vicar. The register of baptisms and burials dates from 1791; there The ehildren of this place attend the school ·at Wellin· is no register of marriages. The living is a rectory, gore ~et yearly value £sr, including 70 acres of glebe, in Woolfitt Edward, farmer

SKIRBECK and SKIRBECK QUARTER, see Boston.