DIRECTORY.] . WILSFORD. 635

SLOOT.a.BY. Coupland Charle:t, wheelwrig~t Jackson Henry Edward, beer retailer Francis James, farmer Raithby William, farmel' COMMERCUL. Goodhand Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper :Simpsuu B!ll't.holomew, fa ...rm'""'er Beals John, farmer Goodhand Jabez. shopkpr. &; carrier Spick Joel, farmer Bemrose Frederick, farmer Hurdman H. & G. farmers & sheep Tear George, farmer Clift Robert, cottage farmer breeders, Hogsbeck Thorndike John P. farmer WILLOUGHTON is a parish and village, near the at a cost of £26o. The Earl of Scarbrough K.C.B. whG Wolds, below the cliffs called" the back-bone of ," is lord of tlhe manor, and King's College, Cambridge. are 4 miles soubh from Kirton-in-Lindsey station on the the principal landowners. The soil is sandy mould in the main line of the and section of the high land, and clay in the low land ; subsoil, sand and Great Central railway, and 9 east from Gainsborough, in clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. the division of the county, , The area is 2,799 acres; rateable value, £2,739; popu­ division of Aslacoe wapentake, Gainsborough petty ses- lation in 19II, 433· sional division, union and county court district, rural Parish Clerk, lieorge Parish. deanery of Aslackhoe, archdea.conry of Stow and diocese Post &; M. 0. Office. John Robinson Trevor, sub-post- of Lincoln. The .church of St. Andrew is a plain build- master. Letters arrive from Lincoln at 7.40 a.m.; ing of st'One, consisting of chancel and nave and a low dispatched at 4.50 p.m.; no delivery of letters an western tower containing one ibell: the chancel arch, sundays. The nearest telegraph office is Hemswell, ~ which is Early English, and a Jacobean tomb in the miles dishant chancel are the only remains of t-he original church: the Public Elementary School (mixed), erected, with chur-ch was restored in 1888-9 and entirely reseated: the master's house, in IB45, for 150 children; average at- nave was restored in 1903, and the chancel in 1904, and tendance, 75 ; Frederick Henry Martin, mag.ter; Miss the church now ·affords 152 sittings. The register dates l\Iary Isabella P.ollitt, assistant mistress; Mi!;s :May from the! year 1599· Thl:l living is a vicarage, net yearly Parish, infants' mistress value £124, including 98 acres of glebe, with re5idence, in the gift of King's College, Cambridge, and the Earl Carriers:- of Scarbrough K.O.B. alternately, and held since 1901 by Edward Ford, to Gain!l'borough, tues. & sat bhe Rev. Sidney Rupert Swalwell M.A. of St. Catharine's Joseph Skepper, to Gainsboro', tues. &; sat College, Cambridge. There are Wesleyan and Primi- Charles B. King, to Gainsborough, tues. &; sat. ; to tive Methodist chapels; the latter was rebuilt in 1867, , thurs. & Lin-coln, fri Hill Thomas Fenton John, shopkeeper l'acey Henry, butcher Hutchinson Richard, Rose cottage Fieldson Fred, grocer Parish George, joiner & antique Swalwell Rev. Sidney Rupert M.A. Ford Edward, carrier furniture repairer, assistant over- (vicar), The Vicarage Glover William, farmer; & at Gray- seer, poor rate collector & clerk ~a' ingham cliff the Parish Council COMMERCIAL. Hill John Charles (exors. of), Parish John, joiner & wheelwright !.ndrew Thomas, grocer farmers; &; at Blyboro' Richardson George William, farmer Andrew William, grocer Hill Frances Anne (Miss), organist & Skepper Joseph, flour dlr. &; carrier Bland Sarah &; Futter Charlotte M. teacher of music Trevor John B. grocer, Post office (The Misses), girls' &; boys' school King Charles B. carrier Wainwright George, Commercial inn (boarding) Marshall Elizh. (Mrs.), blacksmith Weatherhogg Alfred, saddler & cycle Brocklesby William, tailor MumbyBros.thrashing machine ownrs dealer · Cross Arth. Bright,farmr.& landownr NiPholson Francis Frederick, farmer, Woodhead Thomas B. bricklayer Daubney John Thomas, fellmonger Willoughton manor WILSFORD (Wivelsford) is a parish and small village, or le Wake, as a cell to the Abbey of rBPc, in Normandy; pleasantly situated on a rivulet, one mile and a half east it was afterwards given to Bourne Abbey, and at the from Ancaster station on the Spalding awl Don.caster Dissolution was granted to Charles, Duke of Suffolk; section of the Great No-rthern and Great Eastern joint traces of the buildin~:r are still evident. On tlhe heath, railway, 5 west-south-west from and 9 north- inclosed in 1775, are the celebrated Wilsford quarries, east from , in the North division of which produce a white and durable frePstone, commonly the county, parts of Kesteven, Winnibriggs wapentake, called "Ancaster stone," from its having been first Sleaford petty sessional division, union and county court wrought in that parish: many of the churches, public district, rural deanery of North Grantham, and arch- buildings and mansions in this connty have been built of deaconry and diocPse of Linc0ln. The church of St. this stone. Wilsford Hall iil an ancient mansion of Mary is a fine building of stone in the Norman, Early stone, erected in 1649, and enlarg-ed in 1776, as s hunt­ English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting ing--box, by John, 1rd Duke of Rnthnd K.G. but is not of chancel with north chantry, nave with embattled now {)ccupjed. Mrs. iMyers, of Dunningwell, Millom, clerestory, aisles, south porch, and an embattled western Cumberland, who is lady of the manor, the rector, W. tower, with slender octagonal spire, and containing 3 R. ~IedwPll esq. of Claph-am. Rutland, Rev. Vere Francis bells: the Early English chancel, repaired by Roger Willson )-I.A. of R.auceby Hall, Mrs. Lucas-Calocr.aft, uf Warde, rector, in 1479, as appears from an inscription on Ancast-er Hall, and GE!'Ol'lg'e Herbert Peake esq. of Bawt!'y his tomb, retains a double piscina, a credence and an Hall, Yorks. are the principal landowners. The soil i:t aumbry on either side, and has also some remains of variou-s; subsoil, principally stone. The chief crops are Norman work; the axis of the chancel diverges con- all kinds of cereals and roots. The area is 3,oo6 acres; siqerably from that of the nave: both arcades are Early rateable value, £3,737; population in 19II, 648. English, the north arcade taking the precedence in point Ran beck is an extensiv~ f-arm adjoining this villag"': of date, and at the east end of this aisle are indications I it was formerly extra-paroC'hial, but now unitPd with of very ea~ly Norma;11 or perh:aps Saxon work, '\nd two I W·ilsford l it is the property of W. R. Medwell esq- Norman p1ers carrymg a pomted arch of later date. Puish Clerk Henry Dennis. opening into the chantry, which has a piscina and ' credence, and the remains of an altar; the arcade of the Post Office.-Samuel .Parker, sub-postmaster. Letters south aisle, consi!lting of one very large and one small through Granth11m arrive at 7. 40 a.m. &; 5.15 p.m. ~ arch, is Decorated, and the aisle retains a piscina and an dispatched at 8.5 a.m. &; 5.35 p.m. Ancaster, 2 mile:~ aumbry: the church was restored in 186o-r. under the distant, is the nearest telegraph, m'OnPy order &; direction of Messrs. Kirk and Parry, architects, when savings bank office- the roof of the chancel was reconstructed, the church re- Wall Letter Box, To)Vn end, cleared at 9· 15 s.m. &; 5·.50 seated, preserving the old bench ends. and a stone pulpit p.m. week days only and other fittings introduced: there are 226 sittings. of Public Elementary (~on-provided) School {mixed), built which too are free. The register dates from the year with master's house, in 1857, on a sit.e granted by the 1668; marriages from 1754. The living is a rectory, Rev. J. P. B. Younge B.A. rector 1s52•97, from designs net yearly value £.f50, in the gift of B. B. Burrows esq. by Messrs. Kirk & Parry, at a cost of £6oo, defrayed and held since 1913 by the RPv. Robert Geor~e Howard. by Miss Cheney, formerly lady t>f the manor; a cla!IS- Here ~~ a Primith·e ~Iethodist chapel, built in 1859. room for infants was added in 1s77• at a. cost of £6o, and rebuilt in 1Bgg. Sir Charles Cotterell, of Queens' &; another in 1 8gt, at a cost of £r.'l5 : the school will College, Cambridge, hon. D.C.L. of Oxford and an hold 127 children; average a.ttendanee, go; Arthur eminent scholar, a.ppointed in ·1 6-JI master 'Of the cere- Corney, master-; Mrs. Susan Corney, mistress monies to {.,"barles II. was ·born here; he resigned the Police Stat-ion, Soseph Lidgard, constable office in 1686, in favour of his son Charles Lodowicke CottereJI, and died in 1701. Here was a priory, Carrier ...-Edwin ChamberlaiD, j() Sleafo.l'd; moll.. et f;i. lonnded in the reign of Stephen by Hugh de Evt'rmue & .to Grantham, tun. thuu. ~ sal.